

What Time Will Laslo Djere Play Against Novak Djokovic?
Djere and Djokovic are on the Day 3 Schedule at Us Open 2024 on Wednesday 28 August 2024. Lets breakdown the career, past stats and recent form of these players and predict who will get the victory.
Who Will Win In This Head-To-Head?
Laslo Djere (SRB) and Novak Djokovic (SRB) will be facing off in a tennis match. Djokovic currently has a 2-0 lead in their head-to-head matchups. The match will be held in Belgrade, Serbia on a clay court in the round of 16. Djokovic is ranked No. 2 in the ATP rankings, with his highest ranking being No. 1 on July 4, 2011. Djere is ranked No. 109, previously reaching No. 27 on June 10, 2019.
Djere, who was born in Senta, Serbia, has a win-loss record of 6-14 in 2024 on hard courts, with a career win-loss record of 138-147 on hard courts. He has won 2 career titles on hard courts. In Grand Slam events, Djere has a record of 14-27, with his best finish being the third round four times. He has come back from being two sets down once. Djere has a career tiebreak win-loss record of 68-87, with a 6-7 record in 2024. His career prize money is $5,674,174.
Djere is coached by Jaroslav Levinsky. He is the fourth-ranked Serbian player, behind Djokovic, Kecmanovic, and Lajovic. Djere is making his seventh straight main draw appearance and managed to defeat Struff in the previous round, despite facing two set points in the first set and seven set points in the third set.
In the previous year, Djere reached the third round of a Grand Slam event, where he had a two-set lead against Djokovic before eventually losing in five sets. He has a 3-18 record against top 10 players in his career and aims to achieve his biggest career win against Djokovic. Djere has a 0-7 record against top 10 players in Grand Slam events, with his only win against a top 10 player on hard courts being against Ruud in the second round of the 2023 Auckland tournament.
Djere has a 5-15 record against his fellow Serbian players on the tour-level, with a 0-6 record on hard courts. He has not won against a Serbian player since July 2021 and is looking to become the first Serbian player to defeat Djokovic off clay since Tipsarevic at the 2011 Nitto ATP Finals round-robin.
Djere aims to become the second player ranked outside of the top 100 to defeat Djokovic in a Grand Slam
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event, with the first being Istomin at the 2017 Australian Open second round. He fell outside of the top 100 in the PIF ATP Rankings for the first time since July 2018 at the start of August this year.
Djokovic, on the other hand, is looking to set new records at the US Open. He is aiming to win his 25th Grand Slam title, which would give him the sole all-time record. He is also looking to win his fifth US Open men’s singles title in the Open Era, tying Connors, Federer, and Sampras. Last year, he avenged his loss to Medvedev in the 2021 final by winning in straight sets. He only dropped two sets in the entire tournament, one of which was against Djere in the third round, where he came back from being two sets down.
In 2021, Djokovic lost to Medvedev in the final, falling short of achieving a singles calendar Grand Slam. However, he managed to win matches after losing the opening set against Nishikori, Brooksby, Berrettini, and Zverev in the earlier rounds. Djokovic has a total of 89 wins at the US Open, tied for the second-most in the Open Era.
Djokovic is a record-breaking player, having won the most weeks at No. 1 (428) and ending the most years at No. 1 (8) in the PIF ATP Rankings. He has the most wins against top 10 players (258) and has finished in the top 5 in 16 of the last 17 years. He holds the record for the most Grand Slam men’s singles titles in history (24) and is one of three men to hold all four Grand Slam championships at the same time. Djokovic is the only player to win all nine ATP Masters 1000 events multiple times, with a record total of 40 titles. He has the most Grand Slam match wins in history (376) and is third in men’s singles titles and wins in the Open Era.
Djokovic recently won the men’s singles Olympic gold medal at the 2024 Paris Olympics, joining Agassi and Nadal in completing the men’s singles Career Golden Slam. Throughout his career, he has had winning records against Federer and Nadal and holds several win streak records.
The match between Djere and Djokovic will be held at Louis Armstrong Stadium.
My Conclusion / Prediction:
My pick is that Djere will win.
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