Novak Djokovic and Richard Berankis will play each other in the 3rd round of the French Open for the 4th time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Saturday at 2:00 pm on Court Philippe CHATRIER. Here the head to head stats and relative prediction.

Prediction, odds and live streaming

The pick for Tennis Tonic is Novak Djokovic who should win in 3 sets.

As per the initial odds, Novak Djokovic is the pick to win this match.
Novak Djokovic -> 1.014
Richard Berankis -> 22

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Prediction and head to head Novak Djokovic vs. Richard Berankis

This will be the 4th time that Novak Djokovic and Richard Berankis play each other. The head to head is 3-0 for Djokovic (see full H2H stats), 1-0 on clay.

The last time that they competed against each other, Djokovic won 6-1 6-2 6-2 in the 2nd round in at the French Open back in 2020.

Highlights Novak Djokovic vs Richard Berankis – French Open 01-October-2020

Novak Djokovic

Currently world no. 1 Novak got to the 3rd round after beating Tennys Sandgren 6-2 6-4 6-2 and Pablo Cuevas 6-3 6-2 6-4.

In the 2nd round, The Serbian had a good straight sets win against Cuevas (6-3 6-2 6-4). During the match, Djokovic scored 98 points vs Cuevas’s 70. Djokovic was exceptionally aggressive to blast 48 winners.

Regarding the service games, Djokovic bagged 10 aces and he committed only 3 double faults. Overall, Novak Djokovic was pretty efficient on serve to win 75% (48/64) of his 1st serve and 57% (17/30) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve once. The Serbian broke Cuevas 5 times after converting 63% of his break points (5/8).

Overall Performance in this tournament

Novak started his run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, he hasn’t dropped yet a set in this tournament to win 59% of the points he played.

Djokovic has a fantastic match record in the last 10 years having won 87% of his matches (562-84). 13-3 on clay in 2021. Regarding his performance on the same surface of this event, Djokovic has a compiled 139-28 win-loss record in the last years on clay.

His best result of the current season was winning the title in at the Australian Open where he defeated Daniil Medvedev in the final 7-5 6-2 6-2 and in in Belgrade where he beat Alex Molcan in the final 6-4 6-3.

Djokovic has an aggregate 22-3 win-loss record in 2021, 13-3 on clay (See FULL STATS).

Previously at the French Open

Previously, he won this tournament once in 2016. See his history.

French Open
Djokovic's Record

Richard Berankis

Ranked no. 93, Berankis got to the 3rd round after defeating Ugo Humbert 6-4 6-4 2-6 6-4 and James Duckworth 7-5 2-6 7-64 6-0.

In the 2nd round, Richard defeated Duckworth (7-5 2-6 7-64 6-0). During the match Berankis scored 128 points vs Duckworth’s 112. Berankis was pretty aggressive to blast 51 winners.

Talking about serving, Berankis blasted 8 aces and he committed only 3 double faults. Overall, Richard Berankis was exceptionally efficient on serve to win 75% (51/68) of his 1st serve and 63% (27/43) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve 3 times. Berankis broke Duckworth 5 times after converting 29% of his break points (5/17).

Overall Performance in this tournament

Berankis started his run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, he has conceded 2 set in the tournament to win 53% of the points he played.

Richard has an aggregate 9-8 win-loss record in 2021, 5-5 on clay (See FULL STATS).

Previously at the French Open

Previously, his best result was reaching the 2nd round in 2020. See his history.

French Open
Berankis's Record

H2H Performance in the tournament (main draw)

N.Djokovic
R.Berankis
4h:04
4h:04
Time on court​
5h:40
5h:40
!
2h:06
2h:06
Last match​
!
2h:39
2h:39
2
2
Match played
2
2
53
53
Games Played​
77
77
6
6
Set played​​
8
8
197
197
Total points​
266
266
98.5
98.5
Avg point​
133
133
90
90
Winners
108
108
45
45
Avg Winners​
54
54
46%
46%
Ratio winners
41%
41%
-- Serve --
14
14
Aces
13
13
7
7
Avg Aces
6.5
6.5
5
5
Double Faults
9
9
2.5
2.5
Avg Double Faults
4.5
4.5
90/113
90/113
1st won total​
108/151
108/151
!
80%
80%
1st won %
!
72%
72%
30/54
30/54
2nd won total​
56/101
56/101
56%
56%
2nd won %
55%
55%
-- Break Points --
10/19
10/19
BP won
10/33
10/33
5/9.5
5/9.5
Avg BP won
5/16.5
5/16.5
!
53%
53%
Won
30%
30%
15
15
Conceded
27
27
7.5
7.5
Avg Conceded
13.5
13.5
1
1
Broken
7
7
!
0.5
0.5
Avg Broken
3.5
3.5
14
14
Saved
20
20
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Matches, sets, games and points

Points Djokovic Berankis
Match played 2 2
Tot Set 6 8
Tot Games 53 77
Pts 197-138 266-240
Total Points 335 506
Winners 90 108
%Winners 46% 41%

Both Djokovic and Berankis played 2 matches. At the moment, Richard Berankis surrendered 2 sets while Novak Djokovic hasn’t surrendered a set so far. Djokovic has played 2 set(s) less than Berankis (6 vs 8). Therefore, Djokovic played 24 games less than Berankis. The Serbian scored 90 winners (46% of the total points). On the other side, Richard made 108 winners (41%).

Serve Performance

Serve Djokovic Berankis
Aces 14 13
Avg per match 7 6.5
1st in 113/167 151/252
%1st in 68% 60%
1st pts 90/113 108/151
%1st pts 80% 72%
2nd pts 30/54 56/101
%2nd pts 56% 55%

Djokovic blasted 14 aces (7 per match). Berankis fired 13 aces (6.5 per match). Djokovic won 80% points on his first serve. He pretty effective on his second serve to win 56% of the points. On the other side, Berankis won 72% of the points on his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 55% of the points.

How they played the important points

Breaks Djokovic Berankis
Won 10 10
Converted 10/19 10/33
% Converted 53% 30%
Conceded 15 27
Saved 14 20
% Saved 93% 74%
Times Broken 1 7

The Serbian broke his opponents 10 times with a 53% conversion rate. Novak conceded his serve once and he saved 93% of the break points that he conceded. The Lithuanian broke his opponents 10 times with a 30% conversion rate. Berankis conceded his serve 7 times and he saved 74% of the break points that he conceded.

Djokovic
R1
Sandgren		 R2
Cuevas		 Total
Score 6-2 6-4 6-2 6-3 6-2 6-4
Tot Set 3 3 6
Tot Games 26 27 53
pts 99-68 98-70 197-138
Total points 167 168 335
Winners 42 48 90
%Winners 42% 49% 46%
SERVE
Aces 4 10 14
Double Faults 2 3 5
1st in 49/73 64/94 113/167
% 1st in 67% 68% 68%
1st pts 42/49 48/64 90/113
% 1st pts 86% 75% 80%
2nd pts 13/24 17/30 30/54
% 2nd pts 54% 57% 56%
Breaks
Won 5 5 10
Converted 5/11 5/8 10/19
Converted % 45% 63% 53%
Conceded 6 9 15
Saved 6/6 8/9 14
Saved % 100% 89% 95%
Times Broken 0 1 1
Berankis
R1
Humbert		 R2
Duckworth		 Total
Score 6-4 6-4 2-6 6-4 7-5 2-6 7-64 6-0
Tot Set 4 4 8
Tot Games 38 39 77
pts 138-128 128-112 266-240
Total points 266 240 506
Winners 57 51 108
%Winners 41% 40% 41%
SERVE
Aces 5 8 13
Double Faults 6 3 9
1st in 83/141 68/111 151/252
% 1st in 59% 61% 60%
1st pts 57/83 51/68 108/151
% 1st pts 69% 75% 72%
2nd pts 29/58 27/43 56/101
% 2nd pts 50% 63% 55%
Breaks
Won 5 5 10
Converted 5/16 5/17 10/33
Converted % 31% 29% 30%
Conceded 19 8 27
Saved 15/19 5/8 20
Saved % 79% 63% 71%
Times Broken 4 3 7

Tennis Scores at the French Open

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