Talk:Marat Safin

Heaped High and Deep !!
This Wikipedia article on Safin is heaped high and deep with bullshit, and half of it could easily be removed (discarded of) to leave an efficient encyclopedia article. This article gives the impression of being written by Safin's girlfriends and boyfriends who heaped it up high and deep.

Safin is not really a V.I.P. of a person like M. Gandhi, Neil Armstrong, Dwight Eisenhower, or Simon Bolivar, and people need to put things into perspective. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 74.163.48.66 (talk) 14:19, 25 June 2008 (UTC)

Testing Federer
"Safin is widely recognized as the player who can test Federer the most with his talent and his arsenal of powerful shots."

The player? Rafael Nadal, anyone? Maybe "one of the players" would be better...
 * Noted. I'll fix that in the article, but the "widely recognized" part is a weasel phrase; I hope someone can come up with a source for this opinion. Noelle De Guzman 05:00, 13 February 2006 (UTC)

yes !

We need a pic
Apparently the last pic we had of Marat didn't have any copyright information and was subsequently deleted. Old pics of Marat were deleted because they were orphaned. Does anyone out there have a pic we can use? It shouldn't be copyrighted, ideally. --Noelle De Guzman (talk) 04:04, 20 March 2006 (UTC)

WHY WONT U JUST KEEP THE CLOSEUP OF HIS RACQUET SHOWING THAT THERES NO FLEXPOINTS OR LIQUIDMETAL RIDGES????

Please add the link to the Ido Wikipedia
io:Marat Safin. Thank you, io:user:Joao Xavier

How about updating the man's record. According to the ATP Website he is 12-10 this year. Thanks.

Infobox - Ranking
Wasn't he ranked 1st at some point?216.15.43.6 (talk) 21:40, 4 July 2008 (UTC)


 * Yes. Why? мirаgeinred سَراب ٭  (talk) 02:01, 5 July 2008 (UTC)

Mikhail?
His father Mikhail Safin is apparently Tatar but why would he have an Orthodox Christian name like Mikhail (Michael) if that was the case? Whelanmk (talk) 12:29, 19 March 2009 (UTC)

Michael is a hebrew name, you moron. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 87.212.82.47 (talk) 00:42, 21 May 2009 (UTC)

Apparently accounts differ as to what his father's name is, mostly they are Mikhail but sometimes in interviews and articles it's Misha. Momo mier (talk) 01:45, 8 September 2009 (UTC)

Misha is short for Mikhail in Russian. Just like Mike is short for Michael in English. Same name. LP, Oct 8, 2009 —Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.169.75.73 (talk) 19:10, 9 October 2009 (UTC)

Beat Sampras at a GS in his prime??
In a word, no. Marat only played Sampras in a major once during his prime, and Sampras beat Safin in straight sets. The sentence in question, which I'm going to remove, bad grammar and all: Marat Safin is one of few players, to beat both Pete Sampras and Roger Federer in a Grand Slam during their peaks.66.190.29.150 (talk) 20:36, 18 June 2009 (UTC)

Actually, Marat Safin beat Pete Sampras in the year 2000 at the US Open and won the US Open. Not only is this common knowledge among tennis fans, can easily be looked up, but it's actually the first result listed on the bottom of the Wiki Article. Whoops, who feels a bit silly now? :) And, just in case you are interested, the Federer loss to Safin was in 2005 at the Australian Open in the semis, and Safin went on to win that Title as well, so the sentence is correct, and should be replaced. Blucat David. 26 June 2009.

Never mind. I see you have been blocked from editing for 6 months and the article has the proper information now. Sorry about that, folks. Blucat David 26 June.

Simple typo's corrected
Under the 2008 section was the following:

"Safin went on to defeat Feliciano López 3–6, 7–5, 7–6(1), 6–3 in the quarterfinals to set up a quarter-final clash with defending champion Roger Federer. Safin lost the match 6–3, 7–6(3), 6–4. His run to the quarter-finals was his best record in Wimbledon and made him the first Russian man to ever reach a Wimbledon semi-final".

Obviously just a typographical or simple mistake, I will replace quarter-final with semi-final where necessary. blucat David 26 June 2009.

Davis Cup section biased
A short paragraph on his role in the 2002 and 2006 Davis Cup wins, and then a longer paragraph on the 2009 loss to Israel? Really? And with that nice quote too, "Israel was lucky to make the quarters." Sure sounds like whoever wrote this part just wanted to gloat. LP, Oct 9, 2009

Post retirement and Fabrice Santoro
I added a bit of what Safin has been doing after tennis but I feel it needs a lot more. Also I think there needs to be a mention somewhere on his inability to defeat Fabrice Santoro since that was pretty famous as well.Captainspirou (talk) 17:38, 9 April 2011 (UTC)

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