[新聞] Safin hoping Swede can keep him on straight and narrow
Safin hoping Swede can keep him on straight and narrow
Wed 21 April, 2004 11:02
MONACO, April 21 (Reuters) - After sacking coach Denis Golovanov to save their friendship, moody Russian Marat Safin is hoping Peter Lundgren can keep him on the straight and narrow.
Last season the Swede led Roger Federer to Wimbledon glory and he has also coached temperamental Chilean Marcelo Rios, another former world number one.
At the Monte Carlo Masters, Safin said he hoped he would click with Lundgren.
"Peter Lundgren... he's a professional tennis coach," smiled the Russian. "He knows how to deal with it.
"If he can deal with Rios, he can deal with me," he laughed. "He can explain to me a couple of things that probably I should know.
"And I want to try, I want to try to work. And if it will help me, it will be great. I am going to try until Wimbledon."
Safin said he had parted ways with Golovanov as business began to get in the way of their relationship.
"With Denis, it got to the point where you cannot just... business and friendship does not go together at all -- I don't want to lose him as a friend.
"He's more important for me as a friend than as a coach.
"Every loss, you take it very personally, you get a little bit down, you know, like he is not really good.
"Feelings... We (started) playing a little bit with the feelings of each other."
A former world number one and 2000 U.S. Open champion, Safin missed most of last year through injury but returned this year in spectacular fashion by reaching the Australian Open final before losing to Lundgren's former charge Federer.
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