Marat Safin set for final farewell at Paris Masters

The 29-year-old has decided to call time on a glittering career in which he won the 2000 U.S. Open and the 2005 Australian Open while inspiring his country to Davis Cup glory in 2002 and 2006.

“It's beautiful what people see on TV, when you're on the court, and there are all those people in the stadium,” said the charismatic Safin, whose younger sister Dinara Safina is the women's world number two.

“But nobody sees the other side of it, when you have to do the massages, when you have to practice, when you have to do a lot of things. I haven't been able to do a lot of the things I want to do.”

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