Dusan Lajovic and Gabriele Piraino will face off in the 2nd round of the Genova Challenger for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Thursday at 7:30 pm on CENTRALE. In the following paragraphs, you can find the head to head analysis and prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Dusan Lajovic who should win in 2 sets.
As per the initial odds, Dusan Lajovic is the pick to win this match.
Dusan Lajovic -> 1.095
Gabriele Piraino -> 6.6
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Prediction and head to head Dusan Lajovic vs. Gabriele Piraino
There is no head to head record between Dusan Lajovic and Gabriele Piraino since this will be the first time that they will square off in the main tour.
Dusan Lajovic
Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
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2024 | 16-20 | 3-7 | 13-11 | 0-1 | 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. 93, the Serbian reached the 2nd round after beating Gianluca Mager 6-4 7-64.
In the 1st round, The Serbian had a good straight sets win against Mager (6-4 7-64). During the match, Lajovic scored 79 points vs Mager’s 66. The Serbian was pretty aggressive to blast 32 winners.
Regarding the service games, Lajovic scored just 1 ace in the encounter and he was very consistent in conceding no double faults. Overall, Dusan Lajovic was quite efficient on serve to win 80% (32/40) of his 1st serve and 55% (12/22) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve twice. Dusan broke Mager 3 times after converting 33% of his break points (3/9).
Lajovic has winning record in the last 10 years having won 52% of his matches (299-277). 16-12 on clay in 2022. In connection with his performance on the same surface of this tournament, Lajovic has an aggregate 177-128 win-loss record in the last years on clay.
Lajovic’s best result of the current year was reaching the semifinal in the Parma Challenger.
Dusan has an overall 22-25 win-loss record in 2022, 16-12 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Genova Challenger
Lajovic has never competed in this tournament before.
Gabriele Piraino
Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
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2024 | 29-22 | 5-6 | 24-16 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
2023 | 27-31 | 4-3 | 23-28 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
2022 | 37-26 | 2-2 | 35-24 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
2021 | 20-12 | 0-0 | 20-12 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 602, Piraino got to the 2nd round after defeating Filippo Verdese 6-1 6-3, Alexander Weis 1-6 6-4 6-2 and Matteo Martineau 3-6 6-3 6-4.
In the 1st round against Martineau, Piraino recovered from a 1-set down deficit before winning (3-6 6-3 6-4). During the match Piraino scored 82 points vs Martineau’s 77. Gabriele was exceptionally aggressive to blast 25 winners.
Talking about serving, Piraino fired 4 aces and he committed only 6 double faults. Gabriele Piraino lost the serve 3 times and he saved 4 break points. Furthermore, Piraino put 49% of his first serves in, winning 64% (25/39) of the points behind his 1st serve and 66% (27/41) on the 2nd serve. Gabriele broke Martineau 4 times after converting 57% of his break points (4/7).
Gabriele’s best result of the current season was reaching the final in M25 Padova.
The Italian has an overall 36-22 win-loss record in 2022, 34-20 on clay (See FULL STATS).
H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
Points | Lajovic | Piraino |
---|---|---|
Match played | 1 | 3 |
Tot Set | 2 | 8 |
Tot Games | 23 | 69 |
Pts | 79-66 | 230-197 |
Total Points | 145 | 427 |
Winners | 32 | 81 |
%Winners | 41% | 35% |
Lajovic played 1 match while Piraino competed in 3 matches. Piraino started his run from the qualifications while Lajovic had a direct access to the main draw. At the moment, Gabriele Piraino surrendered 2 sets while Dusan Lajovic hasn’t conceded a set so far. Lajovic has played 6 set(s) less than Piraino (2 vs 8). Therefore, Lajovic played 46 games less than Piraino. Lajovic scored 32 winners (41% of the total points). On the other side, The Italian fired 81 winners (35%).
Serve Performance
Serve | Lajovic | Piraino |
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Aces | 1 | 10 |
Avg per match | 1 | 3.3 |
1st in | 40/62 | 125/226 |
%1st in | 65% | 55% |
1st pts | 32/40 | 81/125 |
%1st pts | 80% | 65% |
2nd pts | 12/22 | 63/101 |
%2nd pts | 55% | 62% |
Lajovic fired 1 ace . Piraino also struck 10 aces (3.3 per match). Lajovic won 80% points on his first serve. He pretty effective on his second serve to win 55% of the points. On the other side, Piraino won 65% 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 | Lajovic | Piraino |
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Won | 3 | 12 |
Converted | 3/9 | 12/19 |
% Converted | 33% | 63% |
Conceded | 4 | 19 |
Saved | 2 | 12 |
% Saved | 50% | 63% |
Times Broken | 2 | 7 |
Dusan broke his opponent 3 times with a 33% conversion rate. Dusan conceded his serve twice and he saved 50% of the break points that he conceded. Piraino broke his opponents 12 times with a 63% conversion rate. Piraino conceded his serve 7 times and he saved 63% of the break points that he conceded.
Lajovic | |||
R1 Mager |
Total | ||
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Score | 6-4 7-64 | ||
Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
Tot Games | 23 | 23 | |
pts | 79-66 | 79-66 | |
Total points | 145 | 145 | |
Winners | 32 | 32 | |
%Winners | 41% | 41% | |
SERVE | |||
Aces | 1 | 1 | |
Double Faults | 0 | 0 | |
1st in | 40/62 | 40/62 | |
% 1st in | 65% | 65% | |
1st pts | 32/40 | 32/40 | |
% 1st pts | 80% | 80% | |
2nd pts | 12/22 | 12/22 | |
% 2nd pts | 55% | 55% | |
Breaks | |||
Won | 3 | 3 | |
Converted | 3/9 | 3/9 | |
Converted % | 33% | 33% | |
Conceded | 4 | 4 | |
Saved | 2/4 | 2 | |
Saved % | 50% | 50% | |
Times Broken | 2 | 2 |
Piraino | |||||
Q1 Verdese |
Q3 Weis |
R1 Martineau |
Total | ||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Score | 6-1 6-3 | 1-6 6-4 6-2 | 3-6 6-3 6-4 | ||
Tot Set | 2 | 3 | 3 | 8 | |
Tot Games | 16 | 25 | 28 | 69 | |
pts | 59-36 | 89-84 | 82-77 | 230-197 | |
Total points | 95 | 173 | 159 | 427 | |
Winners | 17 | 39 | 25 | 81 | |
%Winners | 29% | 44% | 30% | 35% | |
SERVE | |||||
Aces | 4 | 2 | 4 | 10 | |
Double Faults | 3 | 4 | 6 | 13 | |
1st in | 26/54 | 60/92 | 39/80 | 125/226 | |
% 1st in | 48% | 65% | 49% | 55% | |
1st pts | 17/26 | 39/60 | 25/39 | 81/125 | |
% 1st pts | 65% | 65% | 64% | 65% | |
2nd pts | 19/28 | 17/32 | 27/41 | 63/101 | |
% 2nd pts | 68% | 53% | 66% | 62% | |
Breaks | |||||
Won | 5 | 3 | 4 | 12 | |
Converted | 5/6 | 3/6 | 4/7 | 12/19 | |
Converted % | 83% | 50% | 57% | 63% | |
Conceded | 6 | 6 | 7 | 19 | |
Saved | 5/6 | 3/6 | 4/7 | 12 | |
Saved % | 83% | 50% | 57% | 190% | |
Times Broken | 1 | 3 | 3 | 7 |
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