Mikael Ymer and Roman Safiullin will play each other in the 1st round of the Serbia Open for the 2nd time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Tuesday at 1:30 pm on COURT 1. In the following paragraphs, you can find the head to head analysis and prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Roman Safiullin who should win in 3 sets.
As per the initial odds, Roman Safiullin is the pick to win this match.
Roman Safiullin -> 1.90
Mikael Ymer -> 1.90
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Prediction and head to head Mikael Ymer vs. Roman Safiullin
This will be the 2nd time that Mikael Ymer and Roman Safiullin clash against each other. The head to head is 1-0 for Ymer (see full H2H stats), but they have never played each other on clay.
The last time that they locked horns, Ymer won 6-2 5-7 6-4 in the 3rd round in the Koblenz Challenger back in 2019.
Mikael Ymer
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 16-10 | 0-1 | 10-6 | 6-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 24-18 | 6-7 | 3-3 | 11-4 | 4-4 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 31-25 | 9-6 | 3-8 | 17-9 | 2-2 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 27-24 | 9-5 | 10-7 | 5-9 | 3-3 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 98, the Swede will start his run in Belgrade after he played his last match in Monte Carlo where he lost 6-2 4-6 6-4 to Majchrzak in the qualifications on the 9th of April.
Ymer has an overall 5-7 win-loss record in 2022, 0-2 on clay (See FULL STATS).
The Swede’s best result of the year was getting to the semifinal in Montpellier.
Talking about his overall career, Mikael has an overall 228-131 record. He has a positive 94-57 record on clay.
Previously in Belgrade
Mikael has never competed in this tournament before.
Roman Safiullin
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 13-20 | 9-12 | 3-4 | 0-0 | 1-4 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 31-28 | 18-14 | 5-8 | 6-3 | 2-3 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 41-25 | 13-12 | 8-4 | 11-5 | 9-4 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 37-18 | 16-6 | 6-2 | 14-9 | 1-1 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 18-21 | 7-5 | 5-7 | 5-8 | 1-1 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 151, Roman reached the 1st round after beating Max Purcell 6-73 6-4 6-4 and Norbert Gombos 6-2 6-72 6-0.
In the qualifications, Safiullin defeated Gombos (6-2 6-72 6-0). During the match Safiullin scored 99 points vs Gombos’s 75. The Russian was pretty aggressive to blast 43 winners.
About the serving games, Safiullin scored 5 aces and he committed only 1 double fault for the entire match. Roman Safiullin lost the serve once and he saved 1 break points. Furthermore, Safiullin put 74% of his first serves in, winning 67% (43/64) of the points behind his 1st serve and 59% (13/22) on the 2nd serve. The Russian broke Gombos 6 times after converting 86% of his break points (6/7).
Overall Performance in this tournament
Safiullin started his run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, he has conceded 2 set in the tournament to win 55% of the points he played.
The Russian’s best result of the year was getting to the semifinal in Marseille and the Pau Challenger.
Safiullin has a composed 15-10 win-loss record in 2022, 2-0 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Head 2 Head
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- Miomir KecmanovicKecmanovic – Richard GasquetGasquet (6-0 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Fabio FogniniFognini – Marco CecchinatoCecchinato (6-75 6-2 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Aljaz BedeneBedene – Mikhail KukushkinKukushkin (7-64 4-6 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
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- David GoffinGoffin – Filip KrajinovicKrajinovic (4-2) – H2H and prediction
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- Thiago Moura MonteiroMoura Monteiro – Joao SousaSousa (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Dominic ThiemThiem – John MillmanMillman (3-0) – H2H and prediction
- Alejandro TabiloTabilo – Oscar OtteOtte (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Mikael YmerYmer – Roman SafiullinSafiullin (1-0) – H2H and prediction
