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Yinette PerezMarat Safin's blog, Stockholm, Moscow
October 15th 2006 14:00
Everyone needs to go read Marat's blog. Like right now. It's the most mindblowing, deep thing I've read in ages. (Maybe because I don't read deep things very often.) I always have this image of Marat as being some 21 year old playboy but he sounds so mature and philosophical and cynical in his blog. Like wishing everybody to take care and not go do drugs and drink till your brain is fried. Argh, good words.
Marat Safin and Nikolai Davydenko are playing in the Moscow Kremlin Cup final as I speak. It's a battle of the Russians, although Marat says Davydenko's originally from Ukraine. Hmm. Davydenko is leading and about to take the 3rd set after they both have one set each.
In other news, Joachim Johansson beat top seed Rafael Nadal in the second round, in straight sets. This is completely awesome because the Swede has been injured for what seems like a billion years (it's not, really, he got injured sometime after last year's Wimbly, I think --> I definitely remember him playing in Halle, he played doubles with one Marat Safin(!), losing against Roger Federer and Yves Allegro. Marat also lost to Roger in the singles of that tournament but that story is for another day.) Last year "Pimpim", as he is affectionately called, reached a career high of 9th in the ATP rankings after winning the Adelaide International in February. He's plummeted down as low as 1062 (or something around there, definitely greater than 1000) since then and has slowly climbed back up to 690-something.
His profile can be found at Wiki and on the ATP site. And no, he isn't related to Thomas Johansson, who won the Australian Open a couple of years back.
He lost to Jarkko Niemenen yesterday though, the match going to 3 sets and both of them initally taking a set each, both being tiebreaks.
Here's a Youtube highlights of Nadal/Johansson:
And Marat just lost to Nikolai: 4-6 7-6 4-6.
Marat Safin and Nikolai Davydenko are playing in the Moscow Kremlin Cup final as I speak. It's a battle of the Russians, although Marat says Davydenko's originally from Ukraine. Hmm. Davydenko is leading and about to take the 3rd set after they both have one set each.
In other news, Joachim Johansson beat top seed Rafael Nadal in the second round, in straight sets. This is completely awesome because the Swede has been injured for what seems like a billion years (it's not, really, he got injured sometime after last year's Wimbly, I think --> I definitely remember him playing in Halle, he played doubles with one Marat Safin(!), losing against Roger Federer and Yves Allegro. Marat also lost to Roger in the singles of that tournament but that story is for another day.) Last year "Pimpim", as he is affectionately called, reached a career high of 9th in the ATP rankings after winning the Adelaide International in February. He's plummeted down as low as 1062 (or something around there, definitely greater than 1000) since then and has slowly climbed back up to 690-something.
His profile can be found at Wiki and on the ATP site. And no, he isn't related to Thomas Johansson, who won the Australian Open a couple of years back.
He lost to Jarkko Niemenen yesterday though, the match going to 3 sets and both of them initally taking a set each, both being tiebreaks.
Here's a Youtube highlights of Nadal/Johansson:
And Marat just lost to Nikolai: 4-6 7-6 4-6.
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