Rafael Nadal and Dusan Lajovic will clash against each other in the 3rd round of the Internazionali BNL d’Italia for the 3rd time of their career. They are scheduled to compete on Friday at 7 pm on Campo Centrale. Here the head to head stats and the relative prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Rafael Nadal who should win in 2 sets.
As per the initial odds, Rafael Nadal is the pick to win this match.
Rafael Nadal -> 1.015
Dusan Lajovic -> 22
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Prediction and head to head Rafael Nadal vs. Dusan Lajovic
This will be the 3rd time that Rafael Nadal and Dusan Lajovic clash against each other. The head to head is 2-0 for Nadal (see full H2H stats), 1-0 on clay.
Rafael Nadal
Ranked no. 2, the Spaniard reached the 3rd round after defeating Pablo Carreno-Busta 6-1 6-1.
In the 2nd round, Nadal had a good straight sets win against Carreno-Busta (6-1 6-1). During the match Nadal scored 63 points vs Carreno-Busta’s 32. Nadal was pretty aggressive to blast 15 winners.
Talking about the service games, Nadal recorded 2 aces and he committed only 2 double faults. Rafael Nadal was extremely efficent on serve to win 79% (15/19) of his 1st serve and 80% (16/20) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. Rafael broke Carreno-Busta 5 times after converting 56% of his break points (5/9).
Nadal has a a extraordinary record in the last 10 years having won 84% of his matches (529-103). 1-0 on clay in 2020. Talking about his performance on the same surface of this tournament, Nadal has a 234-23 record in the last years on clay.
His best result of the season was conquering the title in Acapulco where he overcame Taylor Harry Fritz in the final 6-3 6-2.
Rafael has a 14-3 win-loss record in 2020, 1-0 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Last year in Rome
The Spaniard won the title last year in Rome after defeating Novak Djokovic .
Dusan Lajovic
Ranked no. 25, the Serbian reached the 3rd round after defeating Alejandro Davidovich Fokina 6-4 6-4 and Milos Raonic 7-63 4-6 6-2.
In the 2nd round, The Serbian defeated Raonic (7-63 4-6 6-2). During the match Lajovic scored 102 points vs Raonic’s 95. Lajovic was exceptionally aggressive to blast 52 winners.
Talking about serving, Lajovic fired 8 aces and he committed only 4 double faults. Dusan Lajovic lost the serve 3 times and he saved 4 break points. Furthermore, Lajovic put 71% of his first serves in, winning 69% (52/75) of the points behind his 1st serve and 52% (16/31) on the 2nd serve. Lajovic broke Raonic 4 times after converting 40% of his break points (4/10).
Overall Performance in this tournament
The Serbian has conceded 1 set in the tournament to win 53% of the points he played.
The Serbian has a 11-9 win-loss record in 2020, 4-3 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Last year in Rome
Dusan surrendered in the qualifications to Daniel Evans.
H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Nadal | Lajovic |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 1 | 2 |
| Tot Set | 2 | 5 |
| Tot Games | 14 | 51 |
| Pts | 63-32 | 173-153 |
| Total Points | 95 | 326 |
| Winners | 15 | 76 |
| %Winners | 24% | 44% |
Nadal played 1 match while Lajovic competed in 2 matches. At the moment, Dusan Lajovic lost 1 set while Rafael Nadal hasn’t surrendered a set so far. Nadal has played 3 set(s) less than Lajovic (2 vs 5). Therefore, Nadal played 37 games less than Lajovic. Rafael scored 15 winners (24% of the total points). On the other side, The Serbian struck 76 winners (44%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Nadal | Lajovic |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 2 | 14 |
| Avg per match | 2 | 7 |
| 1st in | 19/39 | 106/164 |
| %1st in | 49% | 65% |
| 1st pts | 15/19 | 76/106 |
| %1st pts | 79% | 72% |
| 2nd pts | 16/20 | 32/58 |
| %2nd pts | 80% | 55% |
Nadal bagged 2 aces . Lajovic scored 14 aces (7 per match). Nadal won 79% points behind his first serve. He extremely effective on his second serve to win 80% of the points. On the other side, Lajovic won 72% of the points behind his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 55% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Nadal | Lajovic |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 5 | 7 |
| Converted | 5/9 | 7/18 |
| % Converted | 56% | 39% |
| Conceded | 1 | 10 |
| Saved | 1 | 6 |
| % Saved | 100% | 60% |
| Times Broken | 0 | 4 |
Rafael broke his opponent 5 times with a 56% conversion rate. Rafael was rock solid on his serve as he has never conceded a single service game after saving 1 break points. Dusan broke his opponents 7 times with a 39% conversion rate. Dusan conceded his serve 4 times and he saved 60% of the break points that he conceded.
| Nadal | |||
| R2 Carreno-Busta |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-1 6-1 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 14 | 14 | |
| pts | 63-32 | 63-32 | |
| Total points | 95 | 95 | |
| Winners | 15 | 15 | |
| %Winners | 24% | 24% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 2 | 2 | |
| Double Faults | 2 | 2 | |
| 1st in | 19/39 | 19/39 | |
| % 1st in | 49% | 49% | |
| 1st pts | 15/19 | 15/19 | |
| % 1st pts | 79% | 79% | |
| 2nd pts | 16/20 | 16/20 | |
| % 2nd pts | 80% | 80% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 5 | 5 | |
| Converted | 5/9 | 5/9 | |
| Converted % | 56% | 56% | |
| Conceded | 1 | 1 | |
| Saved | 1/1 | 1 | |
| Saved % | 100% | 100% | |
| Times Broken | 0 | 0 | |
| Lajovic | ||||
| R1 Davidovich Fokina |
R2 Raonic |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-4 6-4 | 7-63 4-6 6-2 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 3 | 5 | |
| Tot Games | 20 | 31 | 51 | |
| pts | 71-58 | 102-95 | 173-153 | |
| Total points | 129 | 197 | 326 | |
| Winners | 24 | 52 | 76 | |
| %Winners | 34% | 51% | 44% | |
| SERVE | ||||
| Aces | 6 | 8 | 14 | |
| Double Faults | 0 | 4 | 4 | |
| 1st in | 31/58 | 75/106 | 106/164 | |
| % 1st in | 53% | 71% | 65% | |
| 1st pts | 24/31 | 52/75 | 76/106 | |
| % 1st pts | 77% | 69% | 72% | |
| 2nd pts | 16/27 | 16/31 | 32/58 | |
| % 2nd pts | 59% | 52% | 55% | |
| Breaks | ||||
| Won | 3 | 4 | 7 | |
| Converted | 3/8 | 4/10 | 7/18 | |
| Converted % | 38% | 40% | 39% | |
| Conceded | 3 | 7 | 10 | |
| Saved | 2/3 | 4/7 | 6 | |
| Saved % | 67% | 57% | 124% | |
| Times Broken | 1 | 3 | 4 | |
Head 2 Head
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LLWLWLLWWW Tennis Scores in Rome
- Casper RuudRuud – Lorenzo SonegoSonego (6-3 6-4) – See score progression
- Dusan LajovicLajovic – Milos RaonicRaonic (7-63 4-6 6-2) – See score progression
- Dominik KoepferKoepfer – Gael MonfilsMonfils (6-2 6-4) – See score progression
- Denis ShapovalovShapovalov – Pedro Martinez PorteroMartinez Portero (6-4 6-4) – See score progression
- Diego Sebastian SchwartzmanSebastian Schwartzman – John MillmanMillman (6-4 7-61) – See score progression
- Lorenzo MusettiMusetti – Kei NishikoriNishikori (6-3 6-4) – See score progression
- Ugo HumbertHumbert – Fabio FogniniFognini (7-5 7-64) – See score progression
- Hubert HurkaczHurkacz – Andrey RublevRublev (7-66 3-6 6-2) – See score progression
- Filip KrajinovicKrajinovic – Marco CecchinatoCecchinato (6-4 6-1) – See score progression
- Marin CilicCilic – David GoffinGoffin (6-2 6-2) – See score progression
- Rafael NadalNadal – Pablo Carreno-BustaCarreno-Busta (6-1 6-1) – See score progression
- Grigor DimitrovDimitrov – Yoshihito NishiokaNishioka (6-1 6-0) – See score progression
- Stefano TravagliaTravaglia – Borna CoricCoric (7-62 7-5) – See score progression
- Matteo BerrettiniBerrettini – Federico CoriaCoria (7-5 6-1) – See score progression
- Novak DjokovicDjokovic – Salvatore CarusoCaruso (6-3 6-2) – See score progression
- Jannik SinnerSinner – Stefanos TsitsipasTsitsipas (6-1 6-79 6-2) – See score progression
- Lorenzo MusettiMusetti – Kei NishikoriNishikori (6-3 6-4) – See score progression
- Dominik KoepferKoepfer – Gael MonfilsMonfils (6-2 6-4) – See score progression
- Casper RuudRuud – Lorenzo SonegoSonego (6-3 6-4) – See score progression
Upcoming matches in the draw
- Novak DjokovicDjokovic – Filip KrajinovicKrajinovic (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Lorenzo MusettiMusetti – Dominik KoepferKoepfer (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Matteo BerrettiniBerrettini – Stefano TravagliaTravaglia (0-3) – H2H and prediction
- Casper RuudRuud – Marin CilicCilic (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Ugo HumbertHumbert – Denis ShapovalovShapovalov (1-1) – H2H and prediction
- Grigor DimitrovDimitrov – Jannik SinnerSinner (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Diego Sebastian SchwartzmanSebastian Schwartzman – Hubert HurkaczHurkacz (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Dusan LajovicLajovic – Rafael NadalNadal (0-2) – H2H and prediction
