Alejandro Davidovich Fokina and Dusan Lajovic will clash against each other in the 3rd round of the Barcelona Open Banc Sabadell for the 3rd time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Thursday at 12:30 pm on PISTA RAFA NADAL. Here the head to head stats and relative prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Dusan Lajovic who should win in 3 sets.
As per the initial odds, Dusan Lajovic is the pick to win this match.
Dusan Lajovic -> 0
Alejandro Davidovich Fokina -> 0
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Prediction and head to head Alejandro Davidovich Fokina vs. Dusan Lajovic
This will be the 3rd time that Alejandro Davidovich Fokina and Dusan Lajovic face off. The head to head is 2-0 for Lajovic (see full H2H stats), 1-0 on clay.
The last time that they competed against each other, Lajovic won 7-6(5) 6-4 in the 1st round in Sydney back in 2022.
Highlights Dusan Lajovic vs Alejandro Davidovich Fokina – Sydney 11-January-2022
Alejandro Davidovich Fokina
8 - 9win/loss
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LWLLLWLLWW | Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 9-10 | 6-5 | 1-3 | 2-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 32-28 | 18-11 | 9-8 | 3-6 | 2-3 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 21-26 | 7-9 | 11-8 | 0-6 | 3-3 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 30-25 | 4-6 | 16-7 | 9-10 | 1-2 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 19-13 | 5-5 | 5-5 | 9-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 27, Alejandro reached the 3rd round after defeating Tomas Machac w/o.
In the 2nd round, The Spaniard defeated Machac (w/o). During the match, Davidovich Fokina and Machac scored the same amount of points (). However, the world no. 27 was stronger during the important points and that was the most significant difference in the match. The Spaniard was not very aggressive to strike just winners.
Talking about the service games, Davidovich Fokina wasn’t able to score even 1 ace throughout the match and he was quite steady in conceding no double faults. Alejandro Davidovich Fokina conceded no breaks for the entire match to put 0% of his first serves in, win 0% (0) of the points behind his 1st serve and 0% (0) on the 2nd serve.
Davidovich Fokina has a winning win-loss record in the last 9 years having won 58% of his matches (249-180). 0-1 on clay in 2024. In connection with his performance on the same surface of this event, Davidovich Fokina has a compiled104-66 win-loss record in the last 9 years on clay.
The Spaniard has an aggregate 8-8 win-loss record in 2024, 0-1 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Previously in Barcelona
Dusan Lajovic
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 11-11 | 3-5 | 8-6 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 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. 59, Dusan reached the 3rd round after defeating Diego Schwartzman 6-1 6-2 and Ugo Humbert 6-4 6-4.
In the 2nd round, Lajovic had a good straight sets win against Humbert (6-4 6-4). During the match Lajovic scored 58 points vs Humbert’s 49. The Serbian was extremely aggressive to blast 28 winners.
Talking about serving, Lajovic fired 3 aces and he committed only 2 double faults. Dusan Lajovic lost the serve twice and he saved 3 break points. Furthermore, Lajovic put 70% of his first serves in, winning 76% (28/37) of the points behind his 1st serve and 44% (7/16) on the 2nd serve. Lajovic broke Humbert 4 times after converting 80% of his break points (4/5).
Overall Performance in this tournament
The Serbian hasn’t dropped yet a set in the tournament to win 58% of the points he played.
Lajovic has an aggregate 9-9 win-loss record in 2024, 6-4 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Previously in Barcelona
Previously, his best result was reaching the 2nd round in 2018. See his history.
Head 2 Head
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- Roberto Bautista AgutBautista Agut – Andrea VavassoriVavassori (4-6 6-3 6-1) – See score progression
- Stefanos TsitsipasTsitsipas – Sebastian OfnerOfner (6-4 7-5) – See score progression
- Casper RuudRuud – Alexandre MullerMuller (6-3 6-4) – See score progression
- Roberto Carballes BaenaCarballes Baena – Lorenzo MusettiMusetti (7-64 6-4) – See score progression
- Alex De MinaurDe Minaur – Rafael NadalNadal (7-5 6-1) – See score progression
- Alejandro Davidovich FokinaDavidovich Fokina – Tomas MachacMachac (w/o) – See score progression
- Marco TrungellitiTrungelliti – Nicolas JarryJarry (7-65 6-3) – See score progression
- Dusan LajovicLajovic – Ugo HumbertHumbert (6-4 6-4) – See score progression
- Arthur FilsFils – Daniel AltmaierAltmaier (6-4 1-6 6-1) – See score progression
- Jordan ThompsonThompson – Jaume Antoni Munar ClarAntoni Munar Clar (6-4 2-6 6-4) – See score progression
- Fabian MarozsanMarozsan – Luca Van AsscheVan Assche (6-0 3-2 ret.) – See score progression
- Matteo ArnaldiArnaldi – Sebastian BaezBaez (5-7 7-68 6-2) – See score progression
- Facundo Diaz AcostaDiaz Acosta – Borna CoricCoric (6-2 7-5) – See score progression
- Cameron NorrieNorrie – Harold MayotMayot (7-63 6-76 ret.) – See score progression
- Brandon NakashimaNakashima – Andrey RublevRublev (6-4 7-66) – See score progression
- Tomas Martin EtcheverryMartin Etcheverry – Nick HardtHardt (7-5 6-2) – See score progression
Upcoming matches in the draw
- Roberto Bautista AgutBautista Agut – Cameron NorrieNorrie (0-2) – H2H and prediction
- Roberto Carballes BaenaCarballes Baena – Stefanos TsitsipasTsitsipas (0-2) – H2H and prediction
- Jordan ThompsonThompson – Casper RuudRuud (3-2) – H2H and prediction
- Alejandro Davidovich FokinaDavidovich Fokina – Dusan LajovicLajovic (0-2) – H2H and prediction
- Tomas Martin EtcheverryMartin Etcheverry – Brandon NakashimaNakashima (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Alex De MinaurDe Minaur – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Fabian MarozsanMarozsan – Facundo Diaz AcostaDiaz Acosta (0-0) – H2H and prediction
