Damir Dzumhur and Egor Gerasimov will fight against each other in the 2^nd round of the Vilnius Challenger for the 4^th time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Thursday at 2:30 pm on COURT 17. In the following lines you can find the head to head analysis and prediction.

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The pick for Tennis Tonic is Egor Gerasimov who should win in 3 sets.

(image) As per the initial odds, Egor Gerasimov is the pick to win this match.
Egor Gerasimov -> 1.68
Damir Dzumhur -> 2.09

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Prediction and head to head Damir Dzumhur vs. Egor Gerasimov

This will be the 4^th time that Damir Dzumhur and Egor Gerasimov play each other. The head to head is 2-1 for Gerasimov (see full H2H stats), 2-0 on indoor hard courts.

The last time that they competed against each other, Gerasimov won 6-1 7-6(6) in the qualifications in St petersburg back in 2021.

Damir Dzumhur

Ranked no. 226, the Bosnian reached the 2^nd round after defeating Henri Laaksonen 6-2 0-0 ret..

In the 1^st round against Laaksonen, Dzumhur had a free pass after Laaksonen retired on a 6-2 0-0 . scoreline.

Dzumhur has winning record in the last 10 years having won 55% of his matches (319-258). 1-2 on indoor hard courts in 2023. Regarding his performance on the same surface of this competition, Dzumhur has an aggregate 76-60 win-loss record in the last years on indoor hard courts.

Damir has a compiled 4-4 win-loss record in 2023, 1-2 on indoor hard courts (See FULL STATS).

Previously in the Vilnius Challenger

The Bosnian has never competed in this tournament before.

Egor Gerasimov

Ranked no. 414, Gerasimov reached the 2^nd round after defeating Tomas Vaise 6-3 6-4, Beibit Zhukayev 3-6 6-4 6-4 and Jan-Lennard Struff 6-3 6-4.

In the 1^st round, The Belarussian had a good straight sets win against Struff (6-3 6-4). During the match Gerasimov scored 61 points vs Struff’s 49. Egor was very aggressive to blast 38 winners.

Talking about serving, Gerasimov fired 10 aces and he committed only 4 double faults. Egor Gerasimov conceded no breaks for the entire match to save 3 break points. Furthermore, Gerasimov put 74% of his first serves in, winning 83% (38/46) of the points behind his 1st serve and 44% (7/16) on the 2nd serve. Egor was clinical in his return game without wasting any break point and break Struff twice.

The Belarussian has an aggregate 4-2 win-loss record in 2023, 4-1 on indoor hard courts (See FULL STATS).

H2H Performance in the tournament

Matches, sets, games and points

Dzumhur played 1 match while Gerasimov competed in 3 matches. Gerasimov started his run from the qualifications while Dzumhur had a direct access to the main draw. At the moment, Egor Gerasimov lost 1 set while Damir Dzumhur hasn’t surrendered a set so far. Dzumhur has played 4 set(s) less than Gerasimov (3 vs 7). Therefore, Dzumhur played 59 games less than Gerasimov. The Bosnian scored 13 winners (39% of the total points). On the other side, Gerasimov scored 104 winners (46%).

Serve Performance

Dzumhur didn’t manage to fire a single ace to far. Gerasimov blasted 20 aces (6.7 per match). Dzumhur won 93% points behind his first serve. He pretty solid on his second serve to win 60% of the points. On the other side, Gerasimov won 74% of the points behind his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 53% of the points.

How they played the important points

The Bosnian broke his opponent twice with a 40% conversion rate. Dzumhur was rock solid on his serve as he has never conceded a single service game after saving 0 break points. The Belarussian broke his opponents 9 times with a 39% conversion rate. Egor conceded his serve 4 times and he saved 75% of the break points that he conceded.