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 1st round.
Score, report, and key facts
1st set.
Safiullin was in a great position at the beginning of the set to break Gerasimov in the 1st game (1-0). However, Egor refused to bow to come back to break Safiullin in the 2nd (1-1) gamein the 12th game before winning the set (7-5) after breaking his opponent in the last game.
2nd set.
The Russian won the set after he broke Gerasimov in the 7th (4-3) game. Gerasimov tried to stage a comeback breaking in the 10th (5-5) game. Notwithstanding, the Russian kept the situation under control before winning the set at the following breaker at 4.
3rd 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 9th 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 1st round.
This will be the 3rd 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
Upcoming matches
- Janko TipsarevicTipsarevic – Damir DzumhurDzumhur (0-0) – See H2H details
- Dudi SelaSela – Richard BerankisBerankis (0-1) – See H2H details
- Lukas RosolRosol – Egor GerasimovGerasimov (0-2) – See H2H details
- Mikhail KukushkinKukushkin – Jannik SinnerSinner (0-0) – See H2H details
- Evgeny DonskoyDonskoy – Matteo ViolaViola (1-1) – See H2H details
- Joao SousaSousa – Jozef KovalikKovalik (1-0) – See H2H details
- Salvatore CarusoCaruso – Thomas FabbianoFabbiano (0-0) – See H2H details
- Alexey VatutinVatutin – Marton FucsovicsFucsovics (0-0) – See H2H details
- Roberto Carballes BaenaCarballes Baena – Martin KlizanKlizan (0-0) – See H2H details
- Ilya IvashkaIvashka – Andrey RublevRublev (0-0) – See H2H details
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