Felix Auger-Aliassime and Roman Safiullin will clash against each other in the 2^nd round of the U.S. Open for the 2^nd time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Thursday at 6:00 pm on Court 5. In this post, we analyze their head to head performance and prediction.

Prediction, odds and live streaming

The pick for Tennis Tonic is Felix Auger-Aliassime who should win in 4 sets.

As per the initial odds, Felix Auger-Aliassime is the pick to win this match.
Felix Auger-Aliassime -> 1.41
Roman Safiullin -> 2.91

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Prediction and head to head Felix Auger-Aliassime vs. Roman Safiullin

This will be the 2^nd time that Felix Auger-Aliassime and Roman Safiullin fight against each other. The head to head is 1-0 for Auger-Aliassime (see full H2H stats), but they have never played each other on hard.

The last time that they fought against each other, Auger-Aliassime won 7-6(4) 7-6(5) in the semifinal in Marseille back in 2022.

Highlights Felix Auger-Aliassime vs Roman Safiullin – Marseille 19-February-2022

Felix Auger-Aliassime

Ranked no. 27, Auger-Aliassime got to the 2^nd round after beating Billy Harris 6-4 7-6(8) 6-4.

In the 1^st round, Felix had a good straight sets win against Harris (6-4 7-6⁸ 6-4). During the match, Auger-Aliassime scored 115 points vs Harris’s 102. Auger-Aliassime was extremely aggressive to blast 53 winners.

Talking about the service games, Auger-Aliassime bagged 10 aces and he committed only 5 double faults. Felix Auger-Aliassime lost the serve 3 times and he saved 7 break points. Furthermore, Auger-Aliassime put 67% of his first serves in, winning 74% (53/72) of the points behind his 1st serve and 49% (17/35) on the 2nd serve. Auger-Aliassime broke Harris 5 times after converting 63% of his break points (5/8).

Auger-Aliassime has a solid win-loss record in the last 10 years having won 62% of his matches (358-219). 17-8 on hard in 2025. Regarding his performance on the same surface of this tournament, Auger-Aliassime has an overall 120-90 record in the last years on hard.

His best result of the year was conquering the title in Adelaide where he overcame Sebastian Korda in the final 6-3 3-6 6-1 and in Montpellier where he beat Aleksandar Kovacevic in the final 6-2 6-7(7) 7-6(2).

Felix has a compiled 30-19 win-loss record in 2025, 17-8 on hard (See FULL STATS).

Previously at the U.S. Open

Roman Safiullin

Ranked no. 94, the Russian got to the 2^nd round after defeating Gael Monfils 6-4 2-6 6-1 3-6 6-4.

In the 1^st round, Safiullin had a tough win against Monfils to overcome his opponent only in 5 sets (6-4 2-6 6-1 3-6 6-4). During the match Safiullin scored 121 points vs Monfils’s 115. The Russian was exceptionally aggressive to blast 60 winners.

Talking about serving, Safiullin struck 8 aces and he committed only 3 double faults. Roman Safiullin lost the serve 6 times and he saved 1 break points. Furthermore, Safiullin put 69% of his first serves in, winning 73% (60/82) of the points behind his 1st serve and 38% (14/37) on the 2nd serve. Roman broke Monfils 7 times after converting 58% of his break points (7/12).

Safiullin’s best result of the current year was reaching the semifinal in the Oeiras 4 Challenger.

Safiullin has an overall 13-19 win-loss record in 2025, 9-11 on hard (See FULL STATS).

Previously at the U.S. Open

Previously, his best result was reaching the 2^nd round in 2023 and 2024. See his history.

H2H Performance in the tournament

Matches, sets, games and points

Points	Auger-Aliassime	Safiullin
Match played	1	1
Tot Set	3	5
Tot Games	33	44
Pts	115-102	121-115
Total Points	217	236
Winners	53	60
%Winners	46%	50%

Both Auger-Aliassime and Safiullin played 1 match. At the moment, Roman Safiullin lost 2 sets while Felix Auger-Aliassime hasn’t conceded a set so far. Auger-Aliassime has played 2 set(s) less than Safiullin (3 vs 5). Therefore, Auger-Aliassime played 11 games less than Safiullin. Auger-Aliassime scored 53 winners (46% of the total points). On the other side, Safiullin scored 60 winners (50%).

Serve Performance

Serve	Auger-Aliassime	Safiullin
Aces	10	8
Avg per match	10	8
1st in	72/107	82/119
%1st in	67%	69%
1st pts	53/72	60/82
%1st pts	74%	73%
2nd pts	17/35	14/37
%2nd pts	49%	38%

Auger-Aliassime fired 10 aces . Safiullin recorded 8 aces . Auger-Aliassime won 74% points on his first serve. He pretty solid on his second serve to win 49% of the points. On the other side, Safiullin won 73% of the points on his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 38% of the points.

How they played the important points

Breaks	Auger-Aliassime	Safiullin
Won	5	7
Converted	5/8	7/12
% Converted	63%	58%
Conceded	10	7
Saved	7	1
% Saved	70%	14%
Times Broken	3	6

Auger-Aliassime broke his opponent 5 times with a 63% conversion rate. The Canadian conceded his serve 3 times and he saved 70% of the break points that he conceded. Roman broke his opponent 7 times with a 58% conversion rate. Safiullin conceded his serve 6 times and he saved 14% of the break points that he conceded.

Auger-Aliassime
	R1 Harris	Total
Score	6-4 7-68 6-4
Tot Set	3	3
Tot Games	33	33
pts	115-102	115-102
Total points	217	217
Winners	53	53
%Winners	46%	46%
SERVE
Aces	10	10
Double Faults	5	5
1st in	72/107	72/107
% 1st in	67%	67%
1st pts	53/72	53/72
% 1st pts	74%	74%
2nd pts	17/35	17/35
% 2nd pts	49%	49%
Breaks
Won	5	5
Converted	5/8	5/8
Converted %	63%	63%
Conceded	10	10
Saved	7/10	7
Saved %	70%	70%
Times Broken	3	3

Safiullin
	R1 Monfils	Total
Score	6-4 2-6 6-1 3-6 6-4
Tot Set	5	5
Tot Games	44	44
pts	121-115	121-115
Total points	236	236
Winners	60	60
%Winners	50%	50%
SERVE
Aces	8	8
Double Faults	3	3
1st in	82/119	82/119
% 1st in	69%	69%
1st pts	60/82	60/82
% 1st pts	73%	73%
2nd pts	14/37	14/37
% 2nd pts	38%	38%
Breaks
Won	7	7
Converted	7/12	7/12
Converted %	58%	58%
Conceded	7	7
Saved	1/7	1
Saved %	14%	14%
Times Broken	6	6

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