Laslo Djere vs Thiago Seyboth Wild Prediction & Betting Tips - Kitzbuhel, Austria

Prediction published on 02/08/2023, 03:00  by Devesh Jaganath | Modified on 02/08/2023 at 04:08 in Tennis Predictions

World number 36 Laslo Djere will take on wildcard Thiago Seyboth Wild in the second round of the ATP Kitzbuhel Open on Wednesday. The winner of this match will face either Albert Ramos-Vinolas or Pedro Cahcin in the quarter-final. This is the third time that these two will play each other, with Djere leading 2-0. The Serbian came into this tournament off the back of an excellent performance in Hamburg last week, where he reached the final match but came up short against Alexander Zverev. His run in that tournament saw his ranking improve from 57th to inside the top 30. That was his second final of the year, with the first coming back in May at the Cagliari Challenger event. Djere is now 27-19 for the year and 17-11 on the clay. He is currently the bookmakers favourite to win this match. 

Meanwhile, Thiago Seyboth Wild also competed in Hamburg last week. However, after qualifying for the tournament with wins over Andrea Collarini and Thiago Monteiro, he was sent home in the first round by lucky loser Jozef Kovalik. While Wild has made as many as three Challenger tournament finals and won one, his best performance of the year on the ATP circuit came at Roland Garros. There he reached the round of 32 and was narrowly beaten by Yoshihito Nishioka in a grueling five-set battle. His performances this year have seen him improve his world ranking immensely, from outside the top 400 at the start of the year to inside the top 120 at present. Wild is 48-16 for the year and 46-15 on the clay, which is a surface he specializes on. Can he manage another solid ATP run here?