Safin v Santoro
ATP Tour career
Lineball analyst10–4
Marat Safin takes it, 10–4 on categories
Safin wins on titles. Santoro’s case rests on break points converted %, but it isn’t enough to swing it. ATP Tour career: Safin 653 matches, Santoro 902 matches.
- Safin has 15 titles (one every 25 matches) to Santoro’s 6 titles (one every 50 matches).
- Safin averages 8.6 aces a match to Santoro’s 3.0 — 2.8 times as many.
- Safin has the better first-serve points won %: 75.4 to Santoro’s 67.
- Winners’ edge: Safin’s team won 61%, Santoro’s team won 51% of the matches they played.
- Not every stat was recorded for every match (titles, grand slam titles): those averages use only the games that logged them.
Built only from games in our stats database. A read of the numbers, not a tip.
Tale of the tape
Per game. Totals and best single game underneath.
- 0.015 total · best 1Titlesper game0.06 total · best 1
- 0.02 total · best 1Grand Slam titlesper game–
- 55.2First serve in %57.6
- 75.4First-serve points won %67.0
- 62.6Break points saved %59.1
- 37.6Return points won %39.8
- 8.6
Head to head
29 matches
since 19997
since 19997
- Hard · 5 matchesSafin 1Santoro 4
- Carpet · 2 matchesSafin 0Santoro 2
- Grass · 1 matchSafin 1Santoro 0
- Clay · 1 matchSafin 0Santoro 1
- Grand Slams · 1 matchSafin 0Santoro 1
Last meetings
- 6 June 2005 · Halle · Round of 16 · GrassSafin won 3-6 7-6(7) 3-2
- 6 Oct 2003 · Lyon · Round of 32 · CarpetSantoro won 6-1 6-4
- 28 May 2001 · Roland Garros · Round of 32 · ClaySantoro won 6-4 6-4 4-6 0-6 6-1
- 30 Oct 2000 · ATP Masters 1000 Stuttgart · Round of 32 · HardSafin won 6-2 6-4
- 18 Sept 2000 · Sydney Olympics · Round of 64 · HardSantoro won 1-6 6-1 6-4
- 7 Aug 2000 · ATP Masters 1000 Cincinnati · Round of 16 · Hard
Last 10 games
Titles, oldest to newest.
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