Alexei Popyrin and Roman Safiullin will square off in the 2nd round of the Miami Open for the 4th time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Saturday at 4:00 pm on COURT 5. In the following lines you can find the head to head analysis and 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 -> 1.9
Alexei Popyrin -> 1.9
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Prediction and head to head Alexei Popyrin vs. Roman Safiullin
This will be the 4th time that Alexei Popyrin and Roman Safiullin face off. The head to head is 2-1 for Safiullin (see full H2H stats), 1-0 on hard.
The last time that they competed against each other, Safiullin won 6-7(9) 6-4 7-6(3) in the 2nd round in Brisbane back in 2024.
Highlights Roman Safiullin vs Alexei Popyrin – Brisbane 03-January-2024
Alexei Popyrin
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 2-7 | 2-6 | 0-0 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 30-22 | 17-8 | 4-8 | 4-3 | 5-3 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 36-29 | 18-14 | 15-6 | 1-4 | 2-5 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 24-31 | 7-16 | 7-4 | 3-5 | 7-6 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 32-26 | 13-11 | 8-6 | 10-5 | 1-4 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 26, Alexei will start his run in Miami after he played his last match in Indian Wells where he lost 5-7 6-3 6-3 to Giron in the 3rd round on the 9th of March.
Popyrin has an aggregate 2-6 win-loss record in 2025, 2-5 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Talking about his overall career, Alexei has an overall 275-219 record. He has a positive 138-104 record on hard.
Previously in Miami
Previously, his best result was reaching the 3rd round in 2021 and 2024. See his history.
Roman Safiullin
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 6-8 | 6-8 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 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, Roman reached the 2nd round after defeating Jenson Brooksby 6-3 3-6 6-3.
In the 1st round, The Russian defeated Brooksby (6-3 3-6 6-3). During the match Safiullin scored 91 points vs Brooksby’s 89. Roman was quite aggressive to blast 52 winners.
About the serving games, Safiullin fired 12 aces and he committed only 2 double faults. Roman Safiullin lost the serve twice and he saved 7 break points. Furthermore, Safiullin put 72% of his first serves in, winning 71% (52/73) of the points behind his 1st serve and 41% (12/29) on the 2nd serve. The Russian broke Brooksby 3 times after converting 60% of his break points (3/5).
Roman has an aggregate 5-7 win-loss record in 2025, 5-7 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in Miami
Previously, his best result was reaching the 2nd round in 2024. See his history.
Head 2 Head
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