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Marat Safin vs Rafael Nadal Head to Head Tennis Stats and Match Analysis

Marat Safin seasons:20092008200720062005
Rafael Nadal seasons:20242023202220212020
🇷🇺 Marat Safin
🇪🇸 Rafael Nadal
Age: 46y 52d (1980-01-27)
Hand: R
Backhand: 2H
(1986-06-03) Age: 39y 290d
Hand: L
Backhand: 2H
0 - 2
Wins: 0.0% - 100.0%
Hard 0–2Clay 0–0Grass 0–0
Masters 1000 01500 01
LL
WW

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🇷🇺Marat Safin and 🇪🇸Rafael Nadal have met 2 times. Rafael Nadal currently holds the upper hand, leading the series 20.

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%).

🇪🇸Rafael Nadal, on the other hand, enters this matchup with a career mark of 1080228 from 1308 matches (82.57% win rate). His hard-court record is 518151 (77.43%), on clay he stands at 48451 (90.47%), and on grass he has gone 7620 (79.17%) , with a carpet record of 26 (25.00%). He has accumulated 92 titles in total (25 hard, 63 clay, 4 grass). Against Top 10 opponents his record stands at 186105 (63.92%).

When it comes to their head-to-head meetings, the surface breakdown reveals this contrast. On hard courts they have met 2 times, with Rafael Nadal leading 20 (100.00%).

Date
Tourney
Surface
Round
Wrk
Winner
Lrk
Loser
Score
BoF
Min
WA
WDF
W1stIn
W1st%
W2nd%
BPSvd
2009-10-05BeijingHardQF2🇪🇸Rafael Nadal (1)59🇷🇺Marat Safin (WC)6-3 6-13781178.2%67.4%66.7%3/3
2007-08-05Canada MastersHardR322🇪🇸Rafael Nadal (2)22🇷🇺Marat Safin7-6(4) 6-031011463.5%75.0%56.5%2/3

Wins

Marat Safin
Rafael Nadal
02Overall
01Masters 1000
01ATP 500
02Hard

Sets Format

0.0%0
100.0%2
Bo3
0.0%0
0.0%0
Bo5
0.0%0
100.0%2
2 Sets
0.0%0
0.0%0
3 Sets
0.0%0
0.0%0
4 Sets
0.0%0
0.0%0
5 Sets
Marat Safin
Rafael Nadal

Deciding

0.0%0
0.0%0
Decider Set
0.0%0
100.0%1
Tiebreak Wins
0.0%0
0.0%0
After 3 hours
Marat Safin
Rafael Nadal

Sets

0.0%0
100.0%4
All
0.0%0
0.0%0
Grand Slam
0.0%0
100.0%2
Masters 1000
0.0%0
100.0%4
Hard
0.0%0
0.0%0
Grass
0.0%0
0.0%0
Clay
0.0%0
0.0%0
Carpet
Marat Safin
Rafael Nadal

Games

28.6%10
71.4%25
All
0.0%0
0.0%0
Grand Slam
31.6%6
68.4%13
Masters 1000
28.6%10
71.4%25
Hard
0.0%0
0.0%0
Grass
0.0%0
0.0%0
Clay
0.0%0
0.0%0
Carpet
Marat Safin
Rafael Nadal

Overview

By Surface

Marat Safin
Rafael Nadal

By Tournament Level

Marat Safin
Rafael Nadal

By Round

Marat Safin
Rafael Nadal

By Opponent Ranking

Marat SafinRafael Nadal
28.6%4-10
vs Top 1
54.8%23-19
42.3%22-30
vs Top 5
59.6%93-63
49.5%49-50
vs Top 10
63.9%186-105
49.7%87-88
vs Top 20
70.4%335-141
58%330-239
vs Top 100
81.4%927-212
76.5%91-28
vs +100
90.5%153-16
46.5%93-107
vs Higher
55%71-58
67.2%328-160
vs Lower
85.6%1009-170

Opponent Breakdown

Marat SafinRafael Nadal
55.4%150-121
Vs Younger
81.9%470-104
65.1%272-146
Vs Older
83.1%610-124
61.8%375-232
Vs Right-Handed
82%963-211
57.3%47-35
Vs Left-Handed
87.3%117-17
57.5%176-130
Vs 2H Backhand
82.5%765-162
59.5%135-92
Vs 1H Backhand
82.7%315-66
61.2%373-236
Vs Shorter
86.5%447-70
70%28-12
Vs Taller
80.5%498-121

Pressure Situations