Marat Safin won a seat on the Russian Parliament.

“I never played (Stefan), just watched him on TV, but I loved all his matches, of course, at Wimbledon, and I love the way he played,’ said Safin, the 2000 US Open champion. “He’s in great shape. He serves well and moves around pretty good. He’s good. He’s really good.”

Ernests Gulbis is turning into quite the character. Here’s a good profile on the 21-year-old Latvian.

“It is almost a comedy that I am back in such a short time,” said Safin of so quickly jumping from the ATP World Tour on the Champions Series circuit. “It is an honor to be playing with these legends.”

Writing this goes against everything I’ve been saying lately, but I just have to get this off my chest.

WARNING: NOT FOR DIE-HARD FED-FANATICS!

Marat Safin will play on the Senior Tour next month.

I want to comment on Murray’s approach to attempting to win, let’s say, the last two Australian Opens. Last year he played an exhibition in Abu Dhabi and a warm up event in Doha. He won both, beating Nadal once and Federer twice. He was coming off a great 2008 where he won two Masters and reached the US Open final. In Oz, he lost to Fernando Verdasco in the 4th round.

Boy did Brisbane hit the jackpot in players.

he only thing that’s happened at these events is a bunch of qualifying matches have been played.