Roman Safiullin and Aslan Karatsev will square off in the quarter of the Bratislava 2 Challenger for the 6th time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Friday at 2:00 pm on CENTER COURT. Here the head to head stats and relative 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 -> 1.41
Aslan Karatsev -> 2.73
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Prediction and head to head Roman Safiullin vs. Aslan Karatsev
This will be the 6th time that Roman Safiullin and Aslan Karatsev play each other. The head to head is 3-2 for Karatsev (see full H2H stats), 2-1 on indoor hard courts.
The last time that they competed against each other, Safiullin won 7-6(4) 6-3 in the qualifications in Halle back in 2023.
Highlights Roman Safiullin vs Aslan Karatsev – Halle 18-June-2023
Roman Safiullin
27 - 27win/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. 59, the Russian got to the quarter after beating Milos Karol 7-6(7) 7-6(5) and Marc-Andrea Huesler 6-4 6-3.
In the 2nd round, The Russian had a good straight sets win against Huesler (6-4 6-3). During the match, Safiullin scored 60 points vs Huesler’s 50. Safiullin was exceptionally aggressive to blast 38 winners.
Talking about the service games, Safiullin scored 10 aces and he committed only 2 double faults. Roman Safiullin conceded no breaks for the entire match to save 2 break points. Furthermore, Safiullin put 68% of his first serves in, winning 88% (38/43) of the points behind his 1st serve and 40% (8/20) on the 2nd serve. Safiullin was clinical in his return game without wasting any break point and break Huesler twice.
Overall Performance in this tournament
Safiullin hasn’t conceded yet a set in this competition to conquer 53% of the points he played.
Safiullin has a solid match record in the last 10 years having won 63% of his matches (347-202). 2-2 on indoor hard courts in 2024. Regarding his performance on the same surface of this competition, Safiullin has a composed 73-47 match record in the last years on indoor hard courts.
His best result of the current season 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 27-27 win-loss record in 2024, 2-2 on indoor hard courts (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Bratislava 2 Challenger
Aslan Karatsev
12 - 16win/loss
287
14
LLWWLWWWLW | Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 12-18 | 6-9 | 1-4 | 5-3 | 0-2 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 32-22 | 13-10 | 14-5 | 2-3 | 3-4 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 18-31 | 8-9 | 5-9 | 4-10 | 1-3 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 37-20 | 23-9 | 9-6 | 4-3 | 1-2 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 36-11 | 7-4 | 17-2 | 12-5 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 313, Karatsev got to the quarter after beating Alexander Ritschard 6-7(6) 7-6(4) 7-6(3) and Jozef Kovalik 7-6(6) 6-1.
In the 2nd round, Aslan had a good straight sets win against Kovalik (7-66 6-1). During the match Karatsev scored 69 points vs Kovalik’s 59. Karatsev was very aggressive to blast 35 winners.
About the serving games, Karatsev bagged 7 aces and he committed only 2 double faults. Aslan Karatsev was exceptionally efficient on serve to win 83% (35/42) of his 1st serve and 57% (12/21) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. Karatsev broke Kovalik twice after converting 29% of his break points (2/7).
Overall Performance in this tournament
The Russian has conceded 1 set in the tournament to win 51% of the points he played.
The Russian has a compiled 12-16 win-loss record in 2024, 5-1 on indoor hard courts (See FULL STATS).
H2H Performance in the tournament (main draw)
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Safiullin | Karatsev |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 2 | 2 |
| Tot Set | 4 | 5 |
| Tot Games | 45 | 59 |
| Pts | 141-124 | 199-188 |
| Total Points | 265 | 387 |
| Winners | 81 | 97 |
| %Winners | 57% | 49% |
Both Safiullin and Karatsev played 2 matches. At the moment, Aslan Karatsev surrendered 1 set while Roman Safiullin hasn’t surrendered a set so far. Safiullin has played 1 set(s) less than Karatsev (4 vs 5). Therefore, Safiullin played 14 games less than Karatsev. Roman scored 81 winners (57% of the total points). On the other side, Karatsev blasted 97 winners (49%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Safiullin | Karatsev |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 11 | 14 |
| Avg per match | 5.5 | 7 |
| 1st in | 95/141 | 133/191 |
| %1st in | 67% | 70% |
| 1st pts | 81/95 | 97/133 |
| %1st pts | 85% | 73% |
| 2nd pts | 25/46 | 33/58 |
| %2nd pts | 54% | 57% |
Safiullin struck 11 aces (5.5 per match). Karatsev blasted 14 aces (7 per match). Safiullin won 85% points on his first serve. He extremely effective on his second serve to win 54% of the points. On the other side, Karatsev won 73% of the points behind his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 57% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Safiullin | Karatsev |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 2 | 4 |
| Converted | 2/4 | 4/18 |
| % Converted | 50% | 22% |
| Conceded | 3 | 7 |
| Saved | 3 | 5 |
| % Saved | 100% | 71% |
| Times Broken | 0 | 2 |
The Russian broke his opponents twice with a 50% conversion rate. Roman pretty effective on his serve as he has never surrendered a single service game after saving 3 break points. Aslan broke his opponents 4 times with a 22% conversion rate. The Russian conceded his serve twice and he saved 71% of the break points that he conceded.
| Safiullin | ||||
| R1 Karol |
R2 Huesler |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 7-67 7-65 | 6-4 6-3 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | 4 | |
| Tot Games | 26 | 19 | 45 | |
| pts | 81-74 | 60-50 | 141-124 | |
| Total points | 155 | 110 | 265 | |
| Winners | 43 | 38 | 81 | |
| %Winners | 53% | 63% | 57% | |
| SERVE | ||||
| Aces | 1 | 10 | 11 | |
| Double Faults | 1 | 2 | 3 | |
| 1st in | 52/78 | 43/63 | 95/141 | |
| % 1st in | 67% | 68% | 67% | |
| 1st pts | 43/52 | 38/43 | 81/95 | |
| % 1st pts | 83% | 88% | 85% | |
| 2nd pts | 17/26 | 8/20 | 25/46 | |
| % 2nd pts | 65% | 40% | 54% | |
| Breaks | ||||
| Won | 0 | 2 | 2 | |
| Converted | 0/2 | 2/2 | 2/4 | |
| Converted % | 0% | 100% | 50% | |
| Conceded | 1 | 2 | 3 | |
| Saved | 1/1 | 2/2 | 3 | |
| Saved % | 100% | 100% | 100% | |
| Times Broken | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| Karatsev | ||||
| R1 Ritschard |
R2 Kovalik |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-76 7-64 7-63 | 7-66 6-1 | ||
| Tot Set | 3 | 2 | 5 | |
| Tot Games | 39 | 20 | 59 | |
| pts | 130-129 | 69-59 | 199-188 | |
| Total points | 259 | 128 | 387 | |
| Winners | 62 | 35 | 97 | |
| %Winners | 48% | 51% | 49% | |
| SERVE | ||||
| Aces | 7 | 7 | 14 | |
| Double Faults | 2 | 2 | 4 | |
| 1st in | 91/128 | 42/63 | 133/191 | |
| % 1st in | 71% | 67% | 70% | |
| 1st pts | 62/91 | 35/42 | 97/133 | |
| % 1st pts | 68% | 83% | 73% | |
| 2nd pts | 21/37 | 12/21 | 33/58 | |
| % 2nd pts | 57% | 57% | 57% | |
| Breaks | ||||
| Won | 2 | 2 | 4 | |
| Converted | 2/11 | 2/7 | 4/18 | |
| Converted % | 18% | 29% | 22% | |
| Conceded | 7 | 0 | 7 | |
| Saved | 5/7 | 0/0 | 5 | |
| Saved % | 71% | – | 36% | |
| Times Broken | 2 | 0 | 2 | |
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