Jaziri vs. Lajovic: Prediction for the ATP Dubai Tennis Championship match (March 16, 2021)

Malek Jaziri's career is slowly coming to an end. The Tunisian tennis player is 37 years old. Malek's results are declining every year and this season was no exception. Jaziri left the last two tournaments in the early stages of the competition. Probably the same fate awaits him in Dubai, although once the representative of Tunisia reached the semifinals at a local tournament.

In 2018, during the competition in Dubai, Malek won victories over Grigor Dimitrov, Robin Haase, and Stefanos Tsitsipas, but in the semifinals, he could do nothing to prevail over Roberto Bautista Agut. Within the framework of the current draw of the tournament, Jaziri easily passed to the next stage playing against Jo-Wilfried Tsonga, as the latter received a hand injury during the match and couldn’t continue the fight.

Lajovic has traditionally been performing chaotically. At the beginning of the year, the Serbian tennis player managed to reach the 1/8 finals of the Australian Open, but then quite unexpectedly lost to Dennis Novak in the first round of the tournament in Marseille.

After that, he defeated Daniil Medvedev at the competition in Rotterdam but then lost two matches in a row to Borna Coric and Marton Fucsovics. At the current tournament in Dubai, Dusan, unlike his upcoming opponent, has not played yet. Overall, Lajovic will perform for the first time in these competitions in his career.