Roman Safiullin gets by Fabio Fognini 6-3 6-3 in the 1st round in Belgrade on Tuesday. Safiullin will fight against Francisco Cerundolo in the 2nd round. The match lasted 1 hour and 14 minutes. This will be his best result in this event. In the past, the best he could do was reaching the 1st round in 2022. Here you can see his previous results at this event.

Belgrade
Safiullin's Record

Safiullin added to his prize money € 5,125 after winning this match. He has already won € 13,165 after this win. If he wins the next match, the Russian will add € 9,505 to his earnings to get in total € 22,670 in total.

Highlights Roman Safiullin vs. Fabio Fognini Belgrade Open – Belgrade

Stats: aces, double faults, breaks, winners

Safiullin
Fognini
6-3 6-3
1h:14
63
63
Total points
43
43
28
28
Winners
21
21
44%
44%
Ratio Winners
49%
49%
-- Serve --
9
9
Aces
2
2
2
2
Double Faults
0
0
62%
62%
1st in
59%
59%
97%
97%
1st won
60%
60%
28/29
28/29
1st won
21/35
21/35
39%
39%
2nd won
42%
42%
7/18
7/18
2nd won
10/24
10/24
-- Break Points --
4/7
4/7
Total
1/1
1/1
57%
57%
Won
100%
100%
See Full Stats

At the end of the match, the Russian scored 63 points vs. the Italian’s 43.

Safiullin

Safiullin served pretty well to win 97% of the points (28/29) behind his first serve. Notwithstanding he won only 39% points (7/18) on his second serve. Safiullin was effective at converting 57% of the break points that he conquered (4/7).

Fognini

On the other side, Fabio was exceptional in converting the only break point that he converted. Anyhow, that was not enough to win the match.

After this encounter, the head to head between Safiullin and Fognini is 2-0 for Roman.

Draw and next match H2H: Roman Safiullin vs. Francisco Cerundolo – stats

Safiullin will take on Cerundolo in the 2nd round.

This will be the 2nd time that Roman Safiullin and Francisco Cerundolo face off. The head to head is 1-0 for Safiullin (see full H2H stats), but they have never played each other on I.hard.

The last time that they played, Safiullin won 6-75 3-6 7-5 6-3 6-4 in the 1st round in Wimbledon back in July 2024.

Live score progression and stats

1st Set -
Safiullin 6-3
SafiullinFognini
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3
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15
0
30
0
40
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Safiullin had a great start in this set after breaking Fabio Fognini in the 1st game (1-0). Nevertheless, the Russian refused to bow to come back to break Fabio in the 2nd (1-1) and in the 6th (4-2) game before winning the set (6-3).

Roman converted 40% of his break points (2/5). He had 5 break points opportunities in the 2nd

(1-1 30-40 and 40-A), the 6th (3-2 0-40 and 15-40) and the 8th
game (5-2 40-A). On the other side, Fabio was clinical in converting the only break point that he conquered in the 1st game (0-0 15-40).

They played 67 points. The Russian won 7 more points than Fognini (37-30). Roman surrendered 9 points on serve (19-9). On the losing side, Fognini conceded 18 points on serve (21-18).

2nd Set -
Safiullin 6-3
SafiullinFognini
6
3
15
0
15
15
30
15
40
15
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3
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0
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SafiullinFognini
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2
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2
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40
SafiullinFognini
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1
0
15
15
15
30
15
40
15

Safiullin won the set after he broke Fognini in the 7th (4-3) and in the 9th (6-3) game.

The Italian was eclipsed in the last 4 games of the set when the game count went from 2-3 to 6-3.

The Russian was perfect in converting all his break points in the 7th (3-3 15-40) and the 9th game (5-3 15-40). On the other side, Roman didn’t concede a single break point during this set.

They played 39 points. The Russian was the one to win the set after conquering 13 points more than Fabio (26-13). The Russian was extremely solid on serve to drop just 3 points (16-3). on the other side of the net, the Italian conceded 10 points on serve (10-10).

1st
Safiullin
Fognini
6-3
6
3
5
3
5
2
4
2
3
2
2
2
2
1
1
1
0
1
2nd
Safiullin
Fognini
6-3
6
3
5
3
4
3
3
3
2
3
2
2
1
2
1
1
0
1

Tennis Scores in Belgrade

  • Laslo DjereDjere – Stan WawrinkaWawrinka (6-4 6-4)
  • Roman SafiullinSafiullin – Fabio FogniniFognini (6-3 6-3)
  • Denis ShapovalovShapovalov – Marton FucsovicsFucsovics (6-76 7-5 6-1)
  • Tomas Martin EtcheverryMartin Etcheverry – Pavel KotovKotov (6-3 6-4)
  • Marin CilicCilic – Alexandre MullerMuller (7-62 6-3)
  • Daniel AltmaierAltmaier – Luciano DarderiDarderi (7-61 6-3)
  • Lukas KleinKlein – James DuckworthDuckworth (6-4 6-2)
  • Christopher O ConnellO Connell – Miomir KecmanovicKecmanovic (6-1 6-1)
  • Aleksandar KovacevicKovacevic – Branko DjuricDjuric (6-2 6-2)
  • Dusan LajovicLajovic – Mariano NavoneNavone (6-0 7-63)
  • Hamad MedjedovicMedjedovic – Brandon NakashimaNakashima (3-6 7-5 6-3)
  • Fabian MarozsanMarozsan – Juncheng ShangShang (2-6 7-65 7-5)

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