Roman Safiullin and Frederico Ferreira Silva will clash against each other in the quarter of the Troisdorf Challenger for the 2nd time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Friday at 12:30 pm on B&B COURT. 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 Roman Safiullin who should win in 2 sets.
Roman Safiullin -> 1.363
Frederico Ferreira Silva -> 3.125
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Prediction and head to head Roman Safiullin vs. Frederico Ferreira Silva
This will be the 2nd time that Roman Safiullin and Frederico Ferreira Silva play each other. The head to head is 1-0 for Safiullin (see full H2H stats), but they have never competed against each other on clay.
The last time that they locked horns, Safiullin won 6-1 1-2 ret. in the final in Turkey F43 back in 1970.
Roman Safiullin
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 13-20 | 9-12 | 3-4 | 0-0 | 1-4 | 0-0 |
| 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 |
Ranked no. 147, Safiullin got to the quarter after defeating Daniel Michalski 6-0 6-1 and Julian Lenz 6-3 5-7 6-4.
In the 2nd round, The Russian defeated Lenz (6-3 5-7 6-4). During the match, Safiullin scored 111 points vs Lenz’s 101. Safiullin was exceptionally aggressive to blast 49 winners.
Regarding the service games, Safiullin scored just 1 ace during the encounter and he committed only 7 double faults. Roman Safiullin lost the serve 5 times and he saved 13 break points. Furthermore, Safiullin put 67% of his first serves in, winning 60% (49/82) of the points behind his 1st serve and 56% (23/41) on the 2nd serve. The Russian broke Lenz 6 times after converting 60% of his break points (6/10).
Overall Performance in this tournament
The Russian has lost 1 set in this competition to win 57% of the points he played.
Safiullin has a solid win-loss record in the last 10 years having won 68% of his matches (313-150). 5-1 on clay in 2022. Regarding his performance on the same surface of this tournament, Safiullin has a compiled 68-47 match record in the last years on clay.
The Russian’s best result of the year was getting to the semifinal in Marseille and the Pau Challenger.
Safiullin has an aggregate 18-11 win-loss record in 2022, 5-1 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Troisdorf Challenger
The Russian has never competed in this tournament before.
Frederico Ferreira Silva
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 37-24 | 20-7 | 13-13 | 4-4 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 51-27 | 37-13 | 14-14 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 20-32 | 5-13 | 9-12 | 4-6 | 2-1 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 30-26 | 11-10 | 11-12 | 8-3 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 28-28 | 11-10 | 8-10 | 7-7 | 2-1 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 263, the Portuguese reached the quarter after defeating Steven Diez 7-66 6-3 and Andrey Chepelev 6-2 7-5.
In the 2nd round, Frederico had a good straight sets win against Chepelev (6-2 7-5). During the match Ferreira Silva scored 69 points vs Chepelev’s 54. Ferreira Silva was exceptionally aggressive to blast 27 winners.
Talking about serving, Ferreira Silva scored just 1 ace during the entire match and he committed only 1 double fault for the entire match. Frederico Ferreira Silva was pretty effective on serve to win 73% (27/37) of his 1st serve and 73% (16/22) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. Ferreira Silva broke Chepelev 3 times after converting 38% of his break points (3/8).
Overall Performance in this tournament
The Portuguese hasn’t dropped yet a set in the tournament to win 54% of the points he played.
Ferreira Silva’s best result of the year was getting to the semifinal in the Forli 3 Challenger.
Ferreira Silva has a composed 9-5 win-loss record in 2022, 4-1 on clay (See FULL STATS).
H2H Performance in the tournament (main draw)
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Safiullin | Ferreira Silva |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 2 | 2 |
| Tot Set | 5 | 4 |
| Tot Games | 44 | 42 |
| Pts | 167-128 | 145-122 |
| Total Points | 295 | 267 |
| Winners | 68 | 51 |
| %Winners | 41% | 35% |
Both Safiullin and Ferreira Silva played 2 matches. At the moment, Roman Safiullin lost 1 set while Frederico Ferreira Silva hasn’t surrendered a set so far. Safiullin has played 1 set more than Ferreira Silva (5 vs 4). Therefore, Safiullin played 2 games more than Ferreira Silva. Safiullin scored 68 winners (41% of the total points). On the other side, Ferreira Silva struck 51 winners (35%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Safiullin | Ferreira Silva |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 6 | 1 |
| Avg per match | 3 | 0.5 |
| 1st in | 102/159 | 76/129 |
| %1st in | 64% | 59% |
| 1st pts | 68/102 | 51/76 |
| %1st pts | 67% | 67% |
| 2nd pts | 32/57 | 34/53 |
| %2nd pts | 56% | 64% |
Safiullin managed to score 6 aces (3 per match). Ferreira Silva blasted 1 ace (0.5 per match). Safiullin won 67% points behind his first serve. He very solid his second serve to win 56% of the points. On the other side, Ferreira Silva won 67% of the points behind his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 64% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Safiullin | Ferreira Silva |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 11 | 7 |
| Converted | 11/20 | 7/19 |
| % Converted | 55% | 37% |
| Conceded | 18 | 12 |
| Saved | 13 | 10 |
| % Saved | 72% | 83% |
| Times Broken | 5 | 2 |
Roman broke his opponents 11 times with a 55% conversion rate. Roman dropped his serve 5 times and he saved 72% of the break points that he conceded. Frederico broke his opponents 7 times with a 37% conversion rate. Ferreira Silva conceded his serve twice and he saved 83% of the break points that he conceded.
| Safiullin | ||||
| R1 Michalski | R2 Lenz | Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-0 6-1 | 6-3 5-7 6-4 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 3 | 5 | |
| Tot Games | 13 | 31 | 44 | |
| pts | 56-27 | 111-101 | 167-128 | |
| Total points | 83 | 212 | 295 | |
| Winners | 19 | 49 | 68 | |
| %Winners | 34% | 44% | 41% | |
| SERVE | ||||
| Aces | 5 | 1 | 6 | |
| Double Faults | 0 | 7 | 7 | |
| 1st in | 20/36 | 82/123 | 102/159 | |
| % 1st in | 56% | 67% | 64% | |
| 1st pts | 19/20 | 49/82 | 68/102 | |
| % 1st pts | 95% | 60% | 67% | |
| 2nd pts | 9/16 | 23/41 | 32/57 | |
| % 2nd pts | 56% | 56% | 56% | |
| Breaks | ||||
| Won | 5 | 6 | 11 | |
| Converted | 5/10 | 6/10 | 11/20 | |
| Converted % | 50% | 60% | 55% | |
| Conceded | 0 | 18 | 18 | |
| Saved | 0/0 | 13/18 | 13 | |
| Saved % | – | 72% | 36% | |
| Times Broken | 0 | 5 | 5 | |
| Ferreira Silva | ||||
| R1 Diez | R2 Chepelev | Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 7-66 6-3 | 6-2 7-5 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | 4 | |
| Tot Games | 22 | 20 | 42 | |
| pts | 76-68 | 69-54 | 145-122 | |
| Total points | 144 | 123 | 267 | |
| Winners | 24 | 27 | 51 | |
| %Winners | 32% | 39% | 35% | |
| SERVE | ||||
| Aces | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
| Double Faults | 3 | 1 | 4 | |
| 1st in | 39/70 | 37/59 | 76/129 | |
| % 1st in | 56% | 63% | 59% | |
| 1st pts | 24/39 | 27/37 | 51/76 | |
| % 1st pts | 62% | 73% | 67% | |
| 2nd pts | 18/31 | 16/22 | 34/53 | |
| % 2nd pts | 58% | 73% | 64% | |
| Breaks | ||||
| Won | 4 | 3 | 7 | |
| Converted | 4/11 | 3/8 | 7/19 | |
| Converted % | 36% | 38% | 37% | |
| Conceded | 7 | 5 | 12 | |
| Saved | 5/7 | 5/5 | 10 | |
| Saved % | 71% | 100% | 86% | |
| Times Broken | 2 | 0 | 2 | |
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