Roman Safiullin and Benjamin Lock will clash against each other in the quarter of the Nur-Sultan Challenger for the 2nd time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Friday at 11:30 am 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 Roman Safiullin who should win in 2 sets.
As per the initial odds, Roman Safiullin is the pick to win this match.
Roman Safiullin -> 1.135
Benjamin Lock -> 5.8
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Prediction and head to head Roman Safiullin vs. Benjamin Lock
This will be the 2nd time that Roman Safiullin and Benjamin Lock play each other. The head to head is 1-0 for Safiullin (see full H2H stats), 1-0 on hard.
The last time that they played, Safiullin won 6-2 5-7 6-1 in the semifinal in Egypt F10 (Sharm El Sheikh) back in 2018.
Roman Safiullin
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 8-12 | 5-7 | 3-4 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 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 got to the quarter after beating Seong Chan Hong 6-2 3-6 6-3 and Alafia Ayeni 6-2 6-4.
In the 2nd round, The Russian had a good straight sets win against Ayeni (6-2 6-4). During the match, Safiullin scored 68 points vs Ayeni’s 54. Safiullin was very aggressive to blast 33 winners.
Regarding the service games, Safiullin bagged 3 aces and he committed only 9 double faults. Roman Safiullin lost the serve once and he saved 9 break points. Furthermore, Safiullin put 63% of his first serves in, winning 75% (33/44) of the points behind his 1st serve and 42% (11/26) on the 2nd serve. Roman broke Ayeni 4 times after converting 67% of his break points (4/6).
Overall Performance in this tournament
Safiullin has dropped 1 set in this tournament to conquer 55% of the points he played.
Safiullin has a solid record in the last 10 years having won 68% of his matches (317-152). 6-4 on hard in 2022. In connection with his performance on the same surface of this event, Safiullin has a compiled 190-64 win-loss record in the last years on hard.
Safiullin’s best result of the year was reaching the semifinal in Marseille,the Pau Challenger and the Troisdorf Challenger.
Roman has a composed 22-13 win-loss record in 2022, 6-4 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the The Nur-Sultan Challenger
Benjamin Lock
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 11-12 | 2-5 | 9-6 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 39-32 | 13-16 | 25-11 | 0-3 | 1-2 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 41-32 | 18-17 | 21-10 | 2-5 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 28-30 | 20-18 | 1-5 | 3-6 | 4-1 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 12-13 | 8-7 | 3-4 | 1-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 446, Benjamin got to the quarter after beating Sergey Fomin 6-4 6-1 and Ji Sung Nam 6-2 6-1.
In the 2nd round, Benjamin had a good straight sets win against Sung Nam (6-2 6-1). During the match Lock scored 53 points vs Sung Nam’s 31. The was very aggressive to blast 21 winners.
Talking about serving, Lock bagged 5 aces and he committed only 1 double fault for the entire match. Benjamin Lock was extremely efficient on serve to win 88% (21/24) of his 1st serve and 57% (8/14) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. Lock broke Sung Nam 5 times after converting 83% of his break points (5/6).
Overall Performance in this tournament
The hasn’t dropped yet a set in the tournament to win 62% of the points he played.
Lock’s best result of the season was getting to the final in M25 Medellin.
Lock has a composed 31-16 win-loss record in 2022, 12-6 on hard (See FULL STATS).
H2H Performance in the tournament (main draw)
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Safiullin | Lock |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 2 | 2 |
| Tot Set | 5 | 4 |
| Tot Games | 44 | 32 |
| Pts | 153-125 | 116-71 |
| Total Points | 278 | 187 |
| Winners | 65 | 49 |
| %Winners | 42% | 42% |
Both Safiullin and Lock played 2 matches. At the moment, Roman Safiullin conceded 1 set while Benjamin Lock hasn’t conceded a set so far. Safiullin has played 1 set more than Lock (5 vs 4). Therefore, Safiullin played 12 games more than Lock. Safiullin scored 65 winners (42% of the total points). On the other side, Benjamin struck 49 winners (42%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Safiullin | Lock |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 9 | 16 |
| Avg per match | 4.5 | 8 |
| 1st in | 93/148 | 57/90 |
| %1st in | 63% | 63% |
| 1st pts | 65/93 | 49/57 |
| %1st pts | 70% | 86% |
| 2nd pts | 29/55 | 20/33 |
| %2nd pts | 53% | 61% |
Safiullin struck 9 aces (4.5 per match). Lock blasted 16 aces (8 per match). Safiullin won 70% points behind his first serve. He very solid his second serve to win 53% of the points. On the other side, Lock won 86% of the points behind his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 61% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Safiullin | Lock |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 9 | 8 |
| Converted | 9/15 | 8/11 |
| % Converted | 60% | 73% |
| Conceded | 21 | 2 |
| Saved | 17 | 2 |
| % Saved | 81% | 100% |
| Times Broken | 4 | 0 |
Roman broke his opponents 9 times with a 60% conversion rate. Roman surrendered his serve 4 times and he saved 81% of the break points that he conceded. Lock broke his opponents 8 times with a 73% conversion rate. The was rock solid on his serve as he has never conceded a single service game after saving 2 break points.
| Safiullin | ||||
| R1 Chan Hong |
R2 Ayeni |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-2 3-6 6-3 | 6-2 6-4 | ||
| Tot Set | 3 | 2 | 5 | |
| Tot Games | 26 | 18 | 44 | |
| pts | 85-71 | 68-54 | 153-125 | |
| Total points | 156 | 122 | 278 | |
| Winners | 32 | 33 | 65 | |
| %Winners | 38% | 49% | 42% | |
| SERVE | ||||
| Aces | 6 | 3 | 9 | |
| Double Faults | 4 | 9 | 13 | |
| 1st in | 49/78 | 44/70 | 93/148 | |
| % 1st in | 63% | 63% | 63% | |
| 1st pts | 32/49 | 33/44 | 65/93 | |
| % 1st pts | 65% | 75% | 70% | |
| 2nd pts | 18/29 | 11/26 | 29/55 | |
| % 2nd pts | 62% | 42% | 53% | |
| Breaks | ||||
| Won | 5 | 4 | 9 | |
| Converted | 5/9 | 4/6 | 9/15 | |
| Converted % | 56% | 67% | 60% | |
| Conceded | 11 | 10 | 21 | |
| Saved | 8/11 | 9/10 | 17 | |
| Saved % | 73% | 90% | 82% | |
| Times Broken | 3 | 1 | 4 | |
| Lock | ||||
| R1 Fomin |
R2 Sung Nam |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-4 6-1 | 6-2 6-1 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | 4 | |
| Tot Games | 17 | 15 | 32 | |
| pts | 63-40 | 53-31 | 116-71 | |
| Total points | 103 | 84 | 187 | |
| Winners | 28 | 21 | 49 | |
| %Winners | 44% | 40% | 42% | |
| SERVE | ||||
| Aces | 11 | 5 | 16 | |
| Double Faults | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
| 1st in | 33/52 | 24/38 | 57/90 | |
| % 1st in | 63% | 63% | 63% | |
| 1st pts | 28/33 | 21/24 | 49/57 | |
| % 1st pts | 85% | 88% | 86% | |
| 2nd pts | 12/19 | 8/14 | 20/33 | |
| % 2nd pts | 63% | 57% | 61% | |
| Breaks | ||||
| Won | 3 | 5 | 8 | |
| Converted | 3/5 | 5/6 | 8/11 | |
| Converted % | 60% | 83% | 73% | |
| Conceded | 1 | 1 | 2 | |
| Saved | 1/1 | 1/1 | 2 | |
| Saved % | 100% | 100% | 100% | |
| Times Broken | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
Head 2 Head
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