<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/aad80497-c6f0-4481-b3d4-81ca8d0de3cf/2D30080D-B1ED-4954-9EBB-12E2E864038E/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.nytimes.com/2000/09/11/sports/sports-of-the-times-a-drama-in-three-sets-the-passing-of-the-torch.html#" href="http://www.nytimes.com/2000/09/11/sports/sports-of-the-times-a-drama-in-three-sets-the-passing-of-the-torch.html#" style="font-size: 11px;">www.nytimes.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.nytimes.com/2000/09/11/sports/sports-of-the-times-a-drama-in-three-sets-the-passing-of-the-torch.html#"><P>Volkov, a Sampras victim himself here in the semifinals seven years ago, couldn't really explain Safin's about-face in the spring any more than he could fathom Safin's dominance of Sampras, or a run through the draw that was every bit as stunning as Sampras's 10 years ago. ''You think I know?'' Safin said when Tony Trabert asked him how he had treated the famed Sampras serve as if it were a Sunday morning hacker's.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.nytimes.com/2000/09/11/sports/sports-of-the-times-a-drama-in-three-sets-the-passing-of-the-torch.html#"><P>''Ten years ago Marat came to the U.S. for the first time,'' said his friend, Anna Grendal, tears in her blue eyes. ''Who would've thought that 10 years later, he would beat Pete Sampras in the finals of the U.S. Open?''</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.nytimes.com/2000/09/11/sports/sports-of-the-times-a-drama-in-three-sets-the-passing-of-the-torch.html#"><P>They were a select group of Russian kids, she said, allowed out of a country percolating with political unrest, sent to Indianapolis for two months of training, with time off for introduction to America's commercial wares.</P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/2D30080D-B1ED-4954-9EBB-12E2E864038E/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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