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

Marat Safin seasons:20092008200720062005
Nicolas Massu seasons:20132012201120102009
🇷🇺 Marat Safin
🇨🇱 Nicolas Massu
Age: 46y 71d (1980-01-27)
Hand: R
Backhand: 2H
(1979-10-10) Age: 46y 180d
Hand: R
Backhand: 2H
4 - 1
Wins: 80.0% - 20.0%
Hard 1–0Clay 3–1Grass 0–0
Others 1–0Masters 1000 2–1Davis Cup 1–0
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🇷🇺Marat Safin and 🇨🇱Nicolas Massu have met 5 times. Marat Safin currently holds the upper hand, leading the series 4–1.

Looking at their individual career profiles, 🇷🇺Marat Safin has compiled an overall career record of 422–267 across 689 matches, translating to a win rate of 61.25%. On hard courts his record stands at 215–140 (60.56%), while on clay he holds a 121–82 (59.61%) mark. On grass the numbers read 26–19 (57.78%) , and on carpet 60–26 (69.77%). Throughout his career he has won 15 titles (10 hard, 2 clay, 3 carpet). Against Top 10 opponents his record reads 49–50 (49.49%).

🇨🇱Nicolas Massu, on the other hand, enters this matchup with a career mark of 257–238 from 495 matches (51.92% win rate). His hard-court record is 77–95 (44.77%), on clay he stands at 162–119 (57.65%), and on grass he has gone 6–12 (33.33%) , with a carpet record of 12–12 (50.00%). He has accumulated 6 titles in total (1 hard, 5 clay). Against Top 10 opponents his record stands at 8–36 (18.18%).

When it comes to their head-to-head meetings, the surface breakdown reveals this contrast. On hard courts they have met 1 times, with Marat Safin leading 1–0 (100.00%). The clay record between them sits at 3–1 (75.00% for Marat Safin) across 4 matches.

Dateâ–¼
Tourney
Surface
Round
Wrk
Winner
Lrk
Loser
Score
BoF
Min
WA
WDF
W1stIn
W1st%
W2nd%
BPSvd
2009-03-12Indian Wells MastersHardR6425🇷🇺Marat Safin (24)95🇨🇱Nicolas Massu6-3 7-6(2)31025153.1%85.3%53.3%0/2
2007-05-14Hamburg MastersClayR6426🇷🇺Marat Safin51🇨🇱Nicolas Massu (Q)7-6(7) 6-431215162.7%70.2%57.1%6/9
2007-02-09Davis Cup WG R1: CHI vs RUSClayRR24🇷🇺Marat Safin42🇨🇱Nicolas Massu6-3 6-2 6-25------0/0
2004-05-03Rome MastersClayR1611🇨🇱Nicolas Massu (8)25🇷🇺Marat Safin7-5 6-431392060.0%76.2%50.0%6/8
2000-05-21World Team CupClayRR12🇷🇺Marat Safin73🇨🇱Nicolas Massu7-6(7) 6-43-7152.1%74.4%51.9%4/11

Wins

Marat Safin
Nicolas Massu
4–1Overall
2–1Masters 1000
1–0Others
1–0Davis Cup
1–0Hard
3–1Clay

Sets Format

75.0%3
25.0%1
Bo3
100.0%1
0.0%0
Bo5
75.0%3
25.0%1
2 Sets
100.0%1
0.0%0
3 Sets
0.0%0
0.0%0
4 Sets
0.0%0
0.0%0
5 Sets
Marat Safin
Nicolas Massu

Deciding

0.0%0
0.0%0
Decider Set
100.0%3
0.0%0
Tiebreak Wins
0.0%0
0.0%0
After 3 hours
Marat Safin
Nicolas Massu

Sets

81.8%9
18.2%2
All
0.0%0
0.0%0
Grand Slam
66.7%4
33.3%2
Masters 1000
100.0%2
0.0%0
Hard
0.0%0
0.0%0
Grass
77.8%7
22.2%2
Clay
0.0%0
0.0%0
Carpet
Marat Safin
Nicolas Massu

Games

57.4%66
42.6%49
All
0.0%0
0.0%0
Grand Slam
52.2%35
47.8%32
Masters 1000
59.1%13
40.9%9
Hard
0.0%0
0.0%0
Grass
57.0%53
43.0%40
Clay
0.0%0
0.0%0
Carpet
Marat Safin
Nicolas Massu

Overview

By Surface

Marat Safin
Nicolas Massu

By Tournament Level

Marat Safin
Nicolas Massu

By Round

Marat Safin
Nicolas Massu

By Opponent Ranking

Marat SafinNicolas Massu
28.6%4-10
vs Top 1
0%0-5
42.3%22-30
vs Top 5
18.2%4-18
49.5%49-50
vs Top 10
18.2%8-36
49.7%87-88
vs Top 20
28.4%25-63
58%330-239
vs Top 100
45%163-199
76.5%91-28
vs +100
70%91-39
46.5%93-107
vs Higher
33.8%74-145
67.2%328-160
vs Lower
65.9%180-93

Opponent Breakdown

Marat SafinNicolas Massu
55.4%150-121
Vs Younger
45.1%93-113
65.1%272-146
Vs Older
56.7%164-125
61.8%375-232
Vs Right-Handed
51.6%227-213
57.3%47-35
Vs Left-Handed
53.7%29-25
57.5%176-130
Vs 2H Backhand
46%93-109
59.5%135-92
Vs 1H Backhand
45.5%76-91
61.2%373-236
Vs Shorter
57.1%88-66
70%28-12
Vs Taller
51.5%122-115

Pressure Situations