Dinara Safina

Dinara Safina is a Russian former professional tennis player, born in Moscow on 27 April 1986 to Tatar parents. She was ranked world number one in women's singles by the Women's Tennis Association for 26 weeks and reached world number eight in doubles. Safina won twelve WTA Tour-level singles titles and nine in doubles, including the women's doubles title at the 2007 US Open with Nathalie Dechy. She was runner-up in singles at three majors, the 2008 French Open, the 2009 Australian Open and the 2009 French Open, and won an Olympic silver medal in singles at the 2008 Beijing Olympics. She retired in 2014 because of a long-term back injury. Her brother is the former men's world number one Marat Safin, and the two were the first brother and sister to both reach the top singles ranking. At eight she moved with her family to Valencia in Spain.