Arthur Fils overcomes Roman Safiullin 6-4 6-3 in the 1st round in Marseille on Wednesday. Fils is going to play against Jannik Sinner in the 2nd round. The match lasted 1 hour and 25 minutes.
Fils added to his prize money € 4,835 after winning this match. He has already won € 12,420 after this win. If he wins the next match, the French player will add € 8,965 to his earnings to get in total € 21,385 in total.
Highlights Arthur Fils vs. Roman Safiullin Open 13 Provence – Marseille
Stats: aces, double faults, breaks, winners
1h:25
At the end of the match, Fils scored 68 points vs. Safiullin’s 53.
Fils
Arthur served extremely well to win 82% of the points (27/33) behind his first serve, and he won 63% points (12/19) on his second serve. Arthur was pretty focused in converting 50% of the break points that he conquered (3/6).
Safiullin
On the other side, the Russian wasn’t able to conquer any break point (0/1). That was one of the key issues for his defeat.
After this match, the head to head between Fils and Safiullin is 2-0 for Arthur.
Draw and next match H2H: Arthur Fils vs. Jannik Sinner – stats
Fils will compete against Sinner in the 2nd round.
This will be the 2nd time that Arthur Fils and Jannik Sinner play each other. The head to head is 1-0 for Sinner (see full H2H stats), 1-0 on I.hard.
The last time that they squared off, Sinner won 7-5 6-2 in the semifinal in Montpellier back in February 2023.
Live score progression and stats
Both players managed to hold their serve for the entire set. The only difference was just 1 break that Fils snatched in the 3rd game (2-1) before finally winning the set (6-4).
Fils was clinical in converting the only break point that he conquered in the 3rd game (1-1 30-40). On the other side, Fils didn’t concede a single break point during this set.
They contested 63 points. The French player conquered the set after winning 5 points more than the Russian (34-29). The French player surrendered 6 points on serve (21-6). On the other side, Roman conceded 13 points on serve (23-13).
Arthur won the set after he broke Safiullin in the 3rd (2-1) and in the 9th (6-3) game.
The French player converted 40% of his break points (2/5). He had 5 break points opportunities in the 3rd (1-1 30-40, 40-A and 40-A) and the 9th game (5-3 0-40 and 15-40). On the other side, the Russian wasn’t able to convert 1 break point in the 8th game (3-4 40-A).
They contested 58 points. Fils conquered the set after winning 10 more points than Safiullin (34-24). Arthur conceded 7 points on serve (18-7). On the other side, the Russian conceded 16 points on serve (17-16).
Tennis Scores in Marseille
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- Arthur FilsFils – Roman SafiullinSafiullin (6-4 6-3) – Stats and score progression
- Leandro RiediRiedi – Arthur RinderknechRinderknech (6-3 6-4) – Stats and score progression
- Richard GasquetGasquet – Laurent LokoliLokoli (7-65 2-6 7-65) – Stats and score progression
- Gregoire BarrereBarrere – Marc-Andrea HueslerHuesler (6-3 6-2) – Stats and score progression
- Alexander RitschardRitschard – Pablo AndujarAndujar (7-5 6-3) – Stats and score progression
- Maxime CressyCressy – Geoffrey BlancaneauxBlancaneaux (6-3 6-75 7-64) – Stats and score progression
- Gijs BrouwerBrouwer – Elias YmerYmer (3-6 7-5 6-3) – Stats and score progression
- David GoffinGoffin – Lukas KleinKlein (6-2 6-4) – Stats and score progression
- Alexander BublikBublik – Filip KrajinovicKrajinovic (5-7 6-3 6-4) – Stats and score progression
- Stan WawrinkaWawrinka – Zizou BergsBergs (6-4 6-76 6-4) – Stats and score progression
- Benjamin BonziBonzi – Luca Van AsscheVan Assche (7-5 7-5) – Stats and score progression
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