Duje Ajdukovic and Oleksii Krutykh will play each other in the 1st round of the Madrid Challenger for the 2nd time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Tuesday at 4:00 pm on PISTA 2. In this post, we analyze their head to head performance and prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Duje Ajdukovic who should win in 3 sets.
As per the initial odds, Duje Ajdukovic is the pick to win this match.
Duje Ajdukovic -> 1.80
Oleksii Krutykh -> 1.90
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Prediction and head to head Duje Ajdukovic vs. Oleksii Krutykh
This will be the 2nd time that Duje Ajdukovic and Oleksii Krutykh clash against each other. The head to head is 1-0 for Ajdukovic (see full H2H stats), 1-0 on clay.
The last time that they squared off, Ajdukovic won 6-7(3) 6-4 7-6(8) in the 1st round in M25 Antalya back in February 2022.
Duje Ajdukovic
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 16-14 | 6-7 | 5-5 | 5-2 | 0-0 | 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. 246 (career-high), Duje will start his run in the Madrid Challenger after he played his last match in the Zadar Challenger where he lost 7-6(3) 6-3 to Sanchez in the quarter on the 25th of March.
Ajdukovic has a composed 8-4 win-loss record in 2022, 8-4 on clay (See FULL STATS).
The Croatian’s best result of the season was reaching the semifinal in M25 Antalya and the Gran Canaria Challenger.
Talking about his overall career, Duje has an overall 146-85 record. He has a positive 106-56 record on clay.
Previously in the Madrid Challenger
Ajdukovic has never competed in this tournament before.
Oleksii Krutykh
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 10-16 | 1-3 | 9-12 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 33-32 | 13-8 | 15-16 | 4-5 | 1-2 | 0-1 |
| 2022 | 49-27 | 2-3 | 44-20 | 3-4 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 41-25 | 8-3 | 32-20 | 1-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 22-12 | 13-7 | 7-4 | 2-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 338 (career-high), the Ukrainian got to the 1st round after defeating Tristan Lamasine 7-64 6-3 and Nicolas Alvarez Varona 6-1 6-2.
In the qualifications, Krutykh had a good straight sets win against Alvarez Varona (6-1 6-2). During the match Krutykh scored 58 points vs Alvarez Varona’s 33. Krutykh was exceptionally aggressive to blast 20 winners.
Talking about serving, Krutykh fired 4 aces and he committed only 1 double fault for the entire match. Oleksii Krutykh was pretty efficient on serve to win 83% (20/24) of his 1st serve and 55% (11/20) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. Krutykh broke Alvarez Varona 5 times after converting 71% of his break points (5/7).
Overall Performance in this tournament
Oleksii started his run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, he hasn’t dropped yet a set in this competition to conquer 58% of the points he played.
Krutykh’s best result of the current year was getting to the final in M25 Antalya.
Krutykh has an aggregate 15-4 win-loss record in 2022, 14-4 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Head 2 Head
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- Maximilian MartererMarterer – Lucas PouillePouille (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Christopher O ConnellO Connell – Johan NiklesNikles (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Sebastian OfnerOfner – Yshai OlielOliel (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Raul BrancaccioBrancaccio – Feliciano LopezLopez (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Javier Barranco CosanoBarranco Cosano – Pedro CachinCachin (2-2) – H2H and prediction
- Timofey SkatovSkatov – Oriol Roca BatallaRoca Batalla (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Oleksii KrutykhKrutykh – Duje AjdukovicAjdukovic (0-1) – H2H and prediction
