Dinara Safina (World Top 9): Can She Prove Herself To Move Into World Top 1?
Posted on June 12, 2010
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Dinara Safina, a Russian skilled tennis player was born in Moscow on April 27, 1986. She’s the younger sister of former World’s Number One Marat Safin. She’s trained by Glen Schaap, former trainer of Nadia Petrova. Her mother, Rauza Islanova was previously her coach when she was younger yet still offers tips to Dinara. Her dad was the Director for the Spartak Tennis Club in Moscow.
On July 29, 2002, she existed into The Top 100. She also earned her very first WTA Title in Sopot, beating Nagyova and became the ever youngest Tour Champion within four years and first qualifier to win a title in 3 years. During the same year, she conquered a top 20 player Silvia Farina Elia, who had previously been seeded 14, for the first time in Moscow at the age of 16. On July 14, 2003, she broke to the top 50. She won her second WTA Title defeating Srebotnik in Palermo. In that particular year, she reached the fourth round on the 2003 US Open and also entered the quarterfinals at Doha, Sopot & Shanghai. She defeated the defending champion Maleeva in Moscow.
For the 2004 Australian Open, Safina upset Amanda Coetzer of South Africa before losing to Kim Clijsters of Belgium. For the first time, Dinara ended the entire year for the Top 50 and reached third career final at Luxembourg where she was displaced from Mohlik. She won her exemplary Singles Title at Paris Indoors defeating Mauresmo . Partnering Dementieva, she conquered the decisive Doubles Rubber from the Fed Cup Final in 2005. She stunned the World Number 1 Sharapova from the QF in the 2005 Kremlin Cup winning 1-6, 6-4, 7-5.
In the 2007 Australian Open, she achieved the Tier I in Rome Final by defeating Top Ten Tennis Players Kim Clijsters, Elena Dementieva and Kuznetsova, but was also defeated then by resurgent Martina Hingis 6-2, 7-5. In the 2006 French Open, she reached the Quarterfinals for the first time in her tennis career. During the fourth round, she defeated number four seed Sharapova 7-5, 2-6, 7-5. In the third set, she trailed 1-5 but managed to drag the upset of almost 21/2 hours of play. To start the grass season, following her excellent execution on clay, she reached her very first Grass Court Final on the Ordina Open, but got lost to Krajicek 6-3, 6-4.
In her first tournament of 2007, she battled her best to the finals of the Tier III Tournament at Gold Coast, Australia. She beat the number one-seeded Martina Hingis in that final 6-3 3-6 7-5 on her first WTA Tour Title since May of 2005. This win also saw her rise towards the World’s Top Ten Tennis Player in Women’s Division.
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