Damir Dzumhur and Egor Gerasimov will fight against each other in the 2^nd round of the Vilnius Challenger for the 4^th time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Thursday at 2:30 pm on COURT 17. 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 Egor Gerasimov who should win in 3 sets.

As per the initial odds, Egor Gerasimov is the pick to win this match.
Egor Gerasimov -> 1.68
Damir Dzumhur -> 2.09

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Prediction and head to head Damir Dzumhur vs. Egor Gerasimov

This will be the 4^th time that Damir Dzumhur and Egor Gerasimov play each other. The head to head is 2-1 for Gerasimov (see full H2H stats), 2-0 on indoor hard courts.

The last time that they competed against each other, Gerasimov won 6-1 7-6(6) in the qualifications in St petersburg back in 2021.

Damir Dzumhur

Ranked no. 226, the Bosnian reached the 2^nd round after defeating Henri Laaksonen 6-2 0-0 ret..

In the 1^st round against Laaksonen, Dzumhur had a free pass after Laaksonen retired on a 6-2 0-0 . scoreline.

Dzumhur has winning record in the last 10 years having won 55% of his matches (319-258). 1-2 on indoor hard courts in 2023. Regarding his performance on the same surface of this competition, Dzumhur has an aggregate 76-60 win-loss record in the last years on indoor hard courts.

Damir has a compiled 4-4 win-loss record in 2023, 1-2 on indoor hard courts (See FULL STATS).

Previously in the Vilnius Challenger

The Bosnian has never competed in this tournament before.

Egor Gerasimov

Ranked no. 414, Gerasimov reached the 2^nd round after defeating Tomas Vaise 6-3 6-4

, Beibit Zhukayev 3-6 6-4 6-4 and Jan-Lennard Struff 6-3 6-4.

In the 1^st round, The Belarussian had a good straight sets win against Struff (6-3 6-4). During the match Gerasimov scored 61 points vs Struff’s 49. Egor was very aggressive to blast 38 winners.

Talking about serving, Gerasimov fired 10 aces and he committed only 4 double faults. Egor Gerasimov conceded no breaks for the entire match to save 3 break points. Furthermore, Gerasimov put 74% of his first serves in, winning 83% (38/46) of the points behind his 1st serve and 44% (7/16) on the 2nd serve. Egor was clinical in his return game without wasting any break point and break Struff twice.

The Belarussian has an aggregate 4-2 win-loss record in 2023, 4-1 on indoor hard courts (See FULL STATS).

H2H Performance in the tournament

Matches, sets, games and points

Points	Dzumhur	Gerasimov
Match played	1	3
Tot Set	3	7
Tot Games	8	67
Pts	33-19	224-194
Total Points	52	418
Winners	13	104
%Winners	39%	46%

Dzumhur played 1 match while Gerasimov competed in 3 matches. Gerasimov started his run from the qualifications while Dzumhur had a direct access to the main draw. At the moment, Egor Gerasimov lost 1 set while Damir Dzumhur hasn’t surrendered a set so far. Dzumhur has played 4 set(s) less than Gerasimov (3 vs 7). Therefore, Dzumhur played 59 games less than Gerasimov. The Bosnian scored 13 winners (39% of the total points). On the other side, Gerasimov scored 104 winners (46%).

Serve Performance

Serve	Dzumhur	Gerasimov
Aces	0	20
Avg per match	0	6.7
1st in	14/19	140/210
%1st in	74%	67%
1st pts	13/14	104/140
%1st pts	93%	74%
2nd pts	3/5	37/70
%2nd pts	60%	53%

Dzumhur didn’t manage to fire a single ace to far. Gerasimov blasted 20 aces (6.7 per match). Dzumhur won 93% points behind his first serve. He pretty solid on his second serve to win 60% of the points. On the other side, Gerasimov won 74% of the points behind his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 53% of the points.

How they played the important points

Breaks	Dzumhur	Gerasimov
Won	2	9
Converted	2/5	9/23
% Converted	40%	39%
Conceded	0	16
Saved	0	12
% Saved	0%	75%
Times Broken	0	4

The Bosnian broke his opponent twice with a 40% conversion rate. Dzumhur was rock solid on his serve as he has never conceded a single service game after saving 0 break points. The Belarussian broke his opponents 9 times with a 39% conversion rate. Egor conceded his serve 4 times and he saved 75% of the break points that he conceded.

Dzumhur
	R1 Laaksonen	Total
Score	6-2 0-0 ret.
Tot Set	2	2
Tot Games	8	8
pts	33-19	33-19
Total points	52	52
Winners	13	13
%Winners	39%	39%
SERVE
Aces	0	0
Double Faults	0	0
1st in	14/19	14/19
% 1st in	74%	74%
1st pts	13/14	13/14
% 1st pts	93%	93%
2nd pts	3/5	3/5
% 2nd pts	60%	60%
Breaks
Won	2	2
Converted	2/5	2/5
Converted %	40%	40%
Conceded	0	0
Saved	0/0	0
Saved %	–	0%
Times Broken	0	0

Gerasimov
	Q1 Vaise	Q3 Zhukayev	R1 Struff	Total
Score	6-3 6-4	3-6 6-4 6-4	6-3 6-4
Tot Set	2	3	2	7
Tot Games	19	29	19	67
pts	68-53	95-92	61-49	224-194
Total points	121	187	110	418
Winners	27	39	38	104
%Winners	40%	41%	62%	46%
SERVE
Aces	3	7	10	20
Double Faults	2	1	4	7
1st in	39/59	55/89	46/62	140/210
% 1st in	66%	62%	74%	67%
1st pts	27/39	39/55	38/46	104/140
% 1st pts	69%	71%	83%	74%
2nd pts	11/20	19/34	7/16	37/70
% 2nd pts	55%	56%	44%	53%
Breaks
Won	4	3	2	9
Converted	4/10	3/11	2/2	9/23
Converted %	40%	27%	100%	39%
Conceded	4	9	3	16
Saved	2/4	7/9	3/3	12
Saved %	50%	78%	100%	228%
Times Broken	2	2	0	4

Tennis Scores in Vilnius Challenger

• Cem IlkelIlkel – Nino SerdarusicSerdarusic (6-2 6-4) – See score progression
• Joris De LooreDe Loore – Dominic StrickerStricker (6-3 6-1) – See score progression
• Laurent LokoliLokoli – Kacper ZukZuk (0-6 6-2 7-5) – See score progression
• Ricardas BerankisBerankis – Altug CelikbilekCelikbilek (2-6 6-2 6-4) – See score progression
• Denis YevseyevYevseyev – Julian OcleppoOcleppo (6-2 6-2) – See score progression
• Dennis NovakNovak – Alexander RitschardRitschard (6-4 6-3) – See score progression
• Evan FurnessFurness – Vit KoprivaKopriva (6-4 6-2) – See score progression
• Damir DzumhurDzumhur – Henri LaaksonenLaaksonen (6-2 0-0 ret.) – See score progression
• Otto VirtanenVirtanen – Gijs BrouwerBrouwer (6-4 7-6¹) – See score progression
• Elias YmerYmer – Vilius GaubasGaubas (4-6 7-6⁵ 6-4) – See score progression
• Jurij RodionovRodionov – Michael GeertsGeerts (6-2 6-3) – See score progression
• Liam BroadyBroady – Mats MoraingMoraing (6-3 6-1) – See score progression
• Antoine EscoffierEscoffier – Edas ButvilasButvilas (1-6 7-5 7-6⁵) – See score progression
• Egor GerasimovGerasimov – Jan-Lennard StruffStruff (6-3 6-4) – See score progression
• Zdenek KolarKolar – Daniel MasurMasur (7-6³ 6-4) – See score progression
• Ergi KirkinKirkin – Mats RosenkranzRosenkranz (7-5 6-7⁴ 7-6²) – See score progression
• Karol Drzewiecki/Szymon WalkowDrzewiecki/Szymon Walkow – Liam Broady/Charles BroomBroady/Charles Broom (7-6⁵ 6-3) – See score progression

Upcoming matches in the draw

• Richard BerankisBerankis – Dennis NovakNovak (3-0) – H2H and prediction
• Antoine EscoffierEscoffier – Otto VirtanenVirtanen (0-1) – H2H and prediction
• Liam BroadyBroady – Elias YmerYmer (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Egor GerasimovGerasimov – Damir DzumhurDzumhur (2-1) – H2H and prediction
• Joris De LooreDe Loore – Denis YevseyevYevseyev (1-0) – H2H and prediction
• Cem IlkelIlkel – Laurent LokoliLokoli (1-1) – H2H and prediction
• Evan FurnessFurness – Ergi KirkinKirkin (0-1) – H2H and prediction
• Jurij RodionovRodionov – Zdenek KolarKolar (2-0) – H2H and prediction