Safiullin vs Fucsovics Prediction 24 August 2026
🔊 This summer Roman Safiullin came through Wimbledon qualifying and reached the second week in the main draw - the best result by a Russian in three years. It barely showed in the rankings, and he is still at the bottom of the top 100. Marton Fucsovics sits twenty spots higher, but the 34-year-old Hungarian's season has gone in exactly the opposite direction. In Winston-Salem these two trajectories cross.
Head-to-Head
📊 Roman Safiullin and Marton Fucsovics have not previously faced each other.
Roman Safiullin Player Overview
Roman Safiullin is having his best season in three years: 33 wins against 13 losses, meaning seven matches out of ten. Formally he is only 103rd, but his ranking lags behind his actual level of play, and the Russian has improved specifically this summer. He holds serve in 82% of games, breaks in 24% of return games, and leads his opponent in both categories. The only concern is the sample size: on hard courts over the past year he has just nine matches, four wins and five losses, all against players inside the top 100.
Match Results: Roman Safiullin
Marton Fucsovics Player Overview
Marton Fucsovics is having a difficult season: 13 wins and 22 losses, his worst record in ten years. On hard courts it's 10 wins and 15 losses, a serve hold rate of 76% - very modest for a player ranked in the seventies - and just 6% aces, meaning the Hungarian gets almost no free points. More concerning: the 34-year-old Fucsovics did not finish his last match in Cincinnati, and before that he suffered a heavy defeat. He has not won a completed match on hard courts since the beginning of summer.
Match Results: Marton Fucsovics
Key factors
- Over the past year, Safiullin has 33 wins and 13 losses, while Fucsovics has won 13 and lost 22.
- The Russian holds 82% of his service games, the Hungarian - 76%.
- Return stats are close: 24% vs 23%.
- Fucsovics did not finish his last match and has played only two matches since the beginning of August.
- On hard court, Safiullin has played just nine matches over the past year.
Expected scenario
The key figure here is Fucsovics's 76% hold rate. For the main tour, that's low: the Hungarian drops his serve roughly once every four games, and Safiullin's return game is not his weakest area. If the Russian settles into his usual rhythm, he should convert enough breaks to win.
The reverse scenario exists too. Hard court is the only surface where Safiullin has not posted a positive record this year, and Fucsovics, even in poor form, knows how to hang in through tight baseline play. But for that the Hungarian needs fresh legs, and that's exactly where questions remain.
⭐ Editor's Prediction
A clean win for Safiullin is priced too low to play on its own, but the game handicap looks like the right angle. Safiullin rarely wins close this season: both of his August victories came with a margin of five games.
Against him is a player who has played two matches over the past three weeks, lost both, and didn't finish one of them. Fucsovics's hold percentage on hard courts is a modest 76% for the tour level, and his opponent's best weapon is precisely the return. The 1.5-game line cuts out the only problematic scenario: a Safiullin win by exactly one game, and those are rare for him. Our pick: Safiullin -1.5 games.
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