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Marat Safin vs Sjeng Schalken Head to Head Tennis Stats and Match Analysis

Marat Safin seasons:20092008200720062005
Sjeng Schalken seasons:20052004200320022001
🇷🇺 Marat Safin
🇳🇱 Sjeng Schalken
Age: 46y 97d (1980-01-27)
Hand: R
Backhand: 2H
(1976-09-08) Age: 49y 238d
Hand: R
Backhand: 1H
2 - 1
Wins: 66.7% - 33.3%
Hard 1–1Clay 0–0Grass 0–0
500 0–1250 1–0Masters 1000 1–0
LWW
WLL

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🇷🇺Marat Safin and 🇳🇱Sjeng Schalken have met 3 times. Marat Safin currently holds the upper hand, leading the series 2–1.

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%).

🇳🇱Sjeng Schalken, on the other hand, enters this matchup with a career mark of 293–266 from 559 matches (52.42% win rate). His hard-court record is 155–136 (53.26%), on clay he stands at 66–75 (46.81%), and on grass he has gone 46–30 (60.53%) , with a carpet record of 26–25 (50.98%). He has accumulated 9 titles in total (6 hard, 1 clay, 2 grass). Against Top 10 opponents his record stands at 15–53 (22.06%).

When it comes to their head-to-head meetings, the surface breakdown reveals this contrast. On hard courts they have met 2 times, the record is tied 1–1 (50.00% each).

Dateâ–¼
Tourney
Surface
Round
Wrk
Winner
Lrk
Loser
Score
BoF
Min
WA
WDF
W1stIn
W1st%
W2nd%
BPSvd
2002-10-28Paris MastersCarpetR165🇷🇺Marat Safin (3)19🇳🇱Sjeng Schalken (15)7-5 7-53889068.3%87.8%73.7%1/1
1999-08-23BostonHardSF33🇷🇺Marat Safin (6)51🇳🇱Sjeng Schalken5-7 6-3 6-13898250.6%82.5%59.0%1/2
1998-02-23PhiladelphiaHardR1655🇳🇱Sjeng Schalken (8)184🇷🇺Marat Safin (WC)6-2 4-6 7-6(1)311211258.6%75.9%61.0%4/5

Wins

Marat Safin
Sjeng Schalken
2–1Overall
1–0Masters 1000
0–1ATP 500
1–0ATP 250
1–1Hard
1–0Indoor Hard

Sets Format

66.7%2
33.3%1
Bo3
0.0%0
0.0%0
Bo5
100.0%1
0.0%0
2 Sets
50.0%1
50.0%1
3 Sets
0.0%0
0.0%0
4 Sets
0.0%0
0.0%0
5 Sets
Marat Safin
Sjeng Schalken

Deciding

50.0%1
50.0%1
Decider Set
0.0%0
100.0%1
Tiebreak Wins
0.0%0
0.0%0
After 3 hours
Marat Safin
Sjeng Schalken

Sets

62.5%5
37.5%3
All
0.0%0
0.0%0
Grand Slam
100.0%2
0.0%0
Masters 1000
50.0%3
50.0%3
Hard
0.0%0
0.0%0
Grass
0.0%0
0.0%0
Clay
100.0%2
0.0%0
Carpet
Marat Safin
Sjeng Schalken

Games

54.2%45
45.8%38
All
0.0%0
0.0%0
Grand Slam
58.3%14
41.7%10
Masters 1000
52.5%31
47.5%28
Hard
0.0%0
0.0%0
Grass
0.0%0
0.0%0
Clay
58.3%14
41.7%10
Carpet
Marat Safin
Sjeng Schalken

Overview

By Surface

Marat Safin
Sjeng Schalken

By Tournament Level

Marat Safin
Sjeng Schalken

By Round

Marat Safin
Sjeng Schalken

By Opponent Ranking

Marat SafinSjeng Schalken
28.6%4-10
vs Top 1
9.1%1-10
42.3%22-30
vs Top 5
17.1%6-29
49.5%49-50
vs Top 10
22.1%15-53
49.7%87-88
vs Top 20
27.6%32-84
58%330-239
vs Top 100
47.7%206-226
76.5%91-28
vs +100
68.3%86-40
46.5%93-107
vs Higher
36.8%85-146
67.2%328-160
vs Lower
63.3%207-120

Opponent Breakdown

Marat SafinSjeng Schalken
55.4%150-121
Vs Younger
47%86-97
65.1%272-146
Vs Older
55.1%207-169
61.8%375-232
Vs Right-Handed
51.9%254-235
57.3%47-35
Vs Left-Handed
55.7%39-31
57.5%176-130
Vs 2H Backhand
50.5%94-92
59.5%135-92
Vs 1H Backhand
40.3%58-86
61.2%373-236
Vs Shorter
53.1%267-236
70%28-12
Vs Taller
50%15-15

Pressure Situations