

What Time Will Mili Poljicak Play Against Lorenzo Sonego?
Poljicak and Sonego are on the Day 2 Schedule at Plava Laguna Croatia Open Umag 2024 on Monday 22 July 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?
Mili Poljicak from Croatia and Lorenzo Sonego from Italy will be facing each other for the first time in the “STUDENAC ARENA” match. Poljicak, who is 20 years old, currently holds the 524th position in the world rankings, with his career-high being 462 in April 2023. In 2024, he has not played any matches, but he does possess two ITF titles. In Umag in 2022, he lost in the first round. He earned his first ranking points in April 2021 and reached the top 600 in May 2022, and the top 500 in January 2023. Later in that year, he achieved his career-high ranking. He made his ATP Tour debut in Umag in 2022, but unfortunately lost in the first round to qualifier Cecchinato. Despite previously going 0-7 in ATP Challenger Tour draws, he managed to defeat three top-300 players and reach the final of his first ATP Challenger on home soil in Zagreb. He recorded his most significant win against Gaio, who held the 186th ranking, during the 2022 Zagreb CH. Additionally, he has an 85-70 ITF record, winning three out of three finals, including victories in M15 Monastir in January 2023 and June 2024, and M15 Umag in July 2024. Poljicak’s career reached its peak in January 2022 when he achieved a career-high ITF world junior ranking of No. 2. Furthermore, he became the first Croatian player to win the junior Wimbledon title just three days before his 18th birthday. He had the opportunity to practice with Djokovic just hours before they both won their respective categories at Wimbledon in 2022. For his second ATP Tour match, Poljicak is aiming to secure the biggest win of his career against the 54th-ranked
player in the world, Lorenzo Sonego. Poljicak has won 14 out of his last 15 ITF matches, which includes titles in Monastir and Umag.
As for Lorenzo Sonego, the 29-year-old Italian is currently ranked 54th in the world, with his career-high being No. 21. In 2024, he has recorded 11 wins and 19 losses, with his best result being a quarterfinal appearance in Marrakech. In Umag in 2023, he reached the semifinals. Sonego achieved his personal-best 30 wins and attained his career-high ranking in 2021 when he won the Cagliari titles, becoming the first Italian singles champion on home soil since 2006 and in doubles since 2005 alongside Vavassori. In 2019, he broke into the top 50 after saving a championship point against Kecmanovic to win his first ATP Tour title at Antalya. He claimed his third singles title at the 2022 Metz tournament without dropping a set, defeating former champions Simon and Hurkacz. Sonego caused an upset by defeating the No. 1 player, Djokovic, in the 2020 Vienna tournament with a score of 6-2, 6-1, becoming the first lucky loser to defeat Djokovic and conceding the fewest games ever against him in a match. He also saved match point against Thiem in the 2021 ATP Masters 1000 Rome, reaching the semifinals and becoming the first Italian semi-finalist at Foro Italico since 2007 and only the second since 1978. Sonego is playing in his eighth clay court event of 2024, with his best result being a quarterfinal appearance in Marrakech, where he lost to eventual champion Berrettini. He has not reached an ATP Tour semifinal since Umag in the previous year when he was defeated by Wawrinka.
My Conclusion / Prediction:
My pick is that Poljicak will win.
Matchstat.com has an Artificial Intelligence (Ai) prediction model that is trained on all professional ATP and WTA past matches.
To find out who our model thinks will win for Mili Poljicak vs Lorenzo Sonego, have a look at the prediction here:
Matchstat.com Mili Poljicak vs Lorenzo Sonego prediction.