I give up on spending time on these courts; I give up on practicing before the tournament I hate. I hate this.

In the following years Safin never fully recovered. He was later defeated in the early rounds of each of the seven tournaments he played between the Australian Open and the French Open. ".

1 ranking during his career. Open after defeating Pete Sampras and won the 2005 Australian Open defeating Australian Lleyton Hewitt in the final. They are the first brother-sister tandem in tennis history to both achieve No.