Novak Djokovic and Lorenzo Musetti will play each other in the semifinal of the Olympics for the 8^th time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Friday at 7:00 pm on Court Philippe Chatrier. Here the head to head stats and relative prediction.

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The pick for Tennis Tonic is Novak Djokovic who should win in 2 sets.

As per the initial odds, Novak Djokovic is the pick to win this match.
Novak Djokovic -> 1.33
Lorenzo Musetti -> 3.44

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Prediction and head to head Novak Djokovic vs. Lorenzo Musetti

This will be the 8^th time that Novak Djokovic and Lorenzo Musetti play each other. The head to head is 6-1 for Djokovic (see full H2H stats

), 3-1 on clay.

The last time that they played, Djokovic won 6-4 7-6(2) 6-4 in the semifinal in at the Wimbledon back in July 2024.

Highlights Novak Djokovic vs Lorenzo Musetti – Wimbledon 12-July-2024

Novak Djokovic

Ranked no. 2, Djokovic got to the semifinal after beating Matthew Ebden 6-0 6-1, Rafael Nadal 6-1 6-4, Dominik Koepfer 7-5 6-3 and Stefanos Tsitsipas 6-3 7-6(3).

In the quarter, The Serbian had a good straight sets win against Tsitsipas (6-3 7-6³). During the match, Djokovic scored 82 points vs Tsitsipas’s 69. Novak was extremely aggressive to blast 37 winners.

Regarding the service games, Djokovic struck 6 aces and he committed only 1 double fault. Novak Djokovic lost the serve twice and he saved 4 break points. Furthermore, Djokovic put 71% of his first serves in, winning 65% (37/57) of the points behind his 1st serve and 57% (13/23) on the 2nd serve. The Serbian broke Tsitsipas 3 times after converting 50% of his break points (3/6).

Overall Performance in this tournament

Djokovic hasn’t lost yet a set in this event to conquer 59% of the points he played.

Djokovic has a terrific record in the last 10 years having won 86% of his matches (510-80). 14-3 on clay in 2024. In connection with his performance on the same surface of this tournament, Djokovic has an overall 139-29 win-loss record in the last years on clay.

Novak’s best result of the current year was reaching the final in Wimbledon .

Djokovic has an overall 27-7 win-loss record in 2024, 14-3 on clay (See FULL STATS).

Previously in Olympics

Lorenzo Musetti

Ranked no. 16, Lorenzo reached the semifinal after defeating Gael Monfils 6-1 6-4, Mariano Navone 7-6(2) 6-3, Taylor Fritz 6-4 7-5 and Alexander Zverev 7-5 7-5.

In the quarter, The Italian had a good straight sets win against Zverev (7-5 7-5). During the match Musetti scored 75 points vs Zverev’s 62. The Italian was pretty aggressive to blast 34 winners.

Talking about serving, Musetti made 3 aces and he committed only 1 double fault for the entire match. Overall, Lorenzo Musetti was quite effective on serve to win 81% (34/42) of his 1st serve and 59% (16/27) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve once. Musetti broke Zverev 3 times after converting 75% of his break points (3/4).

Overall Performance in this tournament

The Italian hasn’t dropped yet a set in the tournament to win 55% of the points he played.

Musetti’s best result of the season was getting to the final the Cagliari Challenger,the Turin Challenger, London and Umag.

Musetti has an aggregate 36-21 win-loss record in 2024, 17-9 on clay (See FULL STATS).

H2H Performance in the tournament (main draw)

Matches, sets, games and points

Points	Djokovic	Musetti
Match played	4	4
Tot Set	8	8
Tot Games	73	85
Pts	263-182	282-227
Total Points	445	509
Winners	106	119
%Winners	40%	42%

Both Djokovic and Musetti played 4 matches. Both players have not surrendered a single set in this event so far. Talking about their workload, Djokovic and Musetti have played the same amount of sets 8. However, Djokovic played 12 games less than Musetti. The Serbian scored 106 winners (40% of the total points). On the other side, The Italian managed to score 119 winners (42%).

Serve Performance

Serve	Djokovic	Musetti
Aces	20	12
Avg per match	5	3
1st in	140/213	156/248
%1st in	66%	63%
1st pts	106/140	119/156
%1st pts	76%	76%
2nd pts	44/73	53/92
%2nd pts	60%	58%

Djokovic bagged 20 aces (5 per match). Musetti made 12 aces (3 per match). Djokovic won 76% points on his first serve. He quite strong on his second serve to win 60% of the points. On the other side, Musetti won 76% of the points on 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	Djokovic	Musetti
Won	17	13
Converted	17/31	13/23
% Converted	55%	57%
Conceded	11	13
Saved	6	8
% Saved	55%	62%
Times Broken	5	5

The Serbian broke his opponents 17 times with a 55% conversion rate. Djokovic dropped his serve 5 times and he saved 55% of the break points that he conceded. Musetti broke his opponents 13 times with a 57% conversion rate. Musetti conceded his serve 5 times and he saved 62% of the break points that he conceded.

Djokovic
	R1 Ebden	R2 Nadal	R3 Koepfer	1/4 Tsitsipas	Total
Score	6-0 6-1	6-1 6-4	7-5 6-3	6-3 7-63
Tot Set	2	2	2	2	8
Tot Games	13	17	21	22	73
pts	52-21	63-43	66-49	82-69	263-182
Total points	73	106	115	151	445
Winners	15	23	31	37	106
%Winners	29%	37%	47%	45%	40%
SERVE
Aces	4	5	5	6	20
Double Faults	0	1	0	1	2
1st in	18/30	29/47	36/56	57/80	140/213
% 1st in	60%	62%	64%	71%	66%
1st pts	15/18	23/29	31/36	37/57	106/140
% 1st pts	83%	79%	86%	65%	76%
2nd pts	10/12	10/18	11/20	13/23	44/73
% 2nd pts	83%	56%	55%	57%	60%
Breaks
Won	6	5	3	3	17
Converted	6/9	5/12	3/4	3/6	17/31
Converted %	67%	42%	75%	50%	55%
Conceded	0	3	2	6	11
Saved	0/0	1/3	1/2	4/6	6
Saved %	–	33%	50%	67%	38%
Times Broken	0	2	1	2	5

Musetti
	R1 Monfils	R2 Navone	R3 Fritz	1/4 Zverev	Total
Score	6-1 6-4	7-62 6-3	6-4 7-5	7-5 7-5
Tot Set	2	2	2	2	8
Tot Games	17	22	22	24	85
pts	72-48	74-62	61-55	75-62	282-227
Total points	120	136	116	137	509
Winners	21	33	31	34	119
%Winners	29%	45%	51%	45%	42%
SERVE
Aces	3	2	4	3	12
Double Faults	1	0	1	1	3
1st in	29/50	46/71	39/58	42/69	156/248
% 1st in	58%	65%	67%	61%	63%
1st pts	21/29	33/46	31/39	34/42	119/156
% 1st pts	72%	72%	79%	81%	76%
2nd pts	15/21	12/25	10/19	16/27	53/92
% 2nd pts	71%	48%	53%	59%	58%
Breaks
Won	4	3	3	3	13
Converted	4/11	3/4	3/4	3/4	13/23
Converted %	36%	75%	75%	75%	57%
Conceded	3	3	2	5	13
Saved	2/3	1/3	1/2	4/5	8
Saved %	67%	33%	50%	80%	58%
Times Broken	1	2	1	1	5

Tennis Scores in Paris

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