Karl Friberg and Ramkumar Ramanathan will play each other in the qualifications of the Cassis Challenger for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Monday at 11:30 am on COURT 1. In this post, we analyze their head to head performance and prediction.
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The pick for Tennis Tonic is Karl Friberg who should win in 2 sets.
As per the initial odds, Karl Friberg is the pick to win this match.
Karl Friberg -> 1.22
Ramkumar Ramanathan -> 3.94
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Prediction and head to head Karl Friberg vs. Ramkumar Ramanathan
There is no head to head record between Karl Friberg and Ramkumar Ramanathan since this will be the first time that they will face off in the main tour.
Karl Friberg
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 3-5 | 3-1 | 0-2 | 0-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 52-34 | 11-4 | 17-16 | 22-13 | 0-0 | 2-1 |
| 2022 | 52-27 | 10-5 | 26-16 | 16-6 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 17-21 | 3-5 | 13-14 | 1-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 2-4 | 0-2 | 0-0 | 2-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 388, the Swede got to the qualifications after beating Hugo Cardinaud 6-3 6-1.
In the qualifications, Karl had a good straight sets win against Cardinaud (6-3 6-1). During the match, Friberg scored 58 points vs Cardinaud’s 39. Friberg was extremely aggressive to blast 28 winners.
Regarding the service games, Friberg recorded 2 aces and he committed only 1 double fault. Karl Friberg was pretty effective on serve to win 78% (28/36) of his 1st serve and 60% (6/10) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. Friberg broke Cardinaud 4 times after converting 44% of his break points (4/9).
Friberg has a winning record in the last 8 years having won 57% of his matches (205-156). 11-3 on hard in 2023. In connection with his performance on the same surface of this tournament, Friberg has a compiled53-38 win-loss record in the last 8 years on hard.
Friberg’s best result of the year was getting to the final in M25 Trnava and M15 Vaasa.
Friberg has a compiled 38-27 win-loss record in 2023, 11-3 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Cassis Challenger
The Swede has never competed in this tournament before.
Ramkumar Ramanathan
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 19-15 | 18-14 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 1-1 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 25-21 | 25-12 | 0-6 | 0-2 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 15-34 | 4-13 | 4-8 | 2-6 | 4-6 | 1-1 |
| 2021 | 45-32 | 23-11 | 8-7 | 5-8 | 7-4 | 2-2 |
| 2020 | 8-18 | 3-8 | 0-5 | 0-3 | 0-0 | 5-2 |
Ranked no. 583, the Indian got to the qualifications after beating Maxence Beauge 6-4 7-66.
In the qualifications, The Indian had a good straight sets win against Beauge (6-4 7-66). During the match Ramanathan scored 77 points vs Beauge’s 70. The Indian was pretty aggressive to blast 27 winners.
About the serving games, Ramanathan bagged 8 aces and he committed only 2 double faults. Ramkumar Ramanathan lost the serve twice and he saved 5 break points. Furthermore, Ramanathan put 57% of his first serves in, winning 69% (27/39) of the points behind his 1st serve and 63% (19/30) on the 2nd serve. Ramanathan broke Beauge 3 times after converting 43% of his break points (3/7).
Ramkumar’s best result of the year was getting to the semifinal in M15 Chennai.
The Indian has a compiled 6-19 win-loss record in 2023, 6-10 on hard (See FULL STATS).
H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Friberg | Ramanathan |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 1 | 1 |
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 |
| Tot Games | 16 | 23 |
| Pts | 58-39 | 77-70 |
| Total Points | 97 | 147 |
| Winners | 28 | 27 |
| %Winners | 48% | 35% |
Both Friberg and Ramanathan played 1 match. Also both players started their run from the qualifications.Both players have not lost a single set in this event so far. Talking about their workload, Friberg and Ramanathan have played the same amount of sets 2. However, Friberg played 7 games less than Ramanathan. Karl scored 28 winners (48% of the total points). On the other side, The Indian fired 27 winners (35%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Friberg | Ramanathan |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 2 | 8 |
| Avg per match | 2 | 8 |
| 1st in | 36/46 | 39/69 |
| %1st in | 78% | 57% |
| 1st pts | 28/36 | 27/39 |
| %1st pts | 78% | 69% |
| 2nd pts | 6/10 | 19/30 |
| %2nd pts | 60% | 63% |
Friberg scored 2 aces . Ramanathan blasted 8 aces . Friberg won 78% points on his first serve. He very solid his second serve to win 60% of the points. On the other side, Ramanathan won 69% of the points behind his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 63% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Friberg | Ramanathan |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 4 | 3 |
| Converted | 4/9 | 3/7 |
| % Converted | 44% | 43% |
| Conceded | 2 | 7 |
| Saved | 2 | 5 |
| % Saved | 100% | 71% |
| Times Broken | 0 | 2 |
The Swede broke his opponent 4 times with a 44% conversion rate. Karl pretty effective on his serve as he has never surrendered a single service game after saving 2 break points. The Indian broke his opponent 3 times with a 43% conversion rate. Ramkumar conceded his serve twice and he saved 71% of the break points that he conceded.
| Friberg | |||
| Q1 Cardinaud |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-3 6-1 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 16 | 16 | |
| pts | 58-39 | 58-39 | |
| Total points | 97 | 97 | |
| Winners | 28 | 28 | |
| %Winners | 48% | 48% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 2 | 2 | |
| Double Faults | 1 | 1 | |
| 1st in | 36/46 | 36/46 | |
| % 1st in | 78% | 78% | |
| 1st pts | 28/36 | 28/36 | |
| % 1st pts | 78% | 78% | |
| 2nd pts | 6/10 | 6/10 | |
| % 2nd pts | 60% | 60% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 4 | 4 | |
| Converted | 4/9 | 4/9 | |
| Converted % | 44% | 44% | |
| Conceded | 2 | 2 | |
| Saved | 2/2 | 2 | |
| Saved % | 100% | 100% | |
| Times Broken | 0 | 0 | |
| Ramanathan | |||
| Q1 Beauge |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-4 7-66 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 23 | 23 | |
| pts | 77-70 | 77-70 | |
| Total points | 147 | 147 | |
| Winners | 27 | 27 | |
| %Winners | 35% | 35% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 8 | 8 | |
| Double Faults | 2 | 2 | |
| 1st in | 39/69 | 39/69 | |
| % 1st in | 57% | 57% | |
| 1st pts | 27/39 | 27/39 | |
| % 1st pts | 69% | 69% | |
| 2nd pts | 19/30 | 19/30 | |
| % 2nd pts | 63% | 63% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 3 | 3 | |
| Converted | 3/7 | 3/7 | |
| Converted % | 43% | 43% | |
| Conceded | 7 | 7 | |
| Saved | 5/7 | 5 | |
| Saved % | 71% | 71% | |
| Times Broken | 2 | 2 | |
Head 2 Head
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