Mariano Navone and Jesper De Jong will fight against each other in the 2nd round of the Plava Laguna Croatia Open for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Wednesday at 4:30 pm on COURT 1. In the following paragraphs, you can find the head to head analysis and prediction.

Prediction, odds and live streaming

The pick for Tennis Tonic is Mariano Navone who should win in 3 sets.

As per the initial odds, Mariano Navone is the pick to win this match.
Mariano Navone -> 1.49
Jesper De Jong -> 2.62

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Prediction and head to head Mariano Navone vs. Jesper De Jong

There is no head to head record between Mariano Navone and Jesper De Jong since this will be the first time that they will face off in the main tour.

Mariano Navone

Mariano Navone

26 - 21win/loss

Hard
2-5
I Hard
1-1
Clay
21-13
Grass
2-2
Rank
72
High
29
LWWLWWWWWL
Year Total Hard Clay I.hard Grass Carpet
2025 38-31 5-12 30-16 1-1 2-2 0-0
2024 30-28 2-7 27-14 1-4 0-3 0-0
2023 40-23 0-1 40-21 0-0 0-1 0-0
2022 44-25 0-1 44-24 0-0 0-0 0-0
2021 40-24 0-0 40-24 0-0 0-0 0-0

Ranked no. 76, Mariano got to the 2nd round after defeating Tomas Barrios Vera 6-1 6-2.

In the 1st round, The Argentine had a good straight sets win against Tomas Barrios Vera (6-1 6-2). During the match, Navone scored 55 points vs Tomas Barrios Vera’s 30. Navone was extremely aggressive to blast 19 winners.

Talking about the service games, Navone couldn’t to score even 1 ace during the match and he was extremely steady in conceding no double faults. Overall, Mariano Navone was extremely effective on serve to win 76% (19/25) of his 1st serve and 71% (10/14) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve once. Mariano broke Tomas Barrios Vera 5 times after converting 50% of his break points (5/10).

Navone has a solid win-loss record in the last 8 years having won 62% of his matches (246-152). 21-12 on clay in 2025. Regarding his performance on the same surface of this tournament, Navone has an aggregate234-125 record in the last 8 years on clay.

His best result of the season was conquering the title the Braunschweig Challenger where he beat Juan Manuel Cerundolo in the final 6-3 7-5.

Navone has a composed 26-20 win-loss record in 2025, 21-12 on clay (See FULL STATS).

Previously in Umag

Umag
Navone's Record

Jesper De Jong

Jesper De Jong

26 - 22win/loss

Hard
1-3
I Hard
3-2
Clay
20-12
Grass
2-5
Rank
76
High
76
LWLLLWWLWW
Year Total Hard Clay I.hard Grass Carpet
2025 35-31 8-7 20-13 5-6 2-5 0-0
2024 48-25 12-5 33-15 2-4 1-1 0-0
2023 52-23 19-4 30-14 0-2 3-3 0-0
2022 24-28 12-7 10-13 2-5 0-3 0-0
2021 32-29 2-6 27-18 3-5 0-0 0-0

Ranked no. 83 (career-high), the Dutch reached the 2nd round after beating Mili Poljicak 6-3 6-3.

In the 1st round, Jesper had a good straight sets win against Poljicak (6-3 6-3). During the match De scored 57 points vs Poljicak’s 44. De was exceptionally aggressive to blast 22 winners.

About the serving games, De managed to score 4 aces and he committed only 1 double fault for the entire match. Jesper De Jong was extremely effective on serve to win 85% (22/26) of his 1st serve and 65% (15/23) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. The Dutch broke Poljicak 3 times after converting 43% of his break points (3/7).

Jesper’s best result of the season was reaching the final in the Murcia Challenger and Bastad.

Jesper has a compiled 25-22 win-loss record in 2025, 19-12 on clay (See FULL STATS).

Previously in Umag

Previously, his best result was reaching the 1st round in 2023. See his history.

Umag
De's Record

H2H Performance in the tournament

M.Navone
J.De Jong
1h:10
1h:10
Time on court​
1h:23
1h:23
1h:10
1h:10
Last match​
1h:23
1h:23
1
1
Match played
1
1
15
15
Games Played​
18
18
2
2
Set played​​
2
2
55
55
Total points​
57
57
55
55
Avg point​
57
57
19
19
Winners
22
22
19
19
Avg Winners​
22
22
35%
35%
Ratio winners
39%
39%
-- Serve --
0
0
Aces
4
4
0
0
Avg Aces
4
4
0
0
Double Faults
1
1
0
0
Avg Double Faults
1
1
19/25
19/25
1st won total​
22/26
22/26
!
76%
76%
1st won %
!
85%
85%
10/14
10/14
2nd won total​
15/23
15/23
!
71%
71%
2nd won %
!
65%
65%
-- Break Points --
5/10
5/10
BP won
3/7
3/7
5/10
5/10
Avg BP won
3/7
3/7
50%
50%
Won
43%
43%
1
1
Conceded
0
0
1
1
Avg Conceded
0
0
1
1
Broken
0
0
1
1
Avg Broken
!
0
0
0
0
Saved
0
0

Matches, sets, games and points

Points Navone De
Match played 1 1
Tot Set 2 2
Tot Games 15 18
Pts 55-30 57-44
Total Points 85 101
Winners 19 22
%Winners 35% 39%

Both Navone and De played 1 match. Both players have not conceded a single set in this event so far. Talking about their workload, Navone and De have played the same amount of sets 2. However, Navone played 3 games less than De. Mariano scored 19 winners (35% of the total points). On the other side, The Dutch bagged 22 winners (39%).

Serve Performance

Serve Navone De
Aces 0 4
Avg per match 0 4
1st in 25/39 26/49
%1st in 64% 53%
1st pts 19/25 22/26
%1st pts 76% 85%
2nd pts 10/14 15/23
%2nd pts 71% 65%

Navone didn’t manage to fire a single ace to far. De managed to score 4 aces . Navone won 76% points on his first serve. He very solid his second serve to win 71% of the points. On the other side, De won 85% of the points on his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 65% of the points.

How they played the important points

Breaks Navone De
Won 5 3
Converted 5/10 3/7
% Converted 50% 43%
Conceded 1 0
Saved 0 0
% Saved 0% 0%
Times Broken 1 0

Mariano broke his opponent 5 times with a 50% conversion rate. Mariano dropped his serve once and he saved 0% of the break points that he conceded. The Dutch broke his opponent 3 times with a 43% conversion rate. The Dutch was rock solid on his serve as he has never conceded a single service game after saving 0 break points.

Navone
R1
Tomas Barrios Vera
Total
Score 6-1 6-2
Tot Set 2 2
Tot Games 15 15
pts 55-30 55-30
Total points 85 85
Winners 19 19
%Winners 35% 35%
SERVE
Aces 0 0
Double Faults 0 0
1st in 25/39 25/39
% 1st in 64% 64%
1st pts 19/25 19/25
% 1st pts 76% 76%
2nd pts 10/14 10/14
% 2nd pts 71% 71%
Breaks
Won 5 5
Converted 5/10 5/10
Converted % 50% 50%
Conceded 1 1
Saved 0/1 0
Saved % 0% 0%
Times Broken 1 1
De
R1
Poljicak
Total
Score 6-3 6-3
Tot Set 2 2
Tot Games 18 18
pts 57-44 57-44
Total points 101 101
Winners 22 22
%Winners 39% 39%
SERVE
Aces 4 4
Double Faults 1 1
1st in 26/49 26/49
% 1st in 53% 53%
1st pts 22/26 22/26
% 1st pts 85% 85%
2nd pts 15/23 15/23
% 2nd pts 65% 65%
Breaks
Won 3 3
Converted 3/7 3/7
Converted % 43% 43%
Conceded 0 0
Saved 0/0 0
Saved % 0%
Times Broken 0 0

Tennis Scores in Umag

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