Roman Safiullin surprises Popyrin in the 2nd round to play vs Mensik at the Miami Open – MIAMI RESULTS

MIAMI OPEN - MIAMI DRAW AND RESULTS. Safiullin shocks Popyrin to face Jakub Mensik in the 3rd round

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Luke Meyer
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Roman Safiullin shocks Alexei Popyrin 6-7(4) 6-3 7-5 in the 2nd round in Miami on Saturday. Safiullin will engage against Jakub Mensik in the 3rd round. The battle lasted 2 hours and 34 minutes. This will be his best result in this tournament. In the past, the best he could do was reaching the 2nd round in 2024. Here you can see his history at this event.

Safiullin
Miami
Safiullin's Record

Roman added to his prize money $ 25,180 after winning this match. He has already won $ 60,440 after this win. If he wins the next match, Roman will add $ 42,785 to his earnings to get in total $ 103,225 in total.

Stats: aces, double faults, breaks, winners

Safiullin
Popyrin
Roman Safiullin
6-74 6-3 7-5
2h:34
Alexei Popyrin
107
107
Total points
99
99
51
51
Winners
55
55
48%
48%
Ratio Winners
56%
56%
-- Serve --
7
7
Aces
20
20
4
4
Double Faults
5
5
65%
65%
1st in
63%
63%
85%
85%
1st won
77%
77%
51/60
51/60
1st won
55/71
55/71
48%
48%
2nd won
43%
43%
16/33
16/33
2nd won
18/42
18/42
-- Break Points --
4/12
4/12
Total
1/2
1/2
33%
33%
Won
50%
50%
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At the end of the match, the Russian scored 107 points vs. Popyrin’s 99.

Safiullin

Roman served pretty well to win 85% of the points (51/60) behind his first serve. Nevertheless he won only 48% points (16/33) on his second serve. Roman won this match even if he was struggling to find the solution in converting his break points since he converted only 33% (4/12) of the procured opportunities.

Popyrin

On the other side, Alexei was pretty good at converting 50% of the break points that he procured points (1/2). Anyhow, that was not enough to win the contest.

After this match, the head to head between Safiullin and Popyrin is 3-1 for Roman.

Draw and next match H2H: Roman Safiullin vs. Jakub Mensik – stats

Safiullin will fight against Mensik in the 3rd round.

There is no head to head record between Roman Safiullin and Jakub Mensik since this will be the first time that they will fight against each other in the main tour.

Roman Safiullin Draw info

Live score progression and stats

1st Set -
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The Australian won the set after he broke the Russian .

Neither player conceded a single break point during this set. On the other side, the Russian was flawless in converting all his break points in the 2nd (1-1 30-40) and the 14th game (5-7 30-40).

They contested 81 points. Popyrin was the one to win the set after conquering 7 more points than Roman (44-37). Alexei dropped 13 points on serve (36-13). On the other side, Roman conceded 8 points on serve (24-8).

2nd Set -
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Safiullin won the set after he broke the Australian in the 3rd (2-1) and in the 9th (6-3) game.

Roman failed to serve out the set when leading 6-3 to be broken at 15.

Safiullin converted 50% of his break points (2/4). He had 4 break points opportunities in the 3rd (1-1 15-40 and 30-40) and the 9th game (5-3 40-A and 40-A). On the other side, Roman didn’t concede a single break point during this set.

They contested 52 points. The Russian was the one to win the set after conquering 10 more points than the Australian (31-21). Safiullin lost 7 points on serve (20-7). On the other side, the Australian conceded 11 points on serve (14-11).

3rd Set -
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Safiullin started the set in the best possible way after breaking Alexei Popyrin in the 2nd game (2-0) before consolidating his break and lead 3-0. Notwithstanding, the set was not over yet and there was more work to do for Safiullin to win the set as Popyrin found the way to break back in the 5th (2-3) game. The Russian kept his cool to break Alexei in the 12th (7-5) game.

Roman converted 16% of his break points (1/6). He had 6 break points opportunities in the 1st (0-0 40-A), the 5th (3-2 15-40 and 30-40) and the 12th game (6-5 0-40, 15-40 and 30-40). In addition on the other side, Alexei converted 50% of his break points (1/2). He had his opportunities in the 3rd (0-2 30-40) and the 5th game (1-3 40-A).

They contested 73 points. Roman was the winner of the set after clinching 7 points more than the Australian (40-33). Safiullin conceded 9 points on serve (20-9). Regarding the other side of the net, Popyrin conceded 20 points on serve (24-20).

1st
Safiullin
Popyrin
6-7
6
7
6
6
6
5
5
5
5
4
4
4
4
3
3
3
3
2
2
2
2
1
1
1
1
0
2nd
Safiullin
Popyrin
6-3
6
3
5
3
4
3
4
2
3
2
3
1
2
1
1
1
0
1
3rd
Safiullin
Popyrin
7-5
7
5
6
5
5
5
5
4
4
4
4
3
3
3
3
2
3
1
3
0
2
0
1
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