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Today in the French Open Russia s Dinara Safina defeated Maria Sharipova as well as any notion that she is in fact a female Tags Topics: Sports Tags: Dinara Safina View |
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The runner up trophy was small consolation to Dinara Safina whose French Open ended with a double fault on match point Bertrand Guay AFP Getty Images By Topics: Sports Tags: Dinara Safina View |
1 (April 20, 2009) currentsinglesranking= No. 2 (November 2, 2009) AustralianOpenresult= F (2009 (2009 Australian Open - Womens Singles)) FrenchOpenresult= F (2008 (2008 French Open - Womens Singles), 2009 (2009 French Open - Womens Singles)) Wimbledonresult= SF (2009 (2009 Wimbledon Championships - Womens Singles)) USOpenresult= SF (2008 (2008 US Open - Womens Singles)) Othertournaments = yes WTAChampionshipsresult = RR (2008 (2008 WTA Tour Championships)) Olympicsresult= Silver medal (2008 (Tennis at the 2008 Summer Olympics - Womens Singles)) doublesrecord= 168-87 doublestitles= 8 WTA, 3 ITF highestdoublesranking= No. 8 (May 12, 2008) grandslamsdoublesresults= yes AustralianOpenDoublesresult = QF (2004, 2005) FrenchOpenDoublesresult = 3R (2006, 2007, 2008) WimbledonDoublesresult = 3R (2005, 2008) USOpenDoublesresult = W (2007) OthertournamentsDoubles =yes OlympicsDoublesresult = QF (2008) updated= August 17, 2009
MedalTop MedalSport Womens Tennis (Tennis at the Summer Olympics) MedalCountryRUS MedalSilver 2008 Beijing (Tennis at the 2008 Summer Olympics) Singles (Tennis at the 2008 Summer Olympics - Womens singles) MedalBottom .
Dinara Mikhailovna Safina (lang-tt?????? ????? ???? ??????, Dinara M�bin q?z? Safina; lang-ru??????? ??????????? (??????????) ???????, born April 27, 1986 in Moscow) is a Russian professional tennis player and is a former world number 1 (List of WTA number 1 ranked players) womens tennis player, and currently Safina is ranked world number 2.
She has been the runner-up in three Grand Slam (Grand Slam (tennis)) singles tournaments and won the womens doubles title at the 2007 US Open (2007 US Open (tennis)) with Nathalie Dechy. She also won the Olympic (Olympic Games) silver medal in womens singles at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing (Tennis at the 2008 Summer Olympics). Her most recent achievement is runner-up in the 2009 French Open.
She is the younger sister of former World No. 1 mens player Marat Safin. She and her brother are the first brother-sister tandem in tennis history to both achieve #1 rankings.
Playername: Dinara Safina
Allias Name: Dina, Marats Sister,Bean
Residence: Moscow, Russia
Date of birth: 1986-04-27
Placebirth: Moscow, Soviet Union
Height: 6 ft 0 in
Weight: 70 Kg
Turnedpro: 2001
Plays: Right-handed; two-handed backhand
Careerprizemoney: US$9,767,469