Roman Safiullin overcomes Corentin Moutet 6-1 7-5 in the 2nd round in Salem Open on Tuesday. Safiullin will seek to keep on going in this event against Christopher Eubanks in the 3rd round. The match lasted 1 hour and 19 minutes. This will be his most significant achievement in this tournament. In the past, the best he could do was reaching the 1st round in 2023. Here you can see his history at this event.
Roman added to his prize money $ 4,800 after winning this match. He has already won $ 11,640 after this win. If he wins the next match, Safiullin will add $ 8,735 to his earnings to get in total $ 20,375 in total.
Stats: aces, double faults, breaks, winners
1h:19
At the end of the match, Roman scored 63 points vs. Moutet’s 47.
Safiullin
Safiullin was pretty good at converting 80% of the break points that he procured (4/5).
Moutet
On the other side, the French player was far from perfect in converting his break points (only 33% – 1/3). That was one of the key issues for his defeat.
After this match, the head to head between Safiullin and Moutet is 2-2.
Draw and next match H2H: Roman Safiullin vs. Christopher Eubanks – stats
Safiullin will fight against Eubanks in the 3rd round.
This will be the 3rd time that Roman Safiullin and Christopher Eubanks clash against each other. The head to head is 2-0 for Safiullin (see full H2H stats), 2-0 on hard.
The last time that they played each other, Safiullin won 6-4 6-4 in the quarter in Cary Challenger back in August 2024.
Live score progression and stats
Safiullin had a running start at the beginning of the set after breaking Corentin Moutet in the 2nd game (2-0) before consolidating his break and lead 5-0. Roman managed to strengthen his lead after breaking Corentin in the 4th (4-0) game before conquering the set (6-1).
It is worth noting that a key moment of this set was when Roman won 5 consecutive games in the 1st set so as to change the scoreline from 0-0 to 5-0.
Roman converted 66% of his break points (2/3). He had 3 break points opportunities in the 2nd (1-0 15-40 and 30-40) and the 4th game (3-0 15-40). On the other side, Corentin was unable to convert any of his 2 break points. He had 2 break points opportunities in the 1st game (0-0 40-A and 40-A).
They played 48 points. The Russian conquered the set after winning 8 more points than Corentin (28-20). Roman lost 9 points on serve (19-9). On the other side, the French player conceded 9 points on serve (11-9).
Roman conquered the set after recovering from 1 break down. In fact, after dropping his serve in the 6th (2-4) game, Safiullin broke back in the 7th (3-4) and in the 11th (6-5) game to win the set 7-5.
Roman was unerring in converting all his break points in the 7th (2-4 40-A) and the 11th game (5-5 15-40). On the other side, the French player was clinical in converting the only break point that he conquered in the 6th game (3-2 15-40).
They contested 62 points. The Russian was the one to win the set after conquering 8 points more than Moutet (35-27). The Russian surrendered 10 points on serve (21-10). Regarding the other side of the net, the French player conceded 14 points on serve (17-14).
Tennis Scores in Salem Open
- Lorenzo SonegoSonego – Dominic StrickerStricker (6-4 6-1)
- Alex MichelsenMichelsen – Marton FucsovicsFucsovics (7-63 6-4)
- Pablo Carreno-BustaCarreno-Busta – Alexander ShevchenkoShevchenko (6-2 6-2)
- Learner TienTien – Fabian MarozsanMarozsan (6-2 6-71 7-62)
- Zachary SvajdaSvajda – Francisco CerundoloCerundolo (6-4 6-4)
- Christopher EubanksEubanks – Hugo GastonGaston (6-1 6-4)
- David GoffinGoffin – Luciano DarderiDarderi (6-2 6-4)
- Zizou BergsBergs – Tomas Martin EtcheverryMartin Etcheverry (4-6 7-5 6-3)
- Roman SafiullinSafiullin – Corentin MoutetMoutet (6-1 7-5)
- Thiago Seyboth WildSeyboth Wild – Nuno BorgesBorges (7-62 6-2)
- Pavel KotovKotov – Alexandre MullerMuller (6-4 5-7 6-2)
- Arthur RinderknechRinderknech – Christopher O ConnellO Connell (6-3 6-4)
- Borna CoricCoric – Sebastian BaezBaez (6-3 6-4)
- Juncheng ShangShang – Mariano NavoneNavone (7-5 6-3)
- Aleksandar VukicVukic – Adrian MannarinoMannarino (7-65 2-6 6-1)
- Rinky HijikataHijikata – Arthur CazauxCazaux (4-6 6-3 7-64)
Upcoming matches
- Pablo Carreno-BustaCarreno-Busta – Aleksandar VukicVukic (0-0) – H2H details and stats
- Borna CoricCoric – Rinky HijikataHijikata (1-0) – H2H details and stats
- Christopher EubanksEubanks – Roman SafiullinSafiullin (0-1) – H2H details and stats
- Arthur RinderknechRinderknech – David GoffinGoffin (0-1) – H2H details and stats
- Thiago Seyboth WildSeyboth Wild – (0-0) – H2H details and stats
- Zizou BergsBergs – (0-1) – H2H details and stats
