Tommy Paul and Roman Safiullin will play each other in the 2nd round of the Mutua Madrid Open for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Saturday at 1:30 pm on COURT 4. Here the head to head stats and relative prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Tommy Paul who should win in 3 sets.
As per the initial odds, Tommy Paul is the pick to win this match.
Tommy Paul -> 1.52
Roman Safiullin -> 2.53
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Prediction and head to head Tommy Paul vs. Roman Safiullin
There is no head to head record between Tommy Paul and Roman Safiullin since this will be the first time that they will fight against each other in the main tour.
Tommy Paul
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 31-11 | 10-6 | 7-3 | 4-0 | 10-2 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 46-29 | 29-13 | 5-6 | 3-5 | 9-5 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 39-27 | 21-12 | 2-6 | 9-5 | 7-4 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 33-23 | 12-12 | 9-7 | 12-4 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 21-14 | 12-6 | 5-4 | 4-4 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 17 (career-high), the American will start his run in Madrid after he played his last match in Houston where he lost 7-6(6) 6-2 to Hanfmann in the 2nd round on the 8th of April.
The American has a compiled 16-7 win-loss record in 2023, 0-1 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Tommy’s best result of the season was reaching the final in Acapulco.
Talking about his overall career, Paul has an overall 320-183 record. He has a positive 95-50 record on clay.
Previously in Madrid
Previously, his best result was reaching the 2nd round in 2021. See his history.
Roman Safiullin
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 10-18 | 5-7 | 3-7 | 0-1 | 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 |
| 2020 | 23-12 | 6-2 | 4-5 | 12-4 | 0-0 | 1-1 |
Ranked no. 112, the Russian reached the 2nd round after beating Joao Sousa 6-2 6-2, Sebastian Ofner 6-4 7-64 and Nicolas Jarry 6-2 3-6 6-3.
In the 1st round, Safiullin defeated Jarry (6-2 3-6 6-3). During the match Safiullin scored 79 points vs Jarry’s 60. The Russian was extremely aggressive to blast 41 winners.
Talking about serving, Safiullin bagged 6 aces and he was exceptionally consistent in conceding no double faults for the entire match. Overall, Roman Safiullin was extremely effective on serve to win 84% (41/49) of his 1st serve and 71% (10/14) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve once. The Russian broke Jarry 3 times after converting 43% of his break points (3/7).
His best result of the current year was winning the title the Koblenz Challenger where he beat Vasek Pospisil in the final 6-2 7-5.
Roman has a compiled 15-11 win-loss record in 2023, 3-2 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Previously in Madrid
The Russian has never competed in this tournament before.
Head 2 Head
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