Happiness Quote by Richard Krajicek

Krajicek’s praise lands with the measured generosity of a fellow pro who knows exactly how hard it is to make greatness look effortless. Calling Safin “very talented” sounds mild on the surface, but the tell is the qualifier: “in his way.” That phrase quietly acknowledges what everyone around Marat Safin understood at his peak - the brilliance came packaged with volatility, improvisation, and a career narrative that rarely fit the clean, machine-like ideal of tennis excellence. It’s admiration with a footnote.

Then Krajicek pivots from the individual to the spectacle: “a joy to watch them play.” Safin becomes less a résumé and more an experience, the kind of player whose matches produce a charge that stats don’t capture. The “them” matters, too. He’s not isolating Safin as an eccentric genius; he’s elevating the whole matchup, implying that Safin’s talent is activated by opposition worth meeting him at speed. Great tennis, in this framing, is relational.

“Tennis of a very high quality” is the veteran’s stamp of legitimacy. It’s not fan-gush; it’s technical respect. Coming from Krajicek - a Wimbledon champion forged in the 90s power era - it reads as a reminder that artistry and violence can coexist, that flair doesn’t have to mean sloppiness. The subtext is also a small defense of watching, not just counting: sometimes the truest metric is whether the game feels alive.