
Roman Safiullin shocks Mikael Ymer 7-5 6-0 in the 1st round in Belgrade on Tuesday after playing a solid match to come up against Karen Khachanov in the 2nd round. The match lasted 1 hour and 36 minutes.
The Russian added to his prize money € 3,650 after winning this match. He has won already € 9,380 after this win. If he wins the next match, the Russian will add € 6,780 to his earnings to get in total € 16,160 in total.
Stats: aces, double faults, breaks, winners
At the end of the match, the Russian scored 68 points vs. Mikael’s 50.
Safiullin
Roman won this match even if he had a tough time converting his break points since he converted only 42% (5/12) of the procured opportunities.
Ymer
On the other side, the Swede was not so effective in converting his break points (only 25% – 1/4). That was one of the key issues for his demise.
After this match, the head to head between Safiullin and Ymer is 1-1.
Draw and next match H2H: Roman Safiullin vs. Karen Khachanov – stats
Safiullin will take on Khachanov in the 2nd round.
There is no head to head record between Roman Safiullin and Karen Khachanov since this will be the first time that they will clash against each other in the main tour.
Live score progression and stats
Roman won the set after recovering from 1 break down. In fact, after conceding his serve in the 4th (1-3) game, Safiullin broke back in the 9th (4-5) and in the 11th (6-5) game to conquer the set 7-5.
The Swede couldn’t stop the opposition in the last 5 games of the set when the score went from 2-5 to 7-5.
Safiullin converted 28% of his break points (2/7). He had 7 break points opportunities in the 1st (0-0 15-40, 30-40 and 40-A), the 9th (3-5 15-40 and 30-40) and the 11th game (5-5 40-A and 40-A). In addition on the other side, Mikael converted 25% of his break points (1/4). He had his opportunities in the 2nd (1-1 15-40 and 30-40) and the 4th game (2-1 0-40 and 15-40).
They played 83 points. The set was a huge battle since finally the Russian won just 3 more points than the Swede (43-40). Roman surrendered 15 points on serve (25-15). on the other side of the court, Mikael conceded 18 points on serve (25-18).
Ymer lost her way in this set and the Russian won the set 6-0.
Safiullin converted 60% of his break points (3/5). He had 5 break points opportunities in the 1st (0-0 15-40 and 30-40), the 3rd (2-0 40-A) and the 5th game (4-0 15-40 and 30-40). On the other side, Roman didn’t concede a single break point during this set.
They played 35 points. Roman won 15 more points than Mikael (25-10). The Russian was extremely solid on serve to concede just 3 points (12-3). Regarding the other side of the net, Ymer conceded 13 points on serve (7-13).
Tennis Scores in Belgrade
- Roman SafiullinSafiullin – Mikael YmerYmer (7-5 6-0) – Stats and score progression
- Filip KrajinovicKrajinovic – David GoffinGoffin (6-3 7-64) – Stats and score progression
- John MillmanMillman – Dominic ThiemThiem (6-3 3-6 6-4) – Stats and score progression
- Oscar OtteOtte – Alejandro TabiloTabilo (6-0 6-3) – Stats and score progression
- Taro DanielDaniel – Dusan LajovicLajovic (2-6 6-1 7-62) – Stats and score progression
- Jiri LeheckaLehecka – Henri LaaksonenLaaksonen (6-2 7-5) – Stats and score progression
- Laslo DjereDjere – Hamad MedjedovicMedjedovic (6-4 7-5) – Stats and score progression
- Thiago Moura MonteiroMoura Monteiro – Joao SousaSousa (6-4 6-3) – Stats and score progression
- Fabio FogniniFognini – Marco CecchinatoCecchinato (6-75 6-2 6-2) – Stats and score progression
- Miomir KecmanovicKecmanovic – Richard GasquetGasquet (6-0 6-3) – Stats and score progression
- Aljaz BedeneBedene – Mikhail KukushkinKukushkin (7-64 4-6 6-3) – Stats and score progression
- Holger Vitus Nodskov RuneVitus Nodskov Rune – Cristian GarinGarin (6-3 6-1) – Stats and score progression
Upcoming matches
- Fabio FogniniFognini – Aljaz BedeneBedene (8-1) – H2H details and stats
- Novak DjokovicDjokovic – Laslo DjereDjere (0-0) – H2H details and stats
- John MillmanMillman – Miomir KecmanovicKecmanovic (1-1) – H2H details and stats
- Thiago Moura MonteiroMoura Monteiro – Filip KrajinovicKrajinovic (0-0) – H2H details and stats
- Oscar OtteOtte – Aslan KaratsevKaratsev (0-0) – H2H details and stats
- Karen KhachanovKhachanov – Roman SafiullinSafiullin (0-0) – H2H details and stats
- Jiri LeheckaLehecka – Andrey RublevRublev (0-0) – H2H details and stats
- Holger Vitus Nodskov RuneVitus Nodskov Rune – Taro DanielDaniel (0-0) – H2H details and stats





