Marat Safin threw, kicked and cursed his racket, then later conceded the problem was operator error. Bedeviled by his game just two months after winning the ...

Second seed Marat Safin picked up a warning for racket ... the third game of that set when he slammed his racket into the ground and saw it bounce into the crowd on court one.

NEW YORK — If you just dropped in from Mars and watched Marat Safin talk ... Ivanisevic once nominated Safin as the person most likely to succeed him as the best racket-thrower on the tour.

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 ...

Marat Safin loses the bottom part of his trophy from his Barcelona title in 2000. (AP) Introducing Memory Lane, a recurring feature in which we dig through SI.com's photo archives for classic ...

Marat Safin shows up in Australia with two black ... But it will be even sadder when he finally lays down his racket. The game has so few real personalities. If I were to offer up an epitaph ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...