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Interesting Questions, Facts and Information
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 Interesting Questions, Facts, and Information
 Marat Safin
| Marat can speak 3 languages fluently - Russian, and what other two? | Marat Safin
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Spanish and English. Marat is fluent in Spanish and English
| What is the most tournaments Marat has won in a single year? | Marat Safin
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7. He won 7 tournaments in 2000 - US Open, Paris, Taskent, Barcelona, Mallora, Toronto, St Petersburg
| What sort of animal does Marat keep as a pet? | Marat Safin
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Rabbit. Marat's only pet is a rabbit which lives in his Monaco home and has no name!
Wine. Believe it or not Marat is allergic to wine!
| Who did Marat defeat to win his first ATP tournament? | Marat Safin
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Greg Rusedski. Marat first ATP tournament win came in Boston in August 1999 where he defeated Greg Rusedski.
Monaco. Formerly making his home in Valencia, Marat has lived in Monaco for the last year
| Where did Marat finish in the 2002 year end rankings? | Marat Safin
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3. Marat finished 3rd behind Lleyton Hewitt and Andre Agassi
| What all time record does Marat hold for an ATP Tour season? | Marat Safin
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| When Marat defeated Pete Sampras for the 2000 US Open title how many games did Sampras win? | Marat Safin
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10. The score was 6-3 6-3 6-4
| What country did Marat almost single handedly beat to win the 2002 Davis Cup? | Marat Safin
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France. Russia won 3-2 with Marat beating Sebastain Grosjean and Jean-Paul Mattiau.
Moscow. Marat was born and grew up in Moscow
1980. Marat was born on the 27th of January 1980
| The great tennis talent of Marat Safin was shared with his sister, Dinara, who managed to obtain a very high ranking early on in her career. What world singles ranking did Dinara Safina achieve without winning a Grand Slam singles event? | Marat Safin: Life and Tennis
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Rank 1. Amazingly Dinara Safina managed to claw her way to the top of the women's game without winning at the Australian Open, French Open, Wimbledon or the US Open! This sparked a debate in the world of tennis that lasted a considerable period of time. Essentially the question being asked was, does it make a mockery of the ranking system if the world number one doesn't actually perform to the highest standards at the biggest and most prestigious tournaments?
| The US Open of 2009 would prove to be the last Grand Slam event that Marat Safin would compete in. Safin decided to call it quits on the Majors after what could only be described as a miserable year. In the 2009 US Open, did Marat Safin get past round one? | Marat Safin: Life and Tennis
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No. Not passing the first round seemed to be a common occurrence for the former world number one. In 2009 he went out in the third round, second round, first round and first round in the Australian Open, French Open, Wimbledon and US Open respectively. Though it wasn't just 2009 that was a bad year for Safin as he only managed to get past the fourth round on one occasion (Wimbledon 2008) since his win at the Australian Open in 2005.
| Arguably the most successful Grand Slam event for Marat Safin was the Australian Open held in Melbourne. Safin made it to the final of this event three times (2002, 2004 and 2005) and won it once (2005). In the 2005 Australian Open final, Safin played Lleyton Hewitt but which country did Hewitt represent? | Marat Safin: Life and Tennis
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Australia. The pressure of any tennis Grand Slam final is intense enough but the intensity is cranked up further when your opponent is from the host country. Despite the pressure Russia's Marat Safin would go on to win his second Grand Slam title in four sets (1-6, 6-3, 6-4, and 6-4). However, this would prove to be the start of a long drought where Safin didn't win a single tournament in five years.
| Paris seemed to bring the best out of Marat Safin on the ATP Masters Tour as he registered three singles tournament wins there during his career. Only one other man had done the same before Safin but what is the name of this player from Germany? | Marat Safin: Life and Tennis
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Boris Becker. Marat Safin impressively managed to win this tournament on three occasions (2000, 2002 and 2004) and Boris Becker won the tournament in 1986, 1989 and 1992. In 1999, Safin came close to winning this event but just lost out in the final to Andre Agassi.
Four Americans had managed to win this event on two occasions (before Safin's career took off) and they were Andre Agassi, Brian Gottfried, Pete Sampras, and Stan Smith.
| Marat Safin won his very first Grand Slam event in 2000 at Flushing Meadows Park. Who was Safin's legendary opponent in the final of the men's singles event of the 2000 US Open? | Marat Safin: Life and Tennis
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Pete Sampras. Russia's Marat Safin managed to work his way through round after round in New York City until he faced one of the greatest obstacles he could have approached in that era of tennis, Pete Sampras. Now, beating Pete Sampras can never be called easy but the scoreline seems to suggest that that was the case! Safin eliminated Sampras after just three sets, none of which went as far as a tie-break. The final score for the men's singles event at the 2000 US Open was 6-4, 6-3, and 6-3. Safin had achieved the dream that every professional tennis player has, to win a Grand Slam event.
| Marat Safin left Russia at the age of just fourteen to develop his natural sporting talent. To which country did Safin move and become acquainted with the clay court surface? | Marat Safin: Life and Tennis
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Spain. Russia, which has a history of producing great tennis players both male and female, could not provide adequate facilities to develop Safin's game. Thus, he left home at an early age to the sunnier climes of Valencia, Spain. As you'd expect, Safin became fluent in Spanish and would eventually become trilingual (English, Russian, Spanish).
| One of the earliest significant tournament wins of Marat Safin's career was in 2000, when he beat Israel's Harel Levy in the ATP Masters Tour. In which country was this Masters Tour event held? | Marat Safin: Life and Tennis
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Canada. Marat Safin didn't take long to eliminate Harel Levy and the final score was a two sets to love win for the Russian, 6-2 and 6-3. As a result he won the Canada Masters, a win that he would never replicate coming only as close as the quarterfinals in 2002. One month later, Marat Safin would be propelled to the dizzy heights of professional world tennis when he won the 2000 US Open.
| The successful tennis player Marat Safin was born in January 1980 and was raised in a family of Tatar ethnicity. Safin represented his home country of Russia in which famous international team tennis tournament? | Marat Safin: Life and Tennis
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Davis Cup. The Davis Cup was a team event which saw nations battling it out on the tennis courts to reach the final and, from there, to potentially find international glory. The event was established in 1900, the year before the death of Queen Victoria, and in the early years it was a British-American affair.
Marat Safin was crucial to the success of the Russian team in the 2002 competition and the 2006 competition. In the final of the 2002 Davis Cup, Safin and the Russian team faced France and in 2006, Russia's opponents were Argentina.
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