Roman Safiullin and Aslan Karatsev will square off in the quarter of the Bratislava 2 Challenger for the 6^th 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 6^th 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

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 2^nd 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

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 2^nd

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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