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Post by Teresa on Mar 26, 2005 7:02:57 GMT 3
Well that was just horrid.....HORRID  One ugly ugly win  I hate the hat and I hate when Marat and Dinara play the same day. I can't even bear to think of the Hrbaty match, Jesus Lord have mercy if Marat struggled like that againist Labadze..LABADZE........don't want to think about it. |
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Post by Jasmine on Mar 26, 2005 7:06:16 GMT 3
Oh Gosh!  Marat, you always love to make us nervous and excited. I have to keep refreshing the live score page every second. (Too bad, I'm at the office now.) Hrbaty on Sunday, right? Go get him. |
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Post by edible on Mar 26, 2005 7:12:13 GMT 3
Way to NOT go, Marat.  Well, at least you did win.  Just don't do that against Hrbaty. |
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Post by annie on Mar 26, 2005 12:22:06 GMT 3
OH MY GOD! i'm even more nervous now than before the match! if he keeps going like this i'm gonna be dead on Sunday... Marat, what is going on with you, dude? is it the first match thing or something? Well, please play better next time... well, yeah, at least he won..and i'm always gonna ba happy for that..but he can't keep playing like that against Hrbaty or any other player he's going to face next...IF he gets past Dominik! OH God, i hate being negative...  |
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Post by SAFINNO1 on Mar 26, 2005 15:12:03 GMT 3
I would prefer not to say anything about Marat's performance but he won so yay.
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Post by SAFINNO1 on Mar 26, 2005 15:13:01 GMT 3
An interview with:
MARAT SAFIN
THE MODERATOR: Questions, please.
Q. How tough was that?
MARAT SAFIN: It's much tougher when you're not feeling well. I was little bit out of confidence. Everything is becoming more difficult. It's difficult to go without the confidence especially first round, especially against Labadze. He's tough player. He's lefty. So it was ‑‑ he almost got me.
Q. You say you're not feeling well. Physically?
MARAT SAFIN: No, physically I been working really hard. I had 10 days of fitness training. I'm very fit. I found myself a little bit heavy because I was doing a lot of exercises one week ago, like all one week.
Q. After Indian Wells?
MARAT SAFIN: Yeah, yeah. I working really hard. Was little bit heavy, but it was normal. Also just a little bit out of confidence.
Q. So soon after the Australian Open you're out of confidence?
MARAT SAFIN: It's two months passed. I didn't play for two weeks, I had a bad loss in Dubai, then Davis Cup in Moscow that I won. But then also last week I played a terrible match against Dent.
But I have to admit that really, during all my career, I never done well in Indian Wells or here. So it's a little bit normal. Don't really put myself under a lot of pressure. There are some tournaments that you don't do well no matter how tough you train, no matter how much you prepare. It's not my month. So this is why I'm just trying to break through.
Q. After Australia did you expect to have more confidence? Was there always going to be a bit of an anticlimax?
MARAT SAFIN: Of course, there is always downhill. I'm not like Roger; he's way too high, you know. He has all the skills. Even when he is not playing well, he has enough feeling, enough talent to be able to, you know, like not to show it. Me, when I'm not playing well, I just suffer little bit more and my game suffers because my game is basically ‑‑ most of the time it's a risk, I'm taking a risk. When you're not in shape, you miss a lot.
Q. Winning the Australian Open, then, hasn't improved your confidence?
MARAT SAFIN: It's improved in a way. Put less pressure on myself. But also you want to do well, so well after the Australian Open because you want to put yourself and try to make the year, you know ‑‑ try to be stable. So it's kind of difficult, you know. Like, because you want to do extra well.
So you don't have a pressure, but at the same time you have a pressure because you want to just maintain the same level of tennis that you played in Australian Open. But for some reason, better for me to forget about what I did in Australian Open and try and concentrate and try to play match by match and take each tournament at a time, and not to really think about the way I'm playing, how many matches I won, how many matches I lost. Just try to, no matter how bad I'm playing, just try to win, give your best and whatever comes, comes.
Q. But do you think about those things?
MARAT SAFIN: Of course I do. Of course. Because I am, in a way, I'm perfectionist. It's really difficult for me, you know, to admit or to accept that I'm not playing really well.
Q. Do you lose patience? Were there times tonight you lost patience?
MARAT SAFIN: I was little bit upset. I was little bit upset with myself. I was not happy with the way I was hitting the ball because I had my chances, I couldn't take them, so I was getting little bit frustrated because I wanted to win too badly. Because really, it was very important match for me to win, because always the first match, especially in the big tournaments, is always tough. And when you have the opportunities, not like five sets where you can go away from the match and come back, here you have to take your chances and that's it. Because it can be really fast.
I had my chances. I missed them. He was there, you know. In the tiebreak he had a chance.
Q. Which defeat hurt more ‑ Kiefer in Dubai or Dent last week?
MARAT SAFIN: Both. I think more Dent because to me it's like I was very close to play well, you know. Just if ‑‑ he's uncomfortable tennis player. Of course he's serving well. He's playing without any rhythm. I had my 4‑All and Love‑40. I felt that for some reason, just turned the other way around and I couldn't find myself.
Q. If you would have lost out on this one ‑‑
MARAT SAFIN: That's a really bad one. This would be really bad one.
Q. If you would have lost this, do you think you would have reacted in the same way that he did?
MARAT SAFIN: I'll be full of frustration, I guess. I would be really pissed at myself, you know, because I been working really hard, and it would be a waste of opportunity and it would be a waste of month, basically.
Q. Are people premature when they talk about Safin and Federer, now we've got a great rivalry?
MARAT SAFIN: A little bit. Well, thanks a lot to compare me to him, but it's still little bit what we are talking about, two different kind of players. In a way we're different, we have different priorities, and it's little bit difficult, you know, to compare us together, the way we are, because we have completely different mentality, we have completely different the way of thinking. I admire him, what he is doing and how he is doing.
Q. Do you ever take your mind back to that night in Melbourne?
MARAT SAFIN: Of course, because I played a great match.
Q. It was one of the great ones?
MARAT SAFIN: You want to go back and you want to try to remember the things, the way I was playing, and try to find your game and try to go back and see what I was doing right, what I'm not doing right now. For some reason I am doing everything exactly the same, but it doesn't go exactly the same way.
Q. Is part of that down to the level of opponent, the fact that you raised your game so much because you were playing Roger?
MARAT SAFIN: Could be. Could be.
But also it's, like I said, it's a first round. First rounds are always tough because new courts, new balls, he's much ‑‑ it's humid here so the balls are not playing so fast like in Indian Wells. In Indian Wells, was playing way too much. It's difficult. You have to adapt yourself. You're playing against a lefty. I played against him once only in my life. It's kind of also like a derby, he's Georgian, I'm Russian ‑ Soviet Union, all these things make you think, put you under pressure.
Q. He's a friend?
MARAT SAFIN: Yeah. I know him since we were 10. So it's kind of we grew up together. He beat me once in European Championship under 16.
Q. It's probably a bit silly asking this question because you won the US Open, but do you feel comfortable in America?
MARAT SAFIN: In America?
Q. Yes.
MARAT SAFIN: For some reason, I didn't really do well after that win. Well, I played once in semifinal in 2001. But since then, it's been many years that I didn't do anything special up here.
Q. Goran never liked coming here very much.
MARAT SAFIN: There's some tournaments, like I said, there's some tournaments you can't ‑‑ no matter how you prepare, just doesn't work for some reason, doesn't go your way. So you have to accept it.
But of course you want to break it, and you try. You try to do something different, you try to work hard, you try to play, practice harder, stronger, then less. Then you do something else, just not to think about it. So I've been doing for past seven years, I tried everything.
Q. Different hotels?
MARAT SAFIN: Different hotels. I tried to practice more, less. Tried not to practice, tried to stay in the courts, you know, as much as you can, tried to focus on the tennis. So it's like no matter what I tried, it doesn't work.
Q. What's this year's approach?
MARAT SAFIN: Everybody's here, you know. Everybody ‑ fitness trainer, masseur, coach, girlfriend, mother, sister, everybody, you know. Try to be a perfect family man and try to be as much into tennis as I can be.
Q. Big round dinner tables?
MARAT SAFIN: Yeah, busy table, everybody on my shoulders.
No, because you need the support. I need the support to, you know ‑‑ people to carry you and to, you know, to like be with you. Why not?
Q. Are there any significant changes Peter has made?
MARAT SAFIN: Try to be a little bit more positive on the court, try to, yeah, try to be more positive. Not to eat yourself from inside. No matter how bad you're playing, keep on going, keep on going, keep on going, if it doesn't go your way, not to get frustrated. But I am, I am going crazy. I cannot change myself because I hate to lose. It drives me mad. He's trying to make me be calm and try to be reasonable, try to be rational on the court.
Q. Is that a conversation you've had since Indian Wells? Is that in the last week or so?
MARAT SAFIN: Yeah, just two cords in one racquet just last week. It's a kind of frustration that in a way is necessary, but it has to wait until locker room, and I went little bit nuts on the court also because I couldn't deal with the way I was playing. Was a little bit too frustrating for me.
Q. You were supposed to come in and talk to the press the other day. We understand you didn't want to do that?
MARAT SAFIN: Nothing against you guys. I had really personal reason, I explained to the guy, I was not really in a mood to share. But I had really serious, private reasons that I couldn't do it, so I guess it's better for you guys to have a conversation when I am not in the mood, just in a positive way.
Q. You wouldn't have been in a very good conversation that day?
MARAT SAFIN: This is why I prevented this. I guess I am fair enough to you guys (smiling).
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Post by lau on Mar 26, 2005 17:56:08 GMT 3
I couldn´t watch the match, I couldn´t follow it with live score, so, I´m really happy for him!!!! (and I get the news of the oficcial site too) HE WON!!! ;D
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Post by Anuska on Mar 26, 2005 20:37:48 GMT 3
Labadze is a bit nervous... Don't you think he needs some treatment? I hope Marat will play much better against Hrbaty, i want to see him in 4th round. |
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Post by Teresa on Mar 26, 2005 23:06:01 GMT 3
Andrada Thanks for the interview and the pics. LOL Labadze is something else again, thanks for telling us, cause I was wondering what the interviewer meant when he asked Marat about how Labadze had reacted after he had lost the match! its quite funny really ;D Its true, the first match is always difficult, and its understandable after early round exists at Dubai and IW his confidence must be low, this heap together with the pressure of having won the AO and the constant media pressure of the rivalry between him and Roger has to be taking its toll. And it does not help that he is such a perfectionist, and wants to do well, he is too hard on himself. And he is right IW and Miami have never been good for him, but at least he is trying, really trying to change this. I hope he really can take his own advice LOL poor habibi, just picture him as trying to be the perfect family man and at the same time trying to be into his tennis!  LOL Marat really has a lot on his shoulders!! Poor habibi. Hope whatever it was is now resolved. Good luck Marat in your match against Hrbaty |
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Post by Teresa on Mar 26, 2005 23:07:42 GMT 3
LOL Anuska........he was just frustrated, but its quite funny really ;D
Me too, I think he will.
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Post by SAFINNO1 on Mar 27, 2005 0:03:05 GMT 3
Okay i do not need the thanks for interviews etc. that is what i am here for.
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Post by Teresa on Mar 27, 2005 0:28:50 GMT 3
Okay i do not need the thanks for interviews etc. that is what i am here for. LOL............we just want to show our appreciation now and then ;D |
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Post by Teresa on Mar 27, 2005 0:29:30 GMT 3
Way to NOT go, Marat. Well, at least you did win. Just don't do that against Hrbaty. LOL.......hope he hears you!! |
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Post by Teresa on Mar 27, 2005 0:33:02 GMT 3
Oh Gosh! Marat, you always love to make us nervous and excited. I have to keep refreshing the live score page every second. (Too bad, I'm at the office now.) Hrbaty on Sunday, right? Go get him. Hi Jasmine Yep it sure was nerve wracking right down to the last point........my god, I kept thinking, this is not happening, this cannot be happening, surely he is going to turn this around, but when............and yep at the very last second!!! Just look at Irakli's reaction after the match, i to felt like I could have ripped my shirt off ;D |
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Just don't do that against Hrbaty.
LOL Marat really has a lot on his shoulders!!