2008 - Articles & Interview

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Safina wears emotions on her sleeve
September 3, 2008

Sobs turned to lobs as an emotional Dinara Safina stormed into the quarter-finals of the US Open, defeating German qualifier Anna-Lena Groenefeld 7-5, 6-0.

Safina's coach Zeljko Krajan had to raise Safina's spirits before she would agree to take the court Monday against the 141st-ranked Groenefeld on the 10,000-seat Armstrong Stadium.

"After the warm up I just started to cry. I could not stop crying," Safina said. "My coach said, 'Just go out there'.

"I said, 'I cannot push anymore myself'. He said, 'We know that you're not a machine. Just go out there and don't think.

"He told me again, 'just please don't show me any emotions, like these negative emotions. If you want, don't show even positive. Just go on the court and do whatever you can on this day.

"Slowly I started to feel like I still can push myself. I am really happy that I won."

It's already been an incredible year for Safina and a win at the US Open would be a fitting exclamation point for the 22-year-old Russian.

But winning three titles and reaching the final of six of seven tournaments since the start of May is also wearing on her nerves and body.

"He (Krajan) said if it's 20 percent left from your body, just give this 20 percent. Don't use another percent just throwing the balls around and shouting," Safina said.

Safina is trying to follow in the footsteps of brother Marat and win her first Grand Slam at the US Open.

Safina moves through to the quarter-finals where she will square off against Italy's Flavia Pennetta who dominated former world number one Amelie Mauresmo of France 6-3, 6-0.

Safina was runner-up at the French Open earlier this year, giving credence to the argument she is the most in form of all the women's players on the WTA Tour.

Marat won his initial Grand Slam at the US Open in 2000 and Safina, who won the silver medal at the Beijing Olympics, is hoping to do the same.

"It will be the dream come true," she said. The special bond she has with her brother and Krajan has helped her reach her full potential.

"I have grown up a lot in the mind," she said. "A year ago I would not be able to do these kind of things.

"Even the match before against (Timea) Baczinsky (third round) I would have already lost. But somehow I started like to control better myself.

"If you have a trust in your coach and you know he understands you and I understand him so that makes it easier for me to express my emotions.

"Some coaches don't want to hear that you are tired. Or maybe they will not believe you that you are tired. They will say, 'No, this is an excuse because you don't want to lose'. Of course, if I go on court then I want to win."

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Dinara Safina, US Open, September 1, 2008

Q. Was it good to have a relatively short match, an easy match, considering this is such a long tournament?

DINARA SAFINA: Yeah, especially today. Honestly, going on the court I didn't expect that I'm going to win because I was just so exhausted.

I finish the warm‑up and I just said, I cannot push anymore myself. Then suddenly I started to warm up before the match, just to get warm, and I was like, Okay, I'm starting to feel better.

My coach said, Just go out there, and if you want like just hit. No, he say if you want you can think. Well, once I go on court, I'm not going to think.

So I just went on court and said, Okay, I'm going to try what I can do today. And slowly I started to feel like, okay, like I still can push myself.

And then I just ‑‑ today I really happy that I won. Doesn't matter, like maybe I didn't play my best, but that I went through. This was the most important, because now I have one day off, and hopefully I can be 100% for my next one.


Q. Are you learning about how to conduct yourself in those long tournaments at the Grand Slams, maybe going to bed early or eating at different times?

DINARA SAFINA: No. I mean, I always have the same routine. I always go early to bed. I mean, at 9:30 I'm already in the hotel room, so nobody will see me later than this.

Dinner, every time at 7:30, so it's always the same routine.


Q. I know a year ago you were talking about how you were suffering from chronic fatigue. Have you changed your diet at all to help your game?

DINARA SAFINA: No. Now I'm taking much more care about the food. This is the most important thing for me now.

I know what I can eat and what I cannot eat and when and what, so I'm taking really good care of it.


Q. Can we clarify what your coach told you before?

DINARA SAFINA: No. I mean, after the match ‑‑ after the warm‑up I just started to cry. I said, I cannot push anymore myself. He said, We know that you're not a machine. Just go out there and don't thinking.

He told me again, Just please don't show me any emotions, like these negative emotions. If you want, don't show even positive. Just go on the court and do whatever you can this day.

If it's 20% left from your body, just give this 20%. Don't use another percent just throwing the balls around and shouting.

He said, Whatever you have, just try to concentrate and put it into the game. So that's what I did today.


Q. Were you really crying?

DINARA SAFINA: Ask my coach. I could not stop from crying, yeah. So I guess he knows how to handle my emotions.


Q. Neither of you kind of served well the first set, and it took a couple of set points to finally win the first set. You had such an incredible summer, do you think you mentally basically improved in surviving to win the matches you're supposed to win?

DINARA SAFINA: I think I'm much ‑‑ as I've said, like I grew up I think a lot in the mind. A year ago I would not be able to do these kind of things. I would already ‑‑ maybe even the match before against Baczinsky I would already lose. But somehow I started like to control better myself.

I mean, of course, like as you have a trust in the coach, you know, so ‑‑ and, you know, he understands me and I understand him, so that's why somehow it's easier that I can express my emotions.

Because not many maybe coaches, they want to hear that like you are tired. Or maybe they will not believe you that you are tired. They will say, No, this is excuse because you don't want to lose.

He's like, I don't need excuse that you don't want to lose. Of course if I'll go on court I'll want to win. Through these like talking I try to kind of empty myself. Like, Okay, I don't have anything like that is bothering me inside. So I just go out there and try to focus only on the ball.


Q. You obviously won the US Open Series. Did amazing in Beijing. Do you almost see yourself as a potential favorite for this tournament?

DINARA SAFINA: I mean, so many good players now still playing, so I really ‑‑ you know, I just want to concentrate on myself and just one match at a time and doesn't matter.


Q. Do you think about the No. 1? Because I guess if you get to the final and the right scenario is there you could be No. 1.

DINARA SAFINA: Me and the rest of the ‑‑ who is going to be there also. It's open. Really, it's not only me. Right now Dementieva is playing really good tennis. She's also one to watch. Williams sisters and Jankovic. Whoever left in the draw has chance. Let's see who really deserve that spot.


Q. You've had so many success this summer. Does it seem like you've been playing forever? The hard court season is pretty hard on people, plus going China to play.

DINARA SAFINA: Not really. But I don't know, sometimes you ‑‑ wherever you come you feel like, I think I'm already here for one year. Like really, I don't know. It feels like you come somewhere and you're already like you know everything and you stay here like already one year. So I don't know.


Q. The Williams sisters, not so good at the French and fantastic at Wimbledon, and not so good at the Olympics. How do you have any idea how they're going to play here and what to expect from them?

DINARA SAFINA: I mean, of course, behind the crowd, you know, that's what motivates them. That's what they're playing for. They love playing here and they love the crowd.

They're really enjoying playing US Open. They are always very dangerous here.


Q. But they haven't played very well here. Especially Venus played much better at Wimbledon. Neither one has been in the finals for six years.

DINARA SAFINA: Well, there is always first time for everything in life.


Q. Looking ahead to the Fed Cup, the final against Spain, do you think you're going to be playing?

DINARA SAFINA: No, I'm not playing Fed Cup.


Q. Can you explain why you're not playing?

DINARA SAFINA: I think myself and my body is much more important than just go out there and just force yourself.

I mean, when you're having so many travels ‑‑ I also flew in States to China, from China back to States. Body is very sensitive in these kind of things, so I better take care of myself and prepare for the rest of the season.

And then maybe it force myself ‑‑ I think they're playing on clay court, and really doesn't fit anywhere in my schedule.

In this case, I will think a little bit more about myself.


Q. What are thinking about when the US Open is finally over? Is there something you want to do, sleep or lie on the beach, sit in a cafe?

DINARA SAFINA: Not much, because I have Tokyo. So try to get as much rest. Not going to be many days, but just to recover. I guess to enjoy a little bit, because when you play ‑‑ like stress on the match takes so many energy, so I will be one week, five days. I will try to enjoying as much as every day and get ready for the next tournament.


Q. Looking ahead you might play Amélie next in the quarterfinals.

DINARA SAFINA: She's a set down.


Q. You played her couple years ago and you lost in that the quarterfinal. Do you feel like you have a little bit of a mental edge this time if she does come through?

DINARA SAFINA: I don't care. I think I don't know. Still I have to see who is the winner, so I don't to think it is going to be Amélie when Pennetta is going to win.


Q. There are only two Russian women left in the draw, which is the lowest total of all the Grand Slams this year. Do you have any thoughts on why that's happening at this tournament?

DINARA SAFINA: I don't know. I really don't follow. Actually, when you said it's only two left I think, and really it's only two left. I really don't follow the draw. Maybe next tournament going to be more girls. I don't know; I don't care.


Q. Through all the success this summer, what has been your happiest day? Has it been a match or has it been going shopping?

DINARA SAFINA: Happiest day? Every day is a happy day. Why it has to be? Doesn't matter. When you wake up it's already happy.


Q. Marat obviously won his first Grand Slam here at the Open. How much would it mean to make it your first one, too?

DINARA SAFINA: I already answered this 100 times. It will be the dream come true.

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[russianlusia]

Dina, good luck) Im shure, u`ll be the best at this tour. No, i`m wron, actually)) u`re already THE BEST! That`s a pity, that your site is only in englisn and spanish(( U have so many russian fans! Anyway, you make me practice my english though=)

[russianlusia]

Sept 4, 2008 11:05:02 GMT -5 Julie said:

English and french... Unfortunately none of us speaks Russian

I see

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Safina set for Serena test
18 hours ago

Dinara Safina knows she will have to be at the top of her game if she is to stand a chance of beating Serena Williams and claiming a place in the US Open final.

The sixth-seeded Russian will face number four seed Williams in Friday's semi-final, with the winner advancing to face either number two Jelena Jankovic or fifth-seeded Elena Dementieva in Saturday night's final.

Safina has not played a top-15 player en route to this stage of the hardcourt major, but that will change when she goes head to head with Williams, who has eight Grand Slam titles, including here in 1999 and 2002.

"She fights until the last, until the ball bounces two times on her side," Safina, who is chasing his first Grand Slam title, said.

"She moves very well and she can hit the ball from any position on the court very hard.

"So with her, you really have to be focused until the ball bounces two times or she misses or you hit a winner. That's why with her, you have to be alert every time."

While the 26-year-old Williams is the most decorated player remaining in the competition, Safina has been perhaps the best player on the WTA circuit in recently months.

The younger sister of former men's number one Marat Safin has won three titles and reached the final in six of the seven events she has played since the start of May, winning 37 of her 41 games.

Now Safina is in line to become number one herself if she wins this title and Jankovic - who held the top spot for seven days last month - loses to Dementieva in the semis.

Williams, Jankovic and Dementieva are all guaranteed top spot if they win the tournament.

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"Spoilt" Safina says she let herself down
By Simon Cambers

ussian Dinara Safina said she let herself down by acting like a "spoilt girl" during her semi-final defeat by Serena Williams at the U.S. Open on Friday.

The sixth seed was beaten 6-3 6-2 by the twice former champion on a blustery day at Flushing Meadows and said her on-court manner was the main reason she missed out on a place in the final.

"I think I was behaving like a really spoilt girl today," Safina told reporters.

"I have to learn from these things if I want to get better. If I want to make one step in front, I have to learn to handle my emotions better."

Safina, runner-up at both the French Open and Olympics, led 2-0 in the opening set but said the windy conditions had contributed to her bad body language.

"I think today I was feeling physically better than previous days but it's too bad behaviour from my side.

"Maybe I was 80 percent physically and mentally but I spent 60 of it being negative on the court, like shooting around and complaining about everything."

Safina said the way Williams coped with the conditions and the occasion was something she would like to replicate in future.

"I could see she was having some problems at first and I was 2-0 up with a break but she behaved like a champion," she said.

"She also had some wind problems, but she was there and she was fighting with me, and I was fighting with everything around except her. This I can learn from her."

Despite the defeat, Safina said she was on the right track.

"Finally I am playing my game and the results I have are actually what I was dreaming about, to play a grand slam final (at the French Open), and a semi-final again.

"It is not over yet but it (has been) a great year."

(Editing by Pritha Sarkar)

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I founded some articles in many newspapers but all of them was like julie"s one.

[Happiness]

Anik sweetie thanks for all the articles and interview *hug*

[CoolGirl]

Safina reaches Pan Pacific quarters

September 17, 2008

TOKYO: Russian fourth seed Dinara Safina became the first player to reach the quarter-finals when she whipped Dominika Cibulkova of Slovakia in the Pan Pacific Open on Wednesday.

The Beijing Olympic silver medallist, making her Tokyo debut after receiving a first-round bye, struggled with her serve, hitting eight double faults before scoring a 6-3, 6-4 second round victory in 95 minutes.

Safina hit a double fault on break point to lose the fifth game of the first set, but she was never in serious danger throughout the match.

Cibulkova, who eliminated 2006 Wimbledon champion Amelie Mauresmo on Tuesday, broke back once in the sixth game of the second set, but that was all she could do as Safina sealed her quarter-final place with her ninth ace.

"It was a pretty good match. She (Cibulkova) is not an easy opponent, and I think I played really solid today. I've had almost a week of practice on this surface. Its fast and it suits me. I struggled a little bit in the second set, but I'm really happy that I put out in two sets," said Safina, 22.

When she was asked about her eight double faults, she replied: "I just tried to focus on the next point. There is not much time to think about it."

[CoolGirl]

Safina dominates Kuznetsova in Pan Pacific final

TOKYO (AP) -- Dinara Safina overpowered Russian compatriot Svetlana Kuznetsova in straight sets Sunday to win the Pan Pacific Open for her fourth WTA title of the season.

Fourth-seeded Safina coasted to a 6-1, 6-3 win over fifth-seeded Kuznetsova in a match that lasted 1 hour and 18 minutes at Ariake Colosseum.

"I've played the best tennis this week I've ever played," said Safina, who will move up to No. 3 in the world rankings. "It's always nice to move up in the rankings and hopefully I can keep improving."

Safina broke with a crosscourt forehand from the baseline to go up 3-2 in the second set, and then broke for the third time in the final game, winning the match when Kuznetsova's forehand volley went wide.

Safina has also won this year in Los Angeles, Montreal and Berlin and is now tied with current No. 1 Serena Williams for the most titles in 2008.

Safina said the key to winning Sunday's match was putting pressure on her opponent.

"I knew I had to keep the pressure on her from the start," said Safina, who had seven aces. "She is a good player and can put pressure on you so it was important for me to take my chances early."

It was the 10th meeting between the two Russians. Safina now has six wins against four losses.

Former U.S. Open champion Kuznetsova was bidding for her first title of 2008.

"It's disappointing but I'll try to be honest and positive," said Kuznetsova. "I came here after the clay court Fed Cup and really didn't expect to get to the final so this isn't a bad result for me."

Kuzentsova said Safina can become the world's top player.

"She has a chance to reach No. 1," said Kuznetsova. "She works hard and has a lot of energy. She has a bigger stroke than Jelena (Jankovic), and Serena (Williams) doesn't play in that many tournaments these days."

[CoolGirl]

Dinara's Red Pumps
Posted 09/24/2008 @ 4 :10 PM

by Peter Bodo of Tennis.com

Shortly after the US Open, Master Ace (I think it was) posted a comment expressing the hope that Steve Tignor or I would show a little Dinara (Safina) love during the Tokyo Pan-Pacific Open. I think I logged in with a flip comment about how Steve was otherwise occupied with our monthly closing deadlines for Tennis, and that I didn't have it in me to, as they say, "go there." It's funny, but there's nothing more dispiriting to a writer than a lack of inspiration. Give me a topic I'd like to write about, and I'll drop everything, roll up my sleeves, and churn out enough prose to drive any potential reader into a comatose state. But give me a specific subject, and if I'm not feeling it, I'll just groan and ask myself: How much of this poop can I crank out?

In all fairness to myself, the US Open tends to burn out someone who files stories daily. But I probably felt a twinge of guilt somewhere inside, and maybe the inkling of latent inspiration. After all, can anyone doubt that Safina is a lock for the WTA's Most Improved award?

I can't recall a recent makeover that's been as successful - and comprehensive - as the one Safina has undergone since mid-April. And while I find it hard to love her game, her record demands that I respect and accord it adequate recognition. What she's done with her tennis in the past five months has been nothing short of amazing.

Let's start with the fact that she's 22, an age at which most WTA players who have not made a big statement at a Grand Slam can almost be discounted as reliable, top-tier contenders. Oh, they may hit a torrid streak and bag a title, perhaps even two in a row, here or there. And while the bump may halve their ranking, or even propel them into the Top 10, the bump - like the one an American Presidential candidate gets following his nominating convention - tends to dissipate. It's too early to tell whether the leap Safina made this year will result in a counter-reaction, but it hasn't happened yet, which suggests it may happen not at all. Safina has been hot since mid-May, and she remains so as I write this.

Since April 20th, she's been in the final of seven of the nine events she's played (the exceptions are Wimbledon and the US Open), and unlike a few of the other recent hot streaks I can think of, it incorporated premium events in the gut of the season. In the last three majors of the year, she was a finalist (French Open), Round of 32 loser (Wimbledon, to Shahar Peer) and semifinalist (US Open, losing to Serena Williams). Last year, she never got past the fourth round.

Before the US Open semi, she was 20-1 in singles play on various surfaces. That's no mere "hot streak." That's taking the game to another level, to a degree that suggests she's a player transformed. One of the most difficult assignments in tennis, for a male or female player whose had to work his way up through the rankings as has Safina, is consoidating a place at or near the top instead of commuting in and out of the upper echelon.

We all know the reasons for Safina's outstanding play - a fitness regimen that has had obvious results, a re-dedication to maximizing her potential, and - we've heard this before, folks - a coach capable of inspiring her and, more importantly, whom she's capable of obeying. That would be Zeljko Krajan, the Croatian pro who ranked as high as no. 88 before he career was prematurely cut short by a shoulder injury. Just how the chemistry in a situation like this works remains somewhat mysterious, although not quite as mysterious as the degree to which a player with a track record as a temperamental and wildly inconsistent performer can remake herself into a champion.

My take: Krajan didn't change Safina; Safina transformed herself and put herself into a frame of mind and emotion in which a coach was able to penetrate the defenses and help deconstruct the last crumbling bricks in her wall of resistance. As always, being in the right place at the right time was a critical component in Krajan's success. When you ask Safina how her game has changed (in other words, when you ask "Why now?"), she says: "Well, I just go out there and, I don't know, I play my game, and it's working right now. I mean, of course I've been working and still I'm working to improve my shots to get better and better. But somehow I started to go out there and started to believe I'm a player, and I can compete with them (equal or better players). Maybe before it was missing this. And then I could not give them answers, but now I go out there and for their game I can always give them my answer, like my game. I think that's what, it's the turning point. That's why I start to beat them."

That Krajan has a way with Safina is also obvious. Following the warm-up before her round-of-16 match at the US Open, Safina broke down in tears. She told Krajan that she just couldn't push herself anymore - it was impossible. To which he replied (in Safina's words): "We know that you're not a machine. Just go out there and don't (do any) thinking. He told me again, just please, don't show me any emotions, like these negative emotions. If you want, don't show even positive. Just go on the court and do whatever you can this day. If it's 20% left from your body, just give this 20%. Don't use another percent just throwing the balls around and shouting. Whatever you have, just try to concentrate and put it into the game."

And Safina has a lot - groundstrokes that are the equivalent of heavy artillery, a heavy serve, a newfound mobility that will only get better now that she's also been working on her fitness with retired Croatian world-class sprinter, Dejan Vojnovic. Although it's tricky to generalize, in my experience Croatians seem, well, very grounded, self-effacing, and realistic. Those are good qualities to bring to the mix for a girl who has been cloaked in conflicting emotions and unrealistic demands and expectations as if they were badly mismatched articles of clothing. Krajan and company have taught her an important lesson that might have been borrowed from a fashion expert: get rid of the red pumps declaring your emotional neediness and dump the sequined jean-jacket that is your ability to hit winners (and make terrible errors). Pick something that matches your complexion, trim a few pounds here and there, and dress yourself in a game that enhances your assets in a solid, simple, and tasteful way.

It has paid off, so far. and Safina seems to be hearing instead of just listening. Her harsh self-evaluation after she lost the semifinal to Serena Williams at the US Open - on a day when the conditions were atrocious - underscores that. She said:

"Well, I think today I was feeling -- I mean, physically I was feeling better than previous days. This has nothing to do. But just I would say it's too bad from behaving side from my side. Yeah, maybe today was physically and mentally 80, but I spent 60 on being negative on the court, like shooting around and complaining about everything instead of spending 80% totally focused on just point by point. And this was -- I think I was behaving like a really spoiled girl on the court today. This I cannot permit myself playing in semifinal of Grand Slam. So I have to really learn from these things if I want to get better."

In other words, she stole back into the closet and tried on the red pumps again. But she realized it was a mistake. The next step for her will be the most difficult one: a win at a major. She'll have a great shot in Australia - if she can cleave to her fitness program during the holidays and brief off season. She couldn't ask for greater incentive: she's vying for leadership of a great generation of Russian players, and she could enter historic territory that has thus far been reserved for girls named Venus and Serena if she reaches no. 1 or wins a Grand Slam title. That is, Dinara and Marat Safin could become the only mixed gender siblings ever to win Grand Slam singles titles, or hold the top ranking.

Asked this summer if she'd overshadowed brother Marat, Safina answered like any good kid sister might: "I'm his sister. I always will be his sister."

But then she added, "To change this I have to get better results, because he has two Grand Slams. He was No. 1 in the world. I still can learn many things from him."

It's encouraging to know that she believes she can change the pecking order.

[Julie]

Safina rebounds after she was on the verge of quitting

STUTTGART, Sept 29 (Reuters) - Dinara Safina was on the verge of quitting tennis in despair after a third-round defeat in Doha last February.

Fortunately her coach Zeljko Krajan convinced her she had the talent to succeed and the 22-year-old Russian has responded with a run of form that would have made her the envy of any of the great players of the past.

Since winning the German Open in Berlin with a win over Serena Williams and another over Justine Henin that sent the Belgian into retirement, Safina, younger sister of former world number one Marat Safin, has not looked back.

The Russian has reached the French Open and Beijing Olympics finals, the U.S. Open semi-finals and won titles in Los Angeles, Montreal and Tokyo.

She has won 42 of her last 47 matches, climbed to number three in the rankings, and could be number one by the end of the season.

That success contrasts starkly with her form at the beginning of the season, when she lost in the first round in Sydney, then to an opponent ranked 194 in the opening round of the Australian Open, followed by a Fed Cup match against Israel’s Shahar Peer.

“At the beginning of the year it was really terrible,” she told reporters at the Stuttgart Open. “I could already give up and say, ‘Okay, I’ve had enough of this. I’ll go and study or something’.

“Really, at the beginning of this year I was so deep in the hole I didn’t know how to get out of there. I was completely lost. I was not enjoying. It wasn’t that I stopped loving this game, but it was why do I have to suffer so much? I go on the court and nothing is going o, and it was really a disaster.”

Krajan managed to instill the confidence Safina lacked.

“He had to because I was not really a very positive or confident person, and he had to repeat a million times a day that I can play tennis, that I can hit the ball, I can be good,” she said.

“He was patient enough to repeat this, and finally I began to believe more in myself.

“I stayed patient and thought maybe I have to work harder and give myself time to get better. After this it started to pay off with my results.

“I think in the crucial moments I was suffering so much, so now, in the tough moments, I’m more positive and I’m like okay, I’ve been in worse moments so I’ll get out of here. It’s made me stronger.” (Editing by John Mehaffey)

[sara]

really.did safa cry?
it's sad so
every one who look to safa think that she can't cry but...
generally all people cry
thanks a lot

[Russian Girl]

Yes there are a lot of news on Russian but no news on English. I've translated something.

So, she was awarded with Russian Cup for breakthrough of 2008 year. Her mom Rauza Islanova was awarded as coach of 2008 year. Dinara also was awarded as a member of best team (Russian team won Fed cup again). There was very nice ceremony in Moscow. So famile won 3 awards!!!

She was very beautiful and now everybody discuss how beautiful she was.

Dinara was interviewed couple times.

About Doha she told that had a very difficult group and she was very tired to the end of season. Little worry about these loses – spoiled end season tournament (Doha), but really glad about season the whole.

Everybody guess now that Dinara this year growth was made by Zeljko Krajan in many ways. Dinara told that in February’08 she were thinking to finish tennis carrier – everything was bad. But Jelko helped her to believe in herself. She every time repeats that she is very thankful to him.

Also she told that liked to rest in Moscow, but can’t live here during season because of traffic jambs and many people.

Some girl from forum told that saw Dinara with her mom in theatre in Moscow couple weeks ago.

And the last news: Dinara had photo session on this Monday. Waiting for new photos.

[CoolGirl]

thanks for the update, Russian Girl