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News & Articles Part 3 - The Return of the Yeti

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Breaking News
Safin to Pull out of Davis Cup Tie v. Serbia
Marat Safin will pull out of the Russia’s Davis Cup tie against Serbia, Feb. 8-10 in Russia. Safin just informed officials at San Joe’s SAP Open that he will pull out of the tournament and his exo against Pete Sampras with an injury, and will also have to pull out of his country’s Davis Cup tie v. Novak Djokovic, Janko Tipsarevic et all. Russia’s three other team members are Nikolay Davydenko, Mikhail Youzhny and Dmitry Tursunov.
http://www.tennisreporters.net/
 
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Breaking News
Safin to Pull out of Davis Cup Tie v. Serbia
http://www.tennisreporters.net/
:( :sobbing: :sad:
Of course he has to injure himself after finally finding his old tennis again :rolleyes::sad:

Latest news from Tarpi : Marat will be included in the team anyway. :tape:
:help: :scared:

Irochka, Tarpi is insane :tape: He could risk Marat's health for a stupid tie. Damn it!

Anyway, I have tried to cheer myself up and read bits of the DC press conference:

- The Russian guys were asked do they want to go to Olympics:
Marat: Well, all of them are going...except me :)

Q to Marat: Could you please speak louder?
Marat: Could you please come closer?

Dima says that Tipsarevic likes Dostoevski. Q to Dima in letarure-terms what will be the next tie: "I don't know it could be Dostoevski or Federer"

Who is lifting Russian team's spirit up?
Marat: Well, we are not depressed guys in the first place :)
~~~~~
And Irochka's quote says that Tarpi has no one else to call for the tie (Igor Andreev is somewhere else) and he will include Marat anyway. The doctors said that Marat should not play for 6 days and three are already gone. He will try train tomorrow and we'll see how it goes.
Yeah, I don't even care anymore if Russia loses. As long as Marat doesn't play and risks to hurt himself even further, I'm ok with any result. We've been there too many times before!

Thanks for the quotes, Annie. They cheered me up a bit as well. Marat doesn't seem very down which is a good thing. I hope the injury is really not that bad and heals after one week (seems a bit fast for a torn ligament).

BTW, where is Igor?

ok so... Marat out but not entirely :)unsure:). Janko out. Nole in doubt. WOW, what a great DC week end ahead :p
(it's confirmed: this week SUCKS.)
I'm not convinced about Nole being out. I read he has a cold, no idea how bad but it could be tactics. I certainly wouldn't count him out....strange what has become of this tie, how fast things change within a week :sad:
 
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noooooooooooooooo:bigcry: why? why? why?
Safin is pulling out of this week's Davis Cup tie against Serbia and is in doubt for San Jose in two weeks' time, according to San Jose tournament director Bill Rapp."Yesterday, while practicing for the Davis Cup tie against Serbia, Marat tweaked his toe and has had an MRI. In a few hours, the Russian team will announce that he will pull out of that Davis Cup tie," said Rapp.

http://www.tennis.com/news/ticker.aspx
 
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from OS
07 February 2008
Marat News: Marat has had to withdraw from the Davis Cup Team and the SAP Open in San Jose with an injury. He will definitely be back to play Memphis on 25th February.
Back in Australia Marat felt some pain in his leg but it went away and he didn't worry about it. Then earlier this week whilst practicing Marat again felt a sharp pain in his calf muscle and it didn't go away so he went for an MRI. The doctor advised that he has a partial tear in the fibula ligament and he has to have 2 weeks complete rest to allow it to heal. This meant withdrawing from the Davis Cup Tie against Serbia and from the SAP Open in San Jose. Marat will definitely be back for the tournament in Memphis.

Marat is otherwise fine and will be there to support his fellow team members at the Small Sports Arena "Luzhniki", Moscow this weekend
 
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According to GM, Tipsarevic is out and Djokovic is doubtful.

This is what someone wrote "Sport-Express reports Tipsarevic will miss the tie as well. He is out for 3 weeks with thigh injury.
Moreover, there are strong rumors Djokovic won't play too. Apparently, he's got a cold"


Who knows if those rumours are reliable though.
 
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Irochka, Tarpi is insane :tape: He could risk Marat's health for a stupid tie. Damn it!

Anyway, I have tried to cheer myself up and read bits of the DC press conference:

- The Russian guys were asked do they want to go to Olympics:
Marat: Well, all of them are going...except me :)

Q to Marat: Could you please speak louder?
Marat: Could you please come closer?

Dima says that Tipsarevic likes Dostoevski. Q to Dima in letarure-terms what will be the next tie: "I don't know it could be Dostoevski or Federer"

Who is lifting Russian team's spirit up?
Marat: Well, we are not depressed guys in the first place :)
~~~~~
And Irochka's quote says that Tarpi has no one else to call for the tie (Igor Andreev is somewhere else) and he will include Marat anyway. The doctors said that Marat should not play for 6 days and three are already gone. He will try train tomorrow and we'll see how it goes.
 
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Yes, but doctors also said he sould rest for 2 weeks!!!

I really, really, really hope he won't play! (I still remember 2005 when he carried on playing with his pain :sad: )
 
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I bet that Marat's not going to play.
I agree with you.
THough how do you like this?:eek:
В свою очередь, Марат Сафин подтвердил готовность играть в паре. "Я не заявлен на одиночку, потому что у Коли Давыденко и Миши Южного выше рейтинг, а у меня немного болит нога. Но в паре я сыграть готов", - сказал Сафин.
 
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