Francesco Passaro and Alexandar Lazarov will play each other in the qualifications of the Dubai Duty Free Tennis Championships for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Sunday at 11:00 am on COURT 3. 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 Francesco Passaro who should win in 3 sets.
As per the initial odds, Francesco Passaro is the pick to win this match.
Francesco Passaro -> 1.5
Alexandar Lazarov -> 2.46
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Prediction and head to head Francesco Passaro vs. Alexandar Lazarov
There is no head to head record between Francesco Passaro and Alexandar Lazarov since this will be the first time that they will fight against each other in the main tour.
Francesco Passaro
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 39-25 | 4-5 | 35-19 | 0-0 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 28-35 | 8-11 | 18-20 | 2-3 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 49-28 | 12-6 | 35-18 | 2-4 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 43-27 | 4-5 | 39-22 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 9-5 | 0-0 | 9-5 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 109, Passaro reached the qualifications after beating Yuki Bhambri 4-1 ret..
In the qualifications against Bhambri, Passaro had a free pass after Bhambri retired on a 4-1 . scoreline.
Passaro has a winning match record in the last 6 years having won 59% of his matches (114-79). 7-7 on hard in 2023. Regarding his performance on the same surface of this tournament, Passaro has a compiled23-20 win-loss record in the last 6 years on hard.
Passaro has a composed 7-7 win-loss record in 2023, 7-7 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in Dubai
Passaro has never competed in this tournament before.
Alexandar Lazarov
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 4-9 | 3-2 | 1-5 | 0-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 49-20 | 19-2 | 24-12 | 6-6 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 45-22 | 11-5 | 34-15 | 0-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 21-9 | 6-1 | 15-8 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 304, Alexandar reached the qualifications after beating Zhizhen Zhang 6-1 7-65.
In the qualifications, The Bulgarian had a good straight sets win against Zhang (6-1 7-65). During the match Lazarov scored 72 points vs Zhang’s 55. Lazarov was exceptionally aggressive to blast 29 winners.
Talking about serving, Lazarov recorded 3 aces and he committed only 4 double faults. Overall, Alexandar Lazarov was pretty efficient on serve to win 73% (29/40) of his 1st serve and 58% (15/26) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve twice. Lazarov broke Zhang 4 times after converting 67% of his break points (4/6).
Alexandar has an aggregate 2-1 win-loss record in 2023, 2-1 on hard (See FULL STATS).
H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Passaro | Lazarov |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 1 | 1 |
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 |
| Tot Games | 5 | 20 |
| Pts | 20-12 | 72-55 |
| Total Points | 32 | 127 |
| Winners | 9 | 29 |
| %Winners | 45% | 40% |
Both Passaro and Lazarov played 1 match. Also both players started their run from the qualifications.Both players have not conceded a single set in this event so far. Talking about their workload, Passaro and Lazarov have played the same amount of sets 2. However, Passaro played 15 games less than Lazarov. Francesco scored 9 winners (45% of the total points). On the other side, The Bulgarian managed to score 29 winners (40%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Passaro | Lazarov |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 4 | 3 |
| Avg per match | 4 | 3 |
| 1st in | 12/18 | 40/66 |
| %1st in | 67% | 61% |
| 1st pts | 9/12 | 29/40 |
| %1st pts | 75% | 73% |
| 2nd pts | 4/6 | 15/26 |
| %2nd pts | 67% | 58% |
Passaro made 4 aces . Lazarov made 3 aces . Passaro won 75% points behind his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 67% of the points. On the other side, Lazarov won 73% of the points behind his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 58% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Passaro | Lazarov |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 1 | 4 |
| Converted | 1/1 | 4/6 |
| % Converted | 100% | 67% |
| Conceded | 3 | 3 |
| Saved | 3 | 1 |
| % Saved | 100% | 33% |
| Times Broken | 0 | 2 |
The Italian broke his opponent once with a 100% conversion rate. Francesco quite strong on his serve as he has never dropped a single service game after saving 3 break points. Lazarov broke his opponent 4 times with a 67% conversion rate. Lazarov conceded his serve twice and he saved 33% of the break points that he conceded.
| Passaro | |||
| Q1 Bhambri |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 4-1 ret. | ||
| Tot Set | 1 | 1 | |
| Tot Games | 5 | 5 | |
| pts | 20-12 | 20-12 | |
| Total points | 32 | 32 | |
| Winners | 9 | 9 | |
| %Winners | 45% | 45% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 4 | 4 | |
| Double Faults | 2 | 2 | |
| 1st in | 12/18 | 12/18 | |
| % 1st in | 67% | 67% | |
| 1st pts | 9/12 | 9/12 | |
| % 1st pts | 75% | 75% | |
| 2nd pts | 4/6 | 4/6 | |
| % 2nd pts | 67% | 67% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 1 | 1 | |
| Converted | 1/1 | 1/1 | |
| Converted % | 100% | 100% | |
| Conceded | 3 | 3 | |
| Saved | 3/3 | 3 | |
| Saved % | 100% | 100% | |
| Times Broken | 0 | 0 | |
| Lazarov | |||
| Q1 Zhang |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-1 7-65 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 20 | 20 | |
| pts | 72-55 | 72-55 | |
| Total points | 127 | 127 | |
| Winners | 29 | 29 | |
| %Winners | 40% | 40% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 3 | 3 | |
| Double Faults | 4 | 4 | |
| 1st in | 40/66 | 40/66 | |
| % 1st in | 61% | 61% | |
| 1st pts | 29/40 | 29/40 | |
| % 1st pts | 73% | 73% | |
| 2nd pts | 15/26 | 15/26 | |
| % 2nd pts | 58% | 58% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 4 | 4 | |
| Converted | 4/6 | 4/6 | |
| Converted % | 67% | 67% | |
| Conceded | 3 | 3 | |
| Saved | 1/3 | 1 | |
| Saved % | 33% | 33% | |
| Times Broken | 2 | 2 | |
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