Frances Tiafoe and Roman Safiullin will clash against each other in the 3rd round of the Shanghai Rolex Masters for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Tuesday at 5:30 pm on GRANDSTAND 2. In the following lines you can find the head to head analysis and prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Frances Tiafoe who should win in 3 sets.
As per the initial odds, Frances Tiafoe is the pick to win this match.
Frances Tiafoe -> 1.51
Roman Safiullin -> 2.56
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Prediction and head to head Frances Tiafoe vs. Roman Safiullin
There is no head to head record between Frances Tiafoe and Roman Safiullin since this will be the first time that they will play each other in the main tour.
Frances Tiafoe
31 - 23win/loss
18
10
LLWLWLWLLW | Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 33-27 | 21-13 | 5-6 | 4-5 | 3-3 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 40-21 | 21-10 | 8-4 | 4-5 | 7-2 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 35-25 | 19-11 | 8-6 | 5-5 | 3-3 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 42-27 | 19-13 | 4-7 | 10-4 | 9-3 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 19-15 | 7-9 | 6-3 | 6-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 17, Tiafoe reached the 3rd round after defeating Unknown Player bye and Yi Zhou 6-2 6-4.
In the 2nd round, The American had a good straight sets win against Zhou (6-2 6-4). During the match, Tiafoe scored 57 points vs Zhou’s 39. The American was very aggressive to blast 32 winners.
Regarding the service games, Tiafoe managed to score 5 aces and he committed only 1 double fault. Frances Tiafoe conceded no breaks for the entire match to save 1 break points. Furthermore, Tiafoe put 75% of his first serves in, winning 89% (32/36) of the points behind his 1st serve and 50% (6/12) on the 2nd serve. Tiafoe broke Zhou 3 times after converting 75% of his break points (3/4).
Tiafoe has favorable match record in the last 10 years having won 59% of his matches (352-246). 21-12 on hard in 2024. Regarding his performance on the same surface of this tournament, Tiafoe has a compiled 178-118 match record in the last years on hard.
Tiafoe’s best result of the current season was getting to the final in Houston and Cincinnati.
Tiafoe has an aggregate 31-23 win-loss record in 2024, 21-12 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in Shanghai
Roman Safiullin
24 - 25win/loss
60
36
LWWWWWWLLW | 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. 61, the Russian got to the 3rd round after defeating Beibit Zhukayev 7-6(0) 6-4 and Alexander Bublik 6-4 6-2.
In the 2nd round, Roman had a good straight sets win against Bublik (6-4 6-2). During the match Safiullin scored 70 points vs Bublik’s 51. Roman was exceptionally aggressive to blast 27 winners.
Talking about serving, Safiullin struck 7 aces and he committed only 1 double fault for the entire match. Roman Safiullin was exceptionally efficient on serve to win 77% (27/35) of his 1st serve and 72% (13/18) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. Roman broke Bublik 3 times after converting 50% of his break points (3/6).
Overall Performance in this tournament
Safiullin hasn’t dropped yet a set in the tournament to win 57% of the points he played.
His best result of the year was winning the title the Cary Challenger where he beat Mattia Bellucci in the final 1-6 7-5 7-5.
Roman has a compiled 24-25 win-loss record in 2024, 17-13 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in Shanghai
Previously, his best result was reaching the 3rd round in 2023. See his history.
H2H Performance in the tournament (main draw)
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Tiafoe | Safiullin |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 1 | 2 |
| Tot Set | 2 | 4 |
| Tot Games | 18 | 41 |
| Pts | 57-39 | 143-110 |
| Total Points | 96 | 253 |
| Winners | 32 | 63 |
| %Winners | 56% | 44% |
Tiafoe played 1 match while Safiullin competed in 2 matches. Both players have not conceded a single set in this event so far. Tiafoe has played 2 set(s) less than Safiullin (2 vs 4). Therefore, Tiafoe played 23 games less than Safiullin. Francis scored 32 winners (56% of the total points). On the other side, Roman bagged 63 winners (44%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Tiafoe | Safiullin |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 5 | 12 |
| Avg per match | 5 | 6 |
| 1st in | 36/48 | 80/119 |
| %1st in | 75% | 67% |
| 1st pts | 32/36 | 63/80 |
| %1st pts | 89% | 79% |
| 2nd pts | 6/12 | 26/39 |
| %2nd pts | 50% | 67% |
Tiafoe bagged 5 aces . Safiullin made 12 aces (6 per match). Tiafoe won 89% points behind his first serve. He pretty effective on his second serve to win 50% of the points. On the other side, Safiullin won 79% of the points on his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 67% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Tiafoe | Safiullin |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 3 | 5 |
| Converted | 3/4 | 5/9 |
| % Converted | 75% | 56% |
| Conceded | 1 | 6 |
| Saved | 1 | 5 |
| % Saved | 100% | 83% |
| Times Broken | 0 | 1 |
Francis broke his opponent 3 times with a 75% conversion rate. The American had a solid display on his serve as he has never surrendered a single service game after saving 1 break points. The Russian broke his opponents 5 times with a 56% conversion rate. Roman conceded his serve once and he saved 83% of the break points that he conceded.
| Tiafoe | |||
| R2 Zhou |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-2 6-4 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 18 | 18 | |
| pts | 57-39 | 57-39 | |
| Total points | 96 | 96 | |
| Winners | 32 | 32 | |
| %Winners | 56% | 56% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 5 | 5 | |
| Double Faults | 1 | 1 | |
| 1st in | 36/48 | 36/48 | |
| % 1st in | 75% | 75% | |
| 1st pts | 32/36 | 32/36 | |
| % 1st pts | 89% | 89% | |
| 2nd pts | 6/12 | 6/12 | |
| % 2nd pts | 50% | 50% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 3 | 3 | |
| Converted | 3/4 | 3/4 | |
| Converted % | 75% | 75% | |
| Conceded | 1 | 1 | |
| Saved | 1/1 | 1 | |
| Saved % | 100% | 100% | |
| Times Broken | 0 | 0 | |
| Safiullin | ||||
| R1 Zhukayev |
R2 Bublik |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 7-60 6-4 | 6-4 6-2 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | 4 | |
| Tot Games | 23 | 18 | 41 | |
| pts | 73-59 | 70-51 | 143-110 | |
| Total points | 132 | 121 | 253 | |
| Winners | 36 | 27 | 63 | |
| %Winners | 49% | 39% | 44% | |
| SERVE | ||||
| Aces | 5 | 7 | 12 | |
| Double Faults | 2 | 1 | 3 | |
| 1st in | 45/66 | 35/53 | 80/119 | |
| % 1st in | 68% | 66% | 67% | |
| 1st pts | 36/45 | 27/35 | 63/80 | |
| % 1st pts | 80% | 77% | 79% | |
| 2nd pts | 13/21 | 13/18 | 26/39 | |
| % 2nd pts | 62% | 72% | 67% | |
| Breaks | ||||
| Won | 2 | 3 | 5 | |
| Converted | 2/3 | 3/6 | 5/9 | |
| Converted % | 67% | 50% | 56% | |
| Conceded | 3 | 3 | 6 | |
| Saved | 2/3 | 3/3 | 5 | |
| Saved % | 67% | 100% | 167% | |
| Times Broken | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
Head 2 Head
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