H2H, prediction of Novak Djokovic vs Jaime Faria at the Australian Open with odds, preview, pick | 15th January 2025

PREVIEW. Melbourne. Djokovic and Faria will fight against each other in the 2nd round of the Australian Open. See the prediction, H2H stats, odds, and preview of their upcoming match on Wednesday the 15th of January

Prediction and head to head Novak Djokovic vs. Jaime Faria

Novak Djokovic and Jaime Faria will clash against each other in the 2nd round of the Australian Open for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Wednesday at 2:00 pm on Rod Laver Arena. In the following lines you can find the head to head analysis and prediction.

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The pick for Tennis Tonic is Novak Djokovic who should win in 3 sets.

See updated oddsAs per the initial odds, Novak Djokovic is the pick to win this match.
Novak Djokovic -> 1.05
Jaime Faria -> 9.9

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Prediction and head to head Novak Djokovic vs. Jaime Faria

There is no head to head record between Novak Djokovic and Jaime Faria since this will be the first time that they will play each other in the main tour.

Novak Djokovic

Novak Djokovic
Novak Djokovic

3 - 1win/loss

Hard
3-1
I Hard
0-0
Rank
7
High
1
Year Total Hard Clay I.hard Grass Carpet
2025 3-1 3-1 0-0 0-0 0-0 0-0
2024 37-9 15-5 16-3 1-0 5-1 0-0
2023 56-7 27-1 12-3 11-2 6-1 0-0
2022 42-7 2-1 14-4 19-2 7-0 0-0
2021 55-7 19-3 18-3 11-1 7-0 0-0

Ranked no. 7, Novak reached the 2nd round after defeating Nishesh Basavareddy 4-6 6-3 6-4 6-2.

In the 1st round against Basavareddy, Novak recovered from a 1-set down deficit before winning (4-6 6-3 6-4 6-2). During the match, Djokovic scored 129 points vs Basavareddy’s 106. Novak was very aggressive to blast 56 winners.

Regarding the service games, Djokovic submerged his opponent with 23 aces and he committed only 4 double faults. Overall, Novak Djokovic was extremely effective on serve to win 78% (56/72) of his 1st serve and 62% (21/34) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve once. The Serbian broke Basavareddy 4 times after converting 36% of his break points (4/11).

Djokovic has a marvellous match record in the last 10 years having won 85% of his matches (441-77). 3-1 on hard in 2025. Talking about his performance on the same surface of this competition, Djokovic has a compiled 190-29 record in the last years on hard.

The Serbian has an overall 3-1 win-loss record in 2025, 3-1 on hard (See FULL STATS).

Previously at the Australian Open

Djokovic
Australian Open
Djokovic's Record

Jaime Faria

Jaime Faria
Jaime Faria

4 - 1win/loss

Hard
4-1
I Hard
0-0
Rank
125
High
116
WWWWL
Year Total Hard Clay I.hard Grass Carpet
2025 4-1 4-1 0-0 0-0 0-0 0-0
2024 53-25 24-5 27-14 2-4 0-2 0-0
2023 49-31 33-17 16-12 0-2 0-0 0-0
2022 43-24 20-12 23-12 0-0 0-0 0-0
2021 11-10 6-6 5-4 0-0 0-0 0-0

Ranked no. 125, Jaime got to the 2nd round after defeating Gijs Brouwer 6-4 6-3, Dane Sweeny 6-2 6-2, Mark Lajal 6-4 2-6 6-4 and Pavel Kotov 6-1 6-1 7-5.

In the 1st round, Faria had a good straight sets win against Kotov (6-1 6-1 7-5). During the match Faria scored 94 points vs Kotov’s 60. Jaime was pretty aggressive to blast 34 winners.

Talking about serving, Faria managed to score 10 aces and he committed only 3 double faults. Jaime Faria was very effective on serve to win 77% (34/44) of his 1st serve and 77% (20/26) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. Jaime broke Kotov 6 times after converting 60% of his break points (6/10).

Faria has a composed 4-1 win-loss record in 2025, 4-1 on hard (See FULL STATS).

Previously at the Australian Open

Jaime has never competed in this tournament before.

Faria
Australian Open
Faria's Record
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H2H Performance in the tournament

N.Djokovic
J.Faria
2h:59
2h:59
Time on court​
!
6h:04
6h:04
!
2h:59
2h:59
Last match​
1h:45
1h:45
1
1
Match played
!
4
4
37
37
Games Played​
89
89
4
4
Set played​​
10
10
129
129
Total points​
301
301
129
129
Avg point​
75.3
75.3
56
56
Winners
127
127
56
56
Avg Winners​
31.8
31.8
43%
43%
Ratio winners
42%
42%
-- Serve --
23
23
Aces
35
35
!
23
23
Avg Aces
8.8
8.8
4
4
Double Faults
19
19
4
4
Avg Double Faults
4.8
4.8
56/72
56/72
1st won total​
127/161
127/161
!
78%
78%
1st won %
!
79%
79%
21/34
21/34
2nd won total​
60/105
60/105
!
62%
62%
2nd won %
57%
57%
-- Break Points --
4/11
4/11
BP won
15/28
15/28
4/11
4/11
Avg BP won
3.8/7
3.8/7
36%
36%
Won
!
54%
54%
3
3
Conceded
10
10
3
3
Avg Conceded
2.5
2.5
1
1
Broken
3
3
1
1
Avg Broken
!
0.8
0.8
2
2
Saved
7
7

Matches, sets, games and points

Points Djokovic Faria
Match played 1 4
Tot Set 4 10
Tot Games 37 89
Pts 129-106 301-236
Total Points 235 537
Winners 56 127
%Winners 43% 42%

Djokovic played 1 match while Faria competed in 4 matches. Faria started his run from the qualifications while Djokovic had a direct access to the main draw. Both players lost a set in the event. Novak Djokovic surrendered 1 set, while Jaime Faria conceded 1 set. Djokovic has played 6 set(s) less than Faria (4 vs 10). Therefore, Djokovic played 52 games less than Faria. The Serbian scored 56 winners (43% of the total points). On the other side, Jaime scored 127 winners (42%).

Serve Performance

Serve Djokovic Faria
Aces 23 35
Avg per match 23 8.8
1st in 72/106 161/266
%1st in 68% 61%
1st pts 56/72 127/161
%1st pts 78% 79%
2nd pts 21/34 60/105
%2nd pts 62% 57%

Djokovic recorded 23 aces . Faria fired 35 aces (8.8 per match). Djokovic won 78% points behind his first serve. He pretty effective on his second serve to win 62% of the points. On the other side, Faria won 79% of the points behind his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 57% of the points.

How they played the important points

Breaks Djokovic Faria
Won 4 15
Converted 4/11 15/28
% Converted 36% 54%
Conceded 3 10
Saved 2 7
% Saved 67% 70%
Times Broken 1 3

Novak broke his opponent 4 times with a 36% conversion rate. Novak dropped his serve once and he saved 67% of the break points that he conceded. Jaime broke his opponents 15 times with a 54% conversion rate. Jaime conceded his serve 3 times and he saved 70% of the break points that he conceded.

Djokovic
R1
Basavareddy
Total
Score 4-6 6-3 6-4 6-2
Tot Set 4 4
Tot Games 37 37
pts 129-106 129-106
Total points 235 235
Winners 56 56
%Winners 43% 43%
SERVE
Aces 23 23
Double Faults 4 4
1st in 72/106 72/106
% 1st in 68% 68%
1st pts 56/72 56/72
% 1st pts 78% 78%
2nd pts 21/34 21/34
% 2nd pts 62% 62%
Breaks
Won 4 4
Converted 4/11 4/11
Converted % 36% 36%
Conceded 3 3
Saved 2/3 2
Saved % 67% 67%
Times Broken 1 1
Faria
Q1
Brouwer
Q2
Sweeny
Q3
Lajal
R1
Kotov
Total
Score 6-4 6-3 6-2 6-2 6-4 2-6 6-4 6-1 6-1 7-5
Tot Set 2 2 3 3 10
Tot Games 19 16 28 26 89
pts 62-48 56-37 89-91 94-60 301-236
Total points 110 93 180 154 537
Winners 27 21 45 34 127
%Winners 44% 38% 51% 36% 42%
SERVE
Aces 5 5 15 10 35
Double Faults 3 4 9 3 19
1st in 34/57 29/47 54/92 44/70 161/266
% 1st in 60% 62% 59% 63% 61%
1st pts 27/34 21/29 45/54 34/44 127/161
% 1st pts 79% 72% 83% 77% 79%
2nd pts 16/23 11/18 13/38 20/26 60/105
% 2nd pts 70% 61% 34% 77% 57%
Breaks
Won 2 5 2 6 15
Converted 2/5 5/8 2/5 6/10 15/28
Converted % 40% 63% 40% 60% 54%
Conceded 0 3 5 2 10
Saved 0/0 2/3 3/5 2/2 7
Saved % 67% 60% 100% 227%
Times Broken 0 1 2 0 3

Head 2 Head

Win Loss
Djokovic
WLWW
Faria
WWWWL
2025 2024 2023
3 - 1
4 - 1
3-1
Hard
4-1

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