Damir Dzumhur and Aleksandar Vukic will face off in the 1st round of the Japan Open Tennis Championships for the 2nd time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Thursday at 1:30 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 Aleksandar Vukic who should win in 2 sets.

As per the initial odds, Aleksandar Vukic is the pick to win this match.
Aleksandar Vukic -> 1.38
Damir Dzumhur -> 3.04

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Prediction and head to head Damir Dzumhur vs. Aleksandar Vukic

This will be the 2nd time that Damir Dzumhur and Aleksandar Vukic clash against each other. The head to head is 1-0 for Vukic (see full H2H stats), 1-0 on hard.

The last time that they locked horns, Vukic won 6-7(3) 6-0 3-6 6-3 6-4 in the 1st round in at the Australian Open back in January 2025.

Highlights Aleksandar Vukic vs Damir Dzumhur – Australian Open 13-January-2025

Damir Dzumhur

Damir Dzumhur

32 - 28win/loss

Hard
9-9
I Hard
2-0
Clay
21-16
Grass
0-3
Rank
57
High
23
LWLWWLWWLW
Year Total Hard Clay I.hard Grass Carpet
2025 38-34 9-11 21-16 8-4 0-3 0-0
2024 47-30 11-13 28-7 6-7 2-3 0-0
2023 41-34 15-5 18-18 8-9 0-1 0-1
2022 34-28 5-5 19-12 10-11 0-0 0-0
2021 32-32 6-6 17-17 6-6 3-3 0-0

Ranked no. 66, the Bosnian will start his run in Tokyo after he played his last match in Hangzhou where he lost 6-2 6-4 to Etcheverry in the 1st round on the 18th of September.

Damir has an aggregate 32-28 win-loss record in 2025, 9-9 on hard (See FULL STATS).

Damir’s best result of the current year was getting to the final in the Cap Cana Challenger.

Talking about his overall career, The Bosnian has an overall 598-423 record. He has a positive 136-120 record on hard.

Previously in Tokyo

Previously, his best result was reaching the 1st round in 2018. See his history.

Tokyo
Dzumhur's Record

Aleksandar Vukic

Aleksandar Vukic

22 - 31win/loss

Hard
12-17
I Hard
1-1
Clay
4-8
Grass
5-5
Rank
82
High
48
LWLWWLLWLL
Year Total Hard Clay I.hard Grass Carpet
2025 29-38 15-20 4-8 5-5 5-5 0-0
2024 34-36 13-18 5-9 6-2 10-7 0-0
2023 48-33 34-20 9-4 1-3 4-6 0-0
2022 30-25 14-15 4-5 12-5 0-0 0-0
2021 34-26 8-5 10-11 11-7 5-3 0-0

Ranked no. 95, Vukic got to the 1st round after beating Aleksandar Kovacevic 6-4 6-7(4) 6-2

and Rei Sakamoto 6-4 7-6(5).

In the qualifications, The Australian had a good straight sets win against Sakamoto (6-4 7-65).During the match Vukic scored less points (2) than Sakamoto. In fact, the world no. 66 won 72 points vs Sakamoto’s. That means that Vukic was more focused during the important points. Aleksandar was exceptionally aggressive to blast 34 winners.

Talking about serving, Vukic managed to score 10 aces and he committed only 2 double faults. Aleksandar Vukic conceded no breaks for the entire match to save 4 break points. Furthermore, Vukic put 50% of his first serves in, winning 85% (34/40) of the points behind his 1st serve and 50% (20/40) on the 2nd serve. Aleksandar broke Sakamoto once after converting 33% of his break points (1/3).

Overall Performance in this tournament

Vukic started his run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, he has conceded 1 set in the tournament to win 52% of the points he played.

Vukic’s best result of the current season was reaching the semifinal in the Estoril Challenger.

Aleksandar has an aggregate 22-31 win-loss record in 2025, 12-17 on hard (See FULL STATS).

Previously in Tokyo

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

Tokyo
Vukic's Record

Tennis Scores in Tokyo

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