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AUSTRALIAN OPEN WOMEN'S PROFILES

(9) Dinara Safina
PRE-TOURNAMENT ODDS:	50/1
NATIONALITY:	RUS
BIRTH DATE:	27/04/86
BECAME PRO:	2001
WORLD RANKING:	10

VERDICT

Won the warm-up tournament on the Gold Coast after which beaten finalist Martina Hingis suggested she could become an even better player than her brother, former world number one Marat Safin. Still has youth on her side - she's only 20 - and continues to climb up the WTA rankings. Her best results last year came on clay and Safina will need to improve on a poor record here if she is to make an impact. Has the game to do so though and could be a dangerous outsider.

TEN-YEAR GRAND SLAM HISTORY
	06	05	04	03	02	01	00	99	98	97
Australian Open	2R	2R	3R	1R	-	-	-	-	-	-
French Open	QF	1R	2R	1R	-	-	-	-	-	-
Wimbledon	3R	3R	1R	1R	-	-	-	-	-	-
US Open	QF	1R	1R	4R	2R	-	-	-	-	-

Women's Profiles

(1) M Sharapova
(2) A Mauresmo
(3) S Kuznetsova
(4) K Clijsters
(5) N Petrova
(6) M Hingis
(7) E Dementieva
(8) P Schnyder
(9) D Safina
(10) N Vaidisova
(11) J Jankovic
(12) A Chakvetadze
(13) A Ivanovic
(14) F Schiavone
(15) D Hantuchova
(16) S Peer
(17) A-L Groenefeld
(18) M Bartoli
(19) N Li
(20) T Golovin
(21) K Srebotnik
(22) V Zvonareva
(23) A Sugiyama
(24) S Stosur
(25) A Medina Garrigues
(26) M Kirilenko
(27) M Santangelo
(28) F Pennetta
(29) A Bondarenko
(30) T Garbin
(31) J Zheng
(32) E Daniilidou

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