H2H, PREDICTION Novak Djokovic vs Alexander Zverev | Australian Open odds, preview, pick

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Prediction and head to head Novak Djokovic vs. Alexander Zverev

Novak Djokovic and Alexander Zverev will play each other in the quarter of the Australian Open for the 8th time of their career. They are scheduled to compete on Tuesday at 9 pm on Rod Laver Arena. In the following lines you can find the head to head analysis and prediction.

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The pick for Tennis Tonic is Novak Djokovic who should win in 4 sets.

See updated oddsAs per the initial odds, Novak Djokovic is the pick to win this match.
Novak Djokovic -> 1.47
Alexander Zverev -> 2.85

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Prediction and head to head Novak Djokovic vs. Alexander Zverev

This will be the 8th time that Novak Djokovic and Alexander Zverev fight 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 6-7(3) 6-2 7-5 in the R in Atp cup back in February 2021.

Highlights Novak Djokovic vs Alexander Zverev – Atp cup 05-February-2021

Novak Djokovic

Currently world no. 1 the Serbian got to the R after beating Jeremy Chardy 6-3 6-1 6-2, Frances Tiafoe 6-3 6-73 7-62 6-3, Taylor Harry Fritz 7-61 6-4 3-6 4-6 6-2 and Milos Raonic 7-64 4-6 6-1 6-4.

In the 4th round, The Serbian defeated Raonic (7-64 4-6 6-1 6-4). During the match Djokovic scored 130 points vs Raonic’s 114. The Serbian was exceptionally aggressive to blast 64 winners.

Regarding the service games, Djokovic made 10 aces and he committed only 3 double faults. Overall, Novak Djokovic was quite efficient on serve to win 78% (64/82) of his 1st serve and 59% (23/39) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve once. Djokovic broke Raonic 3 times after converting 27% of his break points (3/11).

Overall Performance in this tournament

The Serbian has conceded 4 set in this tournament to win 54% of the points he played.

Djokovic has a a superlative match record in the last 10 years having won 87% of his matches (546-81). 6-0 on hard in 2021. Regarding his performance on the same surface of this event, Djokovic has a 294-37 match record in the last years on hard.

Novak has a 6-0 win-loss record in 2021, 6-0 on hard (See FULL STATS).

Last year at the Australian Open

The Serbian won the title last year in Australian-Open after defeating Dominic Thiem .

Alexander Zverev

Ranked no. 7, the German reached the R after defeating Marcos Giron 6-78 7-64 6-3 6-2, Maxime Cressy 7-5 6-4 6-3, Adrian Mannarino 6-3 6-3 6-1 and Dusan Lajovic 6-4 7-65 6-3.

In the 4th round, Alexander had a good straight sets win against Lajovic (6-4 7-65 6-3). During the match Zverev scored 114 points vs Lajovic’s 97. Alexander was exceptionally aggressive to blast 53 winners.

Talking about serving, Zverev scored 15 aces and he committed only 3 double faults. Overall, Alexander Zverev was quite effective on serve to win 76% (53/70) of his 1st serve and 52% (14/27) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve twice. Zverev broke Lajovic 4 times after converting 29% of his break points (4/14).

Overall Performance in this tournament

Zverev has conceded 1 set in the tournament to win 56% of the points he played.

The German has a 5-2 win-loss record in 2021, 5-2 on hard (See FULL STATS).

Last year at the Australian Open

Zverev lost in the semifinal to Dominic Thiem.

H2H Performance in the tournament

Matches, sets, games and points

Points Djokovic Zverev
Match played 4 4
Tot Set 16 13
Tot Games 158 131
Pts 523-444 452-354
Total Points 967 806
Winners 242 216
%Winners 46% 48%

Both Djokovic and Zverev played 4 matches. Both players lost a set in the event. Novak Djokovic lost 4 sets, while Alexander Zverev conceded 1 set. Djokovic has played 3 sets more than Zverev (16 vs 13). Therefore, Djokovic played 27 games more than Zverev. Novak scored 242 winners (46% of the total points). On the other side, Alexander recorded 216 winners (48%).

Serve Performance

Serve Djokovic Zverev
Aces 60 65
Avg per match 15 16.3
1st in 304/457 260/370
%1st in 67% 70%
1st pts 242/304 216/260
%1st pts 80% 83%
2nd pts 88/153 61/110
%2nd pts 58% 55%

Djokovic scored 60 aces (15 per match). Zverev made 65 aces (16.3 per match). Djokovic won 80% points on his first serve. He pretty effective on his second serve to win 58% of the points. On the other side, Zverev won 83% 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 Djokovic Zverev
Won 18 19
Converted 18/47 19/51
% Converted 38% 37%
Conceded 18 14
Saved 12 10
% Saved 67% 71%
Times Broken 6 4

The Serbian broke his opponents 18 times with a 38% conversion rate. Djokovic dropped his serve 6 times and he saved 67% of the break points that he conceded. Zverev broke his opponents 19 times with a 37% conversion rate. The German conceded his serve 4 times and he saved 71% of the break points that he conceded.

Djokovic
R1
Chardy
R2
Tiafoe
R3
Fritz
R4
Raonic
Total
Score 6-3 6-1 6-2 6-3 6-73 7-62 6-3 7-61 6-4 3-6 4-6 6-2 7-64 4-6 6-1 6-4
Tot Set 3 4 5 4 16
Tot Games 24 44 50 40 158
pts 91-52 145-123 157-155 130-114 523-444
Total points 143 268 312 244 967
Winners 37 62 79 64 242
%Winners 41% 43% 50% 49% 46%
SERVE
Aces 9 26 15 10 60
Double Faults 1 5 5 3 14
1st in 43/57 74/120 105/159 82/121 304/457
% 1st in 75% 62% 66% 68% 67%
1st pts 37/43 62/74 79/105 64/82 242/304
% 1st pts 86% 84% 75% 78% 80%
2nd pts 11/14 27/46 27/54 23/39 88/153
% 2nd pts 79% 59% 50% 59% 58%
Breaks
Won 6 5 4 3 18
Converted 6/13 5/14 4/9 3/11 18/47
Converted % 46% 36% 44% 27% 38%
Conceded 0 3 12 3 18
Saved 0/0 1/3 9/12 2/3 12
Saved % 33% 75% 67% 44%
Times Broken 0 2 3 1 6
Zverev
R1
Giron
R2
Cressy
R3
Mannarino
R4
Lajovic
Total
Score 6-78 7-64 6-3 6-2 7-5 6-4 6-3 6-3 6-3 6-1 6-4 7-65 6-3
Tot Set 4 3 3 3 13
Tot Games 43 31 25 32 131
pts 140-109 105-86 93-62 114-97 452-354
Total points 249 191 155 211 806
Winners 67 51 45 53 216
%Winners 48% 49% 48% 46% 48%
SERVE
Aces 16 15 19 15 65
Double Faults 4 3 6 3 16
1st in 77/111 62/87 51/75 70/97 260/370
% 1st in 69% 71% 68% 72% 70%
1st pts 67/77 51/62 45/51 53/70 216/260
% 1st pts 87% 82% 88% 76% 83%
2nd pts 20/34 15/25 12/24 14/27 61/110
% 2nd pts 59% 60% 50% 52% 55%
Breaks
Won 6 4 5 4 19
Converted 6/15 4/10 5/12 4/14 19/51
Converted % 40% 40% 42% 29% 37%
Conceded 4 4 3 3 14
Saved 2/4 4/4 3/3 1/3 10
Saved % 50% 100% 100% 33% 71%
Times Broken 2 0 0 2 4

Head 2 Head

Win Loss
Djokovic
LWWWWWWLWW
Zverev
WWWWWWWLWW
2024 2023 2022
36 - 9
68 - 20
15-5
Hard
29-10
0-0
I Hard
10-2
16-3
Clay
23-6
5-1
Grass
6-2

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