Safin eliminated in first round
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Former champion Marat Safin came to this year&#39;s US Open seeded No 13 and was sent home early by Thomas Enqvist, 7-6 (5), 6-4, 3-6, 6-3, yesterday.
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Defending champion Justine Henin- Hardenne was eliminated by Nadia Petrova in straight sets at the US Open, while two-time champion Andre Agassi advanced to a quarterfinal showdown with top men&#39;s seed Roger Federer.
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Roger Federer will miss next week's Paris Masters with a torn left thigh, making Andy Roddick the tournament's No. 1-seeded player. Juan Carlos Ferrero, the 2003 French Open champion, and Guillermo Coria, this year's runner-up at Roland Garros, also pulled out Friday.
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Maraf Safin finally secured a berth at the semi-finals of the year-end Masters Cup after an easy victory over Tim Henman. The two were even at 1-1 when they took to the court.
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Sport: Wimbledon: Fernando Gonzalez became the first top ten seed to crash out, defeated in five sets by Janko Tipsarevic.
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Marat Safin has been forced to withdraw from Russia's Davis Cup team to take on Serbia from Friday due to a leg injury, coach Vladimir Kamelzon said on Thursday.
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Moscow, Russia (Sports Network) - Top-seeded Moscow native Marat Safin was tested in his first-round match Monday before advancing against Max Mirnyi at the $1 million Kremlin Cup.
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Top seed Marat Safin suffered a quarter-final defeat on home soil when the Russian lost to MichaelLlodra 6-4, 6-1 at the one million US dollars St Petersburg Openon Friday.
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Fourth seed David Nalbandian was sent   packing from the U.S. Open at the second-round stage on Sunday,   beaten 6-3 7-5 2-6 3-6 7-6 by former champion Marat Safin in a   marathon battle.
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For the first time in nearly a century, no Americans will play in the quarterfinals of Wimbledon. The last U.S. player left in either the men&#039;s or women&#039;s draw &amp;#151; Shenay Perry &amp;#151; lost 6-2, 6-0 Monday in 54 minutes to seventh-seeded Elena Dementieva of Russia.
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Rafael Nadal lost to fellow Spaniard Juan Carlos Ferrero 7-6 (2), 7-6 (3) in the quarterfinals Friday, leaving the Western &amp; Southern Financial Group Masters without its top two players.
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Defending champion Ai Sugiyama of Japan was upset by Russia's Dinara Safina 6-3, 6-2 in a first-round match Tuesday at the Australian women's hard-court tennis championships.
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Top-seeded Roger Federer and No. 5 Tim Henman became the first men to reach the quarterfinals at the U.S. Open on Monday, Federer on a walkover over Romanian Andrei Pavel and Henman when Germany's Nicolas Kiefer retired with a wrist injury.
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MADRID: Marat Safin defeated Andre Agassi 6-3, 7-6 yesterday to book a place in the Madrid Masters final against Argentina&#39;s David Nalbandian.
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Marat Safin ended the 34-year-old Andre Agassi&#39;s run at the Madrid Masters yesterday and put further pressure on Tim Henman in the battle for qualification for the Masters Cup in Houston next month.
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The American exited in the first round, falling to Igor Andreev of Russia 3-6, 6-4, 6-3, 6-4 Tuesday.
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Marat Safin, Tim Henman and Guillermo Coria grabbed the final three spots in the season ending Masters Cup after Andre Agassi and David Nalbandian withdrew from the Paris Masters on Monday with injuries.