Safin said he was not young any longer! What about me? I am at the same age as he, he has grand slam, and I have done nothing!

Even Marat Safin could admit he is old now, he will be 27 next week, and his trip in Australian Open has been finished from that terrible tie-break with Andy last night .

He said he had strated to think about things during the matches. When he was yonug, he didn't think about anything in the matches, and now, when he is no more young, it's hard for him to play.

Just two years ago, this Russin idol tennis telent said the reason for Fedrre can win so meny titles is he wasn't on the court. What about today's Safin? He knows he is far away from defending champion. He just wants to go back Top 20. He needs five sets to win any rivals, even with the ranking out of 200, and the reason he can win is bacause the opponents are too young, he won from his old experience. How disappointing it is! When he plays with the player have same experience, he will definitely lose the match and bacome a tragical character.

The point for me is not he lost the game, the point is he acknowledges he can not win the game, he just can not! What can I say? This is terrible for a person like him. He was so powerful, energetic, aggressive, confident, excitable, attractive on the court. When just this man knows he is old now, how does he feel? I dare not to think about it.

Life is crucial! No matter for players or for ordinary people. Sometimes you just can not control it, can not do thing in the way you want to.

(Q. How close are you to being back at the level you were two years ago?

MARAT SAFIN: Very far (laughter). Unfortunately very far. Because the problem is that I had a very difficult career because I've been injured every second year. So whenever I was playing good, I was getting injured. To come back, the guys are already moving on and improving the game. And Federer is so far away that nobody is going to catch him maybe in 20 years. And Roddick is improving. And Nadal -- I never played against Nadal because I was getting injured and never getting close to him.
The fact of coming back, it's very important to try to come back quickly and try to catch up with other guys. But it takes much longer time, and of course you have to be much stronger mentally, improving, working twice hard as the other guys.)

Read this, I feel anybody can be insignificant even you have already had something big. You are not god, you have no right to choice anything, your are just gonna accept it. (Roger is a exception, he is the God in Tennis) You were once big, doesn't mean you can always be big, He wants you to be small, you WILL be small, there are no any other options.

That kind of thing happens on everybody. Once you feel confident, you think you can struggle
for yourself, but you are stroked once after once, then you just eventually lose your confident and can feel your are old at any age. Safin said he feel the umpire was pathetic, but for me, he was a little bit pathetic. Don't know, maybe he doesn't feel like that, but I believe there were many people felt sad for him. We will support him forever.

During the match last, Trinity asked me which one I liked better between Roddick and Safin. At that moment, I still had the thinking he can survive in that match, I said I wish Safin can win and play with Federer. And just several minters after that, I had bad feeling in my head. The situation just changed to be worse for him, and from that I can imagin the rsult. I feel very very very sorry! From the beginning of this Open, in some close matches, anyone I wished to win just lost the game. Bagdadis did, Hewett survived when I did wish he win, and this time was Safin.

Maybe I thought too much about it, just hope it is not my bad luck from last Sunday ruined the matches. sometimes it's just so strange, during the matches in Medibank International before Australian Open, it's totally different, I wished Moyar can win and he did. I really don't know. Let me do a last test, it's Li Na's match tonight or maybe tomorrow. I do wish she can win the match and go through to the forth round. If she wins the match then everything is Ok, but if she loses, I think I need to wish the people I don't like. But how can I do that?

This the second Australian Open I experienced, and this is the unforgetable one. first week has gone, hope the rest matched can be more exciting, no many bad calls to interrupt playhers.

I think I will watch the matches next year!