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Self-assured Safina yielding far better results

By Bonnie D. Ford
ESPN.com

Friday, May 30, 2008

PARIS -- Dinara Safina knows she has a reputation as a volcano with a wisp of smoke trailing from a telltale seam -- an imposing figure in tennis topography who is capable of blowing her stack at any moment. Doomed by her last name and emotional DNA to be forever compared to her mercurial brother Marat Safin, six years her elder, Safina is used to being asked whether she'll ever be able to settle down enough to let her talent trump her tantrums. "It's every year ...

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