Duje Ajdukovic and Nikolas Sanchez-Izquierdo will fight against each other in the 2nd round of the Gran Canaria Challenger for the 3rd time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Thursday at 10:30 am on CENTER COURT. In the following lines you can find the head to head analysis and prediction.
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The pick for Tennis Tonic is Duje Ajdukovic who should win in 3 sets.
Duje Ajdukovic -> 1.69
Nikolas Sanchez-Izquierdo -> 2.17
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Prediction and head to head Duje Ajdukovic vs. Nikolas Sanchez-Izquierdo
This will be the 3rd time that Duje Ajdukovic and Nikolas Sanchez-Izquierdo face off. The head to head is 1-1 for Ajdukovic and Sanchez-Izquierdo (see full H2H stats),but they are 1-1 on clay.
The last time that they locked horns, Ajdukovic won 3-6 7-6(5) 7-5 in the qualifications in the Maia Challenger back in 2020.
Duje Ajdukovic
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 24-29 | 9-9 | 13-16 | 2-1 | 0-3 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 38-31 | 18-13 | 13-10 | 7-5 | 0-3 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 59-25 | 2-1 | 50-21 | 7-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 27-31 | 0-1 | 22-23 | 3-4 | 2-3 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 33-31 | 1-1 | 29-23 | 3-7 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 264, the Croatian reached the 2nd round after beating Miguel Damas 6-4 6-0.
In the 1st round, The Croatian had a good straight sets win against Damas (6-4 6-0). During the match, Ajdukovic scored 69 points vs Damas’s 47. Duje was exceptionally aggressive to blast 25 winners.
Regarding the service games, Ajdukovic scored just 1 ace in the encounter and he committed only 2 double faults. Duje Ajdukovic lost the serve twice and he saved 5 break points. Furthermore, Ajdukovic put 62% of his first serves in, winning 74% (25/34) of the points behind his 1st serve and 48% (10/21) on the 2nd serve. Duje broke Damas 6 times after converting 50% of his break points (6/12).
Ajdukovic has a solid record in the last 5 years having won 63% of his matches (142-82). 4-1 on clay in 2022. Regarding his performance on the same surface of this event, Ajdukovic has an overall102-53 record in the last 5 years on clay.
Duje’s best result of the current year was reaching the semifinal in M25 Antalya.
Ajdukovic has an aggregate 4-1 win-loss record in 2022, 4-1 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Gran Canaria Challenger
Ajdukovic has never competed in this tournament before.
Nikolas Sanchez-Izquierdo
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 41-30 | 0-3 | 41-27 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 32-36 | 2-2 | 30-33 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 45-31 | 4-5 | 41-23 | 0-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 33-29 | 5-0 | 26-25 | 2-4 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 40-32 | 0-2 | 39-28 | 1-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 299, Nikolas got to the 2nd round after defeating Lorenzo Giustino 6-2 6-2.
In the 1st round, Sanchez-Izquierdo had a good straight sets win against Giustino (6-2 6-2). During the match Sanchez-Izquierdo scored 58 points vs Giustino’s 36. The Spaniard was pretty aggressive to blast 16 winners.
About the serving games, Sanchez-Izquierdo was unable to score even 1 ace for the entire match and he committed only 2 double faults. Overall, Nikolas Sanchez-Izquierdo was extremely effective on serve to win 73% (16/22) of his 1st serve and 52% (13/25) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve twice. The Spaniard broke Giustino 6 times after converting 67% of his break points (6/9).
The Spaniard’s best result of the season was reaching the final in M15 Villena.
Sanchez-Izquierdo has a compiled 6-2 win-loss record in 2022, 1-0 on clay (See FULL STATS).
H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Ajdukovic | Sanchez-Izquierdo |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 1 | 1 |
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 |
| Tot Games | 16 | 16 |
| Pts | 69-47 | 58-36 |
| Total Points | 116 | 94 |
| Winners | 25 | 16 |
| %Winners | 36% | 28% |
Both Ajdukovic and Sanchez-Izquierdo played 1 match. Both players have not lost a single set in this event so far. Talking about their workload, Ajdukovic and Sanchez-Izquierdo have played the same amount of sets 2. They also played the same amount of games (16). The Croatian scored 25 winners (36% of the total points). On the other side, Nikolas bagged 16 winners (28%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Ajdukovic | Sanchez-Izquierdo |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 1 | 0 |
| Avg per match | 1 | 0 |
| 1st in | 34/55 | 22/47 |
| %1st in | 62% | 47% |
| 1st pts | 25/34 | 16/22 |
| %1st pts | 74% | 73% |
| 2nd pts | 10/21 | 13/25 |
| %2nd pts | 48% | 52% |
Ajdukovic fired 1 ace . Sanchez-Izquierdo didn’t manage to fire a single ace to far. Ajdukovic won 74% points behind his first serve. He was rock solid on his second serve to win 48% of the points. On the other side, Sanchez-Izquierdo won 73% of the points on his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 52% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Ajdukovic | Sanchez-Izquierdo |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 6 | 6 |
| Converted | 6/12 | 6/9 |
| % Converted | 50% | 67% |
| Conceded | 7 | 3 |
| Saved | 5 | 1 |
| % Saved | 71% | 33% |
| Times Broken | 2 | 2 |
The Croatian broke his opponent 6 times with a 50% conversion rate. Duje surrendered his serve twice and he saved 71% of the break points that he conceded. Sanchez-Izquierdo broke his opponent 6 times with a 67% conversion rate. Nikolas conceded his serve twice and he saved 33% of the break points that he conceded.
| Ajdukovic | |||
| R1 Damas | Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-4 6-0 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 16 | 16 | |
| pts | 69-47 | 69-47 | |
| Total points | 116 | 116 | |
| Winners | 25 | 25 | |
| %Winners | 36% | 36% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 1 | 1 | |
| Double Faults | 2 | 2 | |
| 1st in | 34/55 | 34/55 | |
| % 1st in | 62% | 62% | |
| 1st pts | 25/34 | 25/34 | |
| % 1st pts | 74% | 74% | |
| 2nd pts | 10/21 | 10/21 | |
| % 2nd pts | 48% | 48% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 6 | 6 | |
| Converted | 6/12 | 6/12 | |
| Converted % | 50% | 50% | |
| Conceded | 7 | 7 | |
| Saved | 5/7 | 5 | |
| Saved % | 71% | 71% | |
| Times Broken | 2 | 2 | |
| Sanchez-Izquierdo | |||
| R1 Giustino | Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-2 6-2 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 16 | 16 | |
| pts | 58-36 | 58-36 | |
| Total points | 94 | 94 | |
| Winners | 16 | 16 | |
| %Winners | 28% | 28% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 0 | 0 | |
| Double Faults | 2 | 2 | |
| 1st in | 22/47 | 22/47 | |
| % 1st in | 47% | 47% | |
| 1st pts | 16/22 | 16/22 | |
| % 1st pts | 73% | 73% | |
| 2nd pts | 13/25 | 13/25 | |
| % 2nd pts | 52% | 52% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 6 | 6 | |
| Converted | 6/9 | 6/9 | |
| Converted % | 67% | 67% | |
| Conceded | 3 | 3 | |
| Saved | 1/3 | 1 | |
| Saved % | 33% | 33% | |
| Times Broken | 2 | 2 | |
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- Gianluca MagerMager – Javier Barranco CosanoBarranco Cosano (6-2 4-6 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Riccardo BonadioBonadio – Andrej MartinMartin (7-66 7-5) – Stats, scores, rankings
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