Roman Safiullin and Mitchell Krueger will square off in the qualifications of the Australian Open Qualifying for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Tuesday at 5.30 pm on Court 6. Here the head to head stats and the relative prediction.

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The pick for Tennis Tonic is Roman Safiullin who should win in 5 sets.

As per the initial odds, Roman Safiullin is the pick to win this match.
Roman Safiullin -> 1.55
Mitchell Krueger -> 2.45

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Prediction and head to head Roman Safiullin vs. Mitchell Krueger

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

Roman Safiullin

Ranked no. 181, Roman got to the qualifications after beating Oscar Otte 7-66 6-4.

In the qualifications, Safiullin had a good straight sets win against Otte (7-66 6-4). During the match Safiullin scored 83 points vs Otte’s 76. Safiullin was quite aggressive to blast 40 winners.

Talking about the service games, Safiullin fired 5 aces and he committed only 3 double faults. Overall, Roman Safiullin was very effective on serve to win 71% (40/56) of his 1st serve and 53% (8/15) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve twice. Roman broke Otte 3 times after converting 50% of his break points (3/6).

Safiullin has a fantastic match record in the last 9 years having won 70% of his matches (281-122). 1-0 on hard in 2021. Regarding his performance on the same surface of this event, Safiullin has a 181-58 win-loss record in the last 9 years on hard.

Safiullin has a 1-0 win-loss record in 2021, 1-0 on hard (See FULL STATS).

Last year at the Australian Open Qualifying

Safiullin didn’t play at the Australian Open Qualifying in 2020.

Mitchell Krueger

Ranked no. 190, Mitchell reached the qualifications after defeating Enzo Couacaud 3-6 6-2 6-2.

In the qualifications against Couacaud, Mitchell recovered from a 1-set down deficit before winning (3-6 6-2 6-2). During the match Krueger and Couacaud scored the same amount of points (). However, the world no. 181 was stronger during the important points and that was the most significant difference in the match.

Talking about serving, Krueger was unable to score even 1 ace for the entire match and he was very consistent in conceding no double faults for the entire match. Mitchell Krueger conceded no breaks for the entire match to put NAN% of his first serves in, win NAN% (/) of the points behind his 1st serve and NAN% (/) on the 2nd serve.

The American has a 1-0 win-loss record in 2021, 1-0 on hard (See FULL STATS).

H2H Performance in the tournament

Matches, sets, games and points

Points Safiullin Krueger
Match played 1 1
Tot Set 2 3
Tot Games 23 25
Pts 83-76 0-0
Total Points 159 0
Winners 40 0
%Winners 48% NAN%

Both Safiullin and Krueger played 1 match. Also both players started their run from the qualifications.At the moment, Mitchell Krueger dropped 1 set while Roman Safiullin hasn’t dropped a set so far. Safiullin has played 1 set(s) less than Krueger (2 vs 3). Therefore, Safiullin played 2 games less than Krueger. Roman scored 40 winners (48% of the total points). On the other side, The American bagged 0 winners (NAN%).

Serve Performance

Serve Safiullin Krueger
Aces 5 0
Avg per match 5 0
1st in 56/71 0/0
%1st in 79% NAN%
1st pts 40/56 0/0
%1st pts 71% NAN%
2nd pts 8/15 0/0
%2nd pts 53% NAN%

Safiullin scored 5 aces . Krueger didn’t manage to fire a single ace to far. Safiullin won 71% points on his first serve. He pretty effective on his second serve to win 53% of the points. On the other side, Krueger won NAN% of the points behind his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win NAN% of the points.

How they played the important points

Breaks Safiullin Krueger
Won 3 0
Converted 3/6 0/0
% Converted 50% NAN%
Conceded 6 0
Saved 4 0
% Saved 67% NAN%
Times Broken 2 0

Roman broke his opponent 3 times with a 50% conversion rate. The Russian lost his serve twice and he saved 67% of the break points that he conceded. On the other side, Krueger hasn’t manged yet to break his opponent. He didn’t manage to even clinch a single break point. Mitchell was rock solid on his serve as he has never conceded a single service game after saving 0 break points without even conceding a single break point.

Safiullin
Q1
Otte
Total
Score 7-66 6-4
Tot Set 2 2
Tot Games 23 23
pts 83-76 83-76
Total points 159 159
Winners 40 40
%Winners 48% 48%
SERVE
Aces 5 5
Double Faults 3 3
1st in 56/71 56/71
% 1st in 79% 79%
1st pts 40/56 40/56
% 1st pts 71% 71%
2nd pts 8/15 8/15
% 2nd pts 53% 53%
Breaks
Won 3 3
Converted 3/6 3/6
Converted % 50% 50%
Conceded 6 6
Saved 4/6 4
Saved % 67% 67%
Times Broken 2 2
Krueger
Q1
Couacaud
Total
Score 3-6 6-2 6-2
Tot Set 3 3
Tot Games 25 25
pts 0-0
Total points 0 0
Winners 0
%Winners NAN% NAN%
SERVE
Aces 0 0
Double Faults 0
1st in / 0/0
% 1st in NAN% NAN%
1st pts / 0/0
% 1st pts NAN% NAN%
2nd pts / 0/0
% 2nd pts NAN% NAN%
Breaks
Won 0
Converted / 0/0
Converted % NAN% NAN%
Conceded 0
Saved 0/ 0
Saved % 0%
Times Broken 0

Tennis Scores at the Australian Open Qualifying

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