Roman Safiullin

In this name that follows Eastern Slavic naming customs, the patronymic is Rishatovich and the family name is Safiullin .

Roman Safiullin
Роман Сафиуллин

Safiullin in 2021
Country (sports)	Russia
Residence	Podolsk, Russia
Born	(1997-08-07) 7 August 1997 Podolsk, Russia
Height	1.85 m (6 ft 1 in)
Turned pro	2015
Plays	Right-handed (two-handed backhand)
Coach	Rishat Safiullin, Andrey Kuznetsov
Prize money	US $1,031,252
Singles
Career record	15–19
Career titles	0
Highest ranking	No. 82 (6 February 2023)
Current ranking	No. 112 (24 April 2023)
Grand Slam singles results
Australian Open	2R (2021)
French Open	2R (2021)
Wimbledon	Q2 (2021)
US Open	Q1 (2022)
Doubles
Career record	3–4
Career titles	0
Highest ranking	No. 239 (7 February 2022)
Current ranking	No. 1009T (24 April 2023)
Medal record Men's tennis Representing Russia Universiade 2017 Taipei Men's Singles
Last updated on: 29 April 2023.

Roman Rishatovich Safiullin (born 7 August 1997) is a Russian professional tennis player. Safiullin is a junior major champion, having won the 2015 Australian Open over Hong Seong-chan. Safiullin has a career high ATP singles ranking of world No. 82 achieved on 6 February 2023, and doubles of world No. 239 achieved on 7 February 2022.

Career

Safiullin was born in Podolsk, Russia, to a Tatar father and Russian mother.

On the junior tour, Safiullin has a career high combined ranking of No. 2 achieved on 26 May 2014. His biggest junior title, after his Australian Open title, is the Grade A Trofeo Bonfiglio where he beat Andrey Rublev in the final.

2020: Maiden Challenger titles in singles and doubles

Safiullin claimed his maiden Challenger tour titles in singles and doubles with Pavel Kotov in Cherbourg, France in February 2020.

2021: Grand Slam debut

He made his Grand Slam debut at the 2021 Australian Open where he reached the second round by defeating Ilya Ivashka. He also qualified for the 2021 French Open reaching also the second round with a win over Carlos Taberner. As a result he reached a career-high singles ranking of No. 156 on 14 June 2021.

2022: ATP Cup & semifinals, first ATP semifinal & top 10 win, top 100

On his debut, he reached the semifinals at the 2022 ATP Cup after winning 2 singles and 3 doubles matches with teammate Daniil Medvedev. As a result he moved 21 positions up in the rankings to a new career-high in the top 150 in singles of World No. 146 on 10 January 2022.

At the 2022 Australian Open, he qualified as lucky loser after the withdrawal of Casper Ruud where he lost to Alex Molčan.

Safiullin qualified for Marseilles after beating Ernests Gulbis and Julian Lenz. After qualifying, he beat 7th seed Alexei Popyrin and fellow qualifier Tomáš Macháč to reach his first ATP Tour-level quarterfinal. There, he claimed his first top-10 win by beating top seed Stefanos Tsitsipas in straight sets, for the best win in his career, to reach his first semifinal on the ATP Tour. He lost to Felix Auger-Aliassime in straight sets with two tiebreaks.

In July, he won his second Challenger title in Nur Sultan. As a result, he reached a new career-high ranking in the top 120 at world No. 119. He then won a third Challenger title in Chicago, propelling him 25 positions up to a top 100 debut at world No. 97 on 15 August 2022.

In September, Safiullin reached the second semifinal of the season in Tel Aviv, where he lost in straight sets to top seed Novak Djokovic. As a result he reached a new career-high ranking of world No. 92 on 3 October 2022.

2023: Fourth Challenger title, Three Masters debuts and third round

He reached a new career-high ranking of No. 82 on 6 February 2023 after he clinched his first ATP Challenger Tour title of the year at the 2023 Koblenz Open. He won four three-set matches before defeating Vasek Pospisil in the final.

He made his Masters 1000 debut at the 2023 BNP Paribas Open but lost to Ilya Ivashka. He qualified for his second Masters at the 2023 Miami Open but also lost in the first round to Grégoire Barrère.

On clay, he qualified for his third Masters at the 2023 Mutua Madrid Open and reached the third round for the first time defeating Nicolás Jarry and 14th seed Tommy Paul (tennis).

Grand Slam singles performance timeline

Key

W

F

SF

QF

#R

RR

Q#

P#

DNQ

A

Z#

PO

G

S

B

NMS

NTI

P

NH

(W) winner; (F) finalist; (SF) semifinalist; (QF) quarterfinalist; (#R) rounds 4, 3, 2, 1; (RR) round-robin stage; (Q#) qualification round; (P#) preliminary round; (DNQ) did not qualify; (A) absent; (Z#) Davis/Fed Cup Zonal Group (with number indication) or (PO) play-off; (G) gold, (S) silver or (B) bronze Olympic/Paralympic medal; (NMS) not a Masters tournament; (NTI) not a Tier I tournament; (P) postponed; (NH) not held; (SR) strike rate (events won / competed); (W–L) win–loss record.

To avoid confusion and double counting, these charts are updated at the conclusion of a tournament or when the player's participation has ended.

Tournament	2020	2021	2022	2023	W–L
Australian Open	A	2R	1R	1R	1–3
French Open	Q2	2R	Q1		1–1
Wimbledon	NH	Q2	A		0–0
US Open	A	A	Q1		0–0
Win–loss	0–0	2–2	0–1	0–1	2–4

Junior Grand Slam finals

Singles: 1 (1 title)

Result	Year	Tournament	Surface	Opponent	Score
Win	2015	Australian Open	Hard	Hong Seong-chan	7–5, 7–6(7–2)

Other finals

Challenger and Futures/World Tennis tour finals

Singles: 29 (23 titles, 6 runner-ups)

Legend (singles) ATP Challenger tour (4–0) ITF Futures tour (19–6)

Titles by surface Hard (20–5) Clay (3–1) Grass (0–0) Carpet (0–0)

Result	W–L	Date	Tournament	Tier	Surface	Opponent	Score
Win	1–0	Apr 2014	Uzbekistan F1, Qarshi	Futures	Hard	Temur Ismailov	2–6, 7–5, 6–1
Loss	1–1	Aug 2014	Russia F5, Kazan	Futures	Clay	Anton Zaytsev	3–6, 4–6
Win	2–1	Aug 2014	Russia F6, Kazan	Futures	Clay	Richard Muzaev	6–1, 4–6, 6–1
Win	3–1	Nov 2014	Greece F11, Heraklion	Futures	Hard	Ivan Bjelica	6–0, 3–6, 6–3
Win	4–1	Nov 2014	Greece F12, Heraklion	Futures	Hard	Denis Bejtulahi	4–6, 7–6(7–2), 6–4
Win	5–1	Nov 2014	Turkey F42, Antalya	Futures	Hard	Denys Mylokostov	7–6(9–7), 6–3
Win	6–1	Dec 2014	Turkey F43, Antalya	Futures	Hard	Frederico Ferreira Silva	6–1, 1–2 ret.
Loss	6–2	Feb 2016	Turkey F5, Antalya	Futures	Hard	Hong Seong-chan	2–6, 5–7
Win	7–2	Feb 2016	Turkey F8, Antalya	Futures	Hard	Dimitar Kuzmanov	3–6, 7–5, 7–5
Win	8–2	Aug 2016	Egypt F21, Sharm el-Sheikh	Futures	Hard	Michal Konečný	6–2, 6–1
Loss	8–3	Sep 2016	Egypt F23, Sharm el-Sheikh	Futures	Hard	Anis Ghorbel	7–5, 2–6, 6–7(4–7)
Win	9–3	Oct 2016	Israel F14, Meitar	Futures	Hard	Daniel Cukierman	6–0, 6–4
Win	10–3	Oct 2016	Egypt F30, Sharm el-Sheikh	Futures	Hard	Pablo Vivero González	6–2, 7–6(7–5)
Loss	10–4	Nov 2016	Egypt F32, Sharm el-Sheikh	Futures	Hard	Michal Schmid	3–6, 6–0, 6–7(5–7)
Win	11–4	Nov 2017	Egypt F34, Sharm el-Sheikh	Futures	Hard	Cem İlkel	7–5, 7–6(7–3)
Win	12–4	Mar 2018	Russia F3, Kazan	Futures	Hard (i)	Jurabek Karimov	6–2, 6–1
Win	13–4	Mar 2018	Egypt F10, Sharm el-Sheikh	Futures	Hard	Jaroslav Pospíšil	6–1, 6–1
Loss	13–5	Jun 2018	Uzbelistan F4, Namangan	Futures	Hard	Cem İlkel	1–6, 6–7(12–14)
Win	14–5	Oct 2018	Vietnam F4, Tây Ninh	Futures	Hard	Lý Hoàng Nam	7–6(9–7), 6–4
Win	15–5	Nov 2018	Vietnam F5, Tây Ninh	Futures	Hard	Lý Hoàng Nam	7–6(7–5), 6–4
Win	16–5	Nov 2018	Thailand F8, Nonthaburi	Futures	Hard	Sanjar Fayziev	7–5, 4–6, 6–4
Win	17–5	Mar 2019	M25 Kazan, Russia	World Tennis Tour	Hard (i)	Sanjar Fayziev	6–3, 1–6, 6–4
Win	18–5	Apr 2019	M25 Shymkent, Kazakhstan	World Tennis Tour	Clay	Alen Avidzba	7–6(7–2), 6–2
Win	19–5	Apr 2019	M25 Shymkent, Kazakhstan	World Tennis Tour	Clay	Vladyslav Manafov	7–5, 6–3
Loss	19–6	May 2019	M25 Namangan, Uzbekistan	World Tennis Tour	Hard	Tim Van Rijthoven	7–6(7–5), 5–7, 4–6
Win	20–6	Feb 2020	Cherbourg, France	Challenger	Hard (i)	Roberto Marcora	6–4, 6–2
Win	21–6	Jul 2022	Nur-Sultan, Kazakhstan	Challenger	Hard	Denis Yevseyev	2–6, 6–4, 7–6(7–2)
Win	22–6	Aug 2022	Chicago, USA	Challenger	Hard	Ben Shelton	6–3, 4–6, 7–5
Win	23–6	Feb 2023	Koblenz, Germany	Challenger	Hard (i)	Vasek Pospisil	6–2, 7–5

Doubles: 11 (4 titles, 7 runners-up)

Legend
Challengers (1–0)
Futures (3–7)

Result	W–L	Date	Tournament	Tier	Surface	Partner	Opponents	Score
Loss	0–1	Aug 2014	Kazan, Russia	Futures	Clay	Marin Bradarić	Ilia Shatskiy Alexander Zhurbin	5–7, 1–6
Loss	0–2	Aug 2014	Kazan, Russia	Futures	Clay	Alexander Bublik	Andrei Levine Anton Zaytsev	1–6, 3–6
Win	1–2	Mar 2016	Hammamet, Tunisia	Futures	Clay	Lenny Hampel	Ivan Nedelko Henrik Sillanpää	6–1, 6–3
Loss	1–3	Aug 2016	Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt	Futures	Hard	Michal Konečný	Pedro Bernardi Christopher Díaz Figueroa	6–7(4–7), 7–6(7–2), [7–10]
Loss	1–4	Mar 2018	Kazan, Russia	Futures	Hard (i)	Teymuraz Gabashvili	Alexander Pavlioutchenkov Evgeny Tyurnev	4–6, 6–3, [6–10]
Win	2–4	Apr 2018	Qarshi, Uzbekistan	Futures	Hard	Konstantin Kravchuk	Saketh Myneni Vijay Sundar Prashanth	3–6, 7–5, [10–7]
Loss	2–5	Jun 2018	Andijan, Uzbekistan	Futures	Hard	Konstantin Kravchuk	Sergey Betov Yaraslav Shyla	4–6, 6–7(2–7)
Loss	2–6	Jun 2018	Namangan, Uzbekistan	Futures	Hard	Konstantin Kravchuk	Sanjar Fayziev Khumoyun Sultanov	6–7(6–8), 7–5, [8–10]
Loss	2–7	Nov 2018	Tây Ninh, Vietnam	Futures	Hard	Lý Hoàng Nam	Francis Alcantara Markus Eriksson	7–5, 4–6, [7–10]
Win	3–7	May 2019	Namangan M25, Uzbekistan	World Tennis Tour	Hard	Evgenii Tiurnev	Sanjar Fayziev Khumoyun Sultanov	7–6(7–5), 6–3
Win	4–7	Feb 2020	Cherbourg, France	Challenger	Hard (i)	Pavel Kotov	Dan Added Albano Olivetti	7–6(8–6), 5–7, [12–10]

Record against other players

Record against top 10 players

Safiullin's record against players who have been ranked in the top 10, with those who are active in boldface. Only ATP Tour main draw matches are considered:

Player	Record	Win %	Hard	Clay	Grass	Last Match
Number 3 ranked players
Stefanos Tsitsipas	1–0	100%	1–0	–	–	Won (6–4, 6–4) at 2022 Marseille
Alexander Zverev	0–1	0%	–	0–1	–	Lost (6–7(4–7), 3–6, 6–7(1–7)) at 2021 French Open
Number 10 ranked players
Denis Shapovalov	0–1	0%	0–1	–	–	Lost (4–6, 7–5, 4–6) at 2022 ATP Cup
Total	1–2	33%	1–1 (50%)	0–1 (0%)	0–0 ( – )	* Statistics correct as of 19 February 2022

Wins over top 10 players

• He has a 1–2 record against players who were, at the time the match was played, ranked in the top 10.

Season	2022	Total
Wins	1	1

#	Player	Rank	Event	Surface	Rd	Score	RSR
2022
1.	Stefanos Tsitsipas	4	Marseille, France	Hard (i)	QF	6–4, 6–4	163

*As of 19 February 2022

Awards

• The Russian Cup in the nominations:
  • Team of the Year — Boys Under-16: 2013.
  • Junior of the Year: 2015.

External links

• Roman Safiullin at the Association of Tennis Professionals
• Roman Safiullin at the International Tennis Federation