Roman Safiullin and Julian Lenz will fight against each other in the qualifications of the Open 13 Provence for the 2nd time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Monday at 2:00 pm on COURT 1. 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 2 sets.
As per the initial odds, Roman Safiullin is the pick to win this match.
Roman Safiullin -> 1.38
Julian Lenz -> 3.04
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Prediction and head to head Roman Safiullin vs. Julian Lenz
This will be the 2nd time that Roman Safiullin and Julian Lenz clash against each other. The head to head is 1-0 for Lenz (see full H2H stats), but they have never played each other on indoor hard courts.
The last time that they squared off, Lenz won 5-7 6-4 6-2 in the 2nd round in the Luedenscheid Challenger back in 2021.
Roman Safiullin
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 8-13 | 5-7 | 3-5 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 41-25 | 13-12 | 8-4 | 11-5 | 9-4 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 37-18 | 16-6 | 6-2 | 14-9 | 1-1 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 18-21 | 7-5 | 5-7 | 5-8 | 1-1 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 23-12 | 6-2 | 4-5 | 12-4 | 0-0 | 1-1 |
Ranked no. 146 (career-high), Roman reached the qualifications after defeating Ernests Gulbis 6-3 6-4.
In the qualifications, The Russian had a good straight sets win against Gulbis (6-3 6-4). During the match, Safiullin scored 63 points vs Gulbis’s 46. The Russian was quite aggressive to blast 27 winners.
Talking about the service games, Safiullin scored 11 aces and he committed only 1 double fault. Overall, Roman Safiullin was extremely effective on serve to win 77% (27/35) of his 1st serve and 63% (12/19) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve once. The Russian broke Gulbis 3 times after converting 60% of his break points (3/5).
Safiullin has a solid record in the last 10 years having won 67% of his matches (303-148). 2-3 on indoor hard courts in 2022. Talking about his performance on the same surface of this event, Safiullin has a composed 48-34 record in the last years on indoor hard courts.
Roman has an aggregate 6-7 win-loss record in 2022, 2-3 on indoor hard courts (See FULL STATS).
Previously in Marseille
The Russian has never competed in this tournament before.
Julian Lenz
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 19-19 | 2-2 | 7-10 | 7-5 | 1-1 | 2-1 |
| 2021 | 19-30 | 2-2 | 9-15 | 5-12 | 0-0 | 3-1 |
| 2020 | 8-13 | 0-4 | 0-2 | 5-5 | 0-0 | 3-2 |
| 2019 | 48-27 | 4-1 | 22-14 | 13-9 | 0-0 | 9-3 |
| 2018 | 25-20 | 2-1 | 16-11 | 2-4 | 0-0 | 5-4 |
Ranked no. 292, the German reached the qualifications after beating Flavio Cobolli 7-5 6-2.
In the qualifications, Lenz had a good straight sets win against Cobolli (7-5 6-2). During the match Lenz scored 71 points vs Cobolli’s 52. Lenz was very aggressive to blast 29 winners.
Talking about serving, Lenz managed to score 4 aces and he committed only 2 double faults. Overall, Julian Lenz was very efficient on serve to win 74% (29/39) of his 1st serve and 58% (14/24) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve once. Lenz broke Cobolli 4 times after converting 67% of his break points (4/6).
Julian has a composed 2-1 win-loss record in 2022, 2-1 on indoor hard courts (See FULL STATS).
H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Safiullin | Lenz |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 1 | 1 |
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 |
| Tot Games | 19 | 20 |
| Pts | 63-46 | 71-52 |
| Total Points | 109 | 123 |
| Winners | 27 | 29 |
| %Winners | 43% | 41% |
Both Safiullin and Lenz played 1 match. Also both players started their run from the qualifications.Both players have not dropped a single set in this event so far. Talking about their workload, Safiullin and Lenz have played the same amount of sets 2. However, Safiullin played 1 game less than Lenz. Safiullin scored 27 winners (43% of the total points). On the other side, Lenz struck 29 winners (41%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Safiullin | Lenz |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 11 | 4 |
| Avg per match | 11 | 4 |
| 1st in | 35/54 | 39/63 |
| %1st in | 65% | 62% |
| 1st pts | 27/35 | 29/39 |
| %1st pts | 77% | 74% |
| 2nd pts | 12/19 | 14/24 |
| %2nd pts | 63% | 58% |
Safiullin fired 11 aces . Lenz managed to score 4 aces . Safiullin won 77% points behind his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 63% of the points. On the other side, Lenz won 74% of the points on his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 58% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Safiullin | Lenz |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 3 | 4 |
| Converted | 3/5 | 4/6 |
| % Converted | 60% | 67% |
| Conceded | 3 | 4 |
| Saved | 2 | 3 |
| % Saved | 67% | 75% |
| Times Broken | 1 | 1 |
The Russian broke his opponent 3 times with a 60% conversion rate. The Russian conceded his serve once and he saved 67% of the break points that he conceded. Lenz broke his opponent 4 times with a 67% conversion rate. Lenz conceded his serve once and he saved 75% of the break points that he conceded.
| Safiullin | |||
| Q1 Gulbis |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-3 6-4 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 19 | 19 | |
| pts | 63-46 | 63-46 | |
| Total points | 109 | 109 | |
| Winners | 27 | 27 | |
| %Winners | 43% | 43% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 11 | 11 | |
| Double Faults | 1 | 1 | |
| 1st in | 35/54 | 35/54 | |
| % 1st in | 65% | 65% | |
| 1st pts | 27/35 | 27/35 | |
| % 1st pts | 77% | 77% | |
| 2nd pts | 12/19 | 12/19 | |
| % 2nd pts | 63% | 63% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 3 | 3 | |
| Converted | 3/5 | 3/5 | |
| Converted % | 60% | 60% | |
| Conceded | 3 | 3 | |
| Saved | 2/3 | 2 | |
| Saved % | 67% | 67% | |
| Times Broken | 1 | 1 | |
| Lenz | |||
| Q1 Cobolli |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 7-5 6-2 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 20 | 20 | |
| pts | 71-52 | 71-52 | |
| Total points | 123 | 123 | |
| Winners | 29 | 29 | |
| %Winners | 41% | 41% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 4 | 4 | |
| Double Faults | 2 | 2 | |
| 1st in | 39/63 | 39/63 | |
| % 1st in | 62% | 62% | |
| 1st pts | 29/39 | 29/39 | |
| % 1st pts | 74% | 74% | |
| 2nd pts | 14/24 | 14/24 | |
| % 2nd pts | 58% | 58% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 4 | 4 | |
| Converted | 4/6 | 4/6 | |
| Converted % | 67% | 67% | |
| Conceded | 4 | 4 | |
| Saved | 3/4 | 3 | |
| Saved % | 75% | 75% | |
| Times Broken | 1 | 1 | |
Head 2 Head
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