Alexander Zverev overcomes Dusan Lajovic 6-4 7-6(5) 6-3 in the 4th round in Melbourne on Sunday. The match lasted 2 hours and 21 minutes. Zverev will play against Novak Djokovic in the quarter.
Alexander added to his prize money $ 205,000 after winning this match. He has won already $ 525,000 after this win. If he wins the next match, Zverev will add $ 325,000 to his earnings to get in total $ 850,000 in total.
Draw and next match H2H: Alexander Zverev vs. Novak Djokovic – stats
Zverev will come up against Djokovic in the quarter.
This will be the 8th time that Alexander Zverev and Novak Djokovic clash against each other. The head to head is 5-2 for Djokovic (see full H2H stats), 2-0 on hard.
The last time that they played each other, Djokovic won 6-73 6-2 7-5 in the R in Melbourne back in February 2021.
Talking about his next match vs. Djokovic, Sascha sounded optimistic to say:
“To be able to have a chance against him, you have to be playing extremely well. You have to be playing aggressive tennis, I think, being the one that dominates.
You know, I’m looking forward to the challenge. I think it’s one of the toughest challenges in our sport to be playing Novak at this Grand Slam in later rounds.”
Highlights Alexander Zverev vs. Dusan Lajovic Australian Open – Melbourne
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Stats: aces, double faults, breaks, winners
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At the end of the match, Alexander scored 114 points vs. Lajovic’s 97.
Zverev
Alexander served pretty well to win 76% of the points (53/70) behind his first serve, and he won 52% points (14/27) on his second serve. Zverev struck 15 aces and he committed 3 double faults. Zverev won this match even if he had a tough time converting his break points as he converted only 29% (4/14) of the procured opportunities.
Lajovic
On the other side, Lajovic didn’t lose the focus when converting 67% of the break points that he procured points (2/3). Anyhow, that was not enough to win the match.
After this match, the head to head between Zverev and Lajovic is 3-0 for Alexander.
Live score progression and stats
Djokovic started the set in the best possible way after breaking Zverev in the 2nd game (2-0). However, Zverev managed to stage a good comeback to break Dusan in the 3rd (1-2) and in the 7th (4-3) game before winning the set (6-4).
Zverev converted 40% of his break points (2/5). He had 5 break points opportunities in the 1st (0-0 30-40 and 40-A), the 3rd (0-2 40-A), the 6th (3-3 15-40) and the 9th game (5-3 40-A). Furthermore, on the other side, Lajovic converted 50% of his break points (1/2). He had his opportunities in the 2nd (1-0 30-40) and the 4th game (2-1 30-40).
They contested 77 points. Alexander was the winner of the set after clinching 7 more points than Dusan (42-35). Zverev conceded 12 points on serve (20-12). On the other side, Lajovic conceded 22 points on serve (23-22).
Alexander won the set after he broke Lajovic in the 11th (6-5) game. Lajovic tried to stage a comeback breaking in the 12th (6-6) game. However, Zverev managed to stay calm and finish the job to ultimately clinch the set at the following tiebreak at 5.
Alexander failed to serve out the set when leading 6-5 to be broken at 30.
Tiebreak
Alexander won 4 minibreaks in the 1st (1-0), 5th (3-2), 10th (6-4) and 12th (7-5) point. On the other side, Lajovic won 2 minibreaks in the 2nd (1-1) and 9th (4-5) point.
Alexander won the tiebreak 7-5 after he conquered a decisive 5-4 lead.
This was the tiebreak sequence: 1-0, 1-1, 2-1, 2-2, 3-2, 4-2, 5-2, 5-4, 6-4, 6-5, 7-5
Alexander converted 25% of his break points (1/4). He had 4 break points opportunities in the 11th game (5-5 0-40, 15-40, 30-40 and 40-A). On the other side, Dusan was clinical in converting the only break point that he conquered in the 12th game (5-6 30-40).
They played 80 points. It’s worth to point out that, Zverev won this set even if he scored less points 2 than Dusan (39-41). Zverev dropped 16 points on serve (26-16). on the other side of the net, Dusan conceded 13 points on serve (25-13).
Both players managed to hold their service games for the entire set. The only difference was just 1 break that Zverev clinched in the 4th game (3-1) prior to finally winning the set (6-3).
Zverev converted 20% of his break points (1/5). He had 5 break points opportunities in the 4th (2-1 30-40 and 40-A) and the 6th game (4-1 15-40, 30-40 and 40-A). On the other side, Zverev didn’t concede a single break point during this set.
They played 53 points. Alexander was the one to win the set after conquering 11 more points than Dusan (32-21). Alexander was extremely solid on serve to concede just 3 points (20-3). on the other side of the court, Lajovic conceded 12 points on serve (18-12).
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