His antics on the court though not inspiring are his USP and add a certain amount of lightheadedness to the game after all the tensions and anxiety. His berations, his racquet banging and his gestures ...

Marat Safin probably shouldn't have played this season. In fact, he almost didn't. "Then I got an offer and I couldn't really refuse it," Safin told me over the weekend. (An offer from his manager, ...

Bill Dwyre can be reached at [email protected]. To read previous columns by Dwyre, go to latimes.com/dwyre. NEW YORK — If you just dropped in from Mars and ...

Marat Safin, tossing his racket in his trademark display of anger, lost, 6-3, 6-1, to Arnaud Di Pasquale of France on Tuesday in the first round of the Masters Series Monte Carlo at Monaco. The ...

For a player who is on his farewell ATP tour, it is looking more and more likely that there may be no Cinderella story ending. The mighty Russian may have aged physically, but temperamentally he still ...

MELBOURNE, Australia -- Andy Roddick is out of the Australian Open and will lose the No. 1 ranking -- all because Marat Safin is back at the top of his game. Safin's 2-6, 6-3, 7-5, 6-7 (0), 6-4 upset ...

Marat Safin said goodbye to Grand Slam tennis on Wednesday with little more than a whimper, a conflict of character with the fiery persona that electrified his career. Was it really just nine years ...

Dinara Safina has had a lifetime of being known as "Marat Safin's sister" and a couple of months of being "the best player who hasn't won a Grand Slam." Both could end on Saturday. Of course, Safina ...

NEWPORT, R.I. >> Marat Safin enjoyed life as a tennis player, calling it like living in a rock n’ roll band. That fun-filled journey brought him to the pinnacle of his sport — induction into the ...