Roman Safiullin and Illya Marchenko will square off in the 3rd round of the Bergamo Challenger for the 2nd time of their career. They are scheduled to play on Thursday at 10:00 am on PALAAGNELLI. In the following lines you can find the head to head analysis and the 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 -> 1.66
Illya Marchenko -> 2.10
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Prediction and head to head Roman Safiullin vs. Illya Marchenko
This will be the 2nd time that Roman Safiullin and Illya Marchenko square off. The head to head is 1-0 for Marchenko (see full H2H stats), but they have never played each other on indoor hard courts.
The last time that they squared off, Marchenko won 6-1 6-2 in the 3rd round in Mallorca Challenger back in 2019.
Roman Safiullin
Ranked no. 174 (career high), Safiullin got to the 3rd round after beating Sadio Doumbia 5-4 ret..
In the 2nd round, Safiullin had a good straight sets win against Doumbia (5-4 ret.). During the match Safiullin scored 39 points vs Doumbia’s 38. The Russian was extremely aggressive to blast 19 winners.
Talking about serving, Safiullin was unable to score even 1 ace for the entire match and he was extremely steady in conceding no double faults for the entire match. Roman Safiullin conceded no breaks for the entire match to save 3 break points. Furthermore, Safiullin put 68% of his first serves in, winning 63% (19/30) of the points behind his 1st serve and 64% (9/14) on the 2nd serve.
Safiullin has a weak win-loss record in the last 8 years having won 35% of his matches (191-105). 7-0 on indoor hard courts in 2020. Talking about his performance on the same surface of this tournament, Safiullin has a 105-71 win-loss record in the last 8 years on indoor hard courts.
Safiullin’s best result of the season was reaching the final in the Cherbourg Challenger.
Roman has a 13-2 win-loss record in 2020, 7-0 on indoor hard courts (See FULL STATS).
Last year in the Bergamo Challenger
Safiullin didn’t play in the Bergamo Challenger in 2019.
Illya Marchenko
Ranked no. 253, Marchenko got to the 3rd round after defeating Andrea Pellegrino 6-4 3-6 6-1 and Hiroki Moriya 6-1 6-4.
In the 2nd round, Illya had a good straight sets win against Moriya (6-1 6-4). During the match Marchenko scored 61 points vs Moriya’s 46. Illya was extremely aggressive to blast 19 winners.
Talking about serving, Marchenko blasted 5 aces and he committed only 3 double faults. Overall, Illya Marchenko was extremely effective on serve to win 79% (19/24) of his 1st serve and 57% (16/28) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve once. Marchenko broke Moriya 4 times after converting 67% of his break points (4/6).
Overall Performance in this tournament
Illya has conceded 1 set in the tournament to win 56% of the points he played.
Marchenko has a solid win-loss record in the last 10 years having won 62% of his matches (360-225). 3-1 on indoor hard courts in 2020. Regarding his performance on the same surface of this competition, Marchenko has a 241-195 win-loss record in the last 10 years on indoor hard courts.
The Ukrainian has a 3-3 win-loss record in 2020, 3-1 on indoor hard courts (See FULL STATS).
Last year in the Bergamo Challenger
Illya didn’t compete in the Bergamo Challenger in 2019.
Head 2 Head
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LLLLLLLLLL Tennis Scores in Bergamo Challenger
- Baptiste CrepatteCrepatte – Frederico Ferreira SilvaFerreira Silva (6-3 6-4) – See score progression
- Roberto MarcoraMarcora – Giulio ZeppieriZeppieri (7-5 6-2) – See score progression
- Daniel MichalskiMichalski – Mathias BourgueBourgue (6-4 2-0 ret.) – See score progression
- Roman SafiullinSafiullin – Sadio DoumbiaDoumbia (5-4 ret.) – See score progression
- Chun Hsin TsengHsin Tseng – Marco TrungellitiTrungelliti (7-64 6-3) – See score progression
- Filippo BaldiBaldi – Pavel NejedlyNejedly (6-3 6-3) – See score progression
- Enzo CouacaudCouacaud – Viktor GalovicGalovic (6-2 6-4) – See score progression
- Illya MarchenkoMarchenko – Hiroki MoriyaMoriya (6-1 6-4) – See score progression
- Raul BrancaccioBrancaccio – Matteo ViolaViola (6-4 6-4) – See score progression
- Lorenzo GiustinoGiustino – Nino SerdarusicSerdarusic (6-710 6-3 7-67) – See score progression
- Zdenek KolarKolar – Andrea VavassoriVavassori (7-62 2-6 6-4) – See score progression
- Luca VanniVanni – Tristan LamasineLamasine (6-3 6-4) – See score progression
- Pedja KrstinKrstin – Arthur De GreefDe Greef (6-2 6-4) – See score progression
- Cem IlkelIlkel – Viktor DurasovicDurasovic (6-3 6-4) – See score progression
- Andrea ArnaboldiArnaboldi – Constant LestienneLestienne (2-6 6-2 6-3) – See score progression
- Hugo GastonGaston – Hugo GrenierGrenier (6-3 6-0) – See score progression
Upcoming matches
- Andrea ArnaboldiArnaboldi – Zdenek KolarKolar (0-0) – See H2H details
- Lorenzo GiustinoGiustino – Hugo GastonGaston (0-0) – See H2H details
- Pedja KrstinKrstin – Roberto MarcoraMarcora (0-1) – See H2H details
- Enzo CouacaudCouacaud – Luca VanniVanni (0-0) – See H2H details
- Filippo BaldiBaldi – Chun Hsin TsengHsin Tseng (0-0) – See H2H details
- Roman SafiullinSafiullin – Illya MarchenkoMarchenko (0-1) – See H2H details
- Raul BrancaccioBrancaccio – Cem IlkelIlkel (1-0) – See H2H details
- Baptiste CrepatteCrepatte – Daniel MichalskiMichalski (0-0) – See H2H details
