H2H, PREDICTION Dusan Lajovic vs Jozef Kovalik | Parma Challenger odds, preview, pick

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Prediction and head to head Dusan Lajovic vs. Jozef Kovalik

Dusan Lajovic and Jozef Kovalik will play each other in the quarter of the Montechiarugolo for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Friday at 6:00 pm 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 Dusan Lajovic who should win in 2 sets.

See updated oddsAs per the initial odds, Dusan Lajovic is the pick to win this match.
Dusan Lajovic -> 1.37
Jozef Kovalik -> 3.1

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Prediction and head to head Dusan Lajovic vs. Jozef Kovalik

There is no head to head record between Dusan Lajovic and Jozef Kovalik since this will be the first time that they will face off in the main tour.

Dusan Lajovic

Dusan Lajovic
Dusan Lajovic

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Rank
82
High
23
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Year Total Hard Clay I.hard Grass Carpet
2024 17-23 3-7 13-11 1-4 0-1 0-0
2023 30-28 9-9 18-13 3-5 0-1 0-0
2022 30-30 4-11 24-15 1-2 1-2 0-0
2021 18-28 8-10 5-9 4-7 1-2 0-0
2020 14-16 7-6 7-7 0-3 0-0 0-0

Ranked no. 69, Lajovic reached the quarter after defeating Francesco Passaro 7-5 6-4 and Michael Geerts 6-3 7-63.

In the 2nd round, Lajovic had a good straight sets win against Geerts (6-3 7-63). During the match, Lajovic scored 89 points vs Geerts’s 79. The Serbian was very aggressive to blast 40 winners.

Regarding the service games, Lajovic bagged 5 aces and he committed only 4 double faults. Dusan Lajovic was pretty effective on serve to win 74% (40/54) of his 1st serve and 61% (20/33) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. Dusan broke Geerts once after converting 13% of his break points (1/8).

Overall Performance in this tournament

The Serbian hasn’t conceded yet a set in this tournament to win 54% of the points he played.

Lajovic has a positive record in the last 10 years having won 52% of his matches (290-268). 10-8 on clay in 2022. Talking about his performance on the same surface of this competition, Lajovic has an overall 171-124 match record in the last years on clay.

Lajovic has an aggregate 13-16 win-loss record in 2022, 10-8 on clay (See FULL STATS).

Previously in the Parma Challenger

Lajovic has never competed in this tournament before.

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Jozef Kovalik

Jozef Kovalik
Jozef Kovalik

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Rank
124
High
80
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Year Total Hard Clay I.hard Grass Carpet
2024 36-25 3-5 30-15 3-4 0-1 0-0
2023 23-34 1-3 21-28 1-2 0-1 0-0
2022 33-23 3-6 29-13 1-3 0-1 0-0
2021 31-27 0-1 26-20 5-5 0-1 0-0
2020 17-16 2-3 15-12 0-1 0-0 0-0

Ranked no. 221, the Slovakian reached the quarter after defeating Matteo Donati 6-0 3-1 ret., Elmar Ejupovic 6-1 3-6 6-1, Bernabe Zapata Miralles 7-66 3-6 6-4 and Alessandro Giannessi 6-1 6-3.

In the 2nd round, The Slovakian had a good straight sets win against Giannessi (6-1 6-3). During the match Kovalik scored 60 points vs Giannessi’s 40. Kovalik was pretty aggressive to blast 29 winners.

About the serving games, Kovalik fired 4 aces and he committed only 3 double faults. Jozef Kovalik was quite efficient on serve to win 76% (29/38) of his 1st serve and 55% (6/11) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. The Slovakian broke Giannessi 4 times after converting 67% of his break points (4/6).

Overall Performance in this tournament

The Slovakian started his run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, he has conceded 2 set in the tournament to win 54% of the points he played.

The Slovakian’s best result of the current season was reaching the semifinal in the Oeiras 2 Challenger.

Jozef has an aggregate 14-12 win-loss record in 2022, 12-7 on clay (See FULL STATS).

Kovalik
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H2H Performance in the tournament (main draw)

D.Lajovic
J.Kovalik
3h:39
3h:39
Time on court​
!
6h:13
6h:13
!
2h:03
2h:03
Last match​
1h:10
1h:10
2
2
Match played
!
4
4
44
44
Games Played​
81
81
4
4
Set played​​
11
11
171
171
Total points​
277
277
85.5
85.5
Avg point​
69.3
69.3
75
75
Winners
105
105
37.5
37.5
Avg Winners​
26.3
26.3
44%
44%
Ratio winners
38%
38%
-- Serve --
10
10
Aces
14
14
5
5
Avg Aces
3.5
3.5
5
5
Double Faults
6
6
2.5
2.5
Avg Double Faults
1.5
1.5
75/102
75/102
1st won total​
105/154
105/154
!
74%
74%
1st won %
68%
68%
41/64
41/64
2nd won total​
62/97
62/97
!
64%
64%
2nd won %
!
64%
64%
-- Break Points --
3/15
3/15
BP won
16/30
16/30
1.5/7.5
1.5/7.5
Avg BP won
4/7.5
4/7.5
!
20%
20%
Won
!
53%
53%
9
9
Conceded
18
18
4.5
4.5
Avg Conceded
4.5
4.5
0
0
Broken
5
5
!
0
0
Avg Broken
1.3
1.3
9
9
Saved
13
13

Matches, sets, games and points

Points Lajovic Kovalik
Match played 2 4
Tot Set 4 11
Tot Games 44 81
Pts 171-147 277-217
Total Points 318 494
Winners 75 105
%Winners 44% 38%

Lajovic played 2 matches while Kovalik competed in 4 matches. Kovalik started his run from the qualifications while Lajovic had a direct access to the main draw. At the moment, Jozef Kovalik lost 2 sets while Dusan Lajovic hasn’t conceded a set so far. Lajovic has played 7 set(s) less than Kovalik (4 vs 11). Therefore, Lajovic played 37 games less than Kovalik. Dusan scored 75 winners (44% of the total points). On the other side, The Slovakian struck 105 winners (38%).

Serve Performance

Serve Lajovic Kovalik
Aces 10 14
Avg per match 5 3.5
1st in 102/166 154/251
%1st in 61% 61%
1st pts 75/102 105/154
%1st pts 74% 68%
2nd pts 41/64 62/97
%2nd pts 64% 64%

Lajovic made 10 aces (5 per match). Kovalik scored 14 aces (3.5 per match). Lajovic won 74% points behind his first serve. He very solid his second serve to win 64% of the points. On the other side, Kovalik won 68% of the points behind his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 64% of the points.

How they played the important points

Breaks Lajovic Kovalik
Won 3 16
Converted 3/15 16/30
% Converted 20% 53%
Conceded 9 18
Saved 9 13
% Saved 100% 72%
Times Broken 0 5

Dusan broke his opponents 3 times with a 20% conversion rate. Lajovic extremely effective on his serve as he has never conceded a single service game after saving 9 break points. Kovalik broke his opponents 16 times with a 53% conversion rate. Jozef conceded his serve 5 times and he saved 72% of the break points that he conceded.

Lajovic
R1
Passaro
R2
Geerts
Total
Score 7-5 6-4 6-3 7-63
Tot Set 2 2 4
Tot Games 22 22 44
pts 82-68 89-79 171-147
Total points 150 168 318
Winners 35 40 75
%Winners 43% 45% 44%
SERVE
Aces 5 5 10
Double Faults 1 4 5
1st in 48/79 54/87 102/166
% 1st in 61% 62% 61%
1st pts 35/48 40/54 75/102
% 1st pts 73% 74% 74%
2nd pts 21/31 20/33 41/64
% 2nd pts 68% 61% 64%
Breaks
Won 2 1 3
Converted 2/7 1/8 3/15
Converted % 29% 13% 20%
Conceded 2 7 9
Saved 2/2 7/7 9
Saved % 100% 100% 100%
Times Broken 0 0 0
Kovalik
Q1
Donati
Q3
Ejupovic
R1
Zapata Miralles
R2
Giannessi
Total
Score 6-0 3-1 ret. 6-1 3-6 6-1 7-66 3-6 6-4 6-1 6-3
Tot Set 2 3 3 2 10
Tot Games 10 23 32 16 81
pts 39-15 75-53 103-109 60-40 277-217
Total points 54 128 212 100 494
Winners 12 30 34 29 105
%Winners 31% 40% 33% 48% 38%
SERVE
Aces 3 5 2 4 14
Double Faults 0 2 1 3 6
1st in 14/27 40/68 62/107 38/49 154/251
% 1st in 52% 59% 58% 78% 61%
1st pts 12/14 30/40 34/62 29/38 105/154
% 1st pts 86% 75% 55% 76% 68%
2nd pts 10/13 20/28 26/45 6/11 62/97
% 2nd pts 77% 71% 58% 55% 64%
Breaks
Won 4 4 4 4 16
Converted 4/7 4/8 4/9 4/6 16/30
Converted % 57% 50% 44% 67% 53%
Conceded 0 5 12 1 18
Saved 0/0 4/5 8/12 1/1 13
Saved % 80% 67% 100% 124%
Times Broken 0 1 4 0 5

Head 2 Head

Win Loss
Lajovic
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Kovalik
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2024 2023 2022
17 - 21
35 - 23
3-7
Hard
3-5
1-3
I Hard
2-2
13-10
Clay
30-15
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