TENNIS SCORES. Egor Gerasimov bests Safiullin in the qualifications in St. Petersburg

Egor Gerasimov defeats Roman Safiullin 7-5 6-7⁴ 6-4 in the qualifications in St. Petersburg on Monday. Gerasimov will seek to keep on going in this event against Lukas Rosol in the 1^st round.

Score, report, and key facts

1^st set.

Safiullin was in a great position at the beginning of the set to break Gerasimov in the 1^st game (1-0). However, Egor refused to bow to come back to break Safiullin in the 2^nd (1-1) gamein the 12^th game before winning the set (7-5) after breaking his opponent in the last game.

2^nd set.

The Russian won the set after he broke Gerasimov in the 7^th (4-3) game. Gerasimov tried to stage a comeback breaking in the 10^th (5-5) game. Notwithstanding, the Russian kept the situation under control before winning the set at the following breaker at 4.

3^rd set.

The set was pretty even as both sides managed to hold the serve. The only difference was 1 break that Gerasimov conquered in the 9^th game (5-4) before winning the set (6-4).

Statistics

At the end of the match, Gerasimov scored 119 points vs. Safiullin’s 107 points.

Egor served pretty well to win 75% of the points (50/67) behind his first serve, and he won 53% points (18/34) on his second serve. Egor struck 13 aces and he committed 1 double fault. The Belarussian won this match even if he was not so effective in converting his break points since he converted only 22% (4/18). On the other side, the Russian was pretty good in converting 50% of the break points that he conquered points (2/4). Notwithstanding, that was not enough to win the encounter.

After this match, the head to head between Gerasimov and Safiullin is 1-0 for Egor.

Next Match: Egor Gerasimov vs. Lukas Rosol – stats

Gerasimov will play Rosol in the 1^st round.

This will be the 3^rd time that Egor Gerasimov and Lukas Rosol fight against each other. The head to head is 2-0 for Gerasimov (see full H2H stats), 1-0 on I.hard.

The last time that they fought against each other, Gerasimov won 6-2 6-7³ 7-6⁵ in the qualifications in Us open back in August 2019.

Tennis Scores in St. Petersburg

• Ilya IvashkaIvashka – Matteo ViolaViola (6-4 6-2) – See score progression
• Egor GerasimovGerasimov – Roman SafiullinSafiullin (7-5 6-7⁴ 6-4) – See score progression
• Lukas RosolRosol – Damir DzumhurDzumhur (4-6 7-6⁸ 6-4) – See score progression
• Alexey VatutinVatutin – Ernests GulbisGulbis (3-6 6-3 6-2) – See score progression

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