Roman Safiullin and Arthur Fils will play each other in the 1st round of the Open 13 Provence for the 2nd time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Wednesday at 4:00 pm on CENTRAL. 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 Arthur Fils who should win in 3 sets.
Arthur Fils -> 1.65
Roman Safiullin -> 2.24
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Prediction and head to head Roman Safiullin vs. Arthur Fils
This will be the 2nd time that Roman Safiullin and Arthur Fils face off. The head to head is 1-0 for Fils (see full H2H stats), 1-0 on indoor hard courts.
The last time that they played, Fils won 6-2 7-6(3) in the 1st round in the Lille Challenger back in 2022.
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. 97, Safiullin will start his run in Marseille after he played his last match in Rotterdam where he lost 2-6 6-3 6-4 to Ymer in the qualifications on the 12th of February.
The Russian has an aggregate 9-4 win-loss record in 2023, 6-1 on indoor hard courts (See FULL STATS).
His best result of the year was conquering the title the Koblenz Challenger where he beat Vasek Pospisil in the final 6-2 7-5.
Talking about his overall career, Roman has an overall 341-161 record. He has a positive 66-41 record on indoor hard courts.
Previously in Marseille
Previously, his best result was reaching the semifinal in 2022. See his history.
Arthur Fils
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 22-11 | 10-6 | 10-4 | 2-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 42-28 | 15-9 | 14-10 | 7-6 | 6-3 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 43-24 | 5-4 | 13-8 | 21-10 | 4-2 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 43-28 | 0-1 | 23-15 | 20-12 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 33-26 | 3-2 | 29-17 | 1-7 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 118, Arthur will start his run in Marseille after he played his last match in Montpellier where he lost 7-5 6-2 to Sinner in the semifinal on the 11th of February.
Fils has a composed 12-2 win-loss record in 2023, 12-2 on indoor hard courts (See FULL STATS).
His best result of the season was conquering the title the Oeiras 2 Challenger where he defeated Joris De Loore in the final 6-1 7-6(4).
In terms of his career, Fils has an overall 89-58 record. He has a positive 33-22 record on indoor hard courts.
Previously in Marseille
The French player has never competed in this tournament before.
Tennis Scores in Marseille
- N.Sriram Balaji/Jeevan NedunchezhiyanBalaji/Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan – Sander Gille/Joran VliegenGille/Joran Vliegen (7-5 5-7 10-7) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Alexander RitschardRitschard – Pablo AndujarAndujar (7-5 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Gijs BrouwerBrouwer – Elias YmerYmer (3-6 7-5 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
- David GoffinGoffin – Lukas KleinKlein (6-2 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Gregoire BarrereBarrere – Marc-Andrea HueslerHuesler (6-3 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Leandro RiediRiedi – Arthur RinderknechRinderknech (6-3 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Richard GasquetGasquet – Laurent LokoliLokoli (7-65 2-6 7-65) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Maxime CressyCressy – Geoffrey BlancaneauxBlancaneaux (6-3 6-75 7-64) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Romain Arneodo/Tristan-Samuel WeissbornArneodo/Tristan-Samuel Weissborn – Sander Arends/David PelArends/David Pel (6-3 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Benjamin BonziBonzi – Luca Van AsscheVan Assche (7-5 7-5) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Stan WawrinkaWawrinka – Zizou BergsBergs (6-4 6-76 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Alexander BublikBublik – Filip KrajinovicKrajinovic (5-7 6-3 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
Upcoming matches in the draw
- Richard GasquetGasquet – Stan WawrinkaWawrinka (3-2) – H2H and prediction
- Grigor DimitrovDimitrov – Gijs BrouwerBrouwer (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Alexander RitschardRitschard – Alex De MinaurDe Minaur (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Alexander BublikBublik – Gregoire BarrereBarrere (2-2) – H2H and prediction
- Hubert HurkaczHurkacz – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Mikael YmerYmer – Radu AlbotAlbot (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Maxime CressyCressy – Benjamin BonziBonzi (0-0) – H2H and prediction