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It's been three years now since Marat Safin renounced racket trashing ... Djokovic, whose bounce count has been known to get up into the mid-20s, was the only tennis player who never got to ...
So without further adieu, lets take a closer look at the top five racket smashes from the ATP World Tour. Marat Safin may be one of the biggest underachievers in tennis history. The guy had ...
In fact, I would personally give the edge to Safin purely on game, as he could do anything with a tennis racket. But alas, therein comes that little thing called temperament or also called mental ...
WIMBLEDON, England – A match involving Marat Safin is always worth watching ... bid for a sixth consecutive Wimbledon title. A lucky bounce for new women’s No. 1 Ana Ivanovic prevented ...
1. Marat Safin: Racket-tossing not an Olympic sport--yet. 2. Magnus Norman: Trying to recover French magic at Paris tournament. 3. Gustavo Kuerten: Still trying to win first title at an indoor event.
Marat Safin threw, kicked and cursed his racket but couldn’t make it behave, and he lost 7-6 (6), 6-1 to Dominik Hrbaty in the third round of the Nasdaq-100 Open on Sunday in Key Biscayne ...
Like a death-bed repentant, Marat Safin ... another racket might have been heading for the wheelie-bin if any had been at hand. "You can say that anyone should have won more," Safin says.
Magnus Norman had nothing to worry about until Marat Safin smashed his second racket, decapitating the crimson head from the neck after losing the first two sets. Then, for most of the next two ...
It was 4:52 p.m. on a broiling desert afternoon Tuesday, when Marat ... resignation. Safin had huffed and puffed a bit during the match, as is his way, and had even smashed his racket to the ...
Marat Safin is determined to make up for lost time after missing the chance to defend his Australian Open title 12 months ago. Instead of prowling the courts at Melbourne Park, the moody Russian ...
WIMBLEDON, England — It seemed fitting, somehow, that two-time major champion Marat Safin ... his wont, Safin made things interesting enough. In the early going, he broke his racket by spiking ...