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Tennis.comMarat Safin is planning to run for the post of vice-president of the Russian Olympic Committee, according to Russian press reports.
Kei Nishikori says he will need another month or two to recover from elbow surgery and is likely to miss the Australian Open. "My condition is about 70 percent right now," he said.
Roger Federer joins Andy Roddick on the list of nominees for Sports Illustrated's Sportsman of the Year award.
Daniel Nestor says he and Nenad Zimonjic are planning to continue their doubles partnership next year. "It's all gossip," Nestor told The Globe and Mail. "As far as I know we’re playing Doha, Sydney and arranging coaching and all that... we’ve just had a bad run of matches, nothing more than that."
Nikolay Davydenko on bookmakers having put long odds on him to win the event: "Bad luck, you know. I think I put money of me before this tournament, make more money, double prize money." (He's joking. Probably.)