Head to head
1
Hard
4
0
Clay
3
0
Grass
3
1
Carpet
0
Marat Safin's wins on the left · Roger Federer's on the right · bar lengths share one scale
Momentum
Running lead across all meetings, oldest to newest (walkovers excluded).
All meetings (12)
| 2009 | Australian Open | Hard | R32 | Roger Federer | 6-3 6-2 7-6(5) |
| 2008 | Wimbledon | Grass | SF | Roger Federer | 6-3 7-6(3) 6-4 |
| 2007 | Wimbledon | Grass | R32 | Roger Federer | 6-1 6-4 7-6(4) |
| 2005 | Halle | Grass | F | Roger Federer | 6-4 6-7(6) 6-4 |
| 2005 | Australian Open | Hard | SF | Marat Safin | 5-7 6-4 5-7 7-6(6) 9-7 |
| 2004 | Masters Cup | Hard | SF | Roger Federer | 6-3 7-6(18) |
| 2004 | Dubai | Hard | R32 | Roger Federer | 7-6(2) 7-6(4) |
| 2004 | Australian Open | Hard | F | Roger Federer | 7-6(3) 6-4 6-2 |
| 2002 | Moscow | Carpet | QF | Marat Safin | 7-5 6-4 |
| 2002 | Hamburg Masters | Clay | F | Roger Federer | 6-1 6-3 6-4 |
| 2002 | Davis Cup WG R1: RUS vs SUI | Clay | RR | Roger Federer | 7-5 6-1 6-2 |
| 2001 | Rome Masters | Clay | R32 | Roger Federer | 4-6 6-4 7-6(5) |
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.