Dusan Lajovic and Matej Dodig will square off in the 1st round of the Helsinki Challenger for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Tuesday at 1:00 pm on COURT 3. Here the head to head stats and relative prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Dusan Lajovic who should win in 3 sets.
As per the initial odds, Dusan Lajovic is the pick to win this match.
Dusan Lajovic -> 1.52
Matej Dodig -> 2.33
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Prediction and head to head Dusan Lajovic vs. Matej Dodig
There is no head to head record between Dusan Lajovic and Matej Dodig since this will be the first time that they will fight against each other in the main tour.
Dusan Lajovic
36 - 32win/loss
120
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. 115, the Serbian will start his run in the Helsinki Challenger after he played his last match in the Bratislava 2 Challenger where he lost 6-3 7-6(2) to Djere in the 1st round on the 28th of October.
Lajovic has an overall 36-32 win-loss record in 2025, 0-1 on indoor hard courts (See FULL STATS).
His best result of the current season was conquering the title the Cordenons Challenger where he defeated Lukas Neumayer in the final 6-2 7-6(3).
Talking about his overall career, Dusan has an overall 546-462 record. He has a negative 66-71 record on indoor hard courts.
Previously in the Helsinki Challenger
Lajovic has never competed in this tournament before.
Matej Dodig
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 36-32 | 0-0 | 24-22 | 12-10 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 46-26 | 14-5 | 30-20 | 2-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 43-16 | 1-2 | 38-12 | 2-1 | 0-0 | 2-1 |
Ranked no. 248, Dodig got to the 1st round after beating Alexandr Binda 7-6(5) 6-4 and Marko Topo 6-3 3-6 6-3.
In the qualifications, Dodig defeated Topo (6-3 3-6 6-3). During the match Dodig scored 93 points vs Topo’s 81. Dodig was exceptionally aggressive to blast 36 winners.
About the serving games, Dodig managed to score 8 aces and he committed only 4 double faults. Overall, Matej Dodig was very effective on serve to win 77% (36/47) of his 1st serve and 59% (20/34) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve twice. Dodig broke Topo 3 times after converting 25% of his break points (3/12).
Overall Performance in this tournament
Dodig started his run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, he has conceded 1 set in the tournament to win 53% of the points he played.
His best result of the year was winning the title the Trieste Challenger where he defeated Thiago Agustin Tirante in the final 6-3 6-4.
The Croatian has a compiled 31-29 win-loss record in 2025, 7-7 on indoor hard courts (See FULL STATS).
Head 2 Head
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