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Post by Joyce on Jan 17, 2007 15:15:45 GMT 3
;D ;DGOD BLESS THE RAIN.GOOD LUCK,MARAT.WIN THE NEXT ROUND,BABY! Don't you just hate watermarks?   |
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Post by Annie on Jan 17, 2007 15:16:05 GMT 3
Press Conference after Becker match
M. SAFIN/B. Becker
5-7, 7-6, 3-6, 6-3, 6-4
Q. Do you like these late-night matches?
MARAT SAFIN: Not really fun.
Q. Not really fun?
MARAT SAFIN: No.
Q. You have a knack of giving the fans good value for money at that time of night.
MARAT SAFIN: Half of them, they left after the first two sets with us it was quite boring. We had to stay. I cannot say it was really a beautiful match, but it was a lot of fighting. I guess some people that stayed, they really enjoyed it.
Q. Given you're still on the comeback from injuries last year, do you think it's good to get a five-setter under your belt early in the tournament?
MARAT SAFIN: It's kind of difficult to play. I've been injured for such a long time. There's a lot of things that really are giving me some trouble, for me to stay and for me to start the year, start to move on the court in a tournament. It's completely different to the practice.
Once you're injured with the knee, it takes a little bit of time to get used to the movement on the courts, the tough conditions. A five-set match, actually last set I played pretty well. Hopefully everything will go okay and I'm moving all right.
But it's -- even a little bit unlucky tonight you can lose this match, so...
Q. Were there stages tonight where you thought you were going to lose it?
MARAT SAFIN: Yeah. Well, after third set, I couldn't really find my game. I didn't believe in myself that I could pull this one off. I was lucky. He missed a couple of shots.
Maybe it's a little bit lack of experience, so I took advantage of this. When I had my chance, I took them. He made a couple of easy mistakes that he shouldn't have. They were unnecessary mistakes from him. He just threw the balls out, forehand, backhand, that was it. It was a break without doing anything.
Q. You've come here before off long-term injuries, time-outs, had to play some long matches, then made it to the final. Do you draw confidence from that for this campaign?
MARAT SAFIN: Well, hopefully. Hopefully this match will give me enough confidence to keep on going, because the other match is going to be tough. The guy beat Srichaphan. The draw is pretty tough, so these kind of matches, sooner or later you need to, because these kind of matches, they give you the confidence.
Q. Pretty good record in five sets. When you lose in the fifth set, it's close. Do you go to a fifth set with a special frame of mind?
MARAT SAFIN: Well, kind of. I don't know for some reason I'm going to the fifth set a little bit more positive than I used to be before for some reason. But today, this kind of match, I knew I will have a chance in the fifth set because the guy started to be a little bit tired.
He started to make a little bit easy mistakes, like shooting the forehand and the backhand. He was not serving as hard as he was serving at the beginning of the first couple of sets. I knew that I just have to stay with him.
I would say that I was not a hundred percent today on the court. I was missing a lot of shots. Movement was terrible. But then in the end of fourth, fifth set, I started to move a little better because he slowed down. For me, this kind of match gives me a little bit of confidence and get used to the courts, to the speed of the ball.
Fifth set, just have to stay there against this kind of player because sooner or later they going to snap because they don't have enough, I would say, experience because he's a newcomer. He didn't play really a lot of matches with fifth set. I have to take advantage of this.
Q. You said your movement was not that good. Was that the explanation, why you were a little bit off with your forehands?
MARAT SAFIN: Well, yeah. Forehand was terrible today. Just nervous, like a normal person. Because you want to do well, it's a new year. Last year was terrible from the beginning till almost the end of it. Starting from a blank list, you want to do well. The expectations are a little bit too high.
Maybe the bar is a little bit too high. Maybe you just want to get through the first round. Of course, you start to be nervous.
Q. Do you feel like you're the defending champion?
MARAT SAFIN: No, far away. I just want to try to break through to the top 20. Just it's tough because really so many years on tour you start to think a little bit too much. When you're young, you don't think about things that you are thinking at age of 28, 26, 27. That's why it's difficult to play when you're getting older.
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Post by taboo on Jan 17, 2007 15:16:58 GMT 3
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Post by Joyce on Jan 17, 2007 15:25:06 GMT 3
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Post by Annie on Jan 17, 2007 15:26:46 GMT 3
Baghdatis is currently two sets down playing against Monfils  6/7 2/6 Today's results: Roger Federer SUI (1) def Jonas Bjorkman SWE 6/2 6/3 6/2 Marc Gicquel FRA lost to Andy Roddick USA (6) 3/6 6/7 4/6 Feliciano Lopez ESP 2 5 1 Novak Djokovic SRB (14) 6 7 6 ;D Marat Safin RUS (26) 6 5 4 77 6  Dudi Sela ISR 3 7 6 64 0 Amer Delic USA 1 2 4 Richard Gasquet FRA (18) 6 6 6 Jurgen Melzer AUT 1 3 3 Tommy Robredo ESP (7) 6 6 6 Wayne Arthurs AUS 65 6 6 6 Zack Fleishman USA 77 1 4 4 Juan Carlos Ferrero ESP (24) 60 5 6 1  Danai Udomchoke THA 77 7 4 6 Mario Ancic CRO (9) 3 7 6 6 Guillermo Garcia-Lopez ESP 6 5 2 2 Thomas Johansson SWE 2 77 2 2 David Ferrer ESP (16) 6 65 6 6 Vincent Spadea USA 7 4 4 3 Dominik Hrbaty SVK (22) 5 6 6 6 Sam Querrey USA 6 6 6 Florent Serra FRA 3 4 3 Radek Stepanek CZE (20) 4 4 6 6 6 Lukas Dlouhy CZE 6 6 4 1 4 Mardy Fish USA 7 6 3 6 Nicolas Mahut FRA 5 4 6 4 |
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Post by Annie on Jan 17, 2007 15:31:23 GMT 3
Safin survives Sela scareby Jason Phelan Wednesday, 17 January, 2007 No.26 seed Marat Safin was just two points away from an Australian Open 2007 exit at the hands of Israeli qualifier Dudi Sela on Vodafone Arena on Day Three, but the big Russian dug deep to prevail in five sets, 6-3 5-7 4-6 7-6(4) 6-0. At two sets to one down, an exasperated Safin had lost his serve three times in fourth set and looked shaky serving at 30-30 to stay in the second-round match, but received a little help from above when light rain began to fall at Melbourne Park. He headed straight for his chair and while the chair umpire was initially reluctant to have the roof closed, nature did the right thing by the Russian and the shower turned into a downpour, forcing a 15-minute delay allowing him to regain his composure while the roof rumbled shut. Safin served an ace directly after the restart, duly forced a tie-breaker which he won and then steam-rolled the Israeli in the fifth set to set up a tantalising third-round clash with No.2 seed Andy Roddick. It was an unfortunate turn of events for Sela who had been right on top of his game and appeared destined to advance on the strength of his crisp ground-strokes and penetrating return of serve. Safin created seven break-point opportunities in the fifth set - converting three of them - and won 24 points to Sela's 12 to salute the crowd and advance. • Safin committed 55 unforced errors to Sela's 33  • The Russian's fastest serve was 210 kph to Sela's 176 • Sela won 68 receiving points to Safin's 64 • Safin won a total of 160 points to Sela's 148 • Safin's average second serve speed was just one kph slower than Sela's average first serve 
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Post by Happiness on Jan 17, 2007 15:37:16 GMT 3
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Post by yse on Jan 17, 2007 15:37:33 GMT 3
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Post by yse on Jan 17, 2007 15:43:53 GMT 3
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