Head-to-Head

Roman Safiullin vs Sho ShimabukuroPrediction, Head-to-Head Results, and Stats

🇷🇺Roman Safiullin

#70 · 29 yrs · R

0–0

First meeting

🇯🇵Sho Shimabukuro

#109 · 29 yrs · R

3Lost 3 straight

Upcoming match

Tournament: Almaty Open - Almaty
Level: ATP 250
Round: 1st Round
Surface: Hard
Date & time: October 20 · 2:30 AM ET

Book odds

Sho Shimabukuro5.775.54

Roman Safiullin1.141.16

Set spread

Shimabukuro -1.58.70

Safiullin +1.51.05

Game spread

Shimabukuro +4.51.99

Safiullin -4.51.75

ShimabukuroHard-court specialist (83%)SafiullinHard-court specialist (57%)

Record at prices like this

Roman Safiullin1.16implies 87%won 76%−11 pts

At 1.16 or shorter, Roman Safiullin has won 13 of 17 (76%). The price implied 87%, so Roman Safiullin has fallen 11 points short of it.

Book prices with the bookmaker margin removed, across every priced match we hold for each player. Green beats the price by 3 points or more, red falls that far short, grey is within 3 points. Samples under ten are not shown.

Roman Safiullin and Sho Shimabukuro meet next at the Almaty Open - Almaty on October 20 on hard.

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Spread & Straight-Sets Form

Completed best-of-3 matches · Last 12 months

Indicator	Safiullin	Shimabukuro
Indicator	Roman Safiullin		Sho Shimabukuro
Wins in straight sets	61%	22/36	68%	28/41
Wins a set when losing	43%	6/14	36%	10/28
Goes to a deciding set	40%	20/50	33%	23/69
Covers −1.5 sets as favorite	50%	16/32	54%	21/39
Covers +1.5 sets as underdog	67%	10/15	50%	14/28
Tiebreak sets won	58%	11/19	65%	15/23
Wins after taking set 1	93%	28/30	86%	37/43
Wins 2-0 after taking set 1	73%	22/30	65%	28/43

Colored rows are higher-is-better: green above 50%, red below. Favorite/underdog set by book odds; cover rows count only matches with odds on record.

Style Matchup

Playing styles and historical archetype record

Safiullin

💥 Big Hitter

Power groundstrokesHigh winner countAggressive shotsShort rallies

Shimabukuro

🤖 Servebot

High ace rateDominant serviceWeaker returnBig first serve

Matchup analysis

💥 Big Hitter vs 🤖 Servebot is historically tight (49% vs 51%, 4,932 matches). Neither style has a clear edge, so form, surface, and the head-to-head matter most.

Previous meetings

First career meeting

Safiullin and Shimabukuro have never faced each other on tour.

Prop Research

Hit rates on common betting markets · Last 90 days

Outcome	Safiullin	Shimabukuro
Outcome	Roman Safiullin		Sho Shimabukuro
1 or more	100%	17/17	100%	8/8
3 or more	94%	16/17	75%	6/8
5 or more	82%	14/17	50%	4/8
10 or more	18%	3/17	13%	1/8
15 or more	12%	2/17	0%	0/8
20 or more	0%	0/17	0%	0/8

Player ROI

Hypothetical if you put 1u on each player to win every one of their matches · Last 90 days

Metric	Safiullin	Shimabukuro
W-L	11–6	4–9
Avg odds	1.82	2.31
ROI %	-7.0%	-58.3%
Units P/L	-1.19u	-7.58u

Travel

Last 30 days

Metric	Safiullin	Shimabukuro
Countries	2	3
Events	4	4
Matches	12	3
Distance	3,913 mi · 6,298 km	4,835 mi · 7,781 km
Route	CHN → KAZ	CHN → JPN → CHN → KAZ

Host country from each tournament in the last 30 days, including the current event even when a player arrived on a bye. Route is the order of countries visited; consecutive stops in the same country are shown once. Distance is the great-circle total between host cities, shown only when every stop in the window is geocoded. A rough fatigue signal, not a headline stat.

Common opponents

Results vs. opponents both players faced · Last 12 months

Safiullin has a higher win rate against shared opponents (75% vs Shimabukuro's 63%).

Opponent	Safiullin	Shimabukuro
Ilia Simakin	W 76 61	W 63 63
Rinky Hijikata	W 75 63	W 64 64
Shintaro Mochizuki	W 62 63	W 76 64
Quentin Halys	W 57 63 64	W 64 62
Hugo Grenier	L 67 64 36	W 46 63 62
Hubert Hurkacz	L 46 36	L 26 46
Jaime Faria	W 46 64 76	L 67 36 76 36
Henrique Rocha	W 57 76 62	L 57 63 26

Recent Form

Last five matches per player

Safiullin

WWLWWWLW

Ilia Simakin

Almaty Open - Almaty · 3rd Round Qualifying

76²

Oct 18

Ilya Ivashka

Almaty Open - Almaty · 1st Round Qualifying

6⁴7

Oct 17

Francisco Cerundolo

Shanghai Rolex Masters - Shanghai · 2nd Round

6⁵7

Oct 9

Rinky Hijikata

Shanghai Rolex Masters - Shanghai · 1st Round

Oct 7

Shintaro Mochizuki

Shanghai Rolex Masters - Shanghai · 3rd Round Qualifying

Oct 6

Alexis Galarneau

Shanghai Rolex Masters - Shanghai · 1st Round Qualifying

Oct 5

Andrey Rublev

China Open - Beijing · 2nd Round

Oct 3

Flavio Cobolli

China Open - Beijing · 1st Round

Oct 1

Shimabukuro

LLLWWLLL

Miomir Kecmanovic

Shanghai Rolex Masters - Shanghai · 1st Round

Oct 7

Denis Shapovalov

Japan Open Tennis Championships - Tokyo · 1st Round

Oct 1

Hugo Gaston

Hangzhou Open - Hangzhou · 1st Round

Sep 24

Anton Shepp

Davis Cup, Group I, 1R, NZL-JPN 1-3 · Rubber 4

Sep 20

James Watt

Davis Cup, Group I, 1R, NZL-JPN 1-3 · Rubber 2

Sep 19

Arthur Rinderknech

U.S. Open - New York · 1st Round

76⁴

6⁴7

Aug 30

Miomir Kecmanovic

Winston-Salem Open - Winston-Salem · 1st Round

Aug 23

Hubert Hurkacz

Cincinnati Open - Cincinnati · 1st Round

Aug 14

Win rate

Matches, sets and games won · Last 12 months · 57–71 matches

Metric	Safiullin	Shimabukuro
Matches won	70%	58%
Sets won	62%	56%
Games won	54%	51%