Former champion Marat Safin bid farewell to the U.S. tennis Open with a 4 set defeat by Austrian Juergen Melzer in a first-round match in New York.
The 29-year-old Russian, who won the 2000 U.S. Open and the 2005 Australian Open and was a former world number one, confirmed that this would be his last grand slam event.
Safin says he has no regrets......
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Safin will play 5 more tournaments before ending his 12 years on the tour.
