Да это есть  :рр:, но сейчас я исправила коды смайликов и больше такого не будет  .

Победит Марат Сафин! Что за пессимизм!! Поддерживайте его, ему это нужно  :claps:  :claps:  :claps: .

Марат в Майами, тренировался вчера с Богомоловым:

Safin on rise with latest coach

BY CHARLES BRICKER

South Florida Sun-Sentinel

KEY BISCAYNE, Fla. - (KRT) - It was one of those training session crescendo rallies with Marat Safin and Alex Bogomolov firing at each other Sunday on the stadium court, three days before the start of the Nasdaq-100 Open.

It started with Bogomolov at the net and a couple of light touches of the ball when Safin's ground strokes took on more and more pace and Bogomolov's volleys more and more sting - until the two were slamming reflex volleys at each other from point blank range.

Safin finished it with a backhand, they smiled at each other and, as they took a break, Safin joked, ``On the practice court, I'm No. 1 in the world.''

He's again taking on the aspect of a No. 1 in the rankings, too, after defeating Roger Federer in the semifinal of the Australian Open and racing out to a 10-2 record this season.

No one has doubted Safin's physical gifts since he crushed Pete Sampras in the 2000 U.S. Open. But it has taken affable coach Peter Lundgren, 4 1/2 years later, to bring some order to Safin's mentality, which once seemed to be flying in five directions at once.

``First of all, you have to get the respect from the player,'' Lundgren said.

``And it took a while for us to get to know each other. But maybe that's my strength. I can feel his mood because I was a player myself.''

Safin, ranked No. 4, had been through a succession of coaches when he hired Lundgren at the Italian Open in May 2004.

They didn't get off to a good start as he won only 12 of 22 matches from there through a first-round loss to Tommy Enqvist at the U.S. Open. And then, bingo.

Safin won three titles, two of them Masters Series events, at Beijing, Madrid and Paris, then blazed through the Aussie Open in January and is 25-5 since the loss to Enqvist.

Safin is 25 now and Lundgren used a well known argument to get his client to commit himself fully to his tennis, pointing out that he had perhaps five good seasons left and did he want to look back on a wasted career, wondering how much he could have accomplished had he applied himself with the zeal of Federer or Pete Sampras.

Things are going well now, but it's still too early in the Safin-Lundgren relationship to predict it will continue on this positive course.

Safin's performance through the entire year will be a better test.

Safin arrived here after losing in the third round to Taylor Dent at Indian Wells and is well into his preparation for the Nasdaq.

``The whole thing is to not practice too much but to focus on what he should focus on,'' Lundgren said.

The win over Federer at Melbourne was especially delicious for Lundgren, who was fired by Federer after the 2003 season. He was asked if he had any particular wisdom to impart to Safin about Federer tendencies, if there are any.

``Yeah, a few things,'' said Lundgren, smiling.

Марат в Майами тренируется, что-то кудри перестали расти, застряли: 

Игорь, неожиданно (для меня) победил Павла 6-2 6-1  , а Миша(ещё неожиданней) проиграл Ли 1-6 4-6 :o .

Зво тоже проиграла какой-то неизвестной тёте.

Игорек - молодец!  :claps:  :claps:  :claps: