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Wednesday, October 07, 2009
Dinara Safina
Dinara Safina is the sister of Marat Safin. As Poz noted, Safina is ranked as number 1. Poz sounded perplexed that someone could be number 1 without ever actually winning something major. As big brother, and former number 1 himself, noted:
Safin pointed out that his sister, who has reached 15 finals in the past 12 months and won seven of them, was not the one to make up the rules and pleaded: “She didn’t do the ranking. Deal with that. Leave her alone.”
So, that’s that. Don’t hate the player, hate the game. But, Poz also wondered “who is she?”. I thought that it was interesting that Safina and Safin had similar names. How could they be brother-sister? Poz never brought up Safin, and I figured he didn’t make the connection. I asked my wife about it one time, and she said that in Russia, the girls add the letter “a” to the end of their surname. So, that’s why you have SharapovA and KournikovA. And that’s how Safin and SafinA are brother-sister. Anyway, I find the culture of others interesting in this regard.
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