Novak Djokovic and Aslan Karatsev will clash against each other in the 2nd round of the Internazionali BNL d’Italia for the 3rd time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Tuesday at 4:00 pm on CENTER COURT. In the following lines you can find the head to head analysis and prediction.

Prediction, odds and live streaming

The pick for Tennis Tonic is Novak Djokovic who should win in 2 sets.

As per the initial odds, Novak Djokovic is the pick to win this match.
Novak Djokovic -> 1.174
Aslan Karatsev -> 5.25

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Prediction and head to head Novak Djokovic vs. Aslan Karatsev

This will be the 3rd time that Novak Djokovic and Aslan Karatsev fight against each other. The head to head is 1-1 (see full H2H stats), 1-0 on clay.

The last time that they squared off, Karatsev won 7-5 4-6 6-4 in the semifinal in Belgrade back in 2021.

Highlights Aslan Karatsev vs Novak Djokovic – Belgrade 24-April-2021

Novak Djokovic

Novak Djokovic

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Rank
4
High
1
WWWWLWWWWL
Year Total Hard Clay I.hard Grass Carpet
2025 39-11 21-7 9-3 4-0 5-1 0-0
2024 37-9 15-5 16-3 1-0 5-1 0-0
2023 56-7 27-1 12-3 11-2 6-1 0-0
2022 42-7 2-1 14-4 19-2 7-0 0-0
2021 55-7 19-3 18-3 11-1 7-0 0-0

Currently world no. 1 the Serbian will start his run in Rome after he played his last match in Madrid where he lost 6-7(5) 7-5 7-6(5) to Alcaraz in the semifinal on the 7th of May.

Djokovic has an overall 7-4 win-loss record in 2022, 5-3 on clay (See FULL STATS).

The Serbian’s best result of the season was reaching the final in Belgrade.

Talking about his overall career, Novak has an overall 1097-229 record. He has a positive 304-69 record on clay.

Previously in Rome

Previously, he won this tournament 5 times in 2008, 2011, 2014, 2015 and 2020. See his history.

Rome
Djokovic's Record

Aslan Karatsev

Aslan Karatsev

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Rank
372
High
14
LWLLWLWLLW
Year Total Hard Clay I.hard Grass Carpet
2025 16-11 14-8 2-3 0-0 0-0 0-0
2024 12-18 6-9 1-4 5-3 0-2 0-0
2023 32-22 13-10 14-5 2-3 3-4 0-0
2022 18-31 8-9 5-9 4-10 1-3 0-0
2021 37-20 23-9 9-6 4-3 1-2 0-0

Ranked no. 35, the Russian got to the 2nd round after defeating Lloyd Harris 3-6 6-3 7-67.

In the 1st round against Lloyd, Aslan recovered from a 1-set down deficit before winning (3-6 6-3 7-67).During the match Karatsev scored less points (3) than Lloyd. In fact, the world no. 1 won 106 points vs Lloyd’s. That means that Karatsev was more focused during the important points. Karatsev was very aggressive to blast 47 winners.

About the serving games, Karatsev blasted 3 aces and he committed only 4 double faults. Aslan Karatsev lost the serve twice and he saved 1 break points. Furthermore, Karatsev put 61% of his first serves in, winning 75% (47/63) of the points behind his 1st serve and 50% (20/40) on the 2nd serve. The Russian broke Lloyd twice after converting 20% of his break points (2/10).

His best result of the current season was winning the title in in Sydney where he beat Andy Murray in the final 6-3 6-3.

The Russian has an aggregate 9-10 win-loss record in 2022, 1-3 on clay (See FULL STATS).

Previously in Rome

Previously, his best result was reaching the 3rd round in 2021. See his history.

Rome
Karatsev's Record

Tennis Scores in Rome

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