David Goffin and Laurent Lokoli will play each other in the 1st round of the Australian Open for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Tuesday at 3:00 pm on Court 13. In this post, we analyze their head to head performance and prediction.

Prediction, odds and live streaming

The pick for Tennis Tonic is David Goffin who should win in 4 sets.

As per the initial odds, David Goffin is the pick to win this match.
David Goffin -> 1.25
Laurent Lokoli -> 3.95

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Prediction and head to head David Goffin vs. Laurent Lokoli

There is no head to head record between David Goffin and Laurent Lokoli since this will be the first time that they will clash against each other in the main tour.

David Goffin

David Goffin

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Rank
118
High
7
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Year Total Hard Clay I.hard Grass Carpet
2025 16-26 10-15 4-4 2-6 0-1 0-0
2024 47-28 24-11 7-7 9-7 7-3 0-0
2023 36-26 2-5 11-9 18-9 5-3 0-0
2022 34-29 7-13 14-5 9-9 4-2 0-0
2021 14-15 4-8 5-5 5-1 0-1 0-0

Ranked no. 50, Goffin will start his run at the Australian Open after he played his last match in Auckland where he lost 1-6 6-1 6-1 to Gasquet in the quarter on the 12th of January.

The Belgian has an aggregate 2-3 win-loss record in 2023, 2-3 on hard (See FULL STATS).

Talking about his overall career, The Belgian has an overall 567-327 record. He has a positive 202-126 record on hard.

Previously at the Australian Open

Previously, his best result was reaching the quarter in 2017. See his history.

Australian Open
Goffin's Record

Laurent Lokoli

Laurent Lokoli

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Rank
474
High
167
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Year Total Hard Clay I.hard Grass Carpet
2025 30-18 17-7 13-9 0-2 0-0 0-0
2024 32-22 24-14 8-6 0-2 0-0 0-0
2023 29-26 12-10 5-6 6-6 6-4 0-0
2022 59-22 26-10 27-7 6-5 0-0 0-0
2021 18-18 14-12 4-5 0-1 0-0 0-0

Ranked no. 175 (career-high), Lokoli reached the 1st round after defeating Antoine Bellier 6-3 6-3, Li Tu 6-1 6-76 6-2 and Sebastian Ofner 6-3 7-65.

In the qualifications, Lokoli had a good straight sets win against Ofner (6-3 7-65). During the match Lokoli scored 77 points vs Ofner’s 70. The French player was exceptionally aggressive to blast 30 winners.

Talking about serving, Lokoli recorded 4 aces and he committed only 2 double faults. Laurent Lokoli lost the serve once and he saved 1 break points. Furthermore, Lokoli put 65% of his first serves in, winning 70% (30/43) of the points behind his 1st serve and 74% (17/23) on the 2nd serve. Laurent broke Ofner twice after converting 20% of his break points (2/10).

Overall Performance in this tournament

Laurent started his run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, he has conceded 1 set in the tournament to win 54% of the points he played.

Laurent’s best result of the year was reaching the final in the Noumea Challenger.

Lokoli has an aggregate 6-1 win-loss record in 2023, 6-1 on hard (See FULL STATS).

Previously at the Australian Open

Previously, his best result was reaching the 1st round in 2015. See his history.

Australian Open
Lokoli's Record

Tennis Scores – Australian Open

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