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Post by tini on Oct 11, 2009 22:20:33 GMT 3
Also the interview after the match: www.youtube.com/watch?v=UDhG_Y4ScsUnot sure if it was also on the other links because I watched the ceremony on another link and they make me sad, so I didn't watch again... He will play Gong tomorrow at 8pm local time! |
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Post by tini on Oct 13, 2009 15:47:05 GMT 3
He won yesterday 6-4 6-4  not the best tennis but he won which is all that counts! Think he will play Berdych tomorrow... |
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Post by tinuviel on Oct 14, 2009 18:09:06 GMT 3
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Post by tinuviel on Oct 15, 2009 19:16:49 GMT 3
You just gotta love the guy haven't you?
Loved this article I found after he lost to Berdych
“What kind of sportsman are you, what kind of man are you?” - Marat Safin
The ATP’s Grumpy Season is in full swing at the Shanghai Masters (no wonder Roger’s sitting it out). Even Marat Safin, who is saying adios to the tour in just a few weeks, is taking the opportunity to settle some scores. At issue are two of the players’ favorite complaints: 1. the length of the season, and 2. sketchy injury time outs.
Marat says that Andy Roddick, a vocal critic of the ATP schedule this week in Shanghai, should have listened to him years ago:
In 2004 we had this discussion in Olympic Games with Roddick about it and they were blaming me that I’m playing too much. And I was saying that the season is too long. We should make it shorter. And the guys, they jumped on me, like I was the one who was wrong.
So look at all of them — everybody is falling apart. Everybody is getting injured left and right, and everybody is complaining the season is long. It takes six years to realize that something is wrong.
They just have to deal with that, not when they are 21 and ambitious and want to make money. They have to think a little bit with their brains and to make the career a little bit longer. (via the AFP)
Safin may have a bone to pick with Roddick, but he still agrees that the calendar is a problem: “It’s a beautiful sport, so why kill the players and make the calendar basically playing 12 months of the year?” (via Monsters & Critics)
I’ve always wondered why Safin was once quoted as saying he didn’t like Andy Roddick. I assumed it was a tiff over a girl (silly me!), but perhaps it’s just run-of-the-mill office politics.
Marat is especially grumpy because he lost in Shanghai on Wednesday, going out to Tomas Berdych: 3-6 6-4 6-4. Safin declined to shake Berdych’s hand after the match, angry at the Czech for making a dubious request for the trainer towards the beginning of the second set. Here’s what Safin had to say after the match:
Just come on; just grow up a little bit; 26 years old; just deal with that. If you’re losing, just be a man; be a man and lose as a man.
Don’t pretend like you are injured and then you start running around and start to hit winners and then all of a sudden you pull the hands up in the air after winning the match?
So then of course the guy will say: ‘No, I’ve been injured but then I felt a little bit better’.
Of course he will find 10,000 excuses. Still, it’s not enough. You’re playing or you’re not playing. If you’re playing, so just shut up and play. (via the AFP)
Actually, it was “so just shut the f#ck up”.
And I love this report from the press room:
“(Marat Safin’s tirade) was an impressive display and one that had some members of the media nodding in agreement. Meanwhile the wee Chinese girl providing simultaneous translation had gone beetroot red, having heard language that she never encountered at the Beijing University of Linguistics.”Come on, Marat, just say it: “Nanny nanny boo boo!”
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Post by tini on Oct 16, 2009 16:08:36 GMT 3
some true words! Really loved the first set but not so much what came in the second  Glad he didn't gave up in the third and fought back to 4 all but unfortunately at the end he still lost  |
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Post by tinuviel on Oct 17, 2009 12:41:00 GMT 3
A bit off topic as not really about the tournaments - but it relates to the bit in the article I posted where Marat has a bit of a go at Roddick. Here is Roddick's answer in a tweet (Our discussion) wasn’t exactly about the calendar. It was more about the fact that there was too much tennis in the Summer of 2004. I agreed with this, but found it odd that he (Safin) chose to play in Sopot the week before on clay. I didn’t think it gave him much of an argument as far as complaining about too much tennis. That being said, I really like Marat and his opinions and am excited that at the very least this issue is getting discussed and yes, I certainly feel like I know more now than I did when I was 21. I don’t really know anyone who wouldn’t feel that way 6 years further into a career. . . Read more: www.gototennisblog.com/2009/10/15/andy-roddick-proposes-a-fix-to-the-atp-calendar/#ixzz0UBUoNuaS Under Creative Commons License: Attribution No Derivatives Love the bit in bold. Really Andy? Really! |
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Post by tini on Oct 17, 2009 14:25:46 GMT 3
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Post by tinuviel on Oct 17, 2009 14:46:11 GMT 3
Maybe Kolya will be tired after playing Djokovic and then Nadal or Lopez in the final of Shanghai. I guess that's what happens when your ranking slips |
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Post by tini on Oct 17, 2009 20:00:30 GMT 3
Hope he will be REALLY tired LOL We knew he would face a seeded player early, but he beat him last year, so maybe he can do it again |
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Post by audrey on Oct 20, 2009 9:42:52 GMT 3
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Glad he didn't gave up in the third and fought back to 4 all but unfortunately at the end he still lost 
