Marat Safin will play an exhibition match with Pete Samprass

On February 18, Russian Marat Safin will hold an exhibition match against the ex-first racket of the world of American, American Samprase. This indicative duel will take place before the opening of the SAP Open tournament in San Jose, where our tennis player received a Wild Card.

During the Samprase, it will be a kind of repetition of the final of the 2000 US Open Championship, in which Marat won three parties. In total, in official matches, these rivals held seven matches, four of which were won by the Russian.

Recently, Samps, who completed a professional career in 2002, began to participate in team commercial competitions under the auspices of World Team Tennis, as well as in some veteran tournaments organized by his former rival Jim Courier.

At the end of last year, the 14-time winner of the titles of the Grand Slam tournaments Pit Samprass held a series of friendly matches with the current leader in world tennis Roger Federer, who won one match of three. The next meeting of Federer and Samprass should take place on March 10 in the famous Madison Square Garden New York.