Francisco Cerundolo and Roman Safiullin will play each other in the 2nd round of the Belgrade Open for the 2nd time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Wednesday at 11:00 am on CENTRE COURT. In this post, we analyze their head to head performance 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 -> 1.56
Francisco Cerundolo -> 2.43
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Prediction and head to head Francisco Cerundolo vs. Roman Safiullin
This will be the 2nd time that Francisco Cerundolo and Roman Safiullin clash against each other. The head to head is 1-0 for Safiullin (see full H2H stats), but they have never competed against each other on indoor hard courts.
The last time that they played, Safiullin won 6-7(5) 3-6 7-5 6-3 6-4 in the 1st round in at the Wimbledon back in July 2024.
Francisco Cerundolo
33 - 30win/loss
30
19
LWLWWLLWWL | Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 34-31 | 5-10 | 21-13 | 8-5 | 0-3 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 39-26 | 10-10 | 19-12 | 4-2 | 6-2 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 36-28 | 7-8 | 25-10 | 3-7 | 1-3 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 44-24 | 3-2 | 39-21 | 0-0 | 2-1 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 36-11 | 5-0 | 31-11 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 29, Cerundolo will start his run in Belgrade after he played his last match in Paris where he lost 6-7(1) 6-4 6-2 to Tsitsipas in the 3rd round on the 31st of October.
The Argentine has a composed 33-30 win-loss record in 2024, 7-4 on indoor hard courts (See FULL STATS).
His best result of the year was winning the title in Umag where he defeated Lorenzo Musetti in the final 2-6 6-4 7-6(5).
Talking about his overall career, The Argentine has an overall 311-166 record. He has a flat 14-14 record on indoor hard courts.
Previously in Belgrade
Previously, his best result was reaching the 1st round in 2021. See his history.
Roman Safiullin
31 - 27win/loss
60
36
LWWWWWWLLW | Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| 2020 | 23-12 | 6-2 | 4-5 | 12-4 | 0-0 | 1-1 |
Ranked no. 60, Roman reached the 2nd round after defeating Fabio Fognini 6-3 6-3.
In the 1st round, The Russian had a good straight sets win against Fognini (6-3 6-3). During the match Safiullin scored 63 points vs Fognini’s 43. The Russian was quite aggressive to blast 28 winners.
About the serving games, Safiullin blasted 9 aces and he committed only 2 double faults. Roman Safiullin lost the serve once. Furthermore, Safiullin put 62% of his first serves in, winning 97% (28/29) of the points behind his 1st serve and 39% (7/18) on the 2nd serve. Safiullin broke Fognini 4 times after converting 57% of his break points (4/7).
His best result of the year was winning the title the Cary Challenger where he beat Mattia Bellucci in the final 1-6 7-5 7-5 and the Bratislava 2 Challenger where he defeated Raphael Collignon in the final 6-3 6-4.
Roman has a compiled 31-27 win-loss record in 2024, 6-2 on indoor hard courts (See FULL STATS).
Head 2 Head
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- Hamad MedjedovicMedjedovic – Aleksandar KovacevicKovacevic (7-65 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
Upcoming matches in the draw
- Daniel AltmaierAltmaier – Christopher O ConnellO Connell (1-1) – H2H and prediction
- Denis ShapovalovShapovalov – Nuno BorgesBorges (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Lukas KleinKlein – Jiri LeheckaLehecka (3-1) – H2H and prediction
- Alex De MinaurDe Minaur – Laslo DjereDjere (3-0) – H2H and prediction
- Fabian MarozsanMarozsan – Dusan LajovicLajovic (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Francisco CerundoloCerundolo – Roman SafiullinSafiullin (0-1) – H2H and prediction
