Roman Safiullin and Mirza Basic will face off in the 1st round of the St. Petersburg 2 Challenger for the 2nd time of their career. They are scheduled to play on Tuesday at 12:30 pm on CENTRE COURT. In the following lines you can find the head to head analysis 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 -> 1.57
Mirza Basic -> 2.34
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Prediction and head to head Roman Safiullin vs. Mirza Basic
This will be the 2nd time that Roman Safiullin and Mirza Basic clash against each other. The head to head is 1-0 for Safiullin (see full H2H stats), but they have never played each other on indoor hard courts.
The last time that they locked horns, Safiullin won 6-2 6-3 in the semifinal in Turkey F43 back in 1970.
Roman Safiullin
Ranked no. 167, Safiullin will start his run in the St. Petersburg 2 Challenger after he played his last match in the St. Petersburg 1 Challenger where he lost 7-5 6-4 to Tyurnev in the 1st round on the 2nd of March.
Safiullin has a 4-3 win-loss record in 2021, 0-1 on indoor hard courts (See FULL STATS).
Talking about his overall career, Safiullin has an overall 284-125 record. He has a positive 41-24 record on indoor hard courts.
Previously in the St. Petersburg 2 Challenger
Previously, his best result was reaching the 1st round in 2021. See his history.
Mirza Basic
Ranked no. 310, Basic got to the 1st round after defeating Viktor Durasovic 7-5 6-4 and Aleksandr Nedovesov 6-4 6-2.
In the qualifications, The Bosnian had a good straight sets win against Nedovesov (6-4 6-2). During the match Basic scored 63 points vs Nedovesov’s 43. Mirza was pretty aggressive to blast 22 winners.
Talking about serving, Basic made 3 aces and he was pretty steady in conceding no double faults for the entire match. Overall, Mirza Basic was very effective on serve to win 73% (22/30) of his 1st serve and 71% (12/17) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve once. The Bosnian broke Nedovesov 4 times after converting 57% of his break points (4/7).
Overall Performance in this tournament
Mirza started his run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, he hasn’t surrendered yet a set in this event to conquer 57% of the points he played.
Basic has a 9-4 win-loss record in 2021, 3-1 on indoor hard courts (See FULL STATS).
Head 2 Head
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- Rudolf MollekerMolleker – Evgeny KarlovskiyKarlovskiy (6-3 7-5) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Duje AjdukovicAjdukovic – Shuichi SekiguchiSekiguchi (7-5 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Alexey VatutinVatutin – Duckhee LeeLee (0-6 6-1 6-1) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Dmitry PopkoPopko – Nino SerdarusicSerdarusic (6-4 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Christopher EubanksEubanks – Jesper De JongDe Jong (7-5 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
Upcoming matches in the draw
- Marius CopilCopil – Michael VrbenskyVrbensky (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Roberto Ortega-OlmedoOrtega-Olmedo – Roberto QuirozQuiroz (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Denis YevseyevYevseyev – Vaja UzakovUzakov (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Jack SockSock – Cem IlkelIlkel (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Altug CelikbilekCelikbilek – Teimuraz GabashviliGabashvili (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Roman SafiullinSafiullin – Mirza BasicBasic (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Zizou BergsBergs – Pedja KrstinKrstin (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Vit KoprivaKopriva – Evgeny TyurnevTyurnev (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Pavel KotovKotov – Tim Van RijthovenVan Rijthoven (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Kacper ZukZuk – Igor SijslingSijsling (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Duje AjdukovicAjdukovic – Christopher EubanksEubanks (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Jiri LeheckaLehecka – Matija PecoticPecotic (0-0) – H2H and prediction
