Open is shut: Safin slams Pete Marat Safin might have given the world a preview of the new order in men's tennis with his 6-4, 6-3, 6-3 blowout of Pete Sampras in Sunday's Open final. Safin handed Sampras only his third defeat in 16 Grand Slam finals.
| |  Marat Safin, 20, became the youngest Open champion since Pete Sampras in 1990. |