Federico Gaio and Roman Safiullin will face off in the qualifications of Wimbledon for the 2nd time in their career. In this post, we analyze their head to head performance and prediction.

Prediction, odds and live streaming

The pick for Tennis Tonic is Roman Safiullin who should win in 4 sets.

As per the initial odds, Roman Safiullin is the pick to win this match.
Roman Safiullin -> 1.36
Federico Gaio -> 3.00

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Prediction and head to head Federico Gaio vs. Roman Safiullin

This will be the 2nd time that Federico Gaio and Roman Safiullin fight against each other. The head to head is 1-0 for Safiullin (see full H2H stats), but they have never played each other on grass.

The last time that they played, Safiullin won 6-3 6-4 in the 1st round in the Bratislava Challenger back in 2020.

Federico Gaio

Ranked no. 145, the Italian got to the qualifications after beating Blaz Rola 6-4 6-4.

In the qualifications, Gaio had a good straight sets win against Rola (6-4 6-4). During the match, Gaio scored 67 points vs Rola’s 53. Gaio was pretty aggressive to blast 25 winners.

Talking about the service games, Gaio blasted 7 aces and he committed only 1 double fault. Federico Gaio was exceptionally efficient on serve to win 71% (25/35) of his 1st serve and 78% (21/27) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. Federico broke Rola twice after converting 67% of his break points (2/3).

Gaio has a favorable record in the last 10 years having won 56% of his matches (367-289). 2-2 on grass in 2021. Regarding his performance on the same surface of this event, Gaio has an aggregate 2-5 match record in the last years on grass.

Gaio’s best result of the current season was getting to the semifinal in the Biella 1 Challenger.

Federico has a composed 21-21 win-loss record in 2021, 2-2 on grass (See FULL STATS).

Previously at Wimbledon

Previously, his best result was reaching the qualifications in 2016, 2017 and 2019. See his history.

Wimbledon
Gaio's Record

Roman Safiullin

Ranked no. 157, Roman got to the qualifications after beating Ivo Karlovic 6-3 6-4.

In the qualifications, Safiullin had a good straight sets win against Karlovic (6-3 6-4). During the match Safiullin scored 57 points vs Karlovic’s 44. Safiullin was quite aggressive to blast 31 winners.

Talking about serving, Safiullin made 2 aces and he committed only 2 double faults. Roman Safiullin conceded no breaks for the entire match to save 3 break points. Furthermore, Safiullin put 58% of his first serves in, winning 94% (31/33) of the points behind his 1st serve and 50% (12/24) on the 2nd serve. The Russian broke Karlovic twice after converting 50% of his break points (2/4).

Safiullin has an aggregate 11-10 win-loss record in 2021, 1-0 on grass (See FULL STATS).

Wimbledon
Safiullin's Record

H2H Performance in the tournament (main draw)

F.Gaio
R.Safiullin
1h:22
1h:22
Time on court​
0h:57
0h:57
1h:22
1h:22
Last match​
!
0h:57
0h:57
1
1
Match played
1
1
20
20
Games Played​
19
19
2
2
Set played​​
2
2
67
67
Total points​
57
57
67
67
Avg point​
57
57
25
25
Winners
31
31
25
25
Avg Winners​
31
31
37%
37%
Ratio winners
54%
54%
-- Serve --
7
7
Aces
2
2
7
7
Avg Aces
2
2
1
1
Double Faults
2
2
1
1
Avg Double Faults
2
2
25/35
25/35
1st won total​
31/33
31/33
!
71%
71%
1st won %
!
94%
94%
21/27
21/27
2nd won total​
12/24
12/24
!
78%
78%
2nd won %
50%
50%
-- Break Points --
2/3
2/3
BP won
2/4
2/4
2/3
2/3
Avg BP won
2/4
2/4
!
67%
67%
Won
50%
50%
4
4
Conceded
3
3
4
4
Avg Conceded
3
3
0
0
Broken
0
0
!
0
0
Avg Broken
!
0
0
4
4
Saved
3
3
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Matches, sets, games and points

Points Gaio Safiullin
Match played 1 1
Tot Set 2 2
Tot Games 20 19
Pts 67-53 57-44
Total Points 120 101
Winners 25 31
%Winners 37% 54%

Both Gaio and Safiullin played 1 match. Also both players started their run from the qualifications.Both players have not lost a single set in this event so far. Talking about their workload, Gaio and Safiullin have played the same amount of sets 2. However, Gaio played 1 game more than Safiullin. Federico scored 25 winners (37% of the total points). On the other side, The Russian made 31 winners (54%).

Serve Performance

Serve Gaio Safiullin
Aces 7 2
Avg per match 7 2
1st in 35/62 33/57
%1st in 56% 58%
1st pts 25/35 31/33
%1st pts 71% 94%
2nd pts 21/27 12/24
%2nd pts 78% 50%

Gaio made 7 aces . Safiullin bagged 2 aces . Gaio won 71% points behind his first serve. He quite strong on his second serve to win 78% of the points. On the other side, Safiullin won 94% of the points on his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 50% of the points.

How they played the important points

Breaks Gaio Safiullin
Won 2 2
Converted 2/3 2/4
% Converted 67% 50%
Conceded 4 3
Saved 4 3
% Saved 100% 100%
Times Broken 0 0

The Italian broke his opponent twice with a 67% conversion rate. Gaio pretty solid on his serve as he has never surrendered a single service game after saving 4 break points. The Russian broke his opponent twice with a 50% conversion rate. The Russian was rock solid on his serve as he has never conceded a single service game after saving 3 break points.

Gaio
Q1
Rola		 Total
Score 6-4 6-4
Tot Set 2 2
Tot Games 20 20
pts 67-53 67-53
Total points 120 120
Winners 25 25
%Winners 37% 37%
SERVE
Aces 7 7
Double Faults 1 1
1st in 35/62 35/62
% 1st in 56% 56%
1st pts 25/35 25/35
% 1st pts 71% 71%
2nd pts 21/27 21/27
% 2nd pts 78% 78%
Breaks
Won 2 2
Converted 2/3 2/3
Converted % 67% 67%
Conceded 4 4
Saved 4/4 4
Saved % 100% 100%
Times Broken 0 0
Safiullin
Q1
Karlovic		 Total
Score 6-3 6-4
Tot Set 2 2
Tot Games 19 19
pts 57-44 57-44
Total points 101 101
Winners 31 31
%Winners 54% 54%
SERVE
Aces 2 2
Double Faults 2 2
1st in 33/57 33/57
% 1st in 58% 58%
1st pts 31/33 31/33
% 1st pts 94% 94%
2nd pts 12/24 12/24
% 2nd pts 50% 50%
Breaks
Won 2 2
Converted 2/4 2/4
Converted % 50% 50%
Conceded 3 3
Saved 3/3 3
Saved % 100% 100%
Times Broken 0 0

Tennis Scores at the Wimbledon

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