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Post by Kristin on Jun 1, 2005 21:39:13 GMT 3
Hi everyone. I am adjusting to being Safinless in Paris. Annie, I loved your sentiments the other night. Like Ruth, I zoned out for a day. It didn't really hit me after his win that he had REALLY lost. Then when I woke up yesterday morning, it dawned on me that he would be flying out later in the day.
It brought tears to my eyes when I read in his interview where he stated: "I don't have any regrets. I don't have any ‑‑ nothing to be pissed at myself. I've done everything what I could today, right this moment. Just the things sometimes aren't going the way they should go." While the tears were slightly because I knew how much he wanted it and lost it, they were mostly because he was accepting it with such maturity. He has always been wise, but not always the most mature. I am so happy he has found this acceptance within himself.
Alright, I'm off to confront two weeks of paper/assignment/exam hell. Funny, Marat's statement kind of also sums up my time in Paris, maybe I will have to start quoting him.
I'll stop by now and then, but until the 16th I'm overwhelmed. Take care everyone!!
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Post by Kristin on Jun 1, 2005 21:41:26 GMT 3
P.S. Plucca I love your avatar...It's a Marat Safin thing, you wouldn't understand. Hee-hee.
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Post by tall_one on Jun 2, 2005 1:13:29 GMT 3
From www.eurosport.com
ONE FOR THE FUTURE
Marat Safin's racket that he snapped during his fourth round match with Tommy Robredo on Monday is to be kept as a museum piece. And also the chair he left a gapping hole in as a result of his anger.
Safin was fined 1,000 euros for unsportsmanlike conduct for smashing a hole in the wooden base of his changeover chair with the sum deducted from his prize money of 77,000 euros.
The chair and racket are to become part of a display called "100 objects, 100 years of tennis," in the Roland Garros museum director Jean-Christophe Piffaut said. "Safin's language on court is not so great, but as long as he keeps providing us with new things, we don't mind."
Three years ago, Safin mangled a racket so badly that Piffaut kept it in his museum, and even put together a short movie of Safin's tantrums during that tournament.
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Post by Rucinski on Jun 2, 2005 3:10:33 GMT 3
Tall_one... Thanks for the info, I was wondering, do you have a pic of the chair and the racket, I didn't see the "incident" ;D Thanks in advance  |
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Post by lau on Jun 3, 2005 15:53:22 GMT 3
I read this some hours ago and I didn`t know if posting it. I finally decided to post it. In case you`re curious, Marat was still in Paris yesterday, not in Moscow. (remember how Marat talked about Paris' distractions? and about getting a table in a restaurant without a booking??? ;D ;D ;D I love they guy, and like many fans I think he is not perfect. I don`t want him to be perfect!!! I said something similar and gave an opinion related to this in the post #94 on May 27, 2005, 8:15am on the MAGAZINES thread in "Marat Safin Forum". I don`t know if what happened is true,.... but I believe it happened.  I won`t say nothing alse. But I obviously have an opinion about this  ). I didn`t know were to post it, but as it happened in Paris.... I`ll post it here. . Enjoy Paris Marat!!!!  (this sounds weird these days with Paris Hilton everywhere  , sorry, easy joke, but I couldn`t help it) This is the link: www.peterbodostennisworld.com/Peter Bodo and Jon Wertheim are well known tennis` journalists (I usually like the articles they written, even when I don`t agree with everything they say). Anyway, remember this is like a blog, so, there are personal opinions in all the "article". And personal opinions can be said using many means. But I really believe this happened.... Thursday, June 2, 1:45 P.M. (7:45 A.M. EDT)A Safin SightingJon Wertheim and I went to L’Entrecote for dinner last night after the matches. Great place to eat—no menu, the meal is a Caesar-type salad and classic steak frite (a thin steak with a delicious mild green sauce and shoestring fries). The atmosphere was bistro-like, so there were a lot of pretty people running around. A little different from a U.S. franchise steakhouse like Ponderosa.
There was a line to get in. In typical Parisian fashion, it was disorganized and it didn’t seem to bother anyone that a bunch of us were actually standing off the sidewalk, in a crossroads. C’est la vie, right?
So we’re standing there and this gnomish bald guy goes slithering up to the stairs to the hostess inside, and he must have said something like this: “Hey cutie, look outside. Do you realize who I’m here with? Yep, that’s Marat Safin. In the flesh. How about you bump us up ahead of these ordinary people and get us a table? Marat is much more important than any of them, so I’m asking you to do the right thing.”
Meanwhile, Marat and another friend, a guy with long stringy hair, dressed in a kind of faux-Edwardian jacket reeking of the Beatles era, were leaning on the fender of a parked car, talking. Marat, who had told the press he was returning to Moscow following his loss here to Tommy Robredo, was looking very scruffy. For those of you who care: He was wearing a burgundy T-shirt with some kind of primitive white emblem, fashionably torn jeans, and black Chuck Taylors.
The waitress did the right thing. Marat and his buddies got their table (outside) and within moments all kinds of people were working their one-touch dialing features. Meanwhile, Jon and I were still standing in the street, not 20 feet from where Marat was kicking back and stretched out in his chair. A couple of leggy women in super-pointy shoes and hip-hugger jeans were fluttering around, making themselves conspicuous. I turned to Jon: “Do you think those hotties are hitting on us?” |
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Post by lau on Jun 4, 2005 19:05:49 GMT 3
from RG`s official site:   from ATP official site:  from Tennis Life magazine site:  from SI`s site:  |
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Post by lau on Jun 5, 2005 14:07:32 GMT 3
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Post by lau on Jun 5, 2005 14:24:47 GMT 3
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Post by lau on Jun 5, 2005 14:34:47 GMT 3
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Post by lau on Jun 7, 2005 6:58:35 GMT 3
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Post by annie on Jun 7, 2005 14:11:43 GMT 3
Lau....that's interesting...thanks for sharing that 'article' with us...;D
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Post by Elisabeth on Jun 16, 2005 14:10:18 GMT 3
Don't know if I sent these pics to Ruth so I'll post them here. So :    And player's box:  wanted to have a Dina's pic but was too far...  |
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Post by lau on Jun 16, 2005 14:13:02 GMT 3
OH!!! Thanks Elisabeth!!!!!   |
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Post by annie on Jun 16, 2005 14:24:56 GMT 3
thanks a million Elisabeth!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Post by lau on Jun 18, 2005 1:08:13 GMT 3
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I won`t say nothing alse. But I obviously have an opinion about this 
). I didn`t know were to post it, but as it happened in Paris.... I`ll post it here. 
