It's a pity that the tennis is really going down the drain. Every year it's getting worse and worse and worse. There has to be a radical change, and I hope it will be really soon.

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.