Dusan Lajovic and Kevin Anderson will clash against each other in the 2nd round of the French Open for the 3rd time of their career. They are scheduled to play on Thursday at 4 pm on Court 9. Here you can find the head to head analysis and the prediction.

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The pick for Tennis Tonic is Dusan Lajovic who should win in 5 sets.

As per the initial odds, Dusan Lajovic is the pick to win this match.
Dusan Lajovic -> 1.6
Kevin Anderson -> 2.4

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Prediction and head to head Dusan Lajovic vs. Kevin Anderson

This will be the 3rd time that Dusan Lajovic and Kevin Anderson face off. The head to head is 2-0 for Anderson (see full H2H stats), 1-0 on clay.

Dusan Lajovic

Ranked no. 24, the Serbian reached the 2nd round after beating Gianluca Mager 6-4 7-64 4-6 6-1.

In the 1st round, Dusan had a good straight sets win against Mager (6-4 7-64 4-6 6-1). During the match Lajovic scored 143 points vs Mager’s 119. Lajovic was quite aggressive to blast 62 winners.

Talking about the service games, Lajovic blasted 6 aces and he committed only 1 double fault. Overall, Dusan Lajovic was extremely efficent on serve to win 71% (62/87) of his 1st serve and 61% (20/33) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve 4 times. The Serbian broke Mager 6 times after converting 29% of his break points (6/21).

Lajovic has a winning win-loss record in the last 10 years having won 57% of his matches (353-268). 7-5 on clay in 2020. In connection with his performance on the same surface of this tournament, Lajovic has a 203-128 record in the last years on clay.

Lajovic has a 14-11 win-loss record in 2020, 7-5 on clay (See FULL STATS).

Last year at the French Open

Lajovic lost in the 3rd round to Alexander Zverev.

Kevin Anderson

Ranked no. 118, Kevin got to the 2nd round after beating Laslo Djere 6-2 6-3 6-4.

In the 1st round, Kevin had a good straight sets win against Djere (6-2 6-3 6-4). During the match Anderson scored 100 points vs Djere’s 71. Anderson was extremely aggressive to blast 42 winners.

Talking about serving, Anderson struck 11 aces and he committed only 1 double fault for the entire match. Overall, Kevin Anderson was quite efficent on serve to win 75% (42/56) of his 1st serve and 56% (14/25) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve twice. Kevin broke Djere 6 times after converting 43% of his break points (6/14).

The South African has a 5-7 win-loss record in 2020, 1-2 on clay (See FULL STATS).

Last year at the French Open

Kevin didn’t play at the French Open in 2019.

H2H Performance in the tournament

Matches, sets, games and points

Points Lajovic Anderson
Match played 1 1
Tot Set 4 3
Tot Games 40 27
Pts 143-119 100-71
Total Points 262 171
Winners 62 42
%Winners 43% 42%

Both Lajovic and Anderson played 1 match. At the moment, Dusan Lajovic dropped 1 set while Kevin Anderson hasn’t surrendered a set so far. Lajovic has played 1 set more than Anderson (4 vs 3). Therefore, Lajovic played 13 games more than Anderson. Dusan scored 62 winners (43% of the total points). On the other side, Anderson made 42 winners (42%).

Serve Performance

Serve Lajovic Anderson
Aces 6 11
Avg per match 6 11
1st in 87/120 56/81
%1st in 73% 69%
1st pts 62/87 42/56
%1st pts 71% 75%
2nd pts 20/33 14/25
%2nd pts 61% 56%

Lajovic scored 6 aces . Anderson blasted 11 aces . Lajovic won 71% points on his first serve. He was rock solid on his second serve to win 61% of the points. On the other side, Anderson won 75% of the points on his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 56% of the points.

How they played the important points

Breaks Lajovic Anderson
Won 6 6
Converted 6/21 6/14
% Converted 29% 43%
Conceded 7 5
Saved 3 3
% Saved 43% 60%
Times Broken 4 2

Lajovic broke his opponent 6 times with a 29% conversion rate. Lajovic lost his serve 4 times and he saved 43% of the break points that he conceded. Kevin broke his opponent 6 times with a 43% conversion rate. Kevin conceded his serve twice and he saved 60% of the break points that he conceded.

Lajovic
R1
Mager		 Total
Score 6-4 7-64 4-6 6-1
Tot Set 4 4
Tot Games 40 40
pts 143-119 143-119
Total points 262 262
Winners 62 62
%Winners 43% 43%
SERVE
Aces 6 6
Double Faults 1 1
1st in 87/120 87/120
% 1st in 73% 73%
1st pts 62/87 62/87
% 1st pts 71% 71%
2nd pts 20/33 20/33
% 2nd pts 61% 61%
Breaks
Won 6 6
Converted 6/21 6/21
Converted % 29% 29%
Conceded 7 7
Saved 3/7 3
Saved % 43% 43%
Times Broken 4 4
Anderson
R1
Djere		 Total
Score 6-2 6-3 6-4
Tot Set 3 3
Tot Games 27 27
pts 100-71 100-71
Total points 171 171
Winners 42 42
%Winners 42% 42%
SERVE
Aces 11 11
Double Faults 1 1
1st in 56/81 56/81
% 1st in 69% 69%
1st pts 42/56 42/56
% 1st pts 75% 75%
2nd pts 14/25 14/25
% 2nd pts 56% 56%
Breaks
Won 6 6
Converted 6/14 6/14
Converted % 43% 43%
Conceded 5 5
Saved 3/5 3
Saved % 60% 60%
Times Broken 2 2

Tennis Scores at the French Open

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