Duje Ajdukovic and Matteo Arnaldi will square off in the 2nd round of the Split Challenger for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Friday at 12:30 pm on PRACTICE 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 -> 1.6
Matteo Arnaldi -> 2.34
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Prediction and head to head Duje Ajdukovic vs. Matteo Arnaldi
There is no head to head record between Duje Ajdukovic and Matteo Arnaldi since this will be the first time that they will play each other in the main tour.
Duje Ajdukovic
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 17-19 | 6-7 | 6-7 | 5-2 | 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. 244 (career-high), Ajdukovic got to the 2nd round after defeating Zdenek Kolar 6-4 6-3.
In the 1st round, Ajdukovic had a good straight sets win against Kolar (6-4 6-3). During the match, Ajdukovic scored 66 points vs Kolar’s 59. The Croatian was quite aggressive to blast 27 winners.
Talking about the service games, Ajdukovic fired 6 aces and he committed only 3 double faults. Duje Ajdukovic lost the serve 3 times and he saved 5 break points. Furthermore, Ajdukovic put 54% of his first serves in, winning 73% (27/37) of the points behind his 1st serve and 35% (11/31) on the 2nd serve. Ajdukovic broke Kolar 5 times after converting 71% of his break points (5/7).
Ajdukovic has a solid match record in the last 5 years having won 63% of his matches (147-86). 9-5 on clay in 2022. In connection with his performance on the same surface of this tournament, Ajdukovic has an overall107-57 win-loss record in the last 5 years on clay.
Ajdukovic’s best result of the current season was getting to the semifinal in M25 Antalya and the Gran Canaria Challenger.
The Croatian has an overall 9-5 win-loss record in 2022, 9-5 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Split Challenger
Matteo Arnaldi
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 20-16 | 10-8 | 9-6 | 0-0 | 1-2 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 51-26 | 21-15 | 23-7 | 4-3 | 3-1 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 50-35 | 9-3 | 37-20 | 4-11 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 56-24 | 2-1 | 51-18 | 3-5 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 17-9 | 16-4 | 0-1 | 1-3 | 0-0 | 0-1 |
Ranked no. 324 (career-high), Arnaldi reached the 2nd round after defeating Arjun Kadhe 6-3 6-0, Daniel Michalski 6-1 6-2 and Michael Geerts 6-3 6-4.
In the 1st round, Matteo had a good straight sets win against Geerts (6-3 6-4). During the match Arnaldi scored 73 points vs Geerts’s 62. Matteo was extremely aggressive to blast 23 winners.
Talking about serving, Arnaldi scored just 1 ace during the entire match and he committed only 3 double faults. Matteo Arnaldi lost the serve 3 times and he saved 5 break points. Furthermore, Arnaldi put 66% of his first serves in, winning 61% (23/38) of the points behind his 1st serve and 50% (10/20) on the 2nd serve. Arnaldi broke Geerts 6 times after converting 40% of his break points (6/15).
Matteo has an aggregate 13-11 win-loss record in 2022, 12-6 on clay (See FULL STATS).
H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Ajdukovic | Arnaldi |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 1 | 3 |
| Tot Set | 2 | 6 |
| Tot Games | 19 | 49 |
| Pts | 66-59 | 200-136 |
| Total Points | 125 | 336 |
| Winners | 27 | 63 |
| %Winners | 41% | 32% |
Ajdukovic played 1 match while Arnaldi competed in 3 matches. Arnaldi started his run from the qualifications while Ajdukovic had a direct access to the main draw. Both players have not conceded a single set in this event so far. Ajdukovic has played 4 set(s) less than Arnaldi (2 vs 6). Therefore, Ajdukovic played 30 games less than Arnaldi. Ajdukovic scored 27 winners (41% of the total points). On the other side, The Italian managed to score 63 winners (32%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Ajdukovic | Arnaldi |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 6 | 4 |
| Avg per match | 6 | 1.3 |
| 1st in | 37/68 | 90/132 |
| %1st in | 54% | 68% |
| 1st pts | 27/37 | 63/90 |
| %1st pts | 73% | 70% |
| 2nd pts | 11/31 | 26/42 |
| %2nd pts | 35% | 62% |
Ajdukovic bagged 6 aces . Arnaldi made 4 aces (1.3 per match). Ajdukovic won 73% points on his first serve. He pretty solid on his second serve to win 35% of the points. On the other side, Arnaldi won 70% of the points on his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 62% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Ajdukovic | Arnaldi |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 5 | 17 |
| Converted | 5/7 | 17/35 |
| % Converted | 71% | 49% |
| Conceded | 8 | 9 |
| Saved | 5 | 5 |
| % Saved | 63% | 56% |
| Times Broken | 3 | 4 |
The Croatian broke his opponent 5 times with a 71% conversion rate. The Croatian lost his serve 3 times and he saved 63% of the break points that he conceded. Matteo broke his opponents 17 times with a 49% conversion rate. Matteo conceded his serve 4 times and he saved 56% of the break points that he conceded.
| Ajdukovic | |||
| R1 Kolar |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-4 6-3 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 19 | 19 | |
| pts | 66-59 | 66-59 | |
| Total points | 125 | 125 | |
| Winners | 27 | 27 | |
| %Winners | 41% | 41% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 6 | 6 | |
| Double Faults | 3 | 3 | |
| 1st in | 37/68 | 37/68 | |
| % 1st in | 54% | 54% | |
| 1st pts | 27/37 | 27/37 | |
| % 1st pts | 73% | 73% | |
| 2nd pts | 11/31 | 11/31 | |
| % 2nd pts | 35% | 35% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 5 | 5 | |
| Converted | 5/7 | 5/7 | |
| Converted % | 71% | 71% | |
| Conceded | 8 | 8 | |
| Saved | 5/8 | 5 | |
| Saved % | 63% | 63% | |
| Times Broken | 3 | 3 | |
| Arnaldi | |||||
| Q1 Kadhe |
Q3 Michalski |
R1 Geerts |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-3 6-0 | 6-1 6-2 | 6-3 6-4 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | 2 | 6 | |
| Tot Games | 15 | 15 | 19 | 49 | |
| pts | 65-37 | 62-37 | 73-62 | 200-136 | |
| Total points | 102 | 99 | 135 | 336 | |
| Winners | 21 | 19 | 23 | 63 | |
| %Winners | 32% | 31% | 32% | 32% | |
| SERVE | |||||
| Aces | 2 | 1 | 1 | 4 | |
| Double Faults | 1 | 0 | 3 | 4 | |
| 1st in | 29/37 | 23/37 | 38/58 | 90/132 | |
| % 1st in | 78% | 62% | 66% | 68% | |
| 1st pts | 21/29 | 19/23 | 23/38 | 63/90 | |
| % 1st pts | 72% | 83% | 61% | 70% | |
| 2nd pts | 6/8 | 10/14 | 10/20 | 26/42 | |
| % 2nd pts | 75% | 71% | 50% | 62% | |
| Breaks | |||||
| Won | 6 | 5 | 6 | 17 | |
| Converted | 6/9 | 5/11 | 6/15 | 17/35 | |
| Converted % | 67% | 45% | 40% | 49% | |
| Conceded | 1 | 0 | 8 | 9 | |
| Saved | 0/1 | 0/0 | 5/8 | 5 | |
| Saved % | 0% | – | 63% | 63% | |
| Times Broken | 1 | 0 | 3 | 4 | |
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