Biography of Dinara Safina

Born on April 27 in Moscow. Russian tennis player. The former first racket of the world in a solitary discharge. Honored Master of Sports of the Russian Federation. Telecument, coach. Sister Marat Safina. Dinara Safina was born on April 27 in Moscow. Father - Mubin Mikhail Alekseevich, held an administrative position in the structure of the Spartak sports club. Mother - Rauza Islanova, was one of the leading tennis players of the USSR at the turn of the X, and later the leading Russian tennis coach.

The older brother is Marat Safin Rod. By nationality - a Tatar, by religion - a Muslim. As Dinara admitted, in childhood she dreamed of becoming a doctor. However, since the age of three, her parents brought her to the court, where the older brother trained. Dinara recalled: “I was lucky: I still found the time when a friendly atmosphere reigned in children's tennis.

I perceived the girls around not as a competitors, but as girlfriends. And after training, we did not want to part: we sat in a clearing, laid out sandwiches and fruits on the grass that our parents gave us, and arranged joint dinners. ” Professionally began to engage in large tennis from the age of seven. I immediately attracted the attention of specialists. From the age of 12 she lived and trained abroad - in the Spanish Valencia.

Already in the year it became one of the members of the national team in the ITF trophy team among the fourteen -year -olds, in which she won the title of the tournament champion. Dinara Safina in childhood with her parents and brother at the age of 14, for the first time, she reached the final of the Big Slam tournament - paired with Matea Mezhak, having reached this stage at Roland Garros.

By the age of 15, Dinara has already entered the TOP rating of senior juniors. The peak rating coincided with the main successes in a single category: in the year, Dinara reached the final at the Wimbledon tournament losing Angelica Vidzhaya. Then she made another attempt to conquer a large helmet tournament: on US Open, but having lost there already in the third round, she chose to complete the performances among her peers, completely moving into an adult tour.

Her favorite coatings are soil and hard. Dinara Safina is an aggressive player of the back line, who loves to attack with maximum strength all the rising balls falling on her half of the court; Dinara also has a powerful first presentation. The weak side of Safina as a player is her moral stability - a lot of matches at a high level, she lost unable to reconfigure herself to fight unsuccessfully by starting the match.

At the peak of careers, these mental problems were not so strong. The peak of Safina’s results fell on the second half of the summer of the year: she won the tournament in Palermo outplaying Katarina Srebotnik in the final, and then first made his way to the fourth round at the large helmet tournament - at US Open. The pair year brought the first final at the association competitions: in Canberra, as well as the debut in the big helmet tournaments - at the French series.

In the year, the results continued the qualitative growth: in a solitary discharge, Dinara rose a dozen positions, becoming a little more efficiently playing with tennis players from TOP in pairs, collaborating with many partners, the Russian woman entered the TOP for the first time, and by the end of the season she made his way and in a year Safina made his way to TOP in a solitary classification, significantly raising the stability of performances at the younger tournaments Categories of the Association: many quarter -finals were implemented in two titles - in Paris and Prague in the capital of France, the Russian woman was able to replay the current TOP player for the first time - taking the top over Amelie Mororemo in the final.

In the paired season, it also managed to consolidate the results of last year and move on to the next stage of development of their results. Together with Anabel Medina, Harriguez Dinara achieved one quarter -finals at a large helmet tournaments and four finals in less prestigious tournaments, one of which is in the Dutch Hertogenbos. In the year, two of the three participation of Safina in a grid of mixed steam tournaments in the competition of a large helmet, one of which - on US Open, along with Andy Ram - brought her the only exit to the semifinal stage in his career.

In the year, Dinara first played for the national team in the Federation Cup, taking part in all the match meetings of that championship season of Russians: in the early stages she was put up for nothing that did not decide matches, and in the final she was entrusted to play a decisive pair match, where she won Amelie and Marie Pierce, who brought the second contract to the second -hand champions of the tournament.

In the year, she closely pulled herself up to the first ten single rating, markedly improving her results in large tournaments. At the Tournaments of the Grand Slam, Dinar for the first time won more than a dozen matches for the first time, breaking through the quarterfinal stage twice: at Roland Garros and US Open. At competitions of the first category, she managed to break into the quarterfinal and semi -final stage several times.In the year, Safina’s single performances for the first time violated the positive dynamics of her career: for the third time in a row, having finished the year in TOP, the Russian woman, nevertheless, was far from the struggle for a place at the final competition, reducing the effectiveness of her performances at the very status tournaments.

The main success of the season occurred at the beginning of April, when a Russian woman on Zelny soil in Charleston was able to break into the final, losing to Elena Yankovich. The pair season, on the contrary, came out again a little better than a year earlier: having changed a number of Dinara’s partners, she finished the year fourteenth, having visited three finals and winning two titles, the most status of which was the victory on US Open, where Safina and Natalie Deco lost only Set for six matches.

In the year, collaborating with Zhelko Krayan, the Russian woman not only was able to gain a foothold in Top, but also became one of the leaders of the solitary tour. She managed to win a large tournament in Berlin, and then go to the final on Roland Garros. At the Olympics in Beijing, she won silver, losing the final Elena Dementieva. In the year, I got to the finals twice in large tournaments - in Sydney and on Australian Open.

I reached the final in Stuttgart and won a bunch of tournaments of the highest category of regular tour in Madrid and Rome. In the year, she was the first racket of the world for some time, although by the end of the year the 2nd became - she was able to get a break to Serena Williams. In the year, she worsened health problems. Safina noticeably lost her old position in the ranking, rolling back in the seventh ten classification.

At the big helmet tournaments, she won only three matches that season, and all of them fell on the Australian Open opening season. Problems with her back forced her to take pauses in tournament schedule, depriving her of the opportunity to play the February-Martovskoye Hard series and Wimbledon. In m, the recession intensified even more. The shifts of coaches and pauses in the performances did not give a special effect: the effectiveness more and more fell on tournaments of any level, and the back pain did not allow to fully play even matches in a row.

Having suffered until May and even won one title - paired at the competition in Kuala Lumpur, along with Galina Voskoboeva - Safina took a long time in the performances. In May, she officially announced the completion of a professional career. Her prizes for a career amounted to 10 US dollars. Dinara Safina and Marat Safin Dinara Safina very early ended her professional career: injuries forced her to leave the court.

What is done is done. I did not spare my strength for training, I did everything in my power, ”she said. After the end of the playing career, Dinar appeared for some time on the air of the Russian -language version of the Eurosport channels, commenting on tennis matches as an invited expert. I received a lawyer diploma at the Moscow Institute of Public Administration and Law. Since August, he has been living in New York.

Nothing kept me, ”Safina said about moving to the United States. Growth of Dinara Safina: centimeters. Personal life of Dinara Safina: Not married. She said: “In professional tennis, it is very difficult to build relationships - there is simply no time for novels on the court. And beyond it. Indeed, for several years you have been moving from the country to the country every two weeks, from the tournament tournament.

In addition, I have very high requirements for the future chosen one, literally. With my growth of centimeters, I would like to find a young man higher so that I can wear heels that I love so much. ”