Borna Coric and Roman Safiullin will fight against each other in the 2^nd round of the St. Petersburg Open for the 1^st time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Thursday at 1:00 pm on COURT 1. Here you can find the head to head analysis and the prediction.

Prediction, odds and live streaming

The pick for Tennis Tonic is Borna Coric who should win in 2 sets.

As per the initial odds, Borna Coric is the pick to win this match.
Borna Coric -> 1.188
Roman Safiullin -> 5

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Prediction and head to head Borna Coric vs. Roman Safiullin

There is no head to head record between Borna Coric and Roman Safiullin since this will be the first time that they will fight against each other in the main tour.

Borna Coric

Ranked no. 27, Borna got to the 2^nd round after defeating Feliciano Lopez 6-3 7-6².

In the 1^st round, Coric had a good straight sets win against Lopez (6-3 7-6²). During the match Coric scored 75 points vs Lopez’s 58. The Croatian was quite aggressive to blast 33 winners.

Talking about the service games, Coric recorded 12 aces and he committed only 1 double fault. Borna Coric was very efficent on serve to win 83% (33/40) of his 1st serve and 86% (12/14) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. The Croatian broke Lopez twice after converting 40% of his break points (2/5).

Coric has a solid match record in the last 9 years having won 60% of his matches (272-181). 1-0 on indoor hard courts in 2020. In connection with his performance on the same surface of this event, Coric has a 38-34 win-loss record in the last 9 years on indoor hard courts.

Borna’s best result of the season was getting to the semi-finals in Rio de Janeiro.

The Croatian has a 11-9 win-loss record in 2020, 1-0 on indoor hard courts (See FULL STATS).

Last year in St. Petersburg

The Croatian surrendered in the final to Daniil Medvedev.

Roman Safiullin

Ranked no. 199, Roman reached the 2^nd round after defeating Emilio Gomez 6-4 6-2.

In the 1^st round, Safiullin had a good straight sets win against Gomez (6-4 6-2). During the match Safiullin scored 67 points vs Gomez’s 46. Safiullin was pretty aggressive to blast 21 winners.

Talking about serving, Safiullin struck 2 aces and he was exceptionally consistent in conceding no double faults for the entire match. Overall, Roman Safiullin was extremely efficent on serve to win 78% (21/27) of his 1st serve and 72% (13/18) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve once. Safiullin broke Gomez 4 times after converting 44% of his break points (4/9).

The Russian’s best result of the current season was getting to the final in the Cherbourg Challenger.

The Russian has a 19-8 win-loss record in 2020, 9-1 on indoor hard courts (See FULL STATS).

Last year in St. Petersburg

Roman had to surrender in the qualifications to Egor Gerasimov.

H2H Performance in the tournament

Matches, sets, games and points

Both Coric and Safiullin played 1 match. Both players have not conceded a single set in this event so far. Talking about their workload, Coric and Safiullin have played the same amount of sets 2. However, Coric played 4 games more than Safiullin. Borna scored 33 winners (44% of the total points). On the other side, The Russian scored 21 winners (31%).

Serve Performance

Coric scored 12 aces . Safiullin made 2 aces . Coric won 83% points on his first serve. He very solid his second serve to win 86% of the points. On the other side, Safiullin won 78% of the points behind his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 72% of the points.

How they played the important points

Coric broke his opponent twice with a 40% conversion rate. Coric pretty effective on his serve as he has never conceded a single service game after saving 0 break points. The Russian broke his opponent 4 times with a 44% conversion rate. Roman conceded his serve once and he saved 0% of the break points that he conceded.

Head 2 Head

• 0Slam
• 3Main
• 3Chall
• 5Minor

• 0Slam
• 0Main
• 4Chall
• 19Minor

Borna
Coric

1:0

Roman
Safiullin

Rank

83

High

12

1I.hard0

Rank

66

High

36

Win Loss

Coric

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Safiullin

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13 - 17

12 - 19

2-6

Hard

5-7

7-3

I Hard

0-1

3-7

Clay

5-8

1-1

Grass

2-3

Tennis Scores in St. Petersburg

• Stan WawrinkaWawrinka – Evgeny DonskoyDonskoy (6-1 3-6 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Cameron NorrieNorrie – Miomir KecmanovicKecmanovic (7-5 6-7⁵ 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings

Upcoming matches in the draw

• Daniil MedvedevMedvedev – Reilly OpelkaOpelka (2-0) – H2H and prediction
• Alexander BublikBublik – Milos RaonicRaonic (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Karen KhachanovKhachanov – Aslan KaratsevKaratsev (2-1) – H2H and prediction
• Ilya IvashkaIvashka – Denis ShapovalovShapovalov (0-1) – H2H and prediction
• Roman SafiullinSafiullin – Borna CoricCoric (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Ugo HumbertHumbert – Andrey RublevRublev (0-1) – H2H and prediction

Coric

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Safiullin