Ramkumar Ramanathan and Peter Polansky will clash against each other in the 2nd round of the Lexington Challenger for the 2nd time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Thursday at 4:00 pm on STADIUM 2. In the following lines you can find the head to head analysis and prediction.
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The pick for Tennis Tonic is Ramkumar Ramanathan who should win in 3 sets.
As per the initial odds, Ramkumar Ramanathan is the pick to win this match.
Ramkumar Ramanathan -> 1.533
Peter Polansky -> 2.5
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Prediction and head to head Ramkumar Ramanathan vs. Peter Polansky
This will be the 2nd time that Ramkumar Ramanathan and Peter Polansky square off. The head to head is 1-0 for Ramanathan (see full H2H stats), but they have never played each other on hard.
The last time that they locked horns, Ramanathan won 6-1 7-5 in the 1st round in the Tallahassee Challenger back in 2017.
Ramkumar Ramanathan
Ranked no. 207, Ramkumar got to the 2nd round after defeating Tung-Lin Wu 6-4 6-0.
In the 1st round, Ramanathan had a good straight sets win against Wu (6-4 6-0). During the match, Ramanathan scored 63 points vs Wu’s 38. Ramanathan was extremely aggressive to blast 22 winners.
Talking about the service games, Ramanathan struck 5 aces and he committed only 2 double faults. Ramkumar Ramanathan was extremely effective on serve to win 81% (22/27) of his 1st serve and 68% (13/19) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. Ramkumar broke Wu 4 times after converting 67% of his break points (4/6).
Ramanathan has a winning win-loss record in the last 9 years having won 57% of his matches (333-253). 9-4 on hard in 2021. Regarding his performance on the same surface of this competition, Ramanathan has an aggregate211-137 win-loss record in the last 9 years on hard.
Ramkumar’s best result of the current year was reaching the final in the Cary Challenger.
Ramanathan has a composed 24-16 win-loss record in 2021, 9-4 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Lexington Challenger
Previously, his best result was reaching the 2nd round in 2016. See his history.
Peter Polansky
Ranked no. 243, the Canadian reached the 2nd round after beating Prajnesh Gunneswaran 6-3 6-4.
In the 1st round, Peter had a good straight sets win against Gunneswaran (6-3 6-4). During the match Polansky scored 62 points vs Gunneswaran’s 46. Peter was quite aggressive to blast 24 winners.
Talking about serving, Polansky made 4 aces and he committed only 2 double faults. Overall, Peter Polansky was exceptionally efficient on serve to win 75% (24/32) of his 1st serve and 58% (15/26) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve once. Peter broke Gunneswaran 4 times after converting 80% of his break points (4/5).
The Canadian’s best result of the current year was reaching the semifinal in the Sultan 3 Challenger.
Polansky has a composed 12-17 win-loss record in 2021, 11-10 on hard (See FULL STATS).
H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Ramanathan | Polansky |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 1 | 1 |
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 |
| Tot Games | 16 | 19 |
| Pts | 63-38 | 62-46 |
| Total Points | 101 | 108 |
| Winners | 22 | 24 |
| %Winners | 35% | 39% |
Both Ramanathan and Polansky played 1 match. Both players have not dropped a single set in this event so far. Talking about their workload, Ramanathan and Polansky have played the same amount of sets 2. However, Ramanathan played 3 games less than Polansky. The Indian scored 22 winners (35% of the total points). On the other side, Polansky bagged 24 winners (39%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Ramanathan | Polansky |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 5 | 4 |
| Avg per match | 5 | 4 |
| 1st in | 27/46 | 32/58 |
| %1st in | 59% | 55% |
| 1st pts | 22/27 | 24/32 |
| %1st pts | 81% | 75% |
| 2nd pts | 13/19 | 15/26 |
| %2nd pts | 68% | 58% |
Ramanathan made 5 aces . Polansky struck 4 aces . Ramanathan won 81% points on his first serve. He pretty solid on his second serve to win 68% of the points. On the other side, Polansky won 75% of the points on his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 58% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Ramanathan | Polansky |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 4 | 4 |
| Converted | 4/6 | 4/5 |
| % Converted | 67% | 80% |
| Conceded | 2 | 2 |
| Saved | 2 | 1 |
| % Saved | 100% | 50% |
| Times Broken | 0 | 1 |
Ramkumar broke his opponent 4 times with a 67% conversion rate. The Indian quite strong on his serve as he has never dropped a single service game after saving 2 break points. Polansky broke his opponent 4 times with a 80% conversion rate. The Canadian conceded his serve once and he saved 50% of the break points that he conceded.
| Ramanathan | |||
| R1 Wu |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-4 6-0 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 16 | 16 | |
| pts | 63-38 | 63-38 | |
| Total points | 101 | 101 | |
| Winners | 22 | 22 | |
| %Winners | 35% | 35% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 5 | 5 | |
| Double Faults | 2 | 2 | |
| 1st in | 27/46 | 27/46 | |
| % 1st in | 59% | 59% | |
| 1st pts | 22/27 | 22/27 | |
| % 1st pts | 81% | 81% | |
| 2nd pts | 13/19 | 13/19 | |
| % 2nd pts | 68% | 68% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 4 | 4 | |
| Converted | 4/6 | 4/6 | |
| Converted % | 67% | 67% | |
| Conceded | 2 | 2 | |
| Saved | 2/2 | 2 | |
| Saved % | 100% | 100% | |
| Times Broken | 0 | 0 | |
| Polansky | |||
| R1 Gunneswaran |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-3 6-4 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 19 | 19 | |
| pts | 62-46 | 62-46 | |
| Total points | 108 | 108 | |
| Winners | 24 | 24 | |
| %Winners | 39% | 39% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 4 | 4 | |
| Double Faults | 2 | 2 | |
| 1st in | 32/58 | 32/58 | |
| % 1st in | 55% | 55% | |
| 1st pts | 24/32 | 24/32 | |
| % 1st pts | 75% | 75% | |
| 2nd pts | 15/26 | 15/26 | |
| % 2nd pts | 58% | 58% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 4 | 4 | |
| Converted | 4/5 | 4/5 | |
| Converted % | 80% | 80% | |
| Conceded | 2 | 2 | |
| Saved | 1/2 | 1 | |
| Saved % | 50% | 50% | |
| Times Broken | 1 | 1 | |
Head 2 Head
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- Jenson BrooksbyBrooksby – Ulises BlanchBlanch (6-76 6-5 ret.) – Stats, scores, rankings
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- Stefan KozlovKozlov – Alejandro TabiloTabilo (0-0) – H2H and prediction
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