Safin done? and all of today's scores.

Could the infamous Marat Safin be calling it quits?

Well that's what he said was a real possibility in a recent interview.  The gigantic Russian claims that he needs to sit back and take a look at his life to see if he wants to continue grinding it out. Chances are that this could be another one of those "Marat" speeches.  Kind of like at Wimbledon a few years ago when he said that he would never come back, or that grass tennis was a waste of time, and a terrible surface.  What happened? Well, anyone who watched Wimbledon this year saw that he changed his mind, maybe a semifinal performance had something to do with that.  

Tennis is a hard game, and being on the tour is one of the toughest things an athlete can do physically and emotionally.  Safin is also not getting any younger at 28.  My advice to Marat is a sappy, "follow your heart" sort of advice.  He has gone this far with his ups and downs, why not finish your career out?  Not to mention, numbers wise, this might be the best season Marat has had in a while.  He made it to the semis of Wimbledon, and really looked like the old Safin.  He loses one match to Juan Monaco, and all of a sudden it's over?  Juan Monaco is a tough player.  I think when Safin is laying on the beach somewhere pondering his career with 8 swimsuit models surrounding him, he might realize he's still got some tennis left in him (depending on how good looking the models are).  I think, and hope he will come back for some more, his love hate relationship with the game can't end like this.  One last thing is that I don't care what tournament or surface it is, if someone sees Safin's name in their draw...they notice it.  This is because everyone knows he can beat anyone on a given day...the only problem is that those given days are getting farther apart.  

Now for the scores of the day....

[1] R Nadal (ESP) d [LL] F Serra (FRA) 62 64 You never got the feeling Rafa was going to have any trouble with a Lucky Loser.
P Kohlschreiber (GER) d [5] D Ferrer (ESP) 63 62 There goes Ferrer's Masters Cup dreams. 
[6] N Davydenko (RUS) d [Q] I Ljubicic (CRO) 76(5) 75 Good to see Ivan play well, but still got beaten up.
[8] D Nalbandian (ARG) d N Kiefer (GER) 76(5) 63 The surge continues for David.
[10] G Simon (FRA) d I Andreev (RUS) 63 75 Solid win for Gilles.
T Berdych (CZE) d [12] S Wawrinka (SUI) 63 75 Another Masters Cup hopeful bites the dust...and also one of my upset predictions finally came true.  
M Cilic (CRO) d [Q] M Granollers (ESP) 64 76(2) Cilic could play the role of spoiler this tournament.
[13] J Tsonga (FRA) d R Stepanek (CZE) 36 64 64 This one would have been fun to watch, Tsonga digs a tough one out fighting for his Shanghai life.
[11] J Blake (USA) d [Q] S Bolelli (ITA) 67(10), 63 64 Blake can't seem to beat anyone easily anymore.  That said... Simone is a tough player.
[2] R Federer (SUI) d R Soderling (SWE) 64 76(7) Everyone got the feeling this one would be close...Rog pulls out a comfortably close win.
[4] A Murray (GBR) d S Querrey (USA) 62 64 He's got to be playing the best of anyone in the world, right?

So that's it for today's results.  

GREAT day of matches tomorrow, some awesome match ups.  

Fed plays Cilic...Tsonga plays Novak...Rafa plays Monfils, Del Potro plays Nalbandian (again) and Simon plays Roddick.  

Tomorrow is going to create a much clearer picture of who is going to Shanghai.  

UPSET PICK:  In a battle of Masters Cup hopes, I think Simon takes down Roddick in three grueling sets.