Dusan Lajovic and Francesco Passaro will play each other in the 1st round of the Bad Waltersdorf Challenger for the 2nd time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Monday at 4:00 pm on CENTER COURT. 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 Dusan Lajovic who should win in 3 sets.
Dusan Lajovic -> 1.78
Francesco Passaro -> 1.95
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Prediction and head to head Dusan Lajovic vs. Francesco Passaro
This will be the 2nd time that Dusan Lajovic and Francesco Passaro fight against each other. The head to head is 1-0 for Lajovic (see full H2H stats), 1-0 on clay.
The last time that they squared off, Lajovic won 7-5 6-4 in the 1st round in the Parma Challenger back in 2022.
Dusan Lajovic
32 - 27win/loss
119
23
| 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. 127, Lajovic will start his run in the Bad Waltersdorf Challenger after he played his last match in the Seville Challenger where he lost 7-5 3-2 ret. to Alberto in the semifinal on the 5th of September.
Dusan has an aggregate 32-27 win-loss record in 2025, 26-15 on clay (See FULL STATS).
His best result of the year was winning the title the Cordenons Challenger where he beat Lukas Neumayer in the final 6-2 7-6(3).
Talking about his overall career, Dusan has an overall 542-457 record. He has a positive 349-232 record on clay.
Previously in the Bad Waltersdorf Challenger
The Serbian has never competed in this tournament before.
Francesco Passaro
29 - 19win/loss
128
89
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 40-26 | 8-5 | 23-14 | 9-6 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 39-25 | 4-5 | 35-19 | 0-0 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 28-35 | 8-11 | 18-20 | 2-3 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 49-28 | 12-6 | 35-18 | 2-4 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 43-27 | 4-5 | 39-22 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 145, Francesco will start his run in the Bad Waltersdorf Challenger after he played his last match in the Szczecin Challenger where he lost 3-6 7-6(8) 6-3 to Squire in the 2nd round on the 10th of September.
Passaro has an overall 29-19 win-loss record in 2025, 21-13 on clay (See FULL STATS)
.Passaro’s best result of the year was getting to the semifinal in the Sassuolo Challenger.
In terms of his career, Francesco has an overall 203-151 record. He has a positive 163-107 record on clay.
Previously in the Bad Waltersdorf Challenger
Previously, his best result was reaching the 2nd round in 2023. See his history.
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