TAG: Safin shocked the world in 2000
By Scoop Malinowski
BORN: Jan. 27, 1980, in Moscow, Russia.
STATUS: The 2000 U.S. Open champ and world No. 1 ranked player.
CHILDHOOD HEROES: "Sampras, Kafelnikov and Medvedev...good players and nice people. It's important to be a nice person...not to be a great player who thinks he's like unbelievably great. I like a nice person." Continue to read full article...