Tennis-X Previews: Safin Beat Up, Doha Brings Big Guns
SAFIN THE BRAWLER — Officials at the Hopman Cup exhibition were shocked when Marat Safin showed up for the event with a black and bloodied eye and cuts on his face after getting in a brawl in Moscow. Safin arrived in Perth on Saturday night and immediately asked tournament director Paul McNamee for a doctor and a practice court. “I wasn’t sure why he was arriving so late, why he was requesting to play a day later, and now I know why,” McNamee told the local media. “To see him like that, it’s amazing that he’s come. I know around