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Safin masters Paris

AFP, Paris
Russian sixth seed Marat Safin clinched his third Paris Masters tide here on Sunday when he overwhelmed Czech qualifier Radek Stepanek 6-3,7-6, 6-3 in the final of the2.45-million-euro tournament.
Only German legend Boris Becker, in 1986, 1989 and 1992, had previously won three Paris titles while Sunday's victory also gave Safin, champion here in 2000 and 2002, his 14th career crown.
It was his third win of the season to follow victories in Beijing in September and at the Madrid Masters two weeks ago.
"I didn't have a great middle of the year but finally success is coming again at last," said crowd favourite Safin who now has a 21-2 winloss record at this event stretching back to his first appearance in 1999 where he was runner-up to Andre Agassi. . .
"Coming to Paris, in winter and the summer, is always one of the great experiences in my life and the crowds here keep tennis alive."
Stepanek, ranked a modest 63 in the world, was playing in his first final after eight years as a professional and was trying to become the first qualifier to win a Masters event since Spain's Albert Portas won in Flamburg in2001.
But, despite a brief rally in the second set when he led 4-2 in the tiebreaker, he simply didn't have the firepower to seriously hurt the 24-year-old Russian who is now destined to finish the year at four in the world having started 2004 at 86.
The statistics of the match wen* sobering — Stepanek sent down 48 unforced errors compared to Safin's 18.
"There were too many unforced errors forme," admitted the Czech.
"But Marat plays very fast from the back of the court making it very hard to get to his groundstrokes.
"I gave everything I had but it just wasn't enough."
Safin said that had Stepanek, who beat him in Moscow last month, clinched the second set, the outcome of the final could have been different.
"I wasn't really ready for the second set because in the first, I felt like I could break him any time and I started to believe it would have been aloteasier,” he explained.
"I paid the price and in the tiebreaker he was almost there and then it would have been a completely different story because he started toplaywelL
"I didn't want to play for five sets especially against him. These kind of players are always dangerous. They serve and volley, come up and they put pressure on you. They make you play their game."
Safin, who now has five Masters titles to add to the US Open he clinched in 2000, raced through the first set in just 35 minutes breaking in the second game and taking the opener in the ninth game with a trademark double backhand drive.
The 25-year-old Stepanek then went down 2-1 in the second set but launched a mini-revival to hit back to go 2-2 and had two more break points in the sixth game which could have given him a4-2 lead,
Safin clung on and recovered from 4-2 down in the tiebreak to take the set when Stepanek hit a backhandvolleywide.