Luke Saville and Yanki Erel will fight against each other in the qualifications of the Gwangju Challenger for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Monday at 11:00 am on COURT 8. Here the head to head stats and relative prediction.
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The pick for Tennis Tonic is Luke Saville who should win in 3 sets.
As per the initial odds, Luke Saville is the pick to win this match.
Luke Saville -> 1.82
Yanki Erel -> 1.92
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Prediction and head to head Luke Saville vs. Yanki Erel
There is no head to head record between Luke Saville and Yanki Erel since this will be the first time that they will fight against each other in the main tour.
Luke Saville
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 19-21 | 11-15 | 0-0 | 1-1 | 7-5 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 43-26 | 28-18 | 0-1 | 1-2 | 14-5 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 18-11 | 18-9 | 0-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 0-4 | 0-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 4-7 | 1-2 | 0-2 | 0-2 | 3-1 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 293, the Australian got to the qualifications after defeating Stefanos Sakellaridis 6-2 4-6 6-2.
In the qualifications, The Australian defeated Sakellaridis (6-2 4-6 6-2). During the match, Saville scored 95 points vs Sakellaridis’s 82. Saville was pretty aggressive to blast 50 winners.
Talking about the service games, Saville scored just 1 ace during the match and he committed only 5 double faults. Luke Saville lost the serve once and he saved 7 break points. Furthermore, Saville put 71% of his first serves in, winning 70% (50/71) of the points behind his 1st serve and 52% (15/29) on the 2nd serve. The Australian broke Sakellaridis 4 times after converting 67% of his break points (4/6).
Saville has winning win-loss record in the last 10 years having won 54% of his matches (239-204). 9-6 on hard in 2024. Regarding his performance on the same surface of this tournament, Saville has an aggregate 160-141 match record in the last years on hard.
The Australian’s best result of the current year was reaching the final in M25 Mildura.
The Australian has an aggregate 15-8 win-loss record in 2024, 9-6 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Gwangju Challenger
Yanki Erel
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 29-26 | 21-18 | 4-5 | 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. 347, Yanki got to the qualifications after beating Uisung Park 6-1 7-5.
In the qualifications, Yanki had a good straight sets win against Park (6-1 7-5). During the match Erel scored 70 points vs Park’s 51. Yanki was exceptionally aggressive to blast 30 winners.
Talking about serving, Erel made 2 aces and he committed only 3 double faults. Yanki Erel lost the serve twice and he saved 4 break points. Furthermore, Erel put 66% of his first serves in, winning 73% (30/41) of the points behind his 1st serve and 48% (10/21) on the 2nd serve. The Turk broke Park 5 times after converting 56% of his break points (5/9).
The Turk’s best result of the season was getting to the final in M15 Doha.
Yanki has a compiled 13-8 win-loss record in 2024, 9-5 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Gwangju Challenger
The Turk has never competed in this tournament before.
H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Saville | Erel |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 1 | 1 |
| Tot Set | 3 | 2 |
| Tot Games | 26 | 19 |
| Pts | 95-82 | 70-51 |
| Total Points | 177 | 121 |
| Winners | 50 | 30 |
| %Winners | 53% | 43% |
Both Saville and Erel played 1 match. Also both players started their run from the qualifications.At the moment, Luke Saville lost 1 set while Yanki Erel hasn’t surrendered a set so far. Saville has played 1 set more than Erel (3 vs 2). Therefore, Saville played 7 games more than Erel. The Australian scored 50 winners (53% of the total points). On the other side, Yanki recorded 30 winners (43%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Saville | Erel |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 1 | 2 |
| Avg per match | 1 | 2 |
| 1st in | 71/100 | 41/62 |
| %1st in | 71% | 66% |
| 1st pts | 50/71 | 30/41 |
| %1st pts | 70% | 73% |
| 2nd pts | 15/29 | 10/21 |
| %2nd pts | 52% | 48% |
Saville scored 1 ace . Erel also recorded 2 aces . Saville won 70% points behind his first serve. He extremely effective on his second serve to win 52% of the points. On the other side, Erel won 73% of the points on his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 48% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Saville | Erel |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 4 | 5 |
| Converted | 4/6 | 5/9 |
| % Converted | 67% | 56% |
| Conceded | 8 | 6 |
| Saved | 7 | 4 |
| % Saved | 88% | 67% |
| Times Broken | 1 | 2 |
Luke broke his opponent 4 times with a 67% conversion rate. Saville conceded his serve once and he saved 88% of the break points that he conceded. Erel broke his opponent 5 times with a 56% conversion rate. The Turk conceded his serve twice and he saved 67% of the break points that he conceded.
| Saville | |||
| Q1 Sakellaridis |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-2 4-6 6-2 | ||
| Tot Set | 3 | 3 | |
| Tot Games | 26 | 26 | |
| pts | 95-82 | 95-82 | |
| Total points | 177 | 177 | |
| Winners | 50 | 50 | |
| %Winners | 53% | 53% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 1 | 1 | |
| Double Faults | 5 | 5 | |
| 1st in | 71/100 | 71/100 | |
| % 1st in | 71% | 71% | |
| 1st pts | 50/71 | 50/71 | |
| % 1st pts | 70% | 70% | |
| 2nd pts | 15/29 | 15/29 | |
| % 2nd pts | 52% | 52% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 4 | 4 | |
| Converted | 4/6 | 4/6 | |
| Converted % | 67% | 67% | |
| Conceded | 8 | 8 | |
| Saved | 7/8 | 7 | |
| Saved % | 88% | 88% | |
| Times Broken | 1 | 1 | |
| Erel | |||
| Q1 Park |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-1 7-5 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 19 | 19 | |
| pts | 70-51 | 70-51 | |
| Total points | 121 | 121 | |
| Winners | 30 | 30 | |
| %Winners | 43% | 43% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 2 | 2 | |
| Double Faults | 3 | 3 | |
| 1st in | 41/62 | 41/62 | |
| % 1st in | 66% | 66% | |
| 1st pts | 30/41 | 30/41 | |
| % 1st pts | 73% | 73% | |
| 2nd pts | 10/21 | 10/21 | |
| % 2nd pts | 48% | 48% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 5 | 5 | |
| Converted | 5/9 | 5/9 | |
| Converted % | 56% | 56% | |
| Conceded | 6 | 6 | |
| Saved | 4/6 | 4 | |
| Saved % | 67% | 67% | |
| Times Broken | 2 | 2 | |
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