Roman Safiullin surprises Arthur Rinderknech 6-4 6-1 in the quarter in Tel Aviv on Friday after playing an extraordinary match to clash against Novak Djokovic in the semifinal. The match lasted 1 hour and 8 minutes.
Safiullin added to his prize money $ 20,835 after winning this match. He has won already $ 49,535 till now in this competition. If he wins the next match, the Russian will add $ 34,710 to his earnings to get in total $ 84,245.
Highlights Roman Safiullin vs. Arthur Rinderknech Tel Aviv Watergen Open – Tel Aviv
Stats: aces, double faults, breaks, winners
1h:08
At the end of the match, Safiullin scored 61 points vs. the French player’s 37.
Safiullin
Roman served pretty well to win 90% of the points (26/29) behind his first serve, and he won 69% points (11/16) on his second serve. Roman won this match even if he wasn’t that great in converting his break points after he converted only 38% (3/8) of the procured opportunities.
Rinderknech
On the other side, Rinderknech wasn’t able to conquer any break point (0/1). That was one of the key issues for his loss.
After this encounter, the head to head between Safiullin and Rinderknech is 2-0 for Roman.
Draw and next match H2H: Roman Safiullin vs. Novak Djokovic – stats
Safiullin will fight against Djokovic in the semifinal.
There is no head to head record between Roman Safiullin and Novak Djokovic since this will be the first time that they will square off in the main tour.
Live score progression and stats
There was not much difference between the 2 players in this set with the exception of 1 break that Safiullin conquered in the 10th game (6-4).
The Russian converted 25% of his break points (1/4). He had 4 break points opportunities in the 4th (2-1 15-40, 30-40 and 40-A) and the 10th game (5-4 0-40). On the other side, Safiullin didn’t concede a single break point during this set.
They played 55 points. Safiullin was the winner of the set after clinching 11 more points than Arthur (33-22). Roman was extremely solid on serve to concede just 2 points (20-2). on the other side of the court, Rinderknech conceded 13 points on serve (20-13).
Safiullin was pretty sharp at the beginning of the set after breaking Arthur Rinderknech in the 2nd game (2-0) before consolidating his break and lead 5-0. Safiullin extended his lead after breaking Rinderknech in the 4th (4-0) game before winning the set (6-1).
A defining moment of this set was when Safiullin won 5 consecutive games in the 2nd set to bring the score from 0-0 to 5-0.
The Russian converted 50% of his break points (2/4). He had 4 break points opportunities in the 2nd (1-0 15-40 and 30-40) and the 4th game (3-0 15-40 and 30-40). On the other side, Rinderknech wasn’t able to convert 1 break point in the 0th game (0-1 30-40).
They contested 43 points. Roman was the winner of the set after clinching 13 points more than the French player (28-15). Roman conceded 6 points on serve (17-6). Regarding the other side of the net, Rinderknech conceded 11 points on serve (9-11).
Tennis Scores in Tel Aviv
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- Novak DjokovicDjokovic – Vasek PospisilPospisil (7-65 6-3) – Stats and score progression
Upcoming matches
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