Dusan Lajovic and Casper Ruud will play each other in the quarter of the Argentina Open for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Friday at 2:30 pm on COURT GUILLERMO VILAS. In the following lines you can find the head to head analysis and the prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Casper Ruud who should win in 3 sets.
Casper Ruud -> 1.44
Dusan Lajovic -> 2.75
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Prediction and head to head Dusan Lajovic vs. Casper Ruud
There is no head to head record between Dusan Lajovic and Casper Ruud since this will be the first time that they will play each other in the main tour.
Dusan Lajovic
Ranked no. 23 (career high), the Serbian reached the quarter after beating Pedro Martinez Portero 7-66 7-66.
In the 2nd round, Dusan had a good straight sets win against Martinez Portero (7-66 7-66). During the match Lajovic scored 96 points vs Martinez Portero’s 90. Lajovic was extremely aggressive to blast 40 winners.
Talking about serving, Lajovic blasted 7 aces and he committed only 4 double faults. Overall, Dusan Lajovic was extremely effective on serve to win 73% (40/55) of his 1st serve and 55% (21/38) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve once. Dusan broke Martinez Portero once after converting 25% of his break points (1/4).
Lajovic has a winning win-loss record in the last 10 years having won 59% of his matches (840-588). 1-0 on clay in 2020. Regarding his performance on the same surface of this event, Lajovic has a 298-247 win-loss record in the last 10 years on clay.
Lajovic’s best result of the current year was reaching the final in in ATP Cup.
Dusan has a 7-3 win-loss record in 2020, 1-0 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Last year in Buenos Aires
Dusan didn’t play in Buenos Aires in 2019.
Casper Ruud
Ranked no. 45 (career high), Ruud got to the quarter after defeating Pablo Andujar 6-2 6-3 and Roberto Carballes Baena 6-1 6-0.
In the 2nd round, Casper had a good straight sets win against Carballes Baena (6-1 6-0). During the match Ruud scored 52 points vs Carballes Baena’s 25. Ruud was extremely aggressive to blast 21 winners.
Talking about serving, Ruud blasted 3 aces and he committed only 2 double faults. Casper Ruud was extremely effective on serve to win 75% (21/28) of his 1st serve and 70% (7/10) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. Casper broke Carballes Baena 5 times after converting 71% of his break points (5/7).
Overall Performance in this tournament
The Norwegian hasn’t dropped yet a set in the tournament to win 63% of the points he played.
Ruud has a winning win-loss record in the last 6 years having won 59% of his matches (317-219). 2-0 on clay in 2020. In connection with his performance on the same surface of this tournament, Ruud has a 135-106 win-loss record in the last 6 years on clay.
Casper has a 4-3 win-loss record in 2020, 2-0 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Last year in Buenos Aires
Casper didn’t play in Buenos Aires in 2019.
Live score
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H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Lajovic | Ruud |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 1 | 2 |
| Tot Set | 2 | 4 |
| Tot Games | 26 | 30 |
| Pts | 96-90 | 112-67 |
| Total Points | 186 | 179 |
| Winners | 40 | 51 |
| %Winners | 42% | 46% |
Lajovic played 1 match while Ruud competed in 2 matches. Both players have not lost a single set in this event so far. Lajovic has played 2 sets less than Ruud (2 vs 4). Therefore, Lajovic played 4 games less than Ruud. The Serbian scored 40 winners (42% on total points). On the other side, The Norwegian blasted 51 winners (46%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Lajovic | Ruud |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 7 | 9 |
| Avg per match | 7 | 4.5 |
| 1st in | 55/93 | 66/93 |
| %1st in | 59% | 71% |
| 1st pts | 40/55 | 51/66 |
| %1st pts | 73% | 77% |
| 2nd pts | 21/38 | 16/27 |
| %2nd pts | 55% | 59% |
Lajovic blasted 7 aces . Ruud blasted 9 aces (4.5 per match). Lajovic won 73% points behind his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 55% of the points. On the other side, Ruud won 77% points on his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 59% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Lajovic | Ruud |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 1 | 8 |
| Converted | 1/4 | 8/14 |
| % Converted | 25% | 57% |
| Conceded | 5 | 0 |
| Saved | 4 | 0 |
| % Saved | 80% | NAN% |
| Times Broken | 1 | 0 |
Lajovic broke his opponent once with 25% conversion rate. Dusan conceded his serve once and he saved 80% of the break points that he conceded. Ruud broke his opponents 8 times with 57% conversion rate. Casper was rock solid on his serve as he has never conceded a single service game after saving 0 break points.
| Lajovic | |||
| R2 Martinez Portero | Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 7-66 7-66 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 26 | 26 | |
| pts | 96-90 | 96-90 | |
| Total points | 186 | 186 | |
| Winners | 40 | 40 | |
| %Winners | 42% | 42% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 7 | 7 | |
| Double Faults | 4 | 4 | |
| 1st in | 55/93 | 55/93 | |
| % 1st in | 59% | 59% | |
| 1st pts | 40/55 | 40/55 | |
| % 1st pts | 73% | 73% | |
| 2nd pts | 21/38 | 21/38 | |
| % 2nd pts | 55% | 55% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 1 | 1 | |
| Converted | 1/4 | 1/4 | |
| Converted % | 25% | 25% | |
| Conceded | 5 | 5 | |
| Saved | 4/5 | 4 | |
| Saved % | 80% | 80% | |
| Times Broken | 1 | 0 | |
| Ruud | ||||
| R1 Andujar | R2 Carballes Baena | Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-2 6-3 | 6-1 6-0 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | 4 | |
| Tot Games | 17 | 13 | 30 | |
| pts | 60-42 | 52-25 | 112-67 | |
| Total points | 102 | 77 | 179 | |
| Winners | 30 | 21 | 51 | |
| %Winners | 50% | 40% | 46% | |
| SERVE | ||||
| Aces | 6 | 3 | 9 | |
| Double Faults | 1 | 2 | 3 | |
| 1st in | 38/55 | 28/38 | 66/93 | |
| % 1st in | 69% | 74% | 71% | |
| 1st pts | 30/38 | 21/28 | 51/66 | |
| % 1st pts | 79% | 75% | 77% | |
| 2nd pts | 9/17 | 7/10 | 16/27 | |
| % 2nd pts | 53% | 70% | 59% | |
| Breaks | ||||
| Won | 3 | 5 | 8 | |
| Converted | 3/7 | 5/7 | 8/14 | |
| Converted % | 43% | 71% | 57% | |
| Conceded | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| Saved | 0/0 | 0/0 | 0 | |
| Saved % | – | – | 0% | |
| Times Broken | 0 | 0 | -100 | |
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