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Marat Safin vs Yevgeny Kafelnikov Head to Head Tennis Stats and Match Analysis

Marat Safin seasons:20092008200720062005
Yevgeny Kafelnikov seasons:20032002200120001999
🇷🇺 Marat Safin
🇷🇺 Yevgeny Kafelnikov
Age: 46y 52d (1980-01-27)
Hand: R
Backhand: 2H
(1974-02-18) Age: 52y 30d
Hand: R
Backhand: 2H
2 - 2
Wins: 50.0% - 50.0%
Hard 2–1Clay 0–1Grass 0–0
Masters 1000 01250 20500 01
LWWL
WLLW

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🇷🇺Marat Safin and 🇷🇺Yevgeny Kafelnikov have met 4 times. The series is tied 22.

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%).

🇷🇺Yevgeny Kafelnikov, on the other hand, enters this matchup with a career mark of 609306 from 915 matches (66.56% win rate). His hard-court record is 256123 (67.55%), on clay he stands at 141103 (57.79%), and on grass he has gone 4620 (69.70%) , with a carpet record of 16660 (73.45%). He has accumulated 26 titles in total (9 hard, 3 clay, 3 grass, 11 carpet). Against Top 10 opponents his record stands at 4667 (40.71%).

When it comes to their head-to-head meetings, the surface breakdown reveals this contrast. On hard courts they have met 3 times, with Marat Safin leading 21 (66.67%). The clay record between them sits at 10 (100.00% for Yevgeny Kafelnikov) across 1 matches.

Date
Tourney
Surface
Round
Wrk
Winner
Lrk
Loser
Score
BoF
Min
WA
WDF
W1stIn
W1st%
W2nd%
BPSvd
2003-02-17RotterdamHardR1625🇷🇺Yevgeny Kafelnikov7🇷🇺Marat Safin (3)4-6 7-6(5) 6-431274641.9%68.2%52.5%6/10
2001-10-22St. PetersburgHardSF7🇷🇺Marat Safin (3)6🇷🇺Yevgeny Kafelnikov (2)6-7(4) 6-2 6-4315319156.0%73.3%45.8%12/13
2001-09-10TashkentHardF7🇷🇺Marat Safin (1)6🇷🇺Yevgeny Kafelnikov (2)6-2 6-23556155.8%91.7%63.2%1/1
1999-05-10Rome MastersClayR321🇷🇺Yevgeny Kafelnikov (1)31🇷🇺Marat Safin6-1 6-23465170.5%80.6%69.2%2/2

Wins

Marat Safin
Yevgeny Kafelnikov
22Overall
01Masters 1000
01ATP 500
20ATP 250
21Hard
01Clay

Sets Format

50.0%2
50.0%2
Bo3
0.0%0
0.0%0
Bo5
50.0%1
50.0%1
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
Yevgeny Kafelnikov

Deciding

50.0%1
50.0%1
Decider Set
50.0%1
50.0%1
Tiebreak Wins
0.0%0
0.0%0
After 3 hours
Marat Safin
Yevgeny Kafelnikov

Sets

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

Games

51.6%49
48.4%46
All
0.0%0
0.0%0
Grand Slam
20.0%3
80.0%12
Masters 1000
57.5%46
42.5%34
Hard
0.0%0
0.0%0
Grass
20.0%3
80.0%12
Clay
0.0%0
0.0%0
Carpet
Marat Safin
Yevgeny Kafelnikov

Overview

By Surface

Marat Safin
Yevgeny Kafelnikov

By Tournament Level

Marat Safin
Yevgeny Kafelnikov

By Round

Marat Safin
Yevgeny Kafelnikov

By Opponent Ranking

Marat SafinYevgeny Kafelnikov
28.6%4-10
vs Top 1
22.7%5-17
42.3%22-30
vs Top 5
37.3%25-42
49.5%49-50
vs Top 10
40.7%46-67
49.7%87-88
vs Top 20
46.6%104-119
58%330-239
vs Top 100
62.9%472-278
76.5%91-28
vs +100
82.8%135-28
46.5%93-107
vs Higher
43.6%51-66
67.2%328-160
vs Lower
69.8%556-240

Opponent Breakdown

Marat SafinYevgeny Kafelnikov
55.4%150-121
Vs Younger
61.3%247-156
65.1%272-146
Vs Older
70.7%362-150
61.8%375-232
Vs Right-Handed
66.3%513-261
57.3%47-35
Vs Left-Handed
67.9%95-45
57.5%176-130
Vs 2H Backhand
57.6%155-114
59.5%135-92
Vs 1H Backhand
59.7%123-83
61.2%373-236
Vs Shorter
67.1%433-212
70%28-12
Vs Taller
59.2%90-62

Pressure Situations