Superstar Siblings for Hyundai Hopman Cup
PERTH. Sensational news for tennis fans as it has been announced that former World Number 1 Marat Safin and
his sister Dinara Safina will join Australia’s Lleyton
Hewitt and Casey Dellacqua at the 2009 Hyundai Hopman
Cup in Perth. It will be the first time that the Russian superstar siblings
will compete as a team together.
US Open, Australian Open & Davis Cup Champion, former World Number 1
and Russia’s leading male player for many years, Marat Safin
is a crowd favourite. Currently ranked World Number 40 and rising
he returned to form at Wimbledon where he had a career best semi-final appearance.
In a tumultuous career he has delighted tennis fans all over the world and
has won 15 ATP singles titles and earned over $13 million in prize money.
His younger sister 22 year old Dinara has burst into the
women’s Top 10 with a fantastic run which started in Berlin where she
beat 3 other Top 10 players, including former World Number 1’s Justine
Henin and Serena Williams en route to victory, and culminated in the Final
of the French Open where she was runner-up to current World Number 1 Ana Ivanovic.
It will be her debut appearance at the Hopman Cup.
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“It was an amazing experience and a pleasure to play here. As always, the Hopman Cup is one of the most prestigious tournaments in tennis, so it’s a great pleasure being here.”
Novak Djokovic