Last Updated: July 21, 2025
Category:
Richest AthletesTennis Players
Net Worth:
$5 Million
Birthdate:
Apr 27, 1986 (39 years old)
Birthplace:
Moscow
Gender:
Female
Height:
5 ft 11 in (1.82 m)
Profession:
Tennis player
Nationality:
Russia
  1. What Is Dinara Safina's Net Worth?
  2. Early Life
  3. Career
  4. Personal Life
  5. Awards And Nominations

What Is Dinara Safina's Net Worth?

Dinara Safina is a retired Russian professional tennis player who has a net worth of $5 million. Dinara Safina is the younger sister of former world #1 tennis player Marat Safin. Dinara's debut came in the WTA (Women's Tennis Association) Tour tournament in May 2002, and she made it to the semifinals. Her first title came in Sopot. Safina is also a former world #1-ranked tennis player (April 2009). She has won 12 WTA titles and four ITF (International Tennis Federation) titles. Dinara finished as a runner-up in singles at the 2008 and 2009 French Open and the 2009 Australian Open. She also reached the semifinals at the 2008 US Open and the 2009 Wimbledon. As a doubles player, she was ranked as high as #8 and won nine WTA and three ITF titles, including a win at the 2007 US Open.

Safina has won over $10 million in prize money in her tennis career. Competing for Russia, she won a silver medal at the 2008 Beijing Olympics and also won the Fed Cup in 2005. Dinara and her brother, Marat, are the first brother and sister pair to both be ranked #1. Safina retired from playing tennis in 2014 after years of suffering from a chronic back injury, and she later began coaching the sport.

Early Life

Dinara Safina was born Dinara Mubinovna Safina on April 27, 1986, in Moscow, Soviet Union. She is the daughter of Tatar parents, and her older brother, Marat, was formerly the world No. 1 on the ATP (Association of Tennis Professionals) Tour. Dinara's mother, Rauza Islanova, used to be her trainer, and her father serves as the director of Moscow's Spartak tennis club. Safina said of her childhood, "Being the little sister in such a big tennis family is not an easy situation. Maybe that's why it took me longer to develop. My father is very competitive, but my parents didn't put pressure on me. I wanted to find my identity. I wanted to be something by myself, like being a big player by myself. So at the beginning I was putting too much pressure on myself. But then gradually I found myself, and I learned how to do better with that situation." When Dinara was eight years old, she moved to Valencia, Spain, with her family.

Career

Safina debuted in the main draw of a May 2002 WTA Tour tournament and lost in the semifinals. In Sopot, Poland, she won her first title, becoming the youngest WTA Tour champion in four years. This win put her in the top 100 of the WTA rankings. Later in 2002, Dinara played in her first Grand Slam tournament and lost to Serena Williams in the second round of the US Open. At the 2002 Kremlin Cup, Safina defeated Silvia Farina Elia, a top 20 player. At the end of the season, Dinara was world No. 68 in the rankings. She won her second title in July 2023, and she lost in the first round of her French Open, Australian Open, and Wimbledon debuts. Safina made it to the fourth round of the US Open and the quarterfinals in Sopot, Doha, and Shanghai, finishing the season as No. 54. In 2004, she reached the third round of the Australian Open, and she played in her third career final in Luxembourg. She finished the season ranked No. 44. Dinara lost in the second round at the 2005 Australian Open, then she won titles in Paris and Prague. In the fall of 2005, she made it to the semifinals in Moscow, Luxembourg, and Hasselt, and in the quarterfinals in Moscow, she defeated Maria Sharapova, who was world No. 1 at the time. Safina was ranked world No. 20 at the end of the 2005 season. In 2006, she lost in the second round of the Australian Open and in the third round of Wimbledon, and she reached her first final of the year at a Tier I tournament in Rome. She also reached the quarterfinals at the 2006 French Open and US Open and the semifinals of the Tier I Montreal, and she was ranked world No. 11 at the end of the season.

In 2007, Safina won her first tournament of the year in Gold Coast and also won the doubles title there. In April of that year, she reached the finals at the Tier I Charleston and lost to Jelena Janković. She reached the quarterfinals in Rome and Berlin, then she lost in the fourth round of the French Open to Serena Williams. In May 2007, she was ranked world No. 9, then she lost in the second round at Wimbledon and in the fourth round at the US Open. However, she did win the doubles title at the US Open. Dinara ended the season ranked world No. 16. In 2008, she won 11 of the first 21 matches she played in, and she won doubles titles in Indian Wells and Gold Coast. Later that year, she won her first Tier I title at the German Open and won another title at the LA Women's Tennis Championships. Safina also won the Tier I Montreal and the Pan Pacific Open and earned a silver medal at the Olympic Games. At the end of the season, she was ranked world No. 3. In 2009, Dinara made it to the semifinals of the WTA Tour tournament in Sydney and to the finals at the Australian Open. In April 2009, the WTA ranked her world No. 1, then she was the runner-up at the Women's Stuttgart Open and the French Open and the winner at the Italian Open and Madrid Open. She made it to the semifinals at Wimbledon, and though she had the chance to end the season ranked world No. 1 for the first time, she dropped out of the WTA Championships due to a back injury that she had been suffering from for months, so she was ranked No. 2 instead. Safina ended the 2010 season as world No. 62 and the 2011 season as No. 129. She officially retired in 2014.

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Personal Life

Along with her native language, Russian, Safina speaks English and Spanish fluently. Dinara has struggled with anxiety and body image issues, and in a 2024 interview with Tennis.com, she said of her decision to retire, "What ultimately kept me from coming back was that physically, I struggled with body weight. I was fighting anxiety and a binge eating disorder. I was consistently overweight, and I couldn't lose it even though I fought so much to do so. I would try different diets and nothing worked and to play with an extra 30 kilos, it's not easy. For me, this was one of the main reasons why I never tried to come back, and these were tough moments for me, because I was physically not like I was, and people were saying that I had gotten fat."

Awards and Nominations

At the 2008 Olympic Games, Safina won a silver medal in singles tennis. In 2009, she earned ESPY Award nominations for Best Tennis Player – Female and Best International Athlete – Female.

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