Ricardas Berankis and Stefanos Sakellaridis will play each other in the 2^nd round of the Zhuhai Challenger for the 1^st time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Wednesday at 3:00 pm on COURT 1. In the following paragraphs, you can find the head to head analysis and prediction.

Prediction, odds and live streaming

The pick for Tennis Tonic is Ricardas Berankis who should win in 2 sets.

As per the initial odds, Ricardas Berankis is the pick to win this match.
Ricardas Berankis -> 1.21
Stefanos Sakellaridis -> 4.05

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Prediction and head to head Ricardas Berankis vs. Stefanos Sakellaridis

There is no head to head record between Ricardas Berankis and Stefanos Sakellaridis since this will be the first time that they will face off in the main tour.

Ricardas Berankis

Ranked no. 257, Berankis got to the 2^nd round after beating Sergey Fomin 3-6 6-0 6-3.

In the 1^st round against Fomin, The Lithuanian recovered from a 1-set down deficit before winning (3-6 6-0 6-3). During the match, Berankis scored 94 points vs Fomin’s 67. The Lithuanian was pretty aggressive to blast 34 winners.

Talking about the service games, Berankis scored 10 aces and he committed only 4 double faults. Ricardas Berankis lost the serve 3 times and he saved 2 break points. Furthermore, Berankis put 60% of his first serves in, winning 85% (34/40) of the points behind his 1st serve and 48% (13/27) on the 2nd serve. Richard broke Fomin 6 times after converting 43% of his break points (6/14).

Berankis has positive win-loss record in the last 10 years having won 59% of his matches (305-215). 4-7 on hard in 2023. Regarding his performance on the same surface of this event, Berankis has a composed 112-94 record in the last years on hard.

His best result of the season was winning the title the St. Brieuc Challenger where he defeated Dan Added in the final 6-3 6-7(3) 7-6(5).

Richard has an overall 25-18 win-loss record in 2023, 4-7 on hard (See FULL STATS).

Previously in the Zhuhai Challenger

Richard has never competed in this tournament before.

Stefanos Sakellaridis

Ranked no. 463, the Greek reached the 2^nd round after beating Xiaofei Wang 7-6⁴ 6-0.

In the 1^st round, The Greek had a good straight sets win against Wang (7-6⁴ 6-0). During the match Sakellaridis scored 63 points vs Wang’s 50. Stefanos was exceptionally aggressive to blast 29 winners.

About the serving games, Sakellaridis blasted 5 aces and he committed only 4 double faults. Stefanos Sakellaridis was very efficient on serve to win 76% (29/38) of his 1st serve and 58% (15/26) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. Sakellaridis broke Wang 3 times after converting 75% of his break points (3/4).

The Greek’s best result of the current year was reaching the final in M15 Monastir and M25 Mataro.

Sakellaridis has a compiled 55-34 win-loss record in 2023, 26-14 on hard (See FULL STATS).

H2H Performance in the tournament

Matches, sets, games and points

Points	Berankis	Sakellaridis
Match played	1	1
Tot Set	3	2
Tot Games	24	19
Pts	94-67	63-50
Total Points	161	113
Winners	34	29
%Winners	36%	46%

Both Berankis and Sakellaridis played 1 match. At the moment, Ricardas Berankis dropped 1 set while Stefanos Sakellaridis hasn’t dropped a set so far. Berankis has played 1 set more than Sakellaridis (3 vs 2). Therefore, Berankis played 5 games more than Sakellaridis. Berankis scored 34 winners (36% of the total points). On the other side, The Greek bagged 29 winners (46%).

Serve Performance

Serve	Berankis	Sakellaridis
Aces	10	5
Avg per match	10	5
1st in	40/67	38/64
%1st in	60%	59%
1st pts	34/40	29/38
%1st pts	85%	76%
2nd pts	13/27	15/26
%2nd pts	48%	58%

Berankis struck 10 aces . Sakellaridis blasted 5 aces . Berankis won 85% points behind his first serve. He was rock solid on his second serve to win 48% of the points. On the other side, Sakellaridis won 76% of the points behind 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	Berankis	Sakellaridis
Won	6	3
Converted	6/14	3/4
% Converted	43%	75%
Conceded	5	6
Saved	2	6
% Saved	40%	100%
Times Broken	3	0

Berankis broke his opponent 6 times with a 43% conversion rate. Richard conceded his serve 3 times and he saved 40% of the break points that he conceded. Sakellaridis broke his opponent 3 times with a 75% conversion rate. Stefanos was rock solid on his serve as he has never conceded a single service game after saving 6 break points.

Berankis
	R1 Fomin	Total
Score	3-6 6-0 6-3
Tot Set	3	3
Tot Games	24	24
pts	94-67	94-67
Total points	161	161
Winners	34	34
%Winners	36%	36%
SERVE
Aces	10	10
Double Faults	4	4
1st in	40/67	40/67
% 1st in	60%	60%
1st pts	34/40	34/40
% 1st pts	85%	85%
2nd pts	13/27	13/27
% 2nd pts	48%	48%
Breaks
Won	6	6
Converted	6/14	6/14
Converted %	43%	43%
Conceded	5	5
Saved	2/5	2
Saved %	40%	40%
Times Broken	3	3

Sakellaridis
	R1 Wang	Total
Score	7-64 6-0
Tot Set	2	2
Tot Games	19	19
pts	63-50	63-50
Total points	113	113
Winners	29	29
%Winners	46%	46%
SERVE
Aces	5	5
Double Faults	4	4
1st in	38/64	38/64
% 1st in	59%	59%
1st pts	29/38	29/38
% 1st pts	76%	76%
2nd pts	15/26	15/26
% 2nd pts	58%	58%
Breaks
Won	3	3
Converted	3/4	3/4
Converted %	75%	75%
Conceded	6	6
Saved	6/6	6
Saved %	100%	100%
Times Broken	0	0

Tennis Scores in Zhuhai Challenger

• Dominik PalanPalan – Shuichi SekiguchiSekiguchi (7-6⁰ 5-7 6-2) – See score progression
• Ricardas BerankisBerankis – Sergey FominFomin (3-6 6-0 6-3) – See score progression
• Hanwen LiLi – James McCabeMcCabe (6-2 6-3) – See score progression
• Stefanos SakellaridisSakellaridis – Xiaofei WangWang (7-6⁴ 6-0) – See score progression
• Fajing SunSun – Jose StathamStatham (6-3 6-4) – See score progression
• Zhe LiLi – Mikalai HaliakHaliak (6-3 6-0) – See score progression
• Colin SinclairSinclair – Leo BorgBorg (6-3 6-2) – See score progression
• Aliaksandr LiaonenkaLiaonenka – Luke SavilleSaville (7-6⁵ 6-3) – See score progression
• Jason JungJung – Yan BaiBai (6-2 6-3) – See score progression
• Yi ZhouZhou – Ajeet RaiRai (7-5 6-1) – See score progression
• Luca CastelnuovoCastelnuovo – Evan ZhuZhu (6-7⁴ 7-6⁵ 7-6⁴) – See score progression
• Philip SekulicSekulic – Rigele TeTe (6-3 6-7³ 6-4) – See score progression
• Alexander ZgirovskyZgirovsky – Yusuke TakahashiTakahashi (4-6 6-4 1-0 ret.) – See score progression
• Robert StrombachsStrombachs – Tao MuMu (6-4 3-6 6-4) – See score progression
• Arthur WeberWeber – Filip PeliwoPeliwo (6-3 6-3) – See score progression
• Evgeny KarlovskiyKarlovskiy – Nam Hoang LyHoang Ly (7-6⁴ 7-6²) – See score progression
• Ricardas BerankisBerankis – Sergey FominFomin (3-6 6-0 6-3) – See score progression
• Jason JungJung – Yan BaiBai (6-2 6-3) – See score progression

Upcoming matches in the draw

• Zhe LiLi – (0-1) – H2H and prediction
• Richard BerankisBerankis – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Evgeny KarlovskiyKarlovskiy – Luca CastelnuovoCastelnuovo (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Fajing SunSun – Jason JungJung (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Aliaksandr LiaonenkaLiaonenka – Colin SinclairSinclair (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Alexander ZgirovskyZgirovsky – Arthur WeberWeber (0-0) – H2H and prediction