How about a mid-week Marat Safin pick-me-up?

This photo was just too cute not to post. Marat Safin and Anastasia Myskina were photographed at the Novinsky Passazh shopping arcade in Moscow on Friday for the draw of the Tennis Legends in Moscow event. Last weekend’s exhibition tournament featured “the brightest tennis stars of the 90s” in [...]

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In the doldrums of the post-Australian Open tennis season, why not take a Marat Safin break?
Marat was interviewed late last last year by Russian HELLO! and photographed hanging out in his Moscow penthouse, where he will be spending more time now that he’s retired. It’s a thrill to see the super-private Safin in [...]

It was love-all for tennis in 2009, with nuptials, hookups, and enough juicy rumors to keep us bloggers chattering like overworked yentas. Here’s a review of some of the year’s juiciest love matches.
TENNIS HOOKUPS:
Ana Ivanovic and her Australian golfing beau, Adam Scott, inspired this post. She’s been in Australia for over a month now to [...]

Photo of the then-engaged 1971 Wimbledon Champions by: Tony Triolo/SI
“Mixed doubles are always starting divorces. If you play with your wife, you fight with her. If you play with somebody else, she fights with you.” – Sidney B.Wood Jr. , 1931 Wimbledon champion.
I don’t know, Mirka and Roger seemed to do all right (Hopman Cup [...]

Enough turkey, it’s back to tennis! Too bad the 2009 season is over. Here are a few of the loose threads begging to be tugged or tied:
All hail Nikolay Davydenko, King of Tennis! (At least for a month or two. . .) Yes, round robin makes for a different tennis ball game and the end [...]

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There are so many talented tennis players in Russia, that the country has its own awards ceremony to honor them. Last night’s Russian Cup awards, hosted by Anastasia Myskina at Moscow’s Radisson Slavyanskaya hotel, honored Nikolay Davydenko as Tennis Player of the Year (for being the top male Russian player for the 5th [...]

I love this video interview of Marat Safin, speaking in Paris after losing the last match of his career to Juan Martin del Potro. He says he realized during that match that he has a terrible forehand and maybe should have worked on it at some point during his career. I’m assuming he’s joking, but [...]

I love this photo:

Thanks to the Safin fan at Mens Tennis Forum for finding/posting this.
So. . .anyone know if the now-retired Safin (wahhh!) and the Bercy-loser Federer (wahhh!) spent the night on the town together? Were you with them, by chance, doing body shots off Marat’s clavicle and cooing over photos of the Federer twins?  [...]

Any day that Marat Safin and Roger Federer are kicked out of a tournament is a bad one. And today Marat’s gone forever! Oh well, at least some people are happy after Wednesday’s Paris Masters. Julien Benneteau got his best win, ever. Rafael Nadal saved 5 match points. Marat Safin doesn’t have to play tennis [...]

Marat Safin played the last match of his professional career today at the Paris Masters in Bercy, losing in three sets to Juan Martin del Potro: 6-4, 5-7, 6-4. It was a “good” loss for him, the dignified exit he was hoping for. He could have won it, but didn’t “lose” it. He smashed just [...]

Marat Safin almost played the last match of his career yesterday, fighting past three match points to beat the 168 ranked Thierry Ascione at the Paris Masters. After that close call, Marat told the ATP that he wants “to retire with dignity.” He also said that it won’t be “too painful” to lose to his [...]

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Marat Safin saved three match points today in the first round of the Paris Masters, a tournament he’s won three times in his career (a record he shares with Boris Becker). Watching him nearly flame-out against Thierry Ascione, a stocky 28-year-old French qualifier ranked 168 in the world, confirmed [...]