Duje Ajdukovic and Alessandro Giannessi will play each other in the 2nd round of the Braga Challenger for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Wednesday at 3:30 pm on CENTER COURT. Here the head to head stats and relative prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Duje Ajdukovic who should win in 3 sets.
As per the initial odds, Duje Ajdukovic is the pick to win this match.
Duje Ajdukovic -> 1.61
Alessandro Giannessi -> 2.21
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Prediction and head to head Duje Ajdukovic vs. Alessandro Giannessi
There is no head to head record between Duje Ajdukovic and Alessandro Giannessi since this will be the first time that they will clash against each other in the main tour.
Duje Ajdukovic
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 5-12 | 4-4 | 0-8 | 1-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 38-31 | 18-13 | 13-10 | 7-5 | 0-3 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 59-25 | 2-1 | 50-21 | 7-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 27-31 | 0-1 | 22-23 | 3-4 | 2-3 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 33-31 | 1-1 | 29-23 | 3-7 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 207, Ajdukovic reached the 2nd round after beating Jan Choinski 1-6 6-3 6-3.
In the 1st round against Choinski, Duje recovered from a 1-set down deficit before winning (1-6 6-3 6-3). During the match, Ajdukovic scored 95 points vs Choinski’s 89. Ajdukovic was very aggressive to blast 33 winners.
Talking about the service games, Ajdukovic fired 7 aces and he committed only 3 double faults. Duje Ajdukovic lost the serve 3 times and he saved 4 break points. Furthermore, Ajdukovic put 57% of his first serves in, winning 58% (33/57) of the points behind his 1st serve and 60% (26/43) on the 2nd serve. The Croatian broke Choinski 4 times after converting 50% of his break points (4/8).
Ajdukovic has a solid record in the last 6 years having won 61% of his matches (212-133). 47-20 on clay in 2023. Talking about his performance on the same surface of this tournament, Ajdukovic has a compiled167-95 match record in the last 6 years on clay.
His best result of the current year was winning the title the Luedenscheid Challenger where he beat Hugo Dellien in the final 7-5 6-4.
The Croatian has an aggregate 47-21 win-loss record in 2023, 47-20 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Braga Challenger
Alessandro Giannessi
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 13-25 | 0-5 | 13-20 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 36-33 | 3-5 | 33-27 | 0-0 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 20-30 | 2-1 | 18-28 | 0-0 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 31-27 | 0-2 | 31-20 | 0-4 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 10-14 | 0-1 | 10-12 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 215, the Italian reached the 2nd round after beating Gastao Elias 7-62 6-4.
In the 1st round, The Italian had a good straight sets win against Elias (7-62 6-4). During the match Giannessi scored 90 points vs Elias’s 85. The Italian was extremely aggressive to blast 36 winners.
About the serving games, Giannessi couldn’t to score even 1 ace for the entire match and he committed only 4 double faults. Alessandro Giannessi lost the serve 3 times and he saved 15 break points. Furthermore, Giannessi put 63% of his first serves in, winning 61% (36/59) of the points behind his 1st serve and 54% (19/35) on the 2nd serve. Alessandro broke Elias 4 times after converting 50% of his break points (4/8).
His best result of the year was winning the title the Zadar Challenger where he defeated Sebastian Ofner in the final 6-4 5-7 7-6(6).
Alessandro has an overall 34-26 win-loss record in 2023, 31-21 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Braga Challenger
Previously, his best result was reaching the 2nd round in 2021. See his history.
H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Ajdukovic | Giannessi |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 1 | 1 |
| Tot Set | 3 | 2 |
| Tot Games | 25 | 23 |
| Pts | 95-89 | 90-85 |
| Total Points | 184 | 175 |
| Winners | 33 | 36 |
| %Winners | 35% | 40% |
Both Ajdukovic and Giannessi played 1 match. At the moment, Duje Ajdukovic conceded 1 set while Alessandro Giannessi hasn’t surrendered a set so far. Ajdukovic has played 1 set more than Giannessi (3 vs 2). Therefore, Ajdukovic played 2 games more than Giannessi. Duje scored 33 winners (35% of the total points). On the other side, Alessandro struck 36 winners (40%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Ajdukovic | Giannessi |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 7 | 0 |
| Avg per match | 7 | 0 |
| 1st in | 57/100 | 59/94 |
| %1st in | 57% | 63% |
| 1st pts | 33/57 | 36/59 |
| %1st pts | 58% | 61% |
| 2nd pts | 26/43 | 19/35 |
| %2nd pts | 60% | 54% |
Ajdukovic managed to score 7 aces . Giannessi didn’t manage to fire a single ace to far. Ajdukovic won 58% points on his first serve. He pretty solid on his second serve to win 60% of the points. On the other side, Giannessi won 61% of the points behind his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 54% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Ajdukovic | Giannessi |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 4 | 4 |
| Converted | 4/8 | 4/8 |
| % Converted | 50% | 50% |
| Conceded | 7 | 18 |
| Saved | 4 | 15 |
| % Saved | 57% | 83% |
| Times Broken | 3 | 3 |
Duje broke his opponent 4 times with a 50% conversion rate. Ajdukovic surrendered his serve 3 times and he saved 57% of the break points that he conceded. Alessandro broke his opponent 4 times with a 50% conversion rate. The Italian conceded his serve 3 times and he saved 83% of the break points that he conceded.
| Ajdukovic | |||
| R1 Choinski |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 1-6 6-3 6-3 | ||
| Tot Set | 3 | 3 | |
| Tot Games | 25 | 25 | |
| pts | 95-89 | 95-89 | |
| Total points | 184 | 184 | |
| Winners | 33 | 33 | |
| %Winners | 35% | 35% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 7 | 7 | |
| Double Faults | 3 | 3 | |
| 1st in | 57/100 | 57/100 | |
| % 1st in | 57% | 57% | |
| 1st pts | 33/57 | 33/57 | |
| % 1st pts | 58% | 58% | |
| 2nd pts | 26/43 | 26/43 | |
| % 2nd pts | 60% | 60% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 4 | 4 | |
| Converted | 4/8 | 4/8 | |
| Converted % | 50% | 50% | |
| Conceded | 7 | 7 | |
| Saved | 4/7 | 4 | |
| Saved % | 57% | 57% | |
| Times Broken | 3 | 3 | |
| Giannessi | |||
| R1 Elias |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 7-62 6-4 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 23 | 23 | |
| pts | 90-85 | 90-85 | |
| Total points | 175 | 175 | |
| Winners | 36 | 36 | |
| %Winners | 40% | 40% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 0 | 0 | |
| Double Faults | 4 | 4 | |
| 1st in | 59/94 | 59/94 | |
| % 1st in | 63% | 63% | |
| 1st pts | 36/59 | 36/59 | |
| % 1st pts | 61% | 61% | |
| 2nd pts | 19/35 | 19/35 | |
| % 2nd pts | 54% | 54% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 4 | 4 | |
| Converted | 4/8 | 4/8 | |
| Converted % | 50% | 50% | |
| Conceded | 18 | 18 | |
| Saved | 15/18 | 15 | |
| Saved % | 83% | 83% | |
| Times Broken | 3 | 3 | |
Head 2 Head
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- Javier Barranco CosanoBarranco Cosano – Stefano TravagliaTravaglia (6-1 6-4) – See score progression
- Mate ValkuszValkusz – Francesco PassaroPassaro (6-3 6-4) – See score progression
- Matteo GiganteGigante – Edoardo LavagnoLavagno (6-3 6-4) – See score progression
- Carlos Sanchez JoverSanchez Jover – Nerman FaticFatic (6-3 3-1 ret.) – See score progression
- Alessandro GiannessiGiannessi – Gastao EliasElias (7-62 6-4) – See score progression
- Jaime FariaFaria – Timofey SkatovSkatov (6-1 5-7 6-4) – See score progression
- Gerard Campana LeeCampana Lee – Joao DominguesDomingues (6-2 6-1) – See score progression
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- Zsombor PirosPiros – Kilian FeldbauschFeldbausch (3-6 7-5 6-3) – See score progression
- Geoffrey BlancaneauxBlancaneaux – Zdenek KolarKolar (7-5 3-6 6-3) – See score progression
- Duje AjdukovicAjdukovic – Jan ChoinskiChoinski (1-6 6-3 6-3) – See score progression
- Franco AgamenoneAgamenone – Francesco MaestrelliMaestrelli (6-4 7-5) – See score progression
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