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Marat Safin
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Safin has won five ATP Tennis Masters Series titles during his career. His first was in 2000 when he won the title in Toronto, Canada. He holds a record-tying three (2000, 2002, and 2004) wins in Paris, France, and one in 2004 in Madrid, Spain.
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When Marat Safin hears talk of tracing tennis injuries to the surfaces or the balls, it drives him up the wall. Actually, such speculation prompts Safin, who was sidelined for nearly seven months while recovering from a knee injury, to point to the object affixed to the wall — the tennis calendar — as the primary reason for player injuries.
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Marat Safin shrugged off the challenges from the rest of the nominees in the Laureus Newcomer of the Year category to claim the award. Marat could not be there in person to accept the award but World Sports Academy member Alberto Tomba accepted it on his behalf.
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Safin played no warm-up tournaments in the run up to the Australian Open. As Safin was forced to miss the tournament in 2006 due to injury, 2007 was his first Australian Open since he captured the title in 2005.
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That man is Marat Safin, who is looking like a very contender again after his 6-3, 6-2, 6-3 win over Ollie Rochus. An exhausted Tommy Haas is his next foe, and he's in Andy Murray and Nicolay Davydenko's quarter. Both those men are extremely competent, but neither is unbeatable.
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MARAT SAFIN: Otherwise where do you go? There is not many places where you can go and practice and have a good time. There's just none. No places in the world where you may have another option.
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