i have new born respect for safin ...talk about telling it how it is ...

I wonder what Agassi's reply would be ?

C'MON !!

Love the frankness...LOL

Love Marat! I saw the 60 minutes interview. What a crock, and really, how ungrateful. Andre wants compassion? I agree with Marat - just give it away, give it away, give it away, now!

I'm going to miss Safin! he's a straight up kinda guy.He tell it like it is:)
He doesn't sugar coat his answers to guestions.

Marat always speaks what we think -- but we are always trying to be nice and politically correct.

i think safin hit the nail on the head there. the atp did agassi a favour, so why the hell is agassi ruining them now?

Although I don't like the idea of 'covering it up', it is now past due, case expires (I think) already. Now I'm worried about Richard's case -- if this stupid revelation is taken into consideration.

LOL, Marat. That's hilarious. i wish Andre would just...be quiet now. tanking matches, failing drug tests. What's next?

This is pure honesty. Thank you Safin!

LOL if safin is going out, he is going out swinging with all guns blazing!

he ripped into birdman berdych, then roddick, now agassi!

i say federer, nadal and the woman's tour are next on the hit list!

nah Safin loves Federer

but WTA Tour is definitely a prime candidate. I agree that Safin will produce something special at his last press conference, presumably after his match with Del Potro.

I think Safin has much respect for Federer and he loves Rafa too, treating him like his little brother. I dont think Safin will say anything bad about both Fed and Rafa.

Priceless , Marat , absolutely priceless! Oh and Ricky , doesn't everybody love Fed except the Nadal fans on tennistalk?

Hey, Chr and your 18 grand slam singles titles, there's plenny-a-love for Roger Federer from some of us Rafans, y'know...

chr18, how do you know that everybody love Fed? Any proof?

Respect to you Mr Safin!!! no matter what you are honest and truthful. people in general do not like to hear the truth that is why people like you are always slagged off. people especially other tennis players should class you as a role model and not agassi when he has confessed to clear his guilty conscience. I hope you enjoy your retirement and do not anything stupid, eg, publishing a book or making mistakes like agassi. you are definitely going to be missed in the tennis world...

I think I agree with Safin of not wanting to do an autobiography. How he chooses to live his life is up to him, and he certainly need not disclose it to everyone. He is a wise man, though quite a headcase on the tennis court.

chr18 you're funny...I have been so proud of you..just when i thought you were making great strides forward now you take 2 steps back.
I guess that's what i get for think.

Safin = complete GOLD. I am going to miss this guy so so so very much. Speaks his mind, never sugarcoats things, never bothers about being PC. He probably spoke what was on everyone's mind but everyone else didn't want to say it. :D

Am I the only one hoping for a the MASSIVE upset of Delpo v Safin? To be honest I actually want Safin to WIN the Bercy title although I know the possibility is like next to nil. :(

jyannis, we all hope, but it might be a bit unrealistic :)

LORD POLONIUS
What do you read, my lord?

HAMLET
Words, words, words.

L. P. What is the matter, my lord?

H. ...Slanders, sir: for the satirical rogue says here
that old men have grey beards, that their faces are
wrinkled, their eyes purging thick amber and
plum-tree gum and that they have a plentiful lack of
wit, together with most weak hams: all which, sir,
though I most powerfully and potently believe, yet
I hold it not honesty to have it thus set down...
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Just to the point, I think. Shameless (can't help myself with a softer word) Andre urgently has to shut up, Cheryl is more than right. But Marat is also too loquacious, to my taste - at least, for a member of the same guild (not even saying in general) it's better to be "quieter" in judging...In fact, they both speak much how they are/were tired of tennis life but the same does NOT go for their pressers! Well, peace to them...

Don't get me wrong, I like Safin as much as the next person, but I would just like to enter the following quote, taken from BBC's story today about Safin's farewell match with DelPo, into the record:

After his early Wimbledon exit to compatriot Dmitry Tursunov in 2004, Safin said: "I don't like to play on this surface. After a while, I get bored. I completely lost motivation, and I gave up. I love tennis, but I just don't like grass."

So ... Safin gave up ... in a tennis match ... and lost ...

You know, I didn't look, but did Safin pay back the millions or titles he won? Just wondering.

Kettle, meet the pot.

The link:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/tennis/8355075.stm