Roland Garros '08

Lena

Jako że mamy do czynienia z turniejem wielkoszlemowym to warto temat założyć. Ja nie wiem ale podskórnie chyba każdy z nas czuje, że Dinara tutaj może dokonać rzeczy wielkiej. Ja nie napisze tego o czym myśle, bo nie chce krakać, a wiadomo, że czasem tak bywa iż słowo ma dużą moc sprawczą ale tak też wcale nie musi być Wink

Czyli, że na razie szaaa Cool

Dinka idzie jak burza, w dwóch swoich pierwszych meczach straciła tylo pięć gemów !! Ja myśle, że powstrzymać ją może tylko Serena, bo jakoś nie chce mi sie wierzyć, że Ana Ivanovic tak podbudowała forme, że będzie grała swój najgoźniejszy tenis. Jankovic natomiast to jest taka zawodniczka, która pewnego szczebla nie jest w stanie przeskoczyć niemniej jednak zawsze jest groźna.
Także jak coś to ja obawiam sie Reny.

Davai Śliczna Very Happy

EDIT: Serena właśnie wyleciała z turnieju Shocked

przegrała ze Srebotnik 6-4 6-4

owca

I Serena nie robi już większego problemu bo Dinara zrobiła się jak huragan, który zmiata wszystko na swojej drodze. Wink

Strasznie się podrasowała w kondycji i technice.

Zresztą, z tego co wiem Serena właściwie to już odpadła.

Lena

Teraz czas na Mashe i hmm ... jednak sie obawiam i stres jest :/

s.

a ja w nią wierze,że spuści lanie Wyjcowi(sory ale dla mnie ona zawsze bedzie mieć to pseudo)i pociśnie jak torpeda do finału i oczywista go wygra!!!;D

elviira

Ja także wierzę w Dinare i dodatkowo mocno trzymam kciuki, ja po prostu Maryśki nie lubię, więc satysfakcja po zwycięstwie Dinki będzie jeszcze większa Wink

Lena

Jutro mecz Dinary z Mashą wyznaczony jest na kort S. Lenglen jako drugi. Jako pierwsi od 11:00 zaczną panowie Gonzalez z Gineprim.

aniqua

Davaiiiiiiiiii Dinka!!!!!!!!!

Kati

Dawaj Dinka, możesz pogonić - teraz sie wyłamuję z własnych nawyków - Wyjcową! Dawaj!

s.

WYGRAŁAAAA!!!!!!!TEREFERE TERAZ JUZ TYLKO ONA MOZE TO WYGRAĆ!!!

Lena

Dina to jest Kozak przez duże "ka"!!! Mr. Green

Będą już prawie w samolocie do domu, zawróciła i jednak postanowiła posiedzieć jeszcze troche nad Sekwaną Wink

Po tej przerwie deszczowej wyszła jakaś nie ta Dina. Wogóle to była nie ta Dina co z Berlina. Jakaś taka bojaźliwa, pełna kiecka strachu, granie balonami, bieganie bezsensowne od linii do linii, zwalnianie gry no i dupa była. Masha miała już 5-2 i 30-0 a tu nagle Safinka return - wlazło ! potem fh po linii - też wlazło. No i sie zaczęło. Maria straciła swój główny atut czy stalowe nerwy i pewność siebie. Dinara podkręciła swoją gre (która - no nie czarujmy sie i tak pozostawiła wiele do rzyczenia w tym meczu) no i wygrała.

dobry dzień Very Happy

elviira

No po prostu rodzeństwo Safinów to specjaliści od tenisowych dreszczowców Exclamation

Ile ja tam dzisiaj przed tym telewizorem nerwów zjadłam to masakra, ale najważniejsze, że wygrała i trzeba przyznać, że Dinka ma nerwy ze stali Wink

No i muszę wspomnieć o tym, jak bardzo się cieszę, z tego kogo pokonała Razz

Lena

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Q. Can you say now that it has been the best victory ever in your career, the way that the game has been played?

DINARA SAFINA: Well, best ‑‑ after Berlin tough to say best, because, well, what was happening in Berlin was really also unbelievable. But one of the best comebacks, I can say, yes.

Q. Did you believe in yourself the whole game, or were you doubting when you were 5 to 2 in the second set down?

DINARA SAFINA: I mean, first set was strange. I mean, I had ‑‑ I mean, I had set points even in the first set. I believed ‑‑ I knew that I had a chance to beat her, but the way maybe I just put it too much on myself that I can win, so I was way too passive playing instead of really being myself and do my job on the court.

I mean, she was 5‑2 up. She had match point. It was all in her hands. And then at 5‑3 my serve, I mean, she had match point. Then I hit a winner on her match point.

And then suddenly it changed and I just started like ‑‑ because there I could not slow down anymore, because she was really dominating. I feel like I had no chances.

Q. It was this winner that gave you the power forward?

DINARA SAFINA: Kind of. I didn't show any emotions, but inside I was like, Okay. Because I was really like starting to hit the ball much harder. Before I was just running and playing it back, and she was doing everything on the court.

Q. She can be very intimidating to play. She makes a lot of noise. She's very aggressive. How does that affect you, and you particularly proud of the way you handled this on the emotional side of things?

DINARA SAFINA: You know, in this game it's all about ourselves. If you start to focus and opponent, you're keep on going focusing on her. That was my mistake.

I was trying to focus on myself and what I have to do and not to let her to dictate me. So it was ‑‑ until I had to change the game. I mean, I guess in the third set is what happened. Maybe she went a little bit down, but then I started not to wait for her mistakes. I had the chance and I had to hit the ball, so ‑‑ it just ‑‑ you have to focus on yourself.

Q. Have you heard from Marat?

DINARA SAFINA: Yes.

Q. Telephone or text?

DINARA SAFINA: Text.

Q. What did he say?

DINARA SAFINA: Well done. Good play.

Q. You weren't very nice to your racquet at 6‑All in the tiebreak in the first set. How did you feel about that?

DINARA SAFINA: I say I'm not the girl to keep all the emotions I have inside. I guess I have to pay lots of fines, because that's the way I am. I prefer to let it go.

I cannot ‑‑ I mean, okay, the first set I was ‑‑ my coach told me it was way too much crying. So he prefers also me that I stay at least quiet for a certain moment. I feel that I have to explode then I explode.

But first set was too much crying from my side. Like every second ball I was already kind of like talking to myself, and that was the mistake.

But once I get the warning I know that I cannot do this anymore, so I have to stay quiet and play.

Q. If we say that sounds like your brother, are we correct?

DINARA SAFINA: Yeah. Same lot. (laughter.)

Q. You've been in this position before a couple years ago. Do you have the confidence now to really win this title, do you think?

DINARA SAFINA: I mean, it's not easy. Every player is playing really good. It's not that you play ‑‑ I mean, first seeded, first No. 1 in the world and then suddenly there is nobody else left in the draw. I mean, next girl is also top 10 player, Jelena, and she's playing really good at the moment.

I just played her. Last tournament I played Berlin and it was three sets. She's very tough opponent. It's a close match. Same. We'll have to go there, and maybe at least next time not let her dictate me, that I will at least dictate first set.

Q. Do you believe you can win?

DINARA SAFINA: Still, it's too many matches in front, and I still have doubles. I still have to take it slowly. I don't look so much in front.

Q. This year you tried to work are you started working with Heinz Günther, but now who is the new trainer and where are you working or the relation?

DINARA SAFINA: No, we stop with Heinz. My new coach is Zeljko Krajan.

Q. In those moments away from the court at home when you and Marat go out for coffee, or perhaps a vodka, have you ever talked with each other about how wonderful it would be if you each had a Grand Slam title? (sie pytajacy nie zabawił w ceregiele Mr. Green

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DINARA SAFINA: I think it's going to be a dream of all our family, you know. Once we do this we can put really the racquet on the wall and say we did everything we could.

But to get to his level, I still have to work a little bit harder to get to the level he was.

Q. Did the public help you today? Because we heard a lot of the crowd.

DINARA SAFINA: Yeah, in this case, I should say thanks to my brother, because I know the people, French people really love him.

So I guess I get half of the support from his part. (laughter.)

I really thank them that they were there. Even though I was down 5‑2, but still I could hear people cheering for me. Of course it's always nice, because we play for them.

Q. Could you tell us about next match, what you expect from that?

DINARA SAFINA: I already answered these questions.

Q. Did you remember your match against Sharapova two years ago?

DINARA SAFINA: Well, not really. When I was 5‑2 down, but I was still okay. It was third set. Now it was different. It was second set, and she had still match point.

Not really, but I still believed. Maybe I believe more that I still can win the match. Still is missing something. I still have to do something more on the court, and maybe that's what I guess was still missing, made me to work harder and harder.

zemfira

jaaaaa!!!! wróciłam po weekendzie (roztocze, ah roztocze!) zobaczyłam komu i jak Dinka tyłek skopała i sobie myślę, że to jest TEN czas, kiedy Dina zapracowuje sobie na swoje własne imię (nazwisko już ma).

jej jak się cieszę!
meczu nie widziałam. bo mi eurosporta wyłączyli Sad

Także Elen Sister, dzięki za krótkie streszczenie.

cóż moge dodać...... "DINARA" - to brzmi dumnie !!!

Lena

Bardzo fajny artykuł Very Happy

"Someday they'll be calling me Dinara's brother," Marat Safin once predicted. It was hard to believe, but then so was his sister's match at the French Open on Monday.

Maria Sharapova cracked. Dinara Safina was mentally tough. Combine those two unusual events, and you get an very improbable match. The 7-6( Cool

, 6-7(5), 6-2 scoreline doesn't even begin to do justice to the twists and turns of the encounter.

In the big picture, this will probably be just a blip for Sharapova, who was already talking about getting back out there and rebounding for the grass. "I'm sure that I'll be upset for the next few hours," she said. "But don't get me wrong, I'm going to go back on the court and whatever surface it is, hardcourt, backyard on the wall - I'm going to go out there and I'm going to work hard."

But this result does have the potential to be career-defining for Safina. She has now won 10 straight matches and beaten four of the top ten in the past three weeks, starting with Justine Henin at Berlin, in what turned out to be Henin's last match. She then turned around and defeated Serena Williams in her next match, and went on to win the title by defeating Elena Dementieva in the final.

We have seen this before - two years ago, in fact. Safina defeated Kim Clijsters, Svetlana Kuznetsova and Elena Dementieva to reach the Rome final, and then over came a 5-1 deficit in the third set to defeat Sharapova and reach the quarterfinals of the French Open.

Waiting in the quarterfinals this time is Elena Dementieva, who was coached by Safina's mother growing up and remembers Safina as a toddler. "She didn't play yet, but she was playing with the balls without racquets," said Dementieva. "She was always working so hard. Like she was always trying to show everyone that she can play as good as Marat, you know."

Big brother Marat has always had advice for little sis, even if his temperamental actions haven't always matched his wise words. "He say, ‘don’t do this,’” she related once. “I say, ‘but you’re doing this.’ He say, ‘I’m telling you this from my experience.’”

A little while ago, Safina decided she was going to do her own thing."I texted him when I lost [in Los Angeles] in the first round, and I said, ‘Oh, you know, I’m fighting, I’m playing, I’m working hard and nothing going my way,’" she said last summer. "And he goes, ‘So don’t try that hard. It will be easier for you.’

"Well, it’s his advice, but I better stick to mine: ‘Okay, if I work hard, one day must be my day.’"

After Safina's win on Monday, Safin's text contained only congratulations.

Now, a bit like a big sister, Dementieva is genuinely pleased about Safina's recent success. "It's correct because she's a hard worker. Maybe she doesn't have so much talent as Marat does, but she really improved a lot. She's in the top 10 right now and really playing at her best for this year."

If Safina can turn around and beat the extremely tough 'big sis' to reach the semis, it might finally be safe to say she's reached a new phase in her career. "It's every year, new phase of my career," she laughed after her previous match. "I guess I'm a little bit more experienced, so hopefully I will not do the mistakes that I've been doing before.

"I hope it's new me. God knows."

While we wait to find out, try unravelling this complicated scorecard for the match against Sharapova:

Safina had two set points at 6-4 in the first-set tiebreaker before Sharapova hit back strongly, starting with a dropshot winner. Safina smashed her racquet when the score got back to 6-6 in the tiebreak, and appeared ready to implode, but went up 2-0 in the second set in between rain breaks. Sharapova then ran off five straight games to go up 5-2 and reached match point when serving at 5-3, but Safina cracked a backhand winner down the line and the two were soon in another tiebreak.

As she had earlier in the set, Sharapova went up 5-2 in the tiebreak. But she suddenly produced a string of unforced errors, including her sixth double fault of the match at 5-4.

It was hard not to cast the mind back to their encounter in the fourth round here two years ago, when Sharapova let slip a 5-1 lead in the third set.

The third set looked like it was going to be a fight all the way, but once again a surprise was in store: one player ran away with the last four games. Even more unexpectedly, that player was Safina. Sharapova struggled on her forehand and pulled off her serve, and repeatedly had her awkward movement on the surface exposed as Safina drew her forward with a number of crosscourt angles and dropshots.

Sharapova's shrieks got louder and louder and she swore at herself, trying get pumped up. "I was trying to get angry at something that can somehow get that anger out of me and just, you know, let loose," she said. "Because I just started playing tentatively."

It didn't work, and rather unfairly, she got booed by the deafened spectators as she left the court. "You can't please everybody," she said. "Not in my job description."

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Taka mnie troche refleksyja naszła po przeczytaniu tego. No bo boli fakt, że pałeczka przeszła z brata na siostre tak szybko. I wcale nie mam tu na myśli faktu iż Dina miała z wygrywaniem jeszcze czekac Razz

chodzi raczej o to, że im sie to zbiec mogło, no ale nie zbiegło i nikłe szanse, że sie tak stanie (Marata mam na myśli). Ale i tak świetnie sie to czyta, bo relacja Marata z Dinarą jest rewelacyjna, jedno za drugim jest bardzo bardzo i dumni z siebie są bardzo. (dużo słowa "bardzo" no ale oni pod każdym względem są bardzo Very Happy

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Lena

Konferencja prasowa z dziś Wink

Q. How are you physically today after your big match?

DINARA SAFINA: Actually, I'm feeling pretty good. I recovered I think well after those two tough matches. Yesterday it was a little bit easier, so actually I'm okay.

Q. How do you improve your physical shape and how does it influence your game?

DINARA SAFINA: Well, physically it's a key for me, so I been working really hard. I even had to find a new fitness coach that I was looking for.

Of course, I was working really hard. We just started actually with him before Berlin, so...

Q. It's been almost two years since you played Ana in Canada in a rainy week, and we know how she's a different player today. How are you a different player today?

DINARA SAFINA: Well, it's really ‑‑ it's past already two years, so we both were really working hard on our weaknesses and to improve our best shots, so I don't know.

I've been searching of that, like how I can say? Like for the coach who can help me to develop my best shots and to improve my weaknesses. So I hope I'm ‑‑ I think I'm moving also much better than before. I don't know.

At the moment, the way I was playing these matches, I can say I was feeling pretty also confident on the court.

Q. I spoke with your mother yesterday, and she says the difference for you is that you're steadier. You have more belief and you have more control when you're on the court. Do you agree with that, as well?

DINARA SAFINA: Yeah. Also, like, with emotions for me, so I started to deal with my emotions and I accept some things if they're not going my way. So I say, Okay, it's not going my way. I have to find something else.

So maybe the years before I would say, Oh, I'm so unlucky. I cannot do this. So I would start to not even look for the answers. But now I'm trying every time, Okay, this is not working, but I'm going to find other solutions to still win a match when I'm not playing my best.

Q. You saved two times match points. Does it influence your mental attitude, because you could be not there?

DINARA SAFINA: Well, of course. As I said like before, now, like even it was set of 5‑2, maybe before it would be third set I would still fight. But like I could say all the match were in their hands.

Then I would say ‑‑ I would just not play anymore, like would not fight for that. But now I'm like, Okay, I'm still going to hang in there and still maybe give extra ball, extra shot, or maybe do something else.

So I start to always kind of search for something in the match.

Q. You said something yesterday that I've been thinking about quite a lot. You said your brother, who is in England, would not come to Paris. I thought, this could be the greatest moment of her tennis career. Why would he not come to watch your first Grand Slam final?

DINARA SAFINA: I don't know. Maybe he will come. He didn't tell me anything. I guess maybe he will make a surprise and he come, because I really like when he comes to see me.

But I think as when I see him play I get so nervous, so he will also be so nervous he will not even be able to watch me play.

Q. Your mother also said that through your careers that she gave very different advice to you than she did to Marat, because men's tennis and women's tennis and a man player and a woman player is so different. Were you aware of that? Did you sense that? She also said something to the fact that, you know, you thought that you would win right away like Marat did. She said, Oh, no, you'll have to wait for your turn.

DINARA SAFINA: Actually, I never heard this from her, so I don't know how... (laughter.)

Q. It's a secret?

DINARA SAFINA: Maybe she's telling you this, but she never told me this.

Q. You were a 14‑year‑old girl when your brother won the US Open. Can you tell us what you remember about that day?

DINARA SAFINA: Actually, I was not even watching the final, because he was in States and I was in ‑‑ at that moment we were living in Spain. They were showing I don't know on which channel, so we didn't even have even this channel.

We had just friends who were calling us and telling us the score. So then the parents ‑‑ I was already sleeping because it was so late for me, and then my parents came and they told me.

But when I saw this match on the video it was just, I don't know, amazing. Like the way he played, it's just ‑‑ was too good.

Q. I'd like to ask you about another family memory. Until this week, probably the most famous thing your family has done here was Marat dropping his shorts during the tournament in 2004. What do you remember about that?

DINARA SAFINA: I also didn't see this moment, but they have on YouTube, so I saw it a couple times. (laughter.)

Well, I don't know. He just ‑‑ I think he's also entertainer to watch. That's why the people love to come to watch him play, because he always give some show. I mean, he's real on the court. If he has emotions, he will not hide them. He will explode, because I think that he's real.

And if he felt like ‑‑ because I think it was really like a long point, and he was kind of like, I did like everything to win this point. He was like, how can you say it? He played out of his ass, so he kind of he showed it.

Q. Would you say that you and he share the same kind of personality?

DINARA SAFINA: I think even for the girls sometimes I behave not very nice. (laughter.) I am breaking the racquets also, and I sometimes I also can say not a nice words on the court.

But I'm like this. I know I'm not perfect, but the people have to like me the way I am. I don't want to hide my personality, to be like not the way I am. I'm the way I am.

Q. Considering that Ana Ivanovic hits so many winners but also unforced errors ‑ especially in yesterday's match when she hit 43 winners and 45 unforced errors ‑ do you think the extra‑ball tactics is the best one you can use against her?

DINARA SAFINA: Well, definitely you cannot think about her unforced errors, because that's not the way you have to go out there. As I said, I just have to go there and focus on myself, to play my game.

It's going to be, again, the one who first start to dominate the point. Because she likes to be aggressive, and I want also to be aggressive.

So just the one who is going to be more aggressive and who take the incentive in the point is going to win.

Q. This is a new experience for you. How are your nerves looking forward to tomorrow's match? And also, is it hard to keep yourself from thinking about how you might celebrate if you win and not jump ahead?

DINARA SAFINA: No, of course it's new experience for me. I don't want to think about this at the moment. I still have some time in the evening, and then I will sit with my coach and we're going to speak about the match.

But, anyway, I think like what was happening already these two weeks were really good, and just it's one more step to go.

As I said, I just want to give everything what I have left inside of me. And that after the match, whatever happens, you shake the hands and said, Well, I did everything, and who is better will win.

Q. Personality‑wise, do you and Marat take after your mom or your dad?

DINARA SAFINA: What do you mean?

Q. Like you said you say some words on court that you shouldn't, and he's temperamental or whatever. Who do you get that from in your family?

DINARA SAFINA: From my dad, because he's also like character, like cannot lose. Even he plays like football for fun, and when he loses with the friends and you come home he's also so angry.

And you're like, Pop, it's only a friend's match. But he's like so ‑‑ like always wants to win.

Q. You did such an excellent job on service returns yesterday against Svetlana. As you said, you were able to get into motion and step in and attack the serve. Is it more difficult or less difficult to read Ana's service to know where it's coming from so that you can also be equally aggressive with her serve?

DINARA SAFINA: It just comes from the mind. If in your mind kind of you want to be aggressive, you start already move much aggressive.

You start to look like at the ball more, because you know you have to take your chances. It's just the way you take it, I think.

Q. Do you think she has little advantage because she has the experience of Grand Slam finals?

DINARA SAFINA: We'll see tomorrow. (laughter.)

Q. Since you got to Berlin, you've beaten six opponents who were in the top 10 at the time. Did you feel going to Berlin something was coming together? Did you have any sense that something like this could happen?

DINARA SAFINA: Not really. When I went to Berlin I just ‑‑ I don't know, like just there I came to the tournament and I said, like, Okay, I'm going to just take one match at a time and I'm going to play my game, and whatever happens.

Because I knew if I'm going to play my game, and even if I will lose a match, it's one step in front because I played my game, and then I know on what I have to work if I lose.

Okay, and then there is more possibility that I will win, because my game is aggressive. I just took one match at a time. I was just focusing on myself, what I have to do, and not on the opponents.

That's how it started. So I found myself on the court, and it was just match by match and point by point.

Q. Sometimes you ask to the ball boys a special ball. It's because you are superstitious or something like that?

DINARA SAFINA: It's ‑‑ yeah, then you lose the point and then you say that you don't care anymore. (laughter.)

No, it's stupid things, but, yeah, you start like, Okay, why not one more point to win with this ball, and you just start to go with this.

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