Salvatore Caruso and Duje Ajdukovic will face off in the quarter of the Gran Canaria Challenger for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Friday at 1:30 pm on CENTER COURT. Here the head to head stats and relative prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Salvatore Caruso who should win in 3 sets.
As per the initial odds, Salvatore Caruso is the pick to win this match.
Salvatore Caruso -> 1.65
Duje Ajdukovic -> 2.24
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Prediction and head to head Salvatore Caruso vs. Duje Ajdukovic
There is no head to head record between Salvatore Caruso and Duje Ajdukovic since this will be the first time that they will clash against each other in the main tour.
Salvatore Caruso
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 12-12 | 8-9 | 4-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 38-36 | 6-6 | 32-30 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 23-24 | 10-6 | 10-13 | 1-4 | 2-1 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 16-25 | 9-9 | 7-11 | 0-3 | 0-2 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 20-20 | 7-8 | 8-8 | 5-4 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 156, Salvatore reached the quarter after defeating Carlos Lopez Montagud 5-7 6-0 6-4 and Carlos Gimeno Valero 6-3 6-4.
In the 2nd round, The Italian had a good straight sets win against Gimeno Valero (6-3 6-4). During the match, Caruso scored 68 points vs Gimeno Valero’s 60. The Italian was extremely aggressive to blast 20 winners.
Talking about the service games, Caruso scored 2 aces and he committed only 5 double faults. Salvatore Caruso lost the serve 3 times and he saved 2 break points. Furthermore, Caruso put 53% of his first serves in, winning 65% (20/31) of the points behind his 1st serve and 43% (12/28) on the 2nd serve. Caruso broke Gimeno Valero 6 times after converting 50% of his break points (6/12).
Overall Performance in this tournament
Salvatore has dropped 1 set in this competition to conquer 53% of the points he played.
Caruso has a good record in the last 10 years having won 55% of his matches (333-267). 2-0 on clay in 2022. Regarding his performance on the same surface of this event, Caruso has an aggregate 197-139 win-loss record in the last years on clay.
The Italian’s best result of the current year was getting to the semifinal in the Bendigo Challenger.
The Italian has a compiled 7-5 win-loss record in 2022, 2-0 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Gran Canaria Challenger
The Italian has never competed in this tournament before.
Duje Ajdukovic
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 36-27 | 17-12 | 13-10 | 6-2 | 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 |
| 2020 | 30-11 | 4-3 | 22-6 | 2-1 | 0-0 | 2-1 |
Ranked no. 264, Ajdukovic reached the quarter after defeating Miguel Damas 6-4 6-0 and Nikolas Sanchez-Izquierdo 7-5 6-1.
In the 2nd round, The Croatian had a good straight sets win against Sanchez-Izquierdo (7-5 6-1). During the match Ajdukovic and Sanchez-Izquierdo scored the same amount of points (). However, the world no. 156 was stronger during the important points and that was the most significant difference in the match. Ajdukovic was not very aggressive do strike just winners.
Talking about serving, Ajdukovic was unable to score even 1 ace for the entire match and he was quite consistent in conceding no double faults for the entire match. Duje Ajdukovic conceded no breaks for the entire match to put 0% of his first serves in, win 0% (/) of the points behind his 1st serve and 0% (/) on the 2nd serve.
Overall Performance in this tournament
The Croatian hasn’t dropped yet a set in the tournament to win 59% of the points he played.
Ajdukovic’s best result of the season was reaching the semifinal in M25 Antalya.
Ajdukovic has an overall 5-1 win-loss record in 2022, 5-1 on clay (See FULL STATS).
H2H Performance in the tournament (main draw)
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Caruso | Ajdukovic |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 2 | 2 |
| Tot Set | 5 | 4 |
| Tot Games | 47 | 35 |
| Pts | 165-146 | 69-47 |
| Total Points | 311 | 116 |
| Winners | 55 | 25 |
| %Winners | 33% | 36% |
Both Caruso and Ajdukovic played 2 matches. At the moment, Salvatore Caruso dropped 1 set while Duje Ajdukovic hasn’t conceded a set so far. Caruso has played 1 set more than Ajdukovic (5 vs 4). Therefore, Caruso played 12 games more than Ajdukovic. Salvatore scored 55 winners (33% of the total points). On the other side, Duje struck 25 winners (36%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Caruso | Ajdukovic |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 4 | 1 |
| Avg per match | 2 | 0.5 |
| 1st in | 85/162 | 34/55 |
| %1st in | 52% | 62% |
| 1st pts | 55/85 | 25/34 |
| %1st pts | 65% | 74% |
| 2nd pts | 37/77 | 10/21 |
| %2nd pts | 48% | 48% |
Caruso scored 4 aces (2 per match). Ajdukovic scored 1 ace (0.5 per match). Caruso won 65% points on his first serve. He extremely effective on his second serve to win 48% of the points. On the other side, Ajdukovic won 74% of the points on his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 48% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Caruso | Ajdukovic |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 13 | 6 |
| Converted | 13/23 | 6/12 |
| % Converted | 57% | 50% |
| Conceded | 16 | 7 |
| Saved | 9 | 5 |
| % Saved | 56% | 71% |
| Times Broken | 7 | 2 |
Caruso broke his opponents 13 times with a 57% conversion rate. The Italian conceded his serve 7 times and he saved 56% of the break points that he conceded. The Croatian broke his opponents 6 times with a 50% conversion rate. The Croatian conceded his serve twice and he saved 71% of the break points that he conceded.
| Caruso | ||||
| R1 Lopez |
R2 Gimeno |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 5-7 6-0 6-4 | 6-3 6-4 | ||
| Tot Set | 3 | 2 | 5 | |
| Tot Games | 28 | 19 | 47 | |
| pts | 97-86 | 68-60 | 165-146 | |
| Total points | 183 | 128 | 311 | |
| Winners | 35 | 20 | 55 | |
| %Winners | 36% | 29% | 33% | |
| SERVE | ||||
| Aces | 2 | 2 | 4 | |
| Double Faults | 2 | 5 | 7 | |
| 1st in | 54/103 | 31/59 | 85/162 | |
| % 1st in | 52% | 53% | 52% | |
| 1st pts | 35/54 | 20/31 | 55/85 | |
| % 1st pts | 65% | 65% | 65% | |
| 2nd pts | 25/49 | 12/28 | 37/77 | |
| % 2nd pts | 51% | 43% | 48% | |
| Breaks | ||||
| Won | 7 | 6 | 13 | |
| Converted | 7/11 | 6/12 | 13/23 | |
| Converted % | 64% | 50% | 57% | |
| Conceded | 11 | 5 | 16 | |
| Saved | 7/11 | 2/5 | 9 | |
| Saved % | 64% | 40% | 52% | |
| Times Broken | 4 | 3 | 7 | |
| Ajdukovic | ||||
| R1 Damas |
R2 Sanchez-Izquierdo |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-4 6-0 | 7-5 6-1 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | 4 | |
| Tot Games | 16 | 19 | 35 | |
| pts | 69-47 | – | 69-47 | |
| Total points | 116 | 0 | 116 | |
| Winners | 25 | 25 | ||
| %Winners | 36% | 0% | 36% | |
| SERVE | ||||
| Aces | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
| Double Faults | 2 | 2 | ||
| 1st in | 34/55 | / | 34/55 | |
| % 1st in | 62% | 0% | 62% | |
| 1st pts | 25/34 | / | 25/34 | |
| % 1st pts | 74% | 0% | 74% | |
| 2nd pts | 10/21 | / | 10/21 | |
| % 2nd pts | 48% | 0% | 48% | |
| Breaks | ||||
| Won | 6 | 6 | ||
| Converted | 6/12 | / | 6/12 | |
| Converted % | 50% | 0% | 50% | |
| Conceded | 7 | 7 | ||
| Saved | 5/7 | 0/ | 5 | |
| Saved % | 71% | – | 36% | |
| Times Broken | 2 | 2 | ||
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