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Marat Safin: Las Vegas
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This was an important win for Safin who is appearing at The Championships for the fourth time. Last year he reached the quarter-finals, where he was beaten by the eventual winner, Goran Ivanisevic. Pioline,who turned 33 earlier this month, has been playing at Wimbledon since 1991 and is more than comfortable on grass.
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Such were Safin's frustrations with a knee injury last year that he took a mid-season break to climb the world's sixth highest mountain, Cho-Oyu, on the Nepal-Tibet border. Although he was forced to turn back before the summit, that trip to the Himalayas helped rejuvenate his spirit. And his knee has improved to the extent that he was able to go snowboarding during the off season, and has declared himself to be pain-free. In the third and fourth sets last night, he was striking the ball with ever-increasing poise. The pity was that he could not keep that going into the fifth.
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There is a reason why Roddick, Safin, Hewitt, Blake etc. have that air of confidence, irrespective of where and whom they are playing, or what the result of. LAS VEGAS, March 1 (Reuters) - The ATP's decision to controversially
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Looking back over the last few months, Safin knows he's getting close. A win here or there, a bit of momentum, and boom … suddenly a breakthrough tournament propels him back into the thick of things.
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