Laslo Djere vs Pedro Martinez Prediction, Stats, Form, H2H, 2/26/25

The second match preview from Wednesday’s action across the ATP Tour comes from the Movistar Chile Open. Let’s look at a battle between veterans in the Laslo Djere vs Pedro Martinez match.

Martinez’s win probability is only 33%, while Djere is favoured to win at 1.40 odds. The handicap is 3.5 games and the total games line is 22.

Jon Reid’s Djere vs Martinez prediction is for Martinez to win.

Laslo Djere vs Pedro Martinez Prediction: Martinez With Good Chance at Upset

• Prediction: Martinez to win
• Best Odds: 3.00
• Bookmaker: bet365
• Stakes: 2/10

Odds as at 2:00 am UK Time on February 26th, 2025. Odds may now differ.

When it comes to evaluating the matchup between these two, I would argue that there isn’t much that separates them. They both prefer playing on clay courts. They both have had success at altitude on clay courts (Martinez at this venue specifically). They’re both players that probably belong in the 50th-100th ranked players in the world, and they’re both playing some pretty decent tennis at the moment.

So what is it that separates them and makes the Serbian the clear favourite? I’d argue the ability to generate a bit more offence and find holds of serve with a bit more ease. He does have the bigger weapons between the two, though I’d argue that Martinez possesses the physicality and consistency edge.

Either way, there isn’t enough for me to believe Djere should be this large of a favourite. If you want to make the case he’s a bit better, that’s fine. A big favourite that wins this as often as these odds suggest? Not for me.

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Laslo Djere Recent Form

It has taken quite some time for Djere to get back to the level we’d seen from him in the past, but it appears as though he’s getting there. After tumbling as low as 129th in the world rankings last fall, Djere has seen a bit of a resurgence. He made the semifinal of the Belgrade 250 on home soil to end 2024 and back in Buenos Aires he qualified for the main draw and then managed to pick up three more victories to make the final four there as well.

With a nice, comprehensive – albeit not quite dominant – win in the opening round, Djere is knocking on the door of the top-100 once more.

He has a solid game that can play up at altitude, with a strong serve that may not yield an overwhelming amount of cheap points, but certainly isn’t a weakness and a baseline game that combines consistency with a bit of power and aggression as well.

The blended style isn’t the most imposing, but it certainly belongs in the top-100 and the signs pointing to that return occurring in the next few months as he gets ready to play the clay season, which should yield some decent results.

Pedro Martinez Recent Form

Though he blew a lead to Camilo Ugo Carabelli last week in his first match at the Rio de Janeiro 500, Martinez has been okay in the last few weeks. 

Once the tour moved away from quicker surfaces, the grinding Spaniard managed a quarterfinal appearance at the 500 in Rotterdam on slow indoor hard courts, before heading to South America for the Golden Swing, where he reached the semifinal in the first tournament in Buenos Aires.

The game style doesn’t consist of a whole lot of offensive firepower, but his serve can be annoyingly tough to return with how much kick he can get and how tough it can be to attack his serves without seeing one’s groundstrokes sail.

The physicality and ability to play long rallies without making mistakes are two skills he does have that many can’t match, and it’s helped him make several deep runs at ATP 250s in the past (the aforementioned Buenos Aires tournament being one, while he the final in Estoril last season and the semis of the 500 in Hamburg).

He’s more than capable of competing, despite the lopsided nature of this matchup in the past not going his way (more below). I’m happy to back him at a price that requires a win percentage of just 35% to be profitable.

Laslo Djere vs Pedro Martinez H2H – Stat of the Match

Djere has never lost to Martinez, but two of their three matches have been played indoors and the lone clay match (played in Cordoba, Argentina) was over five years ago. We’ll see if a Djere that has taken a step back in recent times can continue the dominant head-to-head.

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