Tallon Griekspoor and Roman Safiullin will play each other in the 1st round of the Dubai Duty Free Tennis Championships for the 2nd time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Tuesday at 4:30 pm on COURT 3. In the following paragraphs, you can find the head to head analysis and prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Tallon Griekspoor who should win in 3 sets.
As per the initial odds, Tallon Griekspoor is the pick to win this match.
Tallon Griekspoor -> 1.5
Roman Safiullin -> 2.59
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Prediction and head to head Tallon Griekspoor vs. Roman Safiullin
This will be the 2nd time that Tallon Griekspoor and Roman Safiullin clash against each other. The head to head is 1-0 for Griekspoor (see full H2H stats), 1-0 on hard.
The last time that they played, Griekspoor won 2-6 3-6 7-6(3) 6-4 7-5 in the 1st round in at the Australian Open back in 2024.
Highlights Tallon Griekspoor vs Roman Safiullin – Australian Open 16-January-2024
Tallon Griekspoor
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 32-24 | 10-11 | 13-8 | 5-4 | 4-1 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 33-30 | 10-11 | 8-8 | 11-8 | 4-3 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 36-24 | 14-10 | 3-5 | 12-7 | 7-2 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 28-27 | 5-6 | 12-6 | 4-11 | 7-4 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 59-17 | 11-3 | 36-10 | 9-3 | 3-1 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 47, Tallon will start his run in Dubai after he played his last match in Doha where he lost 7-6(4) 6-7(6) 6-4 to Berrettini in the 2nd round on the 19th of February.
Griekspoor has a composed 4-4 win-loss record in 2025, 1-2 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Talking about his overall career, Tallon has an overall 376-227 record. He has a positive 128-70 record on hard.
Previously in Dubai
Previously, his best result was reaching the 2nd round in 2023 and 2024. See his history.
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. 72, the Russian got to the 1st round after beating Nikoloz Basilashvili 7-6(1) 3-6 6-3 and Otto Virtanen 6-3 7-6(5).
In the qualifications, Safiullin had a good straight sets win against Virtanen (6-3 7-65). During the match Safiullin scored 73 points vs Virtanen’s 61. Safiullin was extremely aggressive to blast 33 winners.
About the serving games, Safiullin fired 10 aces and he committed only 4 double faults. Overall, Roman Safiullin was exceptionally effective on serve to win 89% (33/37) of his 1st serve and 52% (14/27) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve once. Roman broke Virtanen twice after converting 67% of his break points (2/3).
Overall Performance in this tournament
The Russian started his run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, he has conceded 1 set in the tournament to win 53% of the points he played.
Safiullin has an overall 2-4 win-loss record in 2025, 2-4 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in Dubai
Previously, his best result was reaching the qualifications in 2023. See his history.
Head 2 Head
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- Roberto Bautista AgutBautista Agut – Fabian MarozsanMarozsan (3-6 6-3 7-64) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Alexei PopyrinPopyrin – Hady HabibHabib (6-2 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Karen KhachanovKaren – Daniel EvansDaniel (6-1 6-3) – See score progression
Upcoming matches in the draw
- Gael MonfilsMonfils – Matteo BerrettiniBerrettini (0-3) – H2H and prediction
- Marin CilicCilic – Alex De MinaurDe Minaur (2-2) – H2H and prediction
- Daniil MedvedevMedvedev – Jan-Lennard StruffStruff (8-2) – H2H and prediction
- Alexander BublikBublik – Felix Auger AliassimeAuger Aliassime (2-2) – H2H and prediction
- Christopher O ConnellO Connell – Grigor DimitrovDimitrov (0-3) – H2H and prediction
- Quentin HalysHalys – Andrey RublevRublev (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Roman SafiullinSafiullin – Tallon GriekspoorGriekspoor (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Stefanos TsitsipasTsitsipas – Lorenzo SonegoSonego (3-0) – H2H and prediction
- Aziz DougazDougaz – Zizou BergsBergs (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Jiri LeheckaLehecka – Ugo HumbertHumbert (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Jack DraperDraper – Marton FucsovicsFucsovics (0-0) – H2H and prediction
