Alexei Popyrin and Roman Safiullin will square off in the 1st round of the Open 13 Provence for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Tuesday at 12:00 pm on COURT 1. In the following paragraphs, you can find the head to head analysis and prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Alexei Popyrin who should win in 3 sets.
As per the initial odds, Alexei Popyrin is the pick to win this match.
Alexei Popyrin -> 1.81
Roman Safiullin -> 2.05
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Prediction and head to head Alexei Popyrin vs. Roman Safiullin
There is no head to head record between Alexei Popyrin and Roman Safiullin since this will be the first time that they will play each other in the main tour.
Alexei Popyrin
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 12-11 | 7-4 | 2-5 | 0-0 | 3-2 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 36-29 | 18-14 | 15-6 | 1-4 | 2-5 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 24-31 | 7-16 | 7-4 | 3-5 | 7-6 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 32-26 | 13-11 | 8-6 | 10-5 | 1-4 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 14-16 | 3-4 | 5-5 | 4-6 | 0-0 | 2-1 |
Ranked no. 66, the Australian will start his run in Marseille after he played his last match in Rotterdam where he lost 6-7(4) 6-1 7-6(6) to Khachanov in the 1st round on the 8th of February.
Alexei has a compiled 1-5 win-loss record in 2022, 0-2 on indoor hard courts (See FULL STATS).
Talking about his overall career, Alexei has an overall 184-136 record. He has a positive 31-26 record on indoor hard courts.
Previously in Marseille
Previously, his best result was reaching the qualifications in 2020. See his history.
Roman Safiullin
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 8-16 | 5-7 | 3-6 | 0-1 | 0-2 | 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. 163, the Russian reached the 1st round after beating Ernests Gulbis 6-3 6-4 and Julian Lenz 6-4 6-3.
In the qualifications, Roman had a good straight sets win against Lenz (6-4 6-3). During the match Safiullin scored 65 points vs Lenz’s 47. The Russian was quite aggressive to blast 23 winners.
Talking about serving, Safiullin bagged 6 aces and he committed only 1 double fault for the entire match. Roman Safiullin lost the serve twice. Furthermore, Safiullin put 68% of his first serves in, winning 77% (23/30) of the points behind his 1st serve and 50% (7/14) on the 2nd serve. The Russian broke Lenz 5 times after converting 56% of his break points (5/9).
Overall Performance in this tournament
The Russian started his run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, he hasn’t dropped yet a set in this competition to win 58% of the points he played.
Roman has an overall 7-7 win-loss record in 2022, 3-3 on indoor hard courts (See FULL STATS).
Head 2 Head
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- Mikhail KukushkinKukushkin – Pierre-Hugues HerbertHerbert (1-2) – H2H and prediction
- Radu AlbotAlbot – Dennis NovakNovak (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Stefano TravagliaTravaglia – Ilya IvashkaIvashka (0-2) – H2H and prediction
- Damir DzumhurDzumhur – Tomas MachacMachac (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Benjamin BonziBonzi – Kamil MajchrzakMajchrzak (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Roman SafiullinSafiullin – Alexei PopyrinPopyrin (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Tallon GriekspoorGriekspoor – Lucas PouillePouille (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Zizou BergsBergs – Holger Vitus Nodskov RuneVitus Nodskov Rune (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Hugo GastonGaston – Corentin MoutetMoutet (0-1) – H2H and prediction
