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Post by Teresa on Mar 21, 2005 5:44:36 GMT 3
Safin on Rise with Latest Coach South Florida Sun-Sentinel March 20, 2005 KEY BISCAYNE, Fla. - It was one of those training session crescendo rallies with Marat Safin and Alex Bogomolov firing at each other Sunday on the stadium court, three days before the start of the Nasdaq-100 Open. It started with Bogomolov at the net and a couple of light touches of the ball when Safin's ground strokes took on more and more pace and Bogomolov's volleys more and more sting - until the two were slamming reflex volleys at each other from point blank range. Safin finished it with a backhand, they smiled at each other and, as they took a break, Safin joked, ``On the practice court, I'm No. 1 in the world.'' ;D  |
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Post by annie on Mar 21, 2005 9:55:17 GMT 3
ROTFLMAO MODESTY MODESTY
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Post by lindsay on Mar 21, 2005 9:56:40 GMT 3
thats so cute! he is number 1 all the time!  does anyone know when the draw will be out??? |
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Post by annie on Mar 21, 2005 10:08:22 GMT 3
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Post by lindsay on Mar 21, 2005 10:13:21 GMT 3
i cant see marat on there  if someone can, can you tell me who he is playing!  |
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Post by annie on Mar 21, 2005 10:17:24 GMT 3
i cant see marat on there if someone can, can you tell me who he is playing! Maratik being the super duper player in the world will have his draw out later today. LOL They're probably all fighting and queueing to play against him he he he |
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Post by lindsay on Mar 21, 2005 10:40:38 GMT 3
i bet they are |
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Post by annie on Mar 21, 2005 12:05:05 GMT 3
here's the official announcement
Qualifying Gets Underway Monday
The 2005 NASDAQ-100 Open officially gets started with qualifying play on Monday. Also on Monday, the main draw will be determined with a public ceremony that begins at 2 pm on the tournament site.
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Post by Andrada on Mar 21, 2005 13:17:32 GMT 3
Safin on rise with latest coach - The whole article
BY CHARLES BRICKER
South Florida Sun-Sentinel
KEY BISCAYNE, Fla. - (KRT) - It was one of those training session crescendo rallies with Marat Safin and Alex Bogomolov firing at each other Sunday on the stadium court, three days before the start of the Nasdaq-100 Open.
It started with Bogomolov at the net and a couple of light touches of the ball when Safin's ground strokes took on more and more pace and Bogomolov's volleys more and more sting - until the two were slamming reflex volleys at each other from point blank range.
Safin finished it with a backhand, they smiled at each other and, as they took a break, Safin joked, ``On the practice court, I'm No. 1 in the world.''
He's again taking on the aspect of a No. 1 in the rankings, too, after defeating Roger Federer in the semifinal of the Australian Open and racing out to a 10-2 record this season.
No one has doubted Safin's physical gifts since he crushed Pete Sampras in the 2000 U.S. Open. But it has taken affable coach Peter Lundgren, 4 1/2 years later, to bring some order to Safin's mentality, which once seemed to be flying in five directions at once.
``First of all, you have to get the respect from the player,'' Lundgren said.
``And it took a while for us to get to know each other. But maybe that's my strength. I can feel his mood because I was a player myself.''
Safin, ranked No. 4, had been through a succession of coaches when he hired Lundgren at the Italian Open in May 2004.
They didn't get off to a good start as he won only 12 of 22 matches from there through a first-round loss to Tommy Enqvist at the U.S. Open. And then, bingo.
Safin won three titles, two of them Masters Series events, at Beijing, Madrid and Paris, then blazed through the Aussie Open in January and is 25-5 since the loss to Enqvist.
Safin is 25 now and Lundgren used a well known argument to get his client to commit himself fully to his tennis, pointing out that he had perhaps five good seasons left and did he want to look back on a wasted career, wondering how much he could have accomplished had he applied himself with the zeal of Federer or Pete Sampras.
Things are going well now, but it's still too early in the Safin-Lundgren relationship to predict it will continue on this positive course.
Safin's performance through the entire year will be a better test.
Safin arrived here after losing in the third round to Taylor Dent at Indian Wells and is well into his preparation for the Nasdaq.
``The whole thing is to not practice too much but to focus on what he should focus on,'' Lundgren said.
The win over Federer at Melbourne was especially delicious for Lundgren, who was fired by Federer after the 2003 season. He was asked if he had any particular wisdom to impart to Safin about Federer tendencies, if there are any.
``Yeah, a few things,'' said Lundgren, smiling.
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Post by Teresa on Mar 21, 2005 15:06:53 GMT 3
Andrada Thanks for posting the whole article Its a good article, and now we know Marat is in Miami practising and preparing for next week ;D ``Yeah, a few things,'' said Lundgren, smiling. |
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Post by annie on Mar 21, 2005 15:18:47 GMT 3
Andrada Thanks for posting the whole article Its a good article, and now we know Marat is in Miami practising and preparing for next week ;D ``Yeah, a few things,'' said Lundgren, smiling. ;D don't you just love Peter!!! *evil grin* LOL |
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Post by annie on Mar 21, 2005 17:29:13 GMT 3
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Post by SAFINNO1 on Mar 21, 2005 19:41:24 GMT 3
No latest news from miami only the qualifiying draws have been made.
Here is the top 10 in the Indesit ATP Rankings after marat's poor performance in Indian Wells
1st Federer, R. 350
2nd Hewitt, L. 253
[glow=red,2,300]3rd Safin, M. 208[/glow]
4th Roddick, A. 192
5th Ljubicic, I. 177
6th Nadal, R. 136
7th Johansson, J. 114
8th Agassi, A. 110
9th Davydenko, N. 102
10th Gaudio, G. 94
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Post by edible on Mar 22, 2005 0:57:28 GMT 3
Draw: Roger Federer (1) SUI VS. Bye Ivo Karlovic CRO VS. Olivier Rochus BEL Gilles Muller LUX VS. Mariano Zabaleta ARG Bye VS. Paradorn Srichaphan (30) THA Mario Ancic (18) CRO VS. Bye Ricardo Mello BRA VS. Santiago Ventura ESP Qualifier VS. Mardy Fish USA Bye VS. Tommy Haas (16) GER Joachim Johansson (10) SWE VS. Bye Stefan Koubek AUT VS. Qualifier Sargis Sargsian ARM VS. Julien Benneteau FRA Bye VS. Radek Stepanek (23) CZE Juan Ignacio Chela (28) ARG VS. Bye Qualifier VS. Donald Young USA Juan Monaco ARG VS. Sjeng Schalken NED Bye VS. Tim Henman (6) GBR -----------------------------------------------Guillermo Coria (4) ARG VS. Bye Jan Hernych CZE VS. Qualifier Antony Dupuis FRA VS. Victor Hanescu ROM Bye VS. Taylor Dent (31) USA Nicolas Kiefer (22) GER VS. Bye Qualifier VS. Florian Mayer GER Qualifier VS. Mark Philippoussis AUS Bye VS. Fernando Gonzalez (15) CHI Andre Agassi (9) USA VS. Bye Paul-Henri Mathieu FRA VS. Michal Tabara CZE Qualifier VS. Tomas Berdych CZE Bye VS. Feliciano Lopez (19) ESP Sebastien Grosjean (27) FRA VS. Bye Qualifier VS. Karol Beck SVK Qualifier VS. Alex Calatrava ESP Bye VS. Gaston Gaudio (7) ARG ----------------------------------------------- David Nalbandian (8) ARG VS. Bye Jurgen Melzer AUT VS. Jose Acasuso ARG Philipp Kohlschreiber GER VS. David Ferrer ESP Bye VS. Xavier Malisse (32) BEL Andrei Pavel (20) ROM VS. Bye Igor Andreev RUS VS. Qualifier Juan Carlos Ferrero ESP VS. Brendan Evans USA Bye VS. Guillermo Canas (11) ARG Nikolay Davydenko (14) RUS VS. Bye Michael Llodra FRA VS. Gael Monfils FRA Thomas Enqvist SWE VS. Hyung-Taik Lee KOR Bye VS. Mikhail Youzhny (17) RUS Dominik Hrbaty (26) SVK VS. Bye Cyril Saulnier FRA VS. Jarkko Nieminen FIN Irakli Labadze GEO VS. Younes El Aynaoui MAR Bye
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Marat Safin (3) RUS --------------------------------------------------Carlos Moya (5) ESP VS. Bye James Blake USA VS. Qualifier Qualifier VS. Greg Rusedski GBR Bye VS. Thomas Johansson (25) SWE Jiri Novak (24) CZE VS. Bye Kevin Kim USA VS. Luis Horna PER Jonas Bjorkman SWE VS. Max Mirnyi BLR Bye VS. Tommy Robredo (12) ESP Ivan Ljubicic (13) CRO VS. Bye Alberto Martin ESP VS. Agustin Calleri ARG Robby Ginepri USA VS. Filippo Volandri ITA Bye VS. Vincent Spadea (21) USA Rafael Nadal (29) ESP VS. Bye Potito Starace ITA VS. Rainer Schuettler GER Peter Wessels NED VS. Fernando Verdasco ESP Bye VS. Andy Roddick (2) USA Marat got a pretty good draw.  |
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Post by Cassie on Mar 22, 2005 2:16:43 GMT 3
Well, good draws don't matter too much with Marat. He can beat anyone if he's playing well.
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does anyone know when the draw will be out???
