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Gustavo Kuerten vs Marat Safin Head to Head Tennis Stats and Match Analysis

Gustavo Kuerten seasons:20082007200620052004
Marat Safin seasons:20092008200720062005
🇧🇷 Gustavo Kuerten
🇷🇺 Marat Safin
Age: 49y 191d (1976-09-10)
Hand: R
Backhand: 1H
(1980-01-27) Age: 46y 52d
Hand: R
Backhand: 2H
4 - 3
Wins: 57.1% - 42.9%
Hard 2–1Clay 1–1Grass 0–0
Slam 12Masters 1000 11500 10250 10
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🇧🇷Gustavo Kuerten and 🇷🇺Marat Safin have met 7 times. Gustavo Kuerten currently holds the upper hand, leading the series 43.

Looking at their individual career profiles, 🇧🇷Gustavo Kuerten has compiled an overall career record of 358195 across 553 matches, translating to a win rate of 64.74%. On hard courts his record stands at 14789 (62.29%), while on clay he holds a 18178 (69.88%) mark. On grass the numbers read 78 (46.67%) , and on carpet 2320 (53.49%). Throughout his career he has won 20 titles (6 hard, 14 clay). Against Top 10 opponents his record reads 3836 (51.35%).

🇷🇺Marat Safin, on the other hand, enters this matchup with a career mark of 422267 from 689 matches (61.25% win rate). His hard-court record is 215140 (60.56%), on clay he stands at 12182 (59.61%), and on grass he has gone 2619 (57.78%) , with a carpet record of 6026 (69.77%). He has accumulated 15 titles in total (10 hard, 2 clay, 3 carpet). Against Top 10 opponents his record stands at 4950 (49.49%).

When it comes to their head-to-head meetings, the surface breakdown reveals this contrast. On hard courts they have met 3 times, with Gustavo Kuerten leading 21 (66.67%). The clay record between them sits at 11 (50.00% each) across 2 matches.

Date
Tourney
Surface
Round
Wrk
Winner
Lrk
Loser
Score
BoF
Min
WA
WDF
W1stIn
W1st%
W2nd%
BPSvd
2002-10-07LyonCarpetQF40🇧🇷Gustavo Kuerten4🇷🇺Marat Safin (1)7-5 4-6 7-6(3)311914257.4%79.3%62.8%1/2
2002-08-26US OpenHardR6446🇧🇷Gustavo Kuerten2🇷🇺Marat Safin (2)6-4 6-4 7-5513013356.7%81.8%59.5%2/2
2000-08-14IndianapolisHardF2🇧🇷Gustavo Kuerten (1)7🇷🇺Marat Safin (3)3-6 7-6(2) 7-6(2)31391143.3%61.5%47.1%0/2
2000-05-15Hamburg MastersClayF7🇧🇷Gustavo Kuerten (5)14🇷🇺Marat Safin (12)6-4 5-7 6-4 5-7 7-6(3)5-7152.1%74.4%51.9%4/11
1999-11-01Paris MastersCarpetR3234🇷🇺Marat Safin5🇧🇷Gustavo Kuerten (5)7-6(4) 3-6 7-6(4)311615244.8%76.6%51.7%5/11
1999-01-18Australian OpenHardR6447🇷🇺Marat Safin23🇧🇷Gustavo Kuerten6-3 5-7 4-6 6-3 6-4517012551.2%81.0%53.8%4/7
1998-05-25Roland GarrosClayR64116🇷🇺Marat Safin (Q)8🇧🇷Gustavo Kuerten (8)3-6 7-6(5) 3-6 6-1 6-4516517249.7%80.5%61.4%9/11

Wins

Gustavo Kuerten
Marat Safin
43Overall
12Grand Slam
11Masters 1000
10ATP 500
10ATP 250
21Hard
11Clay
11Indoor Hard

Sets Format

66.7%2
33.3%1
Bo3
50.0%2
50.0%2
Bo5
0.0%0
0.0%0
2 Sets
75.0%3
25.0%1
3 Sets
0.0%0
0.0%0
4 Sets
33.3%1
66.7%2
5 Sets
Gustavo Kuerten
Marat Safin

Deciding

50.0%3
50.0%3
Decider Set
60.0%3
40.0%2
Tiebreak Wins
0.0%0
0.0%0
After 3 hours
Gustavo Kuerten
Marat Safin

Sets

55.6%15
44.4%12
All
53.8%7
46.2%6
Grand Slam
50.0%4
50.0%4
Masters 1000
63.6%7
36.4%4
Hard
0.0%0
0.0%0
Grass
50.0%5
50.0%5
Clay
50.0%3
50.0%3
Carpet
Gustavo Kuerten
Marat Safin

Games

50.3%147
49.7%145
All
50.0%65
50.0%65
Grand Slam
51.1%47
48.9%45
Masters 1000
50.4%59
49.6%58
Hard
0.0%0
0.0%0
Grass
49.5%52
50.5%53
Clay
51.4%36
48.6%34
Carpet
Gustavo Kuerten
Marat Safin

Overview

By Surface

Gustavo Kuerten
Marat Safin

By Tournament Level

Gustavo Kuerten
Marat Safin

By Round

Gustavo Kuerten
Marat Safin

By Opponent Ranking

Gustavo KuertenMarat Safin
60%3-2
vs Top 1
28.6%4-10
59%23-16
vs Top 5
42.3%22-30
51.4%38-36
vs Top 10
49.5%49-50
50%66-66
vs Top 20
49.7%87-88
61.5%259-162
vs Top 100
58%330-239
75%96-32
vs +100
76.5%91-28
45.8%54-64
vs Higher
46.5%93-107
69.8%301-130
vs Lower
67.2%328-160

Opponent Breakdown

Gustavo KuertenMarat Safin
62.3%129-78
Vs Younger
55.4%150-121
66%227-117
Vs Older
65.1%272-146
63.1%297-174
Vs Right-Handed
61.8%375-232
73.8%59-21
Vs Left-Handed
57.3%47-35
58.3%120-86
Vs 2H Backhand
57.5%176-130
64.2%102-57
Vs 1H Backhand
59.5%135-92
65.4%278-147
Vs Shorter
61.2%373-236
58.8%40-28
Vs Taller
70%28-12

Pressure Situations