Nerman Fatic and Alexandar Lazarov will clash against each other in the 2^nd round of the Manama Challenger for the 2^nd time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Thursday at 3:30 pm on CENTER COURT. In the following paragraphs, you can find the head to head analysis and prediction.

Prediction, odds and live streaming

The pick for Tennis Tonic is Nerman Fatic who should win in 2 sets.

As per the initial odds, Nerman Fatic is the pick to win this match.
Nerman Fatic -> 1.44
Alexandar Lazarov -> 2.79

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Prediction and head to head Nerman Fatic vs. Alexandar Lazarov

This will be the 2^nd time that Nerman Fatic and Alexandar Lazarov square off. The head to head is 1-0 for Fatic (see full H2H stats), but they have never competed against each other on hard.

The last time that they played, Fatic won 6-4 7-5 in the 1^st round in M25+H Kassel back in 2019.

Nerman Fatic

Ranked no. 310 (career-high), Fatic got to the 2^nd round after defeating Lucas Miedler 6-3 6-3.

In the 1^st round, Fatic had a good straight sets win against Miedler (6-3 6-3). During the match, Fatic scored 59 points vs Miedler’s 46. Fatic was very aggressive to blast 28 winners.

Regarding the service games, Fatic scored 3 aces and he committed only 3 double faults. Nerman Fatic was exceptionally effective on serve to win 78% (28/36) of his 1st serve and 58% (11/19) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. Nerman was clinical in his return game without wasting any break point and break Miedler 3 times.

Fatic has a solid win-loss record in the last 7 years having won 60% of his matches (240-160). 1-0 on hard in 2021. In connection with his performance on the same surface of this tournament, Fatic has an overall35-29 record in the last 7 years on hard.

Fatic’s best result of the current season was getting to the final in M15 Prijedor.

Nerman has an overall 35-23 win-loss record in 2021, 1-0 on hard (See FULL STATS).

Previously in the Manama Challenger

Fatic has never competed in this tournament before.

Manama Challenger

Fatic's Record

Alexandar Lazarov

Ranked no. 462, Alexandar got to the 2^nd round after beating Alexander Cozbinov 6-1 6-2, Johannes Haerteis 6-3 7-6⁷ and Altug Celikbilek 6-2 6-3.

In the 1^st round, Lazarov had a good straight sets win against Celikbilek (6-2 6-3). During the match Lazarov scored 66 points vs Celikbilek’s 43. Alexandar was pretty aggressive to blast 30 winners.

Talking about serving, Lazarov made 5 aces and he committed only 2 double faults. Alexandar Lazarov lost the serve once and he saved 1 break points. Furthermore, Lazarov put 72% of his first serves in, winning 88% (30/34) of the points behind his 1st serve and 38% (5/13) on the 2nd serve. The Bulgarian broke Celikbilek 4 times after converting 44% of his break points (4/9).

The Bulgarian’s best result of the year was getting to the final in M15 Skopje and M25 Telavi.

Alexandar has an aggregate 42-20 win-loss record in 2021, 10-4 on hard (See FULL STATS).

Manama Challenger

Lazarov's Record

H2H Performance in the tournament

Matches, sets, games and points

Fatic played 1 match while Lazarov competed in 3 matches. Lazarov started his run from the qualifications while Fatic had a direct access to the main draw. Both players have not conceded a single set in this event so far. Fatic has played 4 set(s) less than Lazarov (2 vs 6). Therefore, Fatic played 36 games less than Lazarov. The Bosnian scored 28 winners (47% of the total points). On the other side, The Bulgarian struck 93 winners (47%).

Serve Performance

Fatic fired 3 aces . Lazarov struck 18 aces (6 per match). Fatic won 78% points on his first serve. He extremely effective on his second serve to win 58% of the points. On the other side, Lazarov won 81% of the points behind his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 52% of the points.

How they played the important points

Nerman broke his opponent 3 times with a 100% conversion rate. Nerman very solid his serve as he has never lost a single service game after saving 2 break points. The Bulgarian broke his opponents 9 times with a 53% conversion rate. Alexandar conceded his serve once and he saved 83% of the break points that he conceded.

Head 2 Head

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Nerman
Fatic

1:1

Alexandar
Lazarov

Rank

244

High

191

0Hard1

1Clay0

Rank

840

High

272

Win Loss

Fatic

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Lazarov

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10 - 16

0 - 1

3-3

Hard

0-0

7-12

Clay

0-1

Tennis Scores in Manama Challenger

• Nuno BorgesBorges – Cem IlkelIlkel (6-3 6-1) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Yanki ErelErel – Hiroki MoriyaMoriya (6-3 5-7 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Evgeny KarlovskiyKarlovskiy – Johannes HaerteisHaerteis (6-3 6-1) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Ryan PenistonPeniston – Geoffrey BlancaneauxBlancaneaux (6-3 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings

Upcoming matches in the draw

• Matteo ViolaViola – Jay ClarkeClarke (0-1) – H2H and prediction
• Evgeny KarlovskiyKarlovskiy – Nuno BorgesBorges (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Goncalo OliveiraOliveira – Antoine EscoffierEscoffier (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Alexandar LazarovLazarov – Nerman FaticFatic (0-1) – H2H and prediction
• Duje AjdukovicAjdukovic – Ramkumar RamanathanRamanathan (0-1) – H2H and prediction
• Yanki ErelErel – Ryan PenistonPeniston (0-0) – H2H and prediction

Fatic

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Lazarov