Post by Annie on Jun 28, 2005 15:47:16 GMT 3
Tennis dad : Mubin Safin: "Marat - a real man!"
From Moscow Komosomolets
January 2005 - Australian Open
Marat Safin will return this week to Moscow as a hero - having won the Australian Open after crushing the formidable Swiss Roger Federer in the semifinal and the local idol Lleyton Hewitt in the final. More than anyone else his parents are waiting for him - mother Rausa and father Mubin. ...
When we managed to call and extend our congratulations to Mubin Safin he was watching the replay of the final.
- I just returned home. I was abroad on business. And so happened that I couldn't properly watch Marat play. Part of the match against Federer I watched at one airport, the final against Hewitt at another.
- I can imagine how nervous you were... Probably at these moments (hours, to be more precise) you wanted to be at the stands in Melbourne.
- Please understand that we have lived in this for very many years already and if to worry and go crazy all the time no nerves would be sufficient.
- I know Marat worries when his family is supporting him at the stands. Maybe this is also one reason why you didn't fly over to Australia?
- Well, no. The fact is that I don't see any sense to rush so far in order to watch tennis. Marat is a grown-up and this is his life already. But we always support him and he knows this.
- How is Dinara doing?
- She's fine, everything is fine.
- One can sense that you are a very reserved person. Here is the father of Masha Sharapova with all his emotions written all over his face, they splash outside. But you conceal them in yourself.
- Simply I have lived through all this already. Maybe if I were of the same age as him I would also jump up and shout.
- Marat has now twice won the Grand Slam tournaments against the home favourites. How he was able to detach himself from the pressure of the crowd?
- If he would have complexes against his rivals, he would've never won anything.
- People who know Marat well say that he is a very gentle and sensitive person. But how this gentleness goes together with such power and aggressiveness of the game? And with such an endurance - he topped Federer not only in skills but also morally prevailed in the long rallies.
- Marat is a real man. And precisely at such moments the real masculine qualities are displayed. Otherwise he would not be such a bright original personality. But that he is gentle and kind - it's good. I can assure you, he has the strong backbone though, and he can say "no". Although it was very difficult for him to learn this. But he himself admits that he has grown up. He has become a mature person and a mature player.
- And there is fire in his eyes, he simply glows from within - as if the new energy was opened!
- I would like very much to light a candle for his new coach.
- It is evident that in spite of the hard competition Marat has warm, almost friendly relations to many of his rivals.
- It's because in men's tennis, in contrast to the women's tennis, there are no such complexities in the relations, no such sharp angles. Everybody understands that a tennis match is not a battle, it's only a game, work. Although I know there are coaches who tell to their students something like this: your rival is your enemy! you must destroy him! It's so good that Marat has never encountered anything like this.
- Due to what he still won the Swiss master?
- I think, due to the desire. He so waited for this victory, he so wanted to win.
- Had Roger then less desire to win?
- Seems to me that yes. He has lived a lot more such moments of victory.
- By all the restraint nevertheless admit: you are proud of your son?
- I am proud. I am really proud of him.
Elena Shpiz
MK 01.02.2005
Original source: www.mk.ru/numbers/1478/article47219.htm
From Moscow Komosomolets
January 2005 - Australian Open
Marat Safin will return this week to Moscow as a hero - having won the Australian Open after crushing the formidable Swiss Roger Federer in the semifinal and the local idol Lleyton Hewitt in the final. More than anyone else his parents are waiting for him - mother Rausa and father Mubin. ...
When we managed to call and extend our congratulations to Mubin Safin he was watching the replay of the final.
- I just returned home. I was abroad on business. And so happened that I couldn't properly watch Marat play. Part of the match against Federer I watched at one airport, the final against Hewitt at another.
- I can imagine how nervous you were... Probably at these moments (hours, to be more precise) you wanted to be at the stands in Melbourne.
- Please understand that we have lived in this for very many years already and if to worry and go crazy all the time no nerves would be sufficient.
- I know Marat worries when his family is supporting him at the stands. Maybe this is also one reason why you didn't fly over to Australia?
- Well, no. The fact is that I don't see any sense to rush so far in order to watch tennis. Marat is a grown-up and this is his life already. But we always support him and he knows this.
- How is Dinara doing?
- She's fine, everything is fine.
- One can sense that you are a very reserved person. Here is the father of Masha Sharapova with all his emotions written all over his face, they splash outside. But you conceal them in yourself.
- Simply I have lived through all this already. Maybe if I were of the same age as him I would also jump up and shout.
- Marat has now twice won the Grand Slam tournaments against the home favourites. How he was able to detach himself from the pressure of the crowd?
- If he would have complexes against his rivals, he would've never won anything.
- People who know Marat well say that he is a very gentle and sensitive person. But how this gentleness goes together with such power and aggressiveness of the game? And with such an endurance - he topped Federer not only in skills but also morally prevailed in the long rallies.
- Marat is a real man. And precisely at such moments the real masculine qualities are displayed. Otherwise he would not be such a bright original personality. But that he is gentle and kind - it's good. I can assure you, he has the strong backbone though, and he can say "no". Although it was very difficult for him to learn this. But he himself admits that he has grown up. He has become a mature person and a mature player.
- And there is fire in his eyes, he simply glows from within - as if the new energy was opened!
- I would like very much to light a candle for his new coach.
- It is evident that in spite of the hard competition Marat has warm, almost friendly relations to many of his rivals.
- It's because in men's tennis, in contrast to the women's tennis, there are no such complexities in the relations, no such sharp angles. Everybody understands that a tennis match is not a battle, it's only a game, work. Although I know there are coaches who tell to their students something like this: your rival is your enemy! you must destroy him! It's so good that Marat has never encountered anything like this.
- Due to what he still won the Swiss master?
- I think, due to the desire. He so waited for this victory, he so wanted to win.
- Had Roger then less desire to win?
- Seems to me that yes. He has lived a lot more such moments of victory.
- By all the restraint nevertheless admit: you are proud of your son?
- I am proud. I am really proud of him.
Elena Shpiz
MK 01.02.2005
Original source: www.mk.ru/numbers/1478/article47219.htm
