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Year-end title critical for Safina -- and her reputation

By Peter Bodo

Friday, October 23, 2009

With the season-ending championships coming up, let's look at what the stakes are for each of the eight qualifiers who have convened in Doha, Qatar, to hold a tug-of-war for the WTA Sony Ericsson Championships title -- theoretically, the most important title after the four majors. We'll take the eight qualifiers in the descending order of their ranking: Dinara Safina Anything can happen in tennis, and Safina certainly has both the game and time to win one or more Grand Slam events in her career ...

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