Alex De Minaur and Roman Safiullin will fight against each other in the 1st round of the Qatar ExxonMobil Open for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Tuesday at 2:30 pm on CENTER COURT. In this post, we analyze their head to head performance and prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Alex De Minaur who should win in 2 sets.
Alex De Minaur -> 1.175
Roman Safiullin -> 4.95
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Prediction and head to head Alex De Minaur vs. Roman Safiullin
There is no head to head record between Alex De Minaur and Roman Safiullin since this will be the first time that they will play each other in the main tour.
Alex De Minaur
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 56-24 | 30-11 | 10-5 | 13-6 | 3-2 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 47-21 | 19-6 | 10-5 | 11-9 | 7-1 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 46-26 | 26-12 | 4-5 | 10-6 | 6-3 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 47-25 | 19-10 | 9-6 | 12-5 | 7-4 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 25-25 | 10-10 | 4-5 | 3-7 | 8-3 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 8, the Australian will start his run in Doha after he played his last match in Rotterdam where he lost 6-4 3-6 6-2 to Alcaraz in the final on the 9th of February.
Alex has a composed 11-2 win-loss record in 2025, 6-1 on hard (See FULL STATS).
The Australian’s best result of the season was getting to the final in Rotterdam.
Talking about his overall career, Alex has an overall 376-210 record. He has a positive 177-87 record on hard.
Previously in Doha
The Australian has never competed in this tournament before.
Roman Safiullin
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 13-20 | 9-12 | 3-4 | 0-0 | 1-4 | 0-0 |
| 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 |
Ranked no. 71, Safiullin will start his run in Doha after he played his last match at the Australian Open where he lost 3-6 6-3 6-3 7-6(5) to Kokkinakis in the 1st round on the 13th of January.
The Russian has a composed 0-3 win-loss record in 2025, 0-3 on hard (See FULL STATS)
.In terms of his career, Safiullin has an overall 398-213 record. He has a positive 225-95 record on hard.
Tennis Scores in Doha
- Jiri LeheckaLehecka – Grigor DimitrovDimitrov (6-4 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Christopher O ConnellO Connell – Hady HabibHabib (7-67 7-63) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Harri Heliovaara/Henry PattenHeliovaara/Henry Patten – Tallon Griekspoor/Adam PavlasekGriekspoor/Adam Pavlasek (7-64 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Fabian MarozsanMarozsan – Aziz DougazDougaz (7-5 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
Upcoming matches in the draw
- Novak DjokovicDjokovic – Matteo BerrettiniBerrettini (4-0) – H2H and prediction
- Jan-Lennard StruffStruff – Tallon GriekspoorGriekspoor (0-2) – H2H and prediction
- Botic Van De ZandschulpVan De Zandschulp – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Quentin HalysHalys – Felix Auger AliassimeAuger Aliassime (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Karen KhachanovKhachanov – Daniil MedvedevMedvedev (2-5) – H2H and prediction
- Zhizhen ZhangZhang – (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Roman SafiullinSafiullin – Alex De MinaurDe Minaur (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Andrey RublevRublev – Alexander BublikBublik (4-3) – H2H and prediction
- Stefanos TsitsipasTsitsipas – (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Alexei PopyrinPopyrin – Jack DraperDraper (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Zizou BergsBergs – Roberto Bautista AgutBautista Agut (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Fabian MarozsanMarozsan – Jiri LeheckaLehecka (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Otto VirtanenVirtanen – Nuno BorgesBorges (2-0) – H2H and prediction
- Carlos Alcaraz GarfiaAlcaraz Garfia – Marin CilicCilic (3-1) – H2H and prediction