Born on 4 November 1992, Jozef Kovalik is a tennis ace from Slovakia. He is fondly known as Jo Jo among his friends and family.
Jozef took up the game of tennis from the age of 6. Growing up, he admired the former tennis player Michael Chang. He was an inspiration to the young Jo Jo and a mentor in a way since he observed his way of playing the game keenly.
During the 2010 Summer Youth Olympics, Jozef and Filip Horansky grabbed a bronze medal playing doubles. As Kovalik progressed in his career, he added many other titles to his name. These include 9 ITF Futures titles and 4 ATP Challenger titles.
Jozef gave his best performance during the Sofia Open in 2018. However, he was able to reach the semi-finals only. Again, Jo Jo could only reach the semi-finals in the 2018 German Open in a similar fashion.
The same year, he was placed among the top 100 players with a world rank of 80. This was his career-high achievement as it dropped to 128 later in 2021.
Jozef is known to play well on both hard and clay surfaces. However, clay is his preferred surface. Furthermore, he enjoys watching ice hockey and football matches in his leisure time. He is a massive fan of SK Slovan Bratislava, a Slovakian-based football club.
In February 2019, Jozef shared a picture of him and his newly-wedded wife, Nikita, on Instagram. They have a son named Nikola, who was born the same year in August.

Born in Belgrade on June 30th, 1990, Dusan Lajovic is a Serbian professional tennis player, currently ranking at the 41st spot on the ATP list. Recently, he has won 2 doubles titles and won the 2019 Croatia Open single tournament. His career record is 142–182, and he is more successful playing on clay courts. Dusan prefers the clay surface since his strengths as a tennis player include strong serves with heavy kicks, which are especially effective on such surfaces.
His current residence is at Stara Pazova, the same town where he started playing tennis at only seven years old. His training at TK. Partizan Belgrade began at a very young age, and eventually, he started working with coach Boris Bosnjakovic in 2012. In the same year, Dusan played in the Davis Cup for the first time, reached the final of the Orbetello Challenger and won the Samarkand Challenger.
On the way to his first title in 2019, he played some tough matches against formidable opponents at multiple tournaments. Notably, he lost in the fourth round of the 2014 French Open against the then world number one Rafael Nadal. The following year, at the same competition, he lost in the second round to Stan Wawrinka, who went on to win the tournament. Dusan got close to glory at the Brasil Open in 2016, where he reached the semi-finals, only to lose against Pablo Cuevas. In 2019 however, he was the best player at the Croatia Open and won the finals against Attila Balazs in 2 sets 7-5, 7-5 to win his first silverware at a major tournament.

Jozef Kovalik	vs	Dusan Lajovic
234	Ranking	53
31 yr	Age	34 yr
183 cm	Height	183 cm
83 kg	Weight	77 kg
Right	Hand	Right
260	Points	939

		J. Kovalik's	D. Lajovic's
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