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Marat Safin: Match
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Marat Safin has dropped out of the Masters tournament in Miami. He lost to Slovakia’s Dominik Hrbaty in the third round match. Elena Dementieva, Svetlana Kuznetsova, Elena Likhovtseva, Anastasia Myskina and Maria Sharapova have reached the fourth round.
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At Wimbledon, Safin reached the third round where he met Roger Federer; he lost the match 1-6, 4-6, 6-7(7-4). After Wimbledon, in July, Safin announced that he and his coach Alexander Volkov were parting and that his new coach would be former pro Hernán Gumy.[14] After struggling with his knee injury, he lost to Stanislas Wawrinka in the second round with a scoreline of 3-6 3-6 3-6 at the US Open.[15]
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The match reached an early climax in the first set tie-break when Pioline held one set point which Safin saved with a brave volley. Then Safin took the tie-break on his third set point.
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Safin reached the final round in three more Grand Slam tournaments, all in the Australian Open in 2002, 2004 and 2005. He has cited nervousness as the reason for his loss in the 2002 event, and physical exhaustion for the 2004 loss.[9] He defeated home-country favorite Lleyton Hewitt in the 2005 finals to secure his second Grand Slam in five years. En route to this final, he defeated top-ranked Roger Federer in a five-set semi-final match.[10] After ending Federer's 26-match winning streak over top-10 players, Safin described the match as "a brain fight."[11]
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Earlier in the match, Safin had bashed a racket against the side of his head, broke one frame, and screamed and muttered into the night sky. But it wasn't just pyrotechnics and histrionics that he contributed to the occasion. There was ... his excellent tennis in long patches.
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Safin lost his temper 24 minutes into the match after missing a pair of break points, hitting a ball out of the court in frustration. That earned him a code violation from the umpire.
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