

What Time Will Roman Safiullin Play Against Fabio Fognini?
Safiullin and Fognini are on the Day 2 Schedule at Chengdu Open 2024 on Thursday 19 September 2024. Lets breakdown the career, past stats and recent form of these players and predict who will get the victory.
Who Will Win In This Head-To-Head?
The upcoming match is between Roman Safiullin and Fabio Fognini. This will be their first meeting on the court. Roman Safiullin, aged 27, is currently ranked 56 in the world and has reached a career-high ranking of 36 in January 2024. In 2023, he achieved his personal-best of 20 wins, including reaching the final at Chengdu and defeating the number 2 player, Alcaraz, at ATP Masters 1000 Paris to reach the third round as a qualifier. During his debut at Wimbledon, Safiullin, ranked 92 at the time, became the lowest-ranked quarter-finalist since Kyrgios in 2014. He has also reached his first ATP Tour semi-final at 2022 Marseille by defeating the two-time champion and world number 4, Tsitsipas, and advanced to the second semi-final on indoor hard courts at 2022 Tel Aviv. Safiullin had a successful junior career, ending as the 2015 Australian Open champion and posting wins over players like Medvedev, Rublev, and Khachanov on the ITF Junior Circuit. Last year, he made his only ATP Tour final in Chengdu, where he lost to Zverev.
Fabio Fognini, aged 37, is currently ranked 79 in the world and has reached a
career-high ranking of 9. In 2019, at the age of 32, he became the oldest player to break into the top 10 for the first time and the first Italian player in the top 10 since Barazzutti in 1979. Fognini also became the first Italian ATP Masters 1000 champion by defeating Nadal for the third time on clay to win the 2019 Monte Carlo title. He holds the record for the most victories by an Italian man in the Open Era, with 425 wins. This includes his biggest career win over the number 1 player, Murray, at the 2017 Rome tournament. Fognini has won 9 singles titles and 8 doubles titles and had success as a doubles player, reaching 3 ATP Masters 1000 finals and qualifying for the Nitto ATP Finals with Bolelli. He is married to Flavia Pennetta, the 2015 US Open women’s singles champion, and they have three children together. Fognini is looking for his first hard court tour-level win since March, when he defeated Baez at ATP Masters 1000 Indian Wells. His most recent hard court ATP Tour final was in 2018 in Chengdu, where he missed 4 match points against Tomic.
The match between Safiullin and Fognini will take place on Court 1.
My Conclusion / Prediction:
My pick is that Safiullin will win.
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