Lucas Pouille and Roman Safiullin will play each other in the 2nd round of the Pau Challenger for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Wednesday at 6:30 pm on CENTRAL. Here the head to head stats and relative 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 -> 1.6
Lucas Pouille -> 2.34
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Prediction and head to head Lucas Pouille vs. Roman Safiullin
There is no head to head record between Lucas Pouille and Roman Safiullin since this will be the first time that they will clash against each other in the main tour.
Lucas Pouille
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 43-17 | 15-5 | 8-5 | 15-7 | 5-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 16-10 | 3-2 | 7-5 | 4-2 | 2-1 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 7-15 | 0-3 | 3-6 | 4-4 | 0-2 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 18-24 | 7-3 | 2-7 | 7-10 | 2-4 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 0-1 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 140, Pouille reached the 2nd round after beating Norbert Gombos 2-6 7-65 7-62.
In the 1st round against Gombos, Lucas recovered from a 1-set down deficit before winning (2-6 7-65 7-62). During the match, Pouille scored 116 points vs Gombos’s 115. Lucas was quite aggressive to blast 47 winners.
Talking about the service games, Pouille scored 10 aces and he committed only 5 double faults. Overall, Lucas Pouille was pretty effective on serve to win 75% (47/63) of his 1st serve and 58% (28/48) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve 3 times. The French player broke Gombos once after converting 8% of his break points (1/12).
Pouille has a good win-loss record in the last 10 years having won 57% of his matches (269-202). 4-4 on indoor hard courts in 2022. Talking about his performance on the same surface of this event, Pouille has a compiled 71-52 record in the last years on indoor hard courts.
Lucas has an aggregate 4-7 win-loss record in 2022, 4-4 on indoor hard courts (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Pau Challenger
Pouille has never competed in this tournament before.
Roman Safiullin
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 31-28 | 18-14 | 5-8 | 6-3 | 2-3 | 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. 150, Safiullin reached the 2nd round after beating Jo-Wilfried Tsonga 6-4 7-66.
In the 1st round, The Russian had a good straight sets win against Tsonga (6-4 7-66). During the match Safiullin scored 74 points vs Tsonga’s 69. The Russian was very aggressive to blast 34 winners.
About the serving games, Safiullin scored 6 aces and he committed only 3 double faults. Roman Safiullin was extremely effective on serve to win 85% (34/40) of his 1st serve and 55% (16/29) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. Roman broke Tsonga once after converting 50% of his break points (1/2).
Safiullin’s best result of the year was reaching the semifinal in Marseille.
Roman has a composed 11-8 win-loss record in 2022, 7-4 on indoor hard courts (See FULL STATS).
H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Pouille | Safiullin |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 1 | 1 |
| Tot Set | 3 | 2 |
| Tot Games | 34 | 23 |
| Pts | 116-115 | 74-69 |
| Total Points | 231 | 143 |
| Winners | 47 | 34 |
| %Winners | 41% | 46% |
Both Pouille and Safiullin played 1 match. At the moment, Lucas Pouille surrendered 1 set while Roman Safiullin hasn’t lost a set so far. Pouille has played 1 set more than Safiullin (3 vs 2). Therefore, Pouille played 11 games more than Safiullin. Lucas scored 47 winners (41% of the total points). On the other side, The Russian scored 34 winners (46%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Pouille | Safiullin |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 10 | 6 |
| Avg per match | 10 | 6 |
| 1st in | 63/111 | 40/69 |
| %1st in | 57% | 58% |
| 1st pts | 47/63 | 34/40 |
| %1st pts | 75% | 85% |
| 2nd pts | 28/48 | 16/29 |
| %2nd pts | 58% | 55% |
Pouille struck 10 aces . Safiullin bagged 6 aces . Pouille won 75% points on his first serve. He was rock solid on his second serve to win 58% of the points. On the other side, Safiullin won 85% of the points on his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 55% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Pouille | Safiullin |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 1 | 1 |
| Converted | 1/12 | 1/2 |
| % Converted | 8% | 50% |
| Conceded | 13 | 3 |
| Saved | 10 | 3 |
| % Saved | 77% | 100% |
| Times Broken | 3 | 0 |
The French player broke his opponent once with a 8% conversion rate. The French player dropped his serve 3 times and he saved 77% of the break points that he conceded. Safiullin broke his opponent once with a 50% conversion rate. Roman was rock solid on his serve as he has never conceded a single service game after saving 3 break points.
| Pouille | |||
| R1 Gombos |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 2-6 7-65 7-62 | ||
| Tot Set | 3 | 3 | |
| Tot Games | 34 | 34 | |
| pts | 116-115 | 116-115 | |
| Total points | 231 | 231 | |
| Winners | 47 | 47 | |
| %Winners | 41% | 41% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 10 | 10 | |
| Double Faults | 5 | 5 | |
| 1st in | 63/111 | 63/111 | |
| % 1st in | 57% | 57% | |
| 1st pts | 47/63 | 47/63 | |
| % 1st pts | 75% | 75% | |
| 2nd pts | 28/48 | 28/48 | |
| % 2nd pts | 58% | 58% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 1 | 1 | |
| Converted | 1/12 | 1/12 | |
| Converted % | 8% | 8% | |
| Conceded | 13 | 13 | |
| Saved | 10/13 | 10 | |
| Saved % | 77% | 77% | |
| Times Broken | 3 | 3 | |
| Safiullin | |||
| R1 Tsonga |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-4 7-66 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 23 | 23 | |
| pts | 74-69 | 74-69 | |
| Total points | 143 | 143 | |
| Winners | 34 | 34 | |
| %Winners | 46% | 46% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 6 | 6 | |
| Double Faults | 3 | 3 | |
| 1st in | 40/69 | 40/69 | |
| % 1st in | 58% | 58% | |
| 1st pts | 34/40 | 34/40 | |
| % 1st pts | 85% | 85% | |
| 2nd pts | 16/29 | 16/29 | |
| % 2nd pts | 55% | 55% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 1 | 1 | |
| Converted | 1/2 | 1/2 | |
| Converted % | 50% | 50% | |
| Conceded | 3 | 3 | |
| Saved | 3/3 | 3 | |
| Saved % | 100% | 100% | |
| Times Broken | 0 | 0 | |
Head 2 Head
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LWWWWWWLLW Tennis Scores in Pau Challenger
- Nino SerdarusicSerdarusic – Nicola KuhnKuhn (7-63 6-4) – See score progression
- Arthur FilsFils – Zhizhen ZhangZhang (7-5 6-0) – See score progression
- Pierre-Hugues HerbertHerbert – Dominic Stephan StrickerStephan Stricker (4-6 7-62 6-4) – See score progression
- Ernests GulbisGulbis – Ryan PenistonPeniston (3-6 6-1 6-3) – See score progression
- Roman SafiullinSafiullin – Jo-Wilfried TsongaTsonga (6-4 7-66) – See score progression
- Mikhail KukushkinKukushkin – Jiri LeheckaLehecka (6-0 6-2) – See score progression
- Vasek PospisilPospisil – Antoine HoangHoang (6-3 6-4) – See score progression
- Antoine EscoffierEscoffier – Kacper ZukZuk (3-6 6-3 6-4) – See score progression
- Gilles SimonSimon – Emilio NavaNava (6-4 7-62) – See score progression
- Manuel GuinardGuinard – Andrey KuznetsovKuznetsov (6-1 5-3 ret.) – See score progression
- Lucas PouillePouille – Norbert GombosGombos (2-6 7-65 7-62) – See score progression
- Gregoire BarrereBarrere – Harold MayotMayot (6-3 6-3) – See score progression
Upcoming matches in the draw
- Mikhail KukushkinKukushkin – Manuel GuinardGuinard (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Ruben BemelmansBemelmans – Elliot BenchetritBenchetrit (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Radu AlbotAlbot – Maxime JanvierJanvier (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Lucas PouillePouille – Roman SafiullinSafiullin (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Gregoire BarrereBarrere – Pierre-Hugues HerbertHerbert (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Quentin HalysHalys – Alexandre MullerMuller (0-2) – H2H and prediction
