Roman Safiullin and Seong Chan Hong will clash against each other in the 1st round of the Nur-Sultan Challenger for the 4th time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Tuesday at 2:30 pm on COURT 1. In the following lines 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.
As per the initial odds, Roman Safiullin is the pick to win this match.
Roman Safiullin -> 1.27
Seong Chan Hong -> 3.62
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Prediction and head to head Roman Safiullin vs. Seong Chan Hong
This will be the 4th time that Roman Safiullin and Seong Chan Hong square off. The head to head is 3-0 for Chan Hong (see full H2H stats), 3-0 on hard.
The last time that they squared off, Chan Hong won 6-2 6-2 in the semifinal in Turkey F6 back in 2016.
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. 151, Safiullin will start his run in the the Nur-Sultan Challenger after he played his last match in Stuttgart where he lost 7-5 3-6 7-6(6) to Rodionov in the qualifications on the 5th of June.
Safiullin has a compiled 20-13 win-loss record in 2022, 4-4 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Roman’s best result of the year was reaching the semifinal in Marseille,the Pau Challenger and the Troisdorf Challenger.
Talking about his overall career, Safiullin has an overall 315-152 record. He has a positive 188-64 record on hard.
Previously in the The Nur-Sultan Challenger
Previously, his best result was reaching the quarter in 2021. See his history.
Seong Chan Hong
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 27-18 | 27-14 | 0-1 | 0-2 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 27-34 | 17-18 | 5-6 | 5-6 | 0-4 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 40-18 | 36-12 | 4-3 | 0-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 17-8 | 7-3 | 10-4 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 504, the Korean reached the 1st round after defeating Min-Kyu Song 6-1 6-4 and Zura Tkemaladze 3-6 6-3 6-2.
In the qualifications against Tkemaladze, The Korean recovered from a 1-set down deficit before winning (3-6 6-3 6-2). During the match Chan Hong scored 93 points vs Tkemaladze’s 84. Chan Hong was quite aggressive to blast 33 winners.
About the serving games, Chan Hong blasted 3 aces and he committed only 6 double faults. Seong Chan Hong lost the serve 3 times and he saved 2 break points. Furthermore, Chan Hong put 54% of his first serves in, winning 77% (33/43) of the points behind his 1st serve and 47% (17/36) on the 2nd serve. Chan Hong broke Tkemaladze 5 times after converting 33% of his break points (5/15).
Overall Performance in this tournament
Chan Hong started his run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, he has conceded 1 set in the tournament to win 54% of the points he played.
The Korean’s best result of the season was getting to the final in M15 Chiang Rai and M25 Harmon.
Chan Hong has a compiled 24-6 win-loss record in 2022, 20-3 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Head 2 Head
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- Dmitry PopkoPopko – Jose StathamStatham (6-3 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Denis YevseyevYevseyev – Alibek KachmazovKachmazov (6-3 3-6 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Illya MarchenkoMarchenko – Grigoriy LomakinLomakin (6-3 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Yanki ErelYanki – Prajnesh GunneswaranPrajnesh (6-3 6-3) – See score progression
- Daniel CukiermanDaniel – Jay ClarkeJay (6-1 5-3 ret.) – See score progression
Upcoming matches in the draw
- Ji Sung NamSung Nam – Timofey SkatovSkatov (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Evgeny KarlovskiyKarlovskiy – Andrew PaulsonPaulson (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Benjamin LockLock – Sergey FominFomin (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- David PoljakPoljak – Akira SantillanSantillan (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Dmitry PopkoPopko – Yanki ErelErel (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Shintaro ImaiImai – Beibit ZhukayevZhukayev (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Roman SafiullinSafiullin – Seong Chan HongChan Hong (0-3) – H2H and prediction
- Ivan LiutarevichLiutarevich – Gabriel DecampsDecamps (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Lucas CatarinaCatarina – Mikhail KukushkinKukushkin (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Yan BondarevskiyBondarevskiy – Denis IstominIstomin (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Alafia AyeniAyeni – Dostanbek TashbulatovTashbulatov (0-0) – H2H and prediction
