Roberto Bautista Agut and Roman Safiullin will fight against each other in the qualifications of the China Open for the 3^rd time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Wednesday at 1:00 pm on BRAD DREWETT. In this post, we analyze their head to head performance and prediction.

Prediction, odds and live streaming

The pick for Tennis Tonic is Roman Safiullin who should win in 3 sets.

As per the initial odds, Roman Safiullin is the pick to win this match.
Roman Safiullin -> 1.73
Roberto Bautista Agut -> 2.01

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Prediction and head to head Roberto Bautista Agut vs. Roman Safiullin

This will be the 3^rd time that Roberto Bautista Agut and Roman Safiullin fight against each other. The head to head is 1-1 for Bautista-Agut and Safiullin (see full H2H stats), but they have never played each other on hard.

The last time that they played each other, Bautista-Agut won 6-3 7-6(8) in the 1^st round in Barcelona back in April 2024.

Highlights Roberto Bautista Agut vs Roman Safiullin – Barcelona 15-April-2024

Roberto Bautista Agut

Ranked no. 61, the Spaniard got to the qualifications after defeating Billy Harris 5-7 7-6(5) 6-3.

In the qualifications against Harris, Bautista-Agut recovered from a 1-set down deficit before winning (5-7 7-6⁵

6-3). During the match, Bautista-Agut scored 105 points vs Harris’s 104. The Spaniard was very aggressive to blast 38 winners.

Talking about the service games, Bautista-Agut struck 5 aces and he committed only 5 double faults. Roberto Bautista Agut lost the serve 5 times and he saved 2 break points. Furthermore, Bautista-Agut put 57% of his first serves in, winning 66% (38/58) of the points behind his 1st serve and 43% (19/44) on the 2nd serve. The Spaniard broke Harris 6 times after converting 43% of his break points (6/14).

Bautista-Agut has a solid record in the last 10 years having won 62% of his matches (352-215). 9-11 on hard in 2024. Regarding his performance on the same surface of this competition, Bautista-Agut has a composed 160-88 record in the last years on hard.

Bautista-Agut has a compiled 29-24 win-loss record in 2024, 9-11 on hard (See FULL STATS).

Previously in Beijing

Roman Safiullin

Ranked no. 69, Safiullin reached the qualifications after beating Aoran Wang 6-3 6-2.

In the qualifications, Safiullin had a good straight sets win against Wang (6-3 6-2). During the match Safiullin scored 62 points vs Wang’s 43. Roman was exceptionally aggressive to blast 29 winners.

About the serving games, Safiullin managed to score 10 aces and he committed only 2 double faults. Roman Safiullin was very efficient on serve to win 76% (29/38) of his 1st serve and 63% (12/19) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. The Russian broke Wang 3 times after converting 50% of his break points (3/6).

His best result of the year was conquering the title the Cary Challenger where he beat Mattia Bellucci in the final 1-6 7-5 7-5.

The Russian has an overall 21-23 win-loss record in 2024, 14-11 on hard (See FULL STATS).

H2H Performance in the tournament

Matches, sets, games and points

Points	Bautista-Agut	Safiullin
Match played	1	1
Tot Set	3	2
Tot Games	34	17
Pts	105-104	62-43
Total Points	209	105
Winners	38	29
%Winners	36%	47%

Both Bautista-Agut and Safiullin played 1 match. Also both players started their run from the qualifications.At the moment, Roberto Bautista Agut lost 1 set while Roman Safiullin hasn’t surrendered a set so far. Bautista-Agut has played 1 set more than Safiullin (3 vs 2). Therefore, Bautista-Agut played 17 games more than Safiullin. Bautista-Agut scored 38 winners (36% of the total points). On the other side, Safiullin recorded 29 winners (47%).

Serve Performance

Serve	Bautista-Agut	Safiullin
Aces	5	10
Avg per match	5	10
1st in	58/102	38/57
%1st in	57%	67%
1st pts	38/58	29/38
%1st pts	66%	76%
2nd pts	19/44	12/19
%2nd pts	43%	63%

Bautista-Agut fired 5 aces . Safiullin made 10 aces . Bautista-Agut won 66% points on his first serve. He was rock solid on his second serve to win 43% of the points. On the other side, Safiullin won 76% of the points behind his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 63% of the points.

How they played the important points

Breaks	Bautista-Agut	Safiullin
Won	6	3
Converted	6/14	3/6
% Converted	43%	50%
Conceded	7	1
Saved	2	1
% Saved	29%	100%
Times Broken	5	0

Roberto broke his opponent 6 times with a 43% conversion rate. Bautista-Agut conceded his serve 5 times and he saved 29% of the break points that he conceded. Safiullin broke his opponent 3 times with a 50% conversion rate. Safiullin was rock solid on his serve as he has never conceded a single service game after saving 1 break points.

Bautista-Agut
	Q1 Harris	Total
Score	5-7 7-65 6-3
Tot Set	3	3
Tot Games	34	34
pts	105-104	105-104
Total points	209	209
Winners	38	38
%Winners	36%	36%
SERVE
Aces	5	5
Double Faults	5	5
1st in	58/102	58/102
% 1st in	57%	57%
1st pts	38/58	38/58
% 1st pts	66%	66%
2nd pts	19/44	19/44
% 2nd pts	43%	43%
Breaks
Won	6	6
Converted	6/14	6/14
Converted %	43%	43%
Conceded	7	7
Saved	2/7	2
Saved %	29%	29%
Times Broken	5	5

Safiullin
	Q1 Wang	Total
Score	6-3 6-2
Tot Set	2	2
Tot Games	17	17
pts	62-43	62-43
Total points	105	105
Winners	29	29
%Winners	47%	47%
SERVE
Aces	10	10
Double Faults	2	2
1st in	38/57	38/57
% 1st in	67%	67%
1st pts	29/38	29/38
% 1st pts	76%	76%
2nd pts	12/19	12/19
% 2nd pts	63%	63%
Breaks
Won	3	3
Converted	3/6	3/6
Converted %	50%	50%
Conceded	1	1
Saved	1/1	1
Saved %	100%	100%
Times Broken	0	0

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