Carlos Alcaraz and Dusan Lajovic will play each other in the 2nd round of the Internazionali BNL d’Italia for the 5th time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Friday at 1:00 pm on CAMPO CENTRALE. In the following lines you can find the head to head analysis and prediction.

Prediction, odds and live streaming

The pick for Tennis Tonic is Carlos Alcaraz who should win in 2 sets.

As per the initial odds, Carlos Alcaraz is the pick to win this match.
Carlos Alcaraz -> 1.06
Dusan Lajovic -> 9.1

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Prediction and head to head Carlos Alcaraz vs. Dusan Lajovic

This will be the 5th time that Carlos Alcaraz and Dusan Lajovic play each other. The head to head is 4-0 for Alcaraz (see full H2H stats), 2-0 on clay.

The last time that they played, Alcaraz won 6-0 7-6(5) in the 3rd round in Miami back in 2023.

Highlights Carlos Alcaraz vs Dusan Lajovic – Miami 26-March-2023

Carlos Alcaraz

Carlos Alcaraz

24 - 5win/loss

Hard
10-4
I Hard
5-0
Clay
9-1
Rank
1
High
1
LWWWWLWWWW
Year Total Hard Clay I.hard Grass Carpet
2025 71-9 28-4 22-1 10-3 11-1 0-0
2024 54-13 22-5 17-4 7-3 8-1 0-0
2023 65-12 26-6 25-3 2-3 12-0 0-0
2022 57-13 21-4 27-4 6-4 3-1 0-0
2021 48-19 15-8 22-7 10-3 1-1 0-0

Ranked no. 3, Alcaraz will start his run in Rome after he played his last match in Barcelona where he lost 7-6(6) 6-2 to Rune in the final on the 20th of April.

Alcaraz has an overall 24-5 win-loss record in 2025, 9-1 on clay (See FULL STATS).

His best result of the season was winning the title in Rotterdam where he overcame Alex De Minaur in the final 6-4 3-6 6-2 and in Carlo where he beat Lorenzo Musetti in the final 3-6 6-1 6-0.

Talking about his overall career, Carlos has an overall 311-81 record. He has a positive 150-36 record on clay.

Previously in Rome

Previously, his best result was reaching the 3rd round in 2023. See his history.

Rome
Alcaraz's Record

Dusan Lajovic

Dusan Lajovic

17 - 16win/loss

Hard
4-8
I Hard
0-0
Clay
13-8
Rank
119
High
23
LLLWWLWLWL
Year Total Hard Clay I.hard Grass Carpet
2025 36-33 6-11 28-18 0-2 2-2 0-0
2024 17-23 3-7 13-11 1-4 0-1 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

Ranked no. 131, the Serbian got to the 2nd round after beating Ethan Quinn 7-5 6-7(5) 6-3, Cameron Norrie 6-1 4-6 6-3 and Yoshihito Nishioka 7-5 6-1.

In the 1st round, The Serbian had a good straight sets win against Nishioka (7-5 6-1). During the match Lajovic scored 64 points vs Nishioka’s 51. Lajovic was extremely aggressive to blast 32 winners.

About the serving games, Lajovic scored 5 aces and he committed only 1 double fault for the entire match. Dusan Lajovic lost the serve once and he saved 2 break points. Furthermore, Lajovic put 68% of his first serves in, winning 78% (32/41) of the points behind his 1st serve and 42% (8/19) on the 2nd serve. Lajovic broke Nishioka 4 times after converting 40% of his break points (4/10).

Dusan’s best result of the year was reaching the semifinal in the Girona Challenger.

Dusan has a compiled 17-16 win-loss record in 2025, 13-8 on clay (See FULL STATS).

Previously in Rome

Previously, his best result was reaching the 3rd round in 2020. See his history.

Rome
Lajovic's Record

Tennis Scores in Rome

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