Roman Safiullin and Beibit Zhukayev will fight against each other in the 1st round of the Shanghai Rolex Masters for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Thursday at 5:30 pm on GRANDSTAND 2. 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 2 sets.
Roman Safiullin -> 1.33
Beibit Zhukayev -> 3.32
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Prediction and head to head Roman Safiullin vs. Beibit Zhukayev
There is no head to head record between Roman Safiullin and Beibit Zhukayev since this will be the first time that they will play each other in the main tour.
Roman Safiullin
22 - 25win/loss
60
36
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 31-28 | 18-14 | 5-8 | 6-3 | 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. 69, Safiullin will start his run in Shanghai after he played his last match in Beijing where he lost 3-6 6-2 6-3 to Sinner in the 2nd round on the 28th of September.
Safiullin has an aggregate 22-25 win-loss record in 2024, 15-13 on hard (See FULL STATS).
His best result of the season was winning the title the Cary Challenger where he beat Mattia Bellucci in the final 1-6 7-5 7-5.
Talking about his overall career, The Russian has an overall 389-207 record. He has a positive 222-91 record on hard.
Previously in Shanghai
Previously, his best result was reaching the 3rd round in 2023. See his history.
Beibit Zhukayev
27 - 24win/loss
238
171
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 29-28 | 14-16 | 6-4 | 3-4 | 6-4 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 37-30 | 19-16 | 1-3 | 11-8 | 2-2 | 4-1 |
| 2022 | 43-30 | 33-21 | 1-2 | 9-7 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 19-21 | 13-10 | 4-9 | 2-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 196, the Kazakhstani reached the 1st round after beating Kris Van Wyk 6-3 6-2 and Billy Harris 7-5 2-6 6-4.
In the qualifications, Beibit defeated Harris (7-5 2-6 6-4). During the match Zhukayev scored 85 points vs Harris’s 82. Zhukayev was very aggressive to blast 45 winners.
About the serving games, Zhukayev bagged 13 aces and he committed only 2 double faults. Beibit Zhukayev lost the serve twice and he saved 3 break points. Furthermore, Zhukayev put 67% of his first serves in, winning 82% (45/55) of the points behind his 1st serve and 48% (13/27) on the 2nd serve. Beibit broke Harris twice after converting 40% of his break points (2/5).
Overall Performance in this tournament
The Kazakhstani started his run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, he has conceded 1 set in the tournament to win 54% of the points he played.
Zhukayev has an aggregate 27-24 win-loss record in 2024, 14-15 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in Shanghai
Previously, his best result was reaching the 2nd
round in 2023. See his history.Tennis Scores in Shanghai
- Yibing WuWu – Sumit NagalNagal (6-3 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Gael MonfilsMonfils – Damir DzumhurDzumhur (6-4 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Arthur CazauxCazaux – Marin CilicCilic (6-4 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Arthur RinderknechRinderknech – Reilly OpelkaOpelka (6-4 7-65) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Alexandre MullerMuller – Luca NardiNardi (4-6 6-1 6-1) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Botic Van De ZandschulpVan De Zandschulp – Pablo Carreno-BustaCarreno-Busta (7-65 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
Upcoming matches in the draw
- Stan WawrinkaWawrinka – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Roberto Bautista AgutBautista Agut – Roberto Carballes BaenaCarballes Baena (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Fabio FogniniFognini – (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Adrian MannarinoMannarino – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Kei NishikoriNishikori – Mariano NavoneNavone (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- David GoffinGoffin – James DuckworthDuckworth (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Egor GerasimovGerasimov – Taro DanielDaniel (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Li TuTu – Marcos GironGiron (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Ramkumar RamanathanRamanathan – Alexander ShevchenkoShevchenko (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Yoshihito NishiokaNishioka – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Botic Van De ZandschulpVan De Zandschulp – Tomas Martin EtcheverryMartin Etcheverry (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Christopher O ConnellO Connell – Matteo BerrettiniBerrettini (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Zhizhen ZhangZhang – Zizou BergsBergs (1-1) – H2H and prediction
- Alexandre MullerMuller – Felix Auger AliassimeAuger Aliassime (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Arthur RinderknechRinderknech – Alejandro TabiloTabilo (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Aleksandar VukicVukic – Corentin MoutetMoutet (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Jaume Antoni Munar ClarAntoni Munar Clar – Hugo GastonGaston (2-0) – H2H and prediction
- Lorenzo SonegoSonego – Denis ShapovalovShapovalov (1-1) – H2H and prediction
- Tallon GriekspoorGriekspoor – Facundo Diaz AcostaDiaz Acosta (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Miomir KecmanovicKecmanovic – Rinky HijikataHijikata (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Alejandro Davidovich FokinaDavidovich Fokina – Gabriel DialloDiallo (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Thiago Seyboth WildSeyboth Wild – Daniel EvansEvans (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Aleksandar KovacevicKovacevic – Terence AtmaneAtmane (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Yibing WuWu – Nicolas JarryJarry (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Pavel KotovKotov – Yosuke WatanukiWatanuki (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Sebastian BaezBaez – Gael MonfilsMonfils (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Beibit ZhukayevZhukayev – Roman SafiullinSafiullin (0-0) – H2H and prediction