Rafael Nadal and Richard Berankis will face off in the 2nd round of the Melbourne Summer Set for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Thursday at 2:30 pm on Rod Laver Arena. Here the head to head stats and relative prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Rafael Nadal who should win in 2 sets.
As per the initial odds, Rafael Nadal is the pick to win this match.
Rafael Nadal -> 1.188
Richard Berankis -> 5
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Prediction and head to head Rafael Nadal vs. Richard Berankis
There is no head to head record between Rafael Nadal and Richard Berankis since this will be the first time that they will face off in the main tour.
Rafael Nadal
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 12-7 | 2-1 | 10-6 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 1-3 | 1-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 39-8 | 23-3 | 10-2 | 1-3 | 5-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 24-5 | 5-2 | 19-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 27-7 | 13-3 | 9-1 | 5-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 6, Rafael will start his run in Melbourne after he played his last match in Mubadala World Tennis Championship where he lost 6-7(4) 6-3 10-6 to Shapovalov in the Bro. on the 18th of December.
This will be the first match of the season on hard.
Nadal won his last 7 matches.
Talking about his overall career, The Spaniard has an overall 1067-219 record. He has a positive 418-106 record on hard.
Previously in Melbourne
Rafael has never competed in this tournament before.
Richard Berankis
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|
Ranked no. 104, Berankis reached the 2nd round after defeating Tomas Martin Etcheverry 6-4 6-2, Altug Celikbilek 5-7 6-2 6-1 and Marcos Giron 7-5 6-4.
In the 1st round, The Lithuanian had a good straight sets win against Giron (7-5 6-4). During the match Berankis scored 64 points vs Giron’s 57. Berankis was exceptionally aggressive to blast 31 winners.
Talking about serving, Berankis scored just 1 ace during the entire match and he committed only 1 double fault for the entire match. Richard Berankis lost the serve twice and he saved 2 break points. Furthermore, Berankis put 61% of his first serves in, winning 76% (31/41) of the points behind his 1st serve and 50% (13/26) on the 2nd serve. Richard was clinical in his return game without wasting any break point and break Giron 4 times.
Richard has an overall 3-0 win-loss record in 2022, 3-0 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in Melbourne
Berankis has never competed in this tournament before.
Head 2 Head
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Tennis Scores in Melbourne
- Emil RuusuvuoriRuusuvuori – Sebastian BaezBaez (7-62 6-1) – See score progression
- Jaume Antoni Munar ClarAntoni Munar Clar – Kevin AndersonAnderson (6-4 6-4) – See score progression
- Jordan ThompsonThompson – Christopher O ConnellO Connell (1-6 7-5 6-4) – See score progression
- Maxime CressyCressy – Rinky HijikataHijikata (6-3 6-0) – See score progression
- Alex MolcanMolcan – Andreas SeppiSeppi (6-4 6-76 6-3) – See score progression
- Richard BerankisBerankis – Marcos GironGiron (7-5 6-4) – See score progression
- Alexei PopyrinPopyrin – Stefano TravagliaTravaglia (7-65 6-3) – See score progression
- Tallon GriekspoorGriekspoor – Dominik KoepferKoepfer (6-3 6-4) – See score progression
- Botic Van De ZandschulpVan De Zandschulp – Adrian MannarinoMannarino (6-4 6-3) – See score progression
- Mackenzie McdonaldMcdonald – Peter GojowczykGojowczyk (6-0 6-3) – See score progression
- Facundo BagnisBagnis – Andy MurrayMurray (6-3 5-7 6-3) – See score progression
- Alexei PopyrinPopyrin – Stefano TravagliaTravaglia (7-6(5) 6-3) – See score progression
- Alex MolcanMolcan – Andreas SeppiSeppi (6-4 6-7(6) 6-3) – See score progression
- Jaume Antoni Munar ClarAntoni Munar Clar – Kevin AndersonAnderson (6-4 6-4) – See score progression
- Maxime CressyCressy – Rinky HijikataHijikata (6-3 6-0) – See score progression
Upcoming matches in the draw
- Rafael NadalNadal – Richard BerankisBerankis (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- David GoffinGoffin – Alex MolcanMolcan (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Facundo BagnisBagnis – Grigor DimitrovDimitrov (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Benoit PairePaire – Henri LaaksonenLaaksonen (0-2) – H2H and prediction
- Mackenzie McdonaldMcdonald – Botic Van De ZandschulpVan De Zandschulp (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Jordan ThompsonThompson – Emil RuusuvuoriRuusuvuori (0-2) – H2H and prediction
- Alexei PopyrinPopyrin – Tallon GriekspoorGriekspoor (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Maxime CressyCressy – Reilly OpelkaOpelka (0-0) – H2H and prediction
