Matteo Arnaldi and Roman Safiullin will play each other in the 2^nd round of the U.S. Open for the 2^nd time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Thursday at 11:00 am on Court 11. In the following lines you can find the head to head analysis and prediction.

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The pick for Tennis Tonic is Matteo Arnaldi who should win in 5 sets.

As per the initial odds, Matteo Arnaldi is the pick to win this match.
Matteo Arnaldi -> 1.69
Roman Safiullin -> 2.17

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Prediction and head to head Matteo Arnaldi vs. Roman Safiullin

This will be the 2^nd time that Matteo Arnaldi and Roman Safiullin play each other. The head to head is 1-0 for Safiullin (see full H2H stats), 1-0 on hard.

The last time that they competed against each other, Safiullin won 7-6(4) 6-2 in the quarter in Brisbane back in January 2024.

Highlights Roman Safiullin vs Matteo Arnaldi – Brisbane 05-January-2024

Matteo Arnaldi

Ranked no. 30 (career-high), the Italian reached the 2^nd round after beating Zachary Svajda 6-3 6-2 6-1.

In the 1^st round, Matteo had a good straight sets win against Svajda (6-3 6-2 6-1). During the match, Arnaldi scored 93 points vs Svajda’s 66. Matteo was quite aggressive to blast 41 winners.

Regarding the service games, Arnaldi recorded 12 aces and he committed only 6 double faults. Matteo Arnaldi lost the serve once and he saved 8 break points. Furthermore, Arnaldi put 55% of his first serves in, winning 84% (41/49) of the points behind his 1st serve and 40% (16/40) on the 2nd serve. Arnaldi broke Svajda 7 times after converting 58% of his break points (7/12).

Arnaldi has a solid record in the last 7 years having won 62% of his matches (213-129). 15-10 on hard in 2024. Regarding his performance on the same surface of this tournament, Arnaldi has an overall72-38 match record in the last 7 years on hard.

The Italian’s best result of the year was getting to the semifinal in Montreal.

Arnaldi has a compiled 26-21 win-loss record in 2024, 15-10 on hard (See FULL STATS).

Previously at the U.S. Open

Roman Safiullin

Ranked no. 57, Safiullin got to the 2^nd round after beating Matthew Forbes 6-4 7-6(2) 6-2.

In the 1^st round, The Russian had a good straight sets win against Forbes (6-4 7-6² 6-2). During the match Safiullin scored 121 points vs Forbes’s 94. The Russian was quite aggressive to blast 47 winners.

Talking about serving, Safiullin fired 7 aces and he committed only 5 double faults. Overall, Roman Safiullin was extremely efficient on serve to win 77% (47/61) of his 1st serve and 52% (22/42) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve twice. The Russian broke Forbes 5 times after converting 36% of his break points (5/14).

His best result of the current season was winning the title the Cary Challenger where he overcame Mattia Bellucci in the final 1-6 7-5 7-5.

Safiullin has a composed 19-21 win-loss record in 2024, 12-9 on hard (See FULL STATS).

Previously at the U.S. Open

Previously, his best result was reaching the 2^nd round in 2023. See his history.

H2H Performance in the tournament

Matches, sets, games and points

Points	Arnaldi	Safiullin
Match played	1	1
Tot Set	3	3
Tot Games	24	31
Pts	93-66	121-94
Total Points	159	215
Winners	41	47
%Winners	44%	39%

Both Arnaldi and Safiullin played 1 match. Both players have not surrendered a single set in this event so far. Talking about their workload, Arnaldi and Safiullin have played the same amount of sets 3. However, Arnaldi played 7 games less than Safiullin. Matteo scored 41 winners (44% of the total points). On the other side, The Russian bagged 47 winners (39%).

Serve Performance

Serve	Arnaldi	Safiullin
Aces	12	7
Avg per match	12	7
1st in	49/89	61/103
%1st in	55%	59%
1st pts	41/49	47/61
%1st pts	84%	77%
2nd pts	16/40	22/42
%2nd pts	40%	52%

Arnaldi made 12 aces . Safiullin scored 7 aces . Arnaldi won 84% points on his first serve. He pretty solid on his second serve to win 40% of the points. On the other side, Safiullin won 77% of the points on his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 52% of the points.

How they played the important points

Breaks	Arnaldi	Safiullin
Won	7	5
Converted	7/12	5/14
% Converted	58%	36%
Conceded	9	11
Saved	8	9
% Saved	89%	82%
Times Broken	1	2

Arnaldi broke his opponent 7 times with a 58% conversion rate. Arnaldi conceded his serve once and he saved 89% of the break points that he conceded. Roman broke his opponent 5 times with a 36% conversion rate. Roman conceded his serve twice and he saved 82% of the break points that he conceded.

Arnaldi
	R1 Svajda	Total
Score	6-3 6-2 6-1
Tot Set	3	3
Tot Games	24	24
pts	93-66	93-66
Total points	159	159
Winners	41	41
%Winners	44%	44%
SERVE
Aces	12	12
Double Faults	6	6
1st in	49/89	49/89
% 1st in	55%	55%
1st pts	41/49	41/49
% 1st pts	84%	84%
2nd pts	16/40	16/40
% 2nd pts	40%	40%
Breaks
Won	7	7
Converted	7/12	7/12
Converted %	58%	58%
Conceded	9	9
Saved	8/9	8
Saved %	89%	89%
Times Broken	1	1

Safiullin
	R1 Forbes	Total
Score	6-4 7-62 6-2
Tot Set	3	3
Tot Games	31	31
pts	121-94	121-94
Total points	215	215
Winners	47	47
%Winners	39%	39%
SERVE
Aces	7	7
Double Faults	5	5
1st in	61/103	61/103
% 1st in	59%	59%
1st pts	47/61	47/61
% 1st pts	77%	77%
2nd pts	22/42	22/42
% 2nd pts	52%	52%
Breaks
Won	5	5
Converted	5/14	5/14
Converted %	36%	36%
Conceded	11	11
Saved	9/11	9
Saved %	82%	82%
Times Broken	2	2

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