Thanasi Kokkinakis and Yanki Erel will play each other in the 1st round of the Manama Challenger for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Tuesday at 1:30 pm on CENTER COURT. Here the head to head stats and relative prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Thanasi Kokkinakis who should win in 2 sets.
As per the initial odds, Thanasi Kokkinakis is the pick to win this match.
Thanasi Kokkinakis -> 1.053
Yanki Erel -> 8.1
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Prediction and head to head Thanasi Kokkinakis vs. Yanki Erel
There is no head to head record between Thanasi Kokkinakis and Yanki Erel since this will be the first time that they will fight against each other in the main tour.
Thanasi Kokkinakis
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 15-12 | 8-9 | 7-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 40-26 | 31-18 | 8-5 | 1-1 | 0-2 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 23-19 | 19-12 | 2-3 | 1-2 | 1-2 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 33-21 | 15-11 | 18-7 | 0-0 | 0-3 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 141, Kokkinakis will start his run in the Manama Challenger after he played his last match at the Australian Open where he lost 4-6 6-7(4) 7-6(5) 6-3 7-5 to Murray in the 2nd round on the 19th of January.
The Australian has an overall 5-3 win-loss record in 2023, 5-3 on hard (See FULL STATS).
The Australian’s best result of the season was getting to the semifinal in Adelaide.
Talking about his overall career, Thanasi has an overall 204-126 record. He has a positive 140-77 record on hard.
Previously in the Manama Challenger
Kokkinakis has never competed in this tournament before.
Yanki Erel
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 13-10 | 9-7 | 0-0 | 4-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 48-25 | 44-18 | 1-4 | 3-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 32-21 | 27-14 | 3-4 | 2-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 45-19 | 20-7 | 11-11 | 14-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 5-7 | 0-0 | 5-7 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 479, Erel got to the 1st round after defeating Anthony Popyrin 6-1 6-4 and Kaito Uesugi 6-4 6-3.
In the qualifications, The Turk had a good straight sets win against Uesugi (6-4 6-3). During the match Erel scored 62 points vs Uesugi’s 48. Erel was quite aggressive to blast 27 winners.
Talking about serving, Erel managed to score 3 aces and he committed only 1 double fault for the entire match. Overall, Yanki Erel was quite effective on serve to win 79% (27/34) of his 1st serve and 56% (9/16) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve once. The Turk broke Uesugi 4 times after converting 50% of his break points (4/8).
Overall Performance in this tournament
The Turk started his run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, he hasn’t conceded yet a set in this competition to win 59% of the points he played.
The Turk’s best result of the season was reaching the semifinal in M15 Doha and M25 Al Zahra.
Erel has an overall 8-3 win-loss record in 2023, 8-3 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Head 2 Head
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