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US OPEN WOMEN'S PROFILES

(6) Dinara Safina
PRE-TOURNAMENT ODDS:	9/2
NATIONALITY:	RUS
BIRTH DATE:	27/04/86
BECAME PRO:	2000
WORLD RANKING:	7

VERDICT

There's no doubt Olympic silver medallist Safina has been one of the revelations of the season and will be looking to continue her brilliant form at the US Open. The 22-year-old Russian recently claimed back-to-back tour titles when she followed up her triumph at the East West Bank Classic in Los Angeles with a dominant straight-sets victory over Dominika Cibulkova to clinch the Rogers Cup. That success in Montreal was also Safina's third crown in six events having also won the German Open in May while her run to the final of the Olympics and French Open this year more than suggests she's ready to produce her best at Grand Slam level. Flushing Meadows hasn't exactly been a happy hunting ground for Safina but she's now in great shape to improve on her previous best of the quarter-finals, which she reached in 2006.

TEN-YEAR GRAND SLAM HISTORY
	08	07	06	05	04	03	02	01	00	99
Australian Open	1R	3R	2R	2R	3R	1R	-	-	-	-
French Open	RU	4R	QF	1R	2R	1R	-	-	-	-
Wimbledon	3R	2R	3R	3R	1R	1R	-	-	-	-
US Open	-	4R	QF	1R	1R	4R	2R	-	-	-

Women's Profiles

(1) A Ivanovic
(2) J Jankovic
(3) S Kuznetsova
(4) S Williams
(5) E Dementieva
(6) D Safina
(7) V Williams
(8) V Zvonareva
(9) A Radwanska
(10) A Chakvetadze
(11) D Hantuchova
(12) M Bartoli
(13) A Szavay
(14) V Azarenka
(15) P Schnyder
(16) F Pennetta
(17) A Cornet
(18) D Cibulkova
(19) N Petrova
(20) N Vaidisova
(21) C Wozniacki
(22) M Kirilenko
(23) L Davenport
(24) S Peer
(25) F Schiavone
(26) A Medina Garrigues
(27) A Bondarenko
(28) K Srebotnik
(29) S Bammer
(30) A Sugiyama
(31) V Razzano
(32) A Mauresmo

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