Max Purcell and Ricardas Berankis will fight against each other in the 1st round of the Gwangju Challenger for the 3rd time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Tuesday at 12:00 pm on CENTER COURT. In this post, we analyze their head to head performance and prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Max Purcell who should win in 3 sets.
Max Purcell -> 1.66
Ricardas Berankis -> 2.13
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Prediction and head to head Max Purcell vs. Ricardas Berankis
This will be the 3rd time that Max Purcell and Ricardas Berankis fight against each other. The head to head is 1-1 for Purcell and Berankis (see full H2H stats),but they are 1-1 on hard.
The last time that they competed against each other, Purcell won 4-6 6-4 6-3 in the 3rd round in the Seoul Challenger back in 2019.
Max Purcell
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 21-24 | 10-16 | 2-3 | 1-1 | 8-4 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 52-28 | 45-17 | 2-3 | 5-5 | 0-3 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 36-29 | 21-15 | 5-8 | 2-2 | 8-4 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 21-14 | 13-9 | 0-1 | 4-1 | 4-3 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 5-12 | 3-5 | 1-2 | 1-5 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 89, the Australian will start his run in the Gwangju Challenger after he played his last match in the Seoul Challenger where he lost 6-1 6-3 to Chan Hong in the 2nd round on the 27th of April.
Max has a composed 30-7 win-loss record in 2023, 25-5 on hard (See FULL STATS).
His best result of the current year was winning the title the Chennai Challenger where he defeated Nicolas Moreno De Alboran in the final 5-7 7-6(2) 6-4 and the Bengaluru Challenger where he overcame James Duckworth in the final 3-6 7-5 7-6(5) and the Pune Challenger where he beat Luca Nardi in the final 6-2 6-3.
Talking about his overall career, Purcell has an overall 240-166 record. He has a positive 175-115 record on hard.
Previously in the Gwangju Challenger
Previously, his best result was reaching the 2nd round in 2019. See his history.
Ricardas Berankis
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 24-17 | 11-9 | 4-3 | 9-5 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 34-27 | 18-14 | 5-1 | 11-12 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 28-22 | 7-9 | 2-3 | 16-8 | 3-2 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 23-17 | 12-9 | 1-4 | 7-3 | 3-1 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 22-23 | 9-8 | 5-7 | 6-6 | 2-2 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 217, Berankis will start his run in the Gwangju Challenger after he played his last match in the Seoul Challenger where he lost 6-3 6-7(5) 6-1 to Vukic in the 2nd round on the 27th of April.
Berankis has a composed 17-8 win-loss record in 2023, 1-1 on hard (See FULL STATS)
.His best result of the current year was winning the title the St. Brieuc Challenger where he beat Dan Added in the final 6-3 6-7(3) 7-6(5).
In terms of his career, The Lithuanian has an overall 560-357 record. He has a positive 247-161 record on hard.
Tennis Scores in Gwangju Challenger
- Christopher EubanksEubanks – Lloyd HarrisHarris (7-63 4-6 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Rinky HijikataHijikata – Gabriel DialloDiallo (6-2 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Brandon HoltHolt – Cem IlkelIlkel (3-6 6-0 6-1) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Li TuLi – Tung-Lin WuTung-Lin (6-3 6-2) – See score progression
Upcoming matches in the draw
- Marc PolmansPolmans – Yuta ShimizuShimizu (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Altug CelikbilekCelikbilek – Emilio GomezGomez (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Max PurcellPurcell – Richard BerankisBerankis (1-1) – H2H and prediction
- Aleksandar VukicVukic – Sho ShimabukuroShimabukuro (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Yunseong ChungChung – Kaichi UchidaUchida (1-2) – H2H and prediction
- Uisung ParkPark – Jordan ThompsonThompson (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Brandon HoltHolt – Christopher EubanksEubanks (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Rinky HijikataHijikata – Li TuTu (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Bu YunchaoketeYunchaokete – Sanhui ShinShin (0-0) – H2H and prediction