Carlos Alcaraz vs Dusan Lajovic Prediction: the Spaniard to Beat the Serb Again?

Prediction for the ATP Rio de Janeiro match, which will take place on February 25th. Who will turn out to be stronger? Check the team conditions! Several betting options are available.

We're surprised by the three sets in the match between Alcaraz and Fognini. We expected the Spaniard to beat the Italian in two sets, but we were wrong. Fabio beat Carlos in the first set on a tie-break game 7-5, and Alcaraz won the next two. Overall, the match lasted two hours and 46 minutes. Alcaraz made two aces and zero doubles, winning 62% of his first serve points and 46% of his second. His receiving stats were 44%/60%. For Alcaraz, the match against Fognini was the sixth in 2023, and the Spaniard has 100% of wins and only two lost sets.

As in Buenos Aires, Lajovic will face Alcaraz in the quarterfinals. In that game, the Serb managed to win only six games, let's see if the Balkan can take more this time. Note that the tournament in Rio is already his third clay one of the season. Before Buenos Aires, Dusan played two matches in Cordoba. In Brazil, Lajovic defeated Schwartzman and Laslo Djere, both by 2-0. That match was short - one hour and 19 minutes. Dusan won it 6-2, 6-4. Dusan's statistics for the game were 1/1 aces/doubles, 76%/48% of points won on serve, and 41%/63% on reception.

After losing the set to Fognini, we believe that Alcaraz will be more careful and try not to lose any more games in Rio. He should not take it to the tie-breaks, where anything is possible. Alcaraz knows Lajovic very well, as he has beaten the Serb twice. The second time was in Argentina a week ago, which was very convincing. It is unlikely that something changed in a week. Alcaraz only gained confidence and playing practice.