Head to head
Rivalry summary
Gustavo Kuerten and Marat Safin met 7 times on the ATP tour between 1998 and 2002. Gustavo Kuerten leads the head-to-head 4–3 against Marat Safin. By surface, Kuerten leads 2–1 on hard; they are level 1–1 on clay; they are level 1–1 on carpet. They contested 2 finals, with Kuerten winning 2 of them.
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Hard
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Clay
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Carpet
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Gustavo Kuerten's wins on the left · Marat Safin's on the right · bar lengths share one scale
Momentum
Running lead across all meetings, oldest to newest (walkovers excluded).
All meetings (7)
| 2002 | Lyon | Carpet | QF | Gustavo Kuerten | 7-5 4-6 7-6(3) |
| 2002 | US Open | Hard | R64 | Gustavo Kuerten | 6-4 6-4 7-5 |
| 2000 | Indianapolis | Hard | F | Gustavo Kuerten | 3-6 7-6(2) 7-6(2) |
| 2000 | Hamburg Masters | Clay | F | Gustavo Kuerten | 6-4 5-7 6-4 5-7 7-6(3) |
| 1999 | Paris Masters | Carpet | R32 | Marat Safin | 7-6(4) 3-6 7-6(4) |
| 1999 | Australian Open | Hard | R64 | Marat Safin | 6-3 5-7 4-6 6-3 6-4 |
| 1998 | Roland Garros | Clay | R64 | Marat Safin | 3-6 7-6(5) 3-6 6-1 6-4 |
Methodology
Head-to-head totals and surface splits exclude walkovers (no match was played), which follows ATP convention — walkover meetings still appear in the match list. The momentum chart plots the running lead across all counted meetings, oldest to newest.