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Marat Safin vs Nicolas Kiefer Head to Head Tennis Stats and Match Analysis

Marat Safin seasons:20092008200720062005
Nicolas Kiefer seasons:20102009200820072006
🇷🇺 Marat Safin
🇩🇪 Nicolas Kiefer
Age: 46y 51d (1980-01-27)
Hand: R
Backhand: 2H
(1977-07-05) Age: 48y 257d
Hand: R
Backhand: 2H
3 - 4
Wins: 42.9% - 57.1%
Hard 2–3Clay 0–1Grass 0–0
Davis Cup 10Slam 20Others 01Masters 1000 02500 01
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🇷🇺Marat Safin and 🇩🇪Nicolas Kiefer have met 7 times. Nicolas Kiefer currently holds the upper hand, leading the series 43.

Looking at their individual career profiles, 🇷🇺Marat Safin has compiled an overall career record of 422267 across 689 matches, translating to a win rate of 61.25%. On hard courts his record stands at 215140 (60.56%), while on clay he holds a 12182 (59.61%) mark. On grass the numbers read 2619 (57.78%) , and on carpet 6026 (69.77%). Throughout his career he has won 15 titles (10 hard, 2 clay, 3 carpet). Against Top 10 opponents his record reads 4950 (49.49%).

🇩🇪Nicolas Kiefer, on the other hand, enters this matchup with a career mark of 366274 from 640 matches (57.19% win rate). His hard-court record is 225145 (60.81%), on clay he stands at 5767 (45.97%), and on grass he has gone 4430 (59.46%) , with a carpet record of 4032 (55.56%). He has accumulated 6 titles in total (5 hard, 1 grass). Against Top 10 opponents his record stands at 3574 (32.11%).

When it comes to their head-to-head meetings, the surface breakdown reveals this contrast. On hard courts they have met 5 times, with Nicolas Kiefer leading 32 (60.00%). The clay record between them sits at 10 (100.00% for Nicolas Kiefer) across 1 matches.

Date
Tourney
Surface
Round
Wrk
Winner
Lrk
Loser
Score
BoF
Min
WA
WDF
W1stIn
W1st%
W2nd%
BPSvd
2007-08-13Cincinnati MastersHardR64222🇩🇪Nicolas Kiefer24🇷🇺Marat Safin6-3 7-6(1)39714257.9%79.5%50.0%5/7
2005-02-21DubaiHardR3230🇩🇪Nicolas Kiefer4🇷🇺Marat Safin (2)7-6(2) 6-43898450.0%77.1%62.9%2/3
2004-07-26Canada MastersHardR6425🇩🇪Nicolas Kiefer14🇷🇺Marat Safin (15)6-7(3) 6-4 7-6(2)316314460.6%84.2%56.8%1/3
2002-08-26US OpenHardR1282🇷🇺Marat Safin (2)64🇩🇪Nicolas Kiefer6-3 4-6 4-6 6-4 7-6(4)527216552.8%75.0%44.0%10/16
2002-05-20World Team CupClayRR63🇩🇪Nicolas Kiefer2🇷🇺Marat Safin6-4 2-6 7-6(5)31041169.4%69.8%47.4%3/6
2000-08-28US OpenHardQF7🇷🇺Marat Safin (6)14🇩🇪Nicolas Kiefer (14)7-5 4-6 7-6(5) 6-3518416158.1%83.3%51.9%2/5
1999-04-02Davis Cup WG R1: GER vs RUSCarpetRR23🇷🇺Marat Safin26🇩🇪Nicolas Kiefer7-6(9) 6-4 6-45------0/0

Wins

Marat Safin
Nicolas Kiefer
34Overall
20Grand Slam
02Masters 1000
01ATP 500
01Others
10Davis Cup
23Hard
01Clay
10Indoor Hard

Sets Format

0.0%0
100.0%4
Bo3
100.0%3
0.0%0
Bo5
0.0%0
100.0%2
2 Sets
33.3%1
66.7%2
3 Sets
100.0%1
0.0%0
4 Sets
100.0%1
0.0%0
5 Sets
Marat Safin
Nicolas Kiefer

Deciding

33.3%1
66.7%2
Decider Set
42.9%3
57.1%4
Tiebreak Wins
100.0%2
0.0%0
After 3 hours
Marat Safin
Nicolas Kiefer

Sets

50.0%11
50.0%11
All
66.7%6
33.3%3
Grand Slam
20.0%1
80.0%4
Masters 1000
43.8%7
56.3%9
Hard
0.0%0
0.0%0
Grass
33.3%1
66.7%2
Clay
100.0%3
0.0%0
Carpet
Marat Safin
Nicolas Kiefer

Games

50.6%122
49.4%119
All
53.1%51
46.9%45
Grand Slam
44.8%26
55.2%32
Masters 1000
49.2%87
50.8%90
Hard
0.0%0
0.0%0
Grass
51.6%16
48.4%15
Clay
57.6%19
42.4%14
Carpet
Marat Safin
Nicolas Kiefer

Overview

By Surface

Marat Safin
Nicolas Kiefer

By Tournament Level

Marat Safin
Nicolas Kiefer

By Round

Marat Safin
Nicolas Kiefer

By Opponent Ranking

Marat SafinNicolas Kiefer
28.6%4-10
vs Top 1
0%0-10
42.3%22-30
vs Top 5
30.4%17-39
49.5%49-50
vs Top 10
32.1%35-74
49.7%87-88
vs Top 20
38.4%71-114
58%330-239
vs Top 100
51.8%268-249
76.5%91-28
vs +100
79.3%96-25
46.5%93-107
vs Higher
44.9%135-166
67.2%328-160
vs Lower
68.2%229-107

Opponent Breakdown

Marat SafinNicolas Kiefer
55.4%150-121
Vs Younger
58.4%164-117
65.1%272-146
Vs Older
56.3%202-157
61.8%375-232
Vs Right-Handed
56.2%316-246
57.3%47-35
Vs Left-Handed
64.1%50-28
57.5%176-130
Vs 2H Backhand
51.9%140-130
59.5%135-92
Vs 1H Backhand
56%98-77
61.2%373-236
Vs Shorter
54.7%87-72
70%28-12
Vs Taller
56.2%214-167

Pressure Situations