Lorenzo Giustino and Duje Ajdukovic will clash against each other in the 2nd round of the Zadar Challenger for the 2nd time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Wednesday at 11:30 am on CENTER COURT. In this post, we analyze their head to head performance and prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Duje Ajdukovic who should win in 2 sets.
As per the initial odds, Duje Ajdukovic is the pick to win this match.
Duje Ajdukovic -> 1.41
Lorenzo Giustino -> 2.91
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Prediction and head to head Lorenzo Giustino vs. Duje Ajdukovic
This will be the 2nd time that Lorenzo Giustino and Duje Ajdukovic fight against each other. The head to head is 1-0 for Ajdukovic (see full H2H stats), 1-0 on clay.
The last time that they played each other, Ajdukovic won 7-5 6-2 in the 1st round in the Maia Challenger back in 2020.
Lorenzo Giustino
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 50-30 | 2-4 | 46-21 | 2-5 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 27-38 | 14-16 | 10-19 | 3-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 22-37 | 3-5 | 19-26 | 0-5 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 21-39 | 3-8 | 14-26 | 4-4 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 16-19 | 6-7 | 7-9 | 3-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 208, Giustino got to the 2nd round after beating Zsombor Piros 6-4 5-7 7-5.
In the 1st round, Lorenzo defeated Piros (6-4 5-7 7-5). During the match, Giustino scored 110 points vs Piros’s 108. Giustino was exceptionally aggressive to blast 39 winners.
Talking about the service games, Giustino struck 4 aces and he committed only 3 double faults. Lorenzo Giustino lost the serve 5 times and he saved 5 break points. Furthermore, Giustino put 58% of his first serves in, winning 66% (39/59) of the points behind his 1st serve and 51% (22/43) on the 2nd serve. Giustino broke Piros 6 times after converting 43% of his break points (6/14).
Giustino has a positive win-loss record in the last 10 years having won 55% of his matches (353-285). 1-3 on clay in 2022. Talking about his performance on the same surface of this competition, Giustino has an overall 271-193 match record in the last years on clay.
The Italian has an aggregate 2-7 win-loss record in 2022, 1-3 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Zadar Challenger
Lorenzo has never competed in this tournament before.
Duje Ajdukovic
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 38-31 | 18-13 | 13-10 | 7-5 | 0-3 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 59-25 | 2-1 | 50-21 | 7-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 27-31 | 0-1 | 22-23 | 3-4 | 2-3 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 33-31 | 1-1 | 29-23 | 3-7 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 30-11 | 4-3 | 22-6 | 2-1 | 0-0 | 2-1 |
Ranked no. 255, Duje got to the 2nd round after beating Gianluca Mager 6-2 6-2.
In the 1st round, The Croatian had a good straight sets win against Mager (6-2 6-2). During the match Ajdukovic scored 62 points vs Mager’s 43. Duje was extremely aggressive to blast 19 winners.
About the serving games, Ajdukovic struck 3 aces and he was pretty solid in conceding no double faults for the entire match. Duje Ajdukovic lost the serve once and he saved 1 break points. Furthermore, Ajdukovic put 59% of his first serves in, winning 63% (19/30) of the points behind his 1st serve and 62% (13/21) on the 2nd serve. Duje broke Mager 5 times after converting 36% of his break points (5/14).
Duje’s best result of the year was reaching the semifinal in M25 Antalya and the Gran Canaria Challenger.
The Croatian has a composed 7-3 win-loss record in 2022, 7-3 on clay (See FULL STATS).
H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Giustino | Ajdukovic |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 1 | 1 |
| Tot Set | 3 | 2 |
| Tot Games | 34 | 16 |
| Pts | 110-108 | 62-43 |
| Total Points | 218 | 105 |
| Winners | 39 | 19 |
| %Winners | 35% | 31% |
Both Giustino and Ajdukovic played 1 match. At the moment, Lorenzo Giustino dropped 1 set while Duje Ajdukovic hasn’t dropped a set so far. Giustino has played 1 set more than Ajdukovic (3 vs 2). Therefore, Giustino played 18 games more than Ajdukovic. Lorenzo scored 39 winners (35% of the total points). On the other side, Duje fired 19 winners (31%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Giustino | Ajdukovic |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 4 | 3 |
| Avg per match | 4 | 3 |
| 1st in | 59/102 | 30/51 |
| %1st in | 58% | 59% |
| 1st pts | 39/59 | 19/30 |
| %1st pts | 66% | 63% |
| 2nd pts | 22/43 | 13/21 |
| %2nd pts | 51% | 62% |
Giustino managed to score 4 aces . Ajdukovic blasted 3 aces . Giustino won 66% points behind his first serve. He pretty effective on his second serve to win 51% of the points. On the other side, Ajdukovic won 63% of the points on his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 62% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Giustino | Ajdukovic |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 6 | 5 |
| Converted | 6/14 | 5/14 |
| % Converted | 43% | 36% |
| Conceded | 10 | 2 |
| Saved | 5 | 1 |
| % Saved | 50% | 50% |
| Times Broken | 5 | 1 |
The Italian broke his opponent 6 times with a 43% conversion rate. The Italian dropped his serve 5 times and he saved 50% of the break points that he conceded. Duje broke his opponent 5 times with a 36% conversion rate. Duje conceded his serve once and he saved 50% of the break points that he conceded.
| Giustino | |||
| R1 Piros |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-4 5-7 7-5 | ||
| Tot Set | 3 | 3 | |
| Tot Games | 34 | 34 | |
| pts | 110-108 | 110-108 | |
| Total points | 218 | 218 | |
| Winners | 39 | 39 | |
| %Winners | 35% | 35% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 4 | 4 | |
| Double Faults | 3 | 3 | |
| 1st in | 59/102 | 59/102 | |
| % 1st in | 58% | 58% | |
| 1st pts | 39/59 | 39/59 | |
| % 1st pts | 66% | 66% | |
| 2nd pts | 22/43 | 22/43 | |
| % 2nd pts | 51% | 51% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 6 | 6 | |
| Converted | 6/14 | 6/14 | |
| Converted % | 43% | 43% | |
| Conceded | 10 | 10 | |
| Saved | 5/10 | 5 | |
| Saved % | 50% | 50% | |
| Times Broken | 5 | 5 | |
| Ajdukovic | |||
| R1 Mager |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-2 6-2 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 16 | 16 | |
| pts | 62-43 | 62-43 | |
| Total points | 105 | 105 | |
| Winners | 19 | 19 | |
| %Winners | 31% | 31% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 3 | 3 | |
| Double Faults | 0 | 0 | |
| 1st in | 30/51 | 30/51 | |
| % 1st in | 59% | 59% | |
| 1st pts | 19/30 | 19/30 | |
| % 1st pts | 63% | 63% | |
| 2nd pts | 13/21 | 13/21 | |
| % 2nd pts | 62% | 62% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 5 | 5 | |
| Converted | 5/14 | 5/14 | |
| Converted % | 36% | 36% | |
| Conceded | 2 | 2 | |
| Saved | 1/2 | 1 | |
| Saved % | 50% | 50% | |
| Times Broken | 1 | 1 | |
Head 2 Head
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- Duje AjdukovicAjdukovic – Gianluca MagerMager (6-2 6-2) – See score progression
- Andrea VavassoriVavassori – Zhizhen ZhangZhang (6-2 7-63) – See score progression
- Flavio CobolliCobolli – Nino SerdarusicSerdarusic (1-6 6-4 6-1) – See score progression
Upcoming matches in the draw
- Andrej MartinMartin – Dalibor SvrcinaSvrcina (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Manuel GuinardGuinard – Giulio ZeppieriZeppieri (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Andrea VavassoriVavassori – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Raul BrancaccioBrancaccio – Eduard Esteve LobatoEsteve Lobato (2-3) – H2H and prediction
- Duje AjdukovicAjdukovic – Lorenzo GiustinoGiustino (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Cezar Cretu (ROU)Cretu (ROU) – Carlos Sanchez JoverSanchez Jover (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Daniel MichalskiMichalski – Nerman FaticFatic (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Flavio CobolliCobolli – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
