Ricardas Berankis and Blake Ellis will fight against each other in the qualifications of the Shenzhen 1 Challenger for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Tuesday at 12:30 pm on COURT 6. Here the head to head stats and relative prediction.
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The pick for Tennis Tonic is Ricardas Berankis who should win in 3 sets.
Ricardas Berankis -> 1.49
Blake Ellis -> 2.5
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Prediction and head to head Ricardas Berankis vs. Blake Ellis
There is no head to head record between Ricardas Berankis and Blake Ellis since this will be the first time that they will square off in the main tour.
Ricardas Berankis
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 27-15 | 12-8 | 5-1 | 10-6 | 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 |
| 2020 | 10-8 | 9-7 | 1-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 329, Berankis got to the qualifications after defeating Andrew Fenty 6-2 6-1.
In the qualifications, The Lithuanian had a good straight sets win against Fenty (6-2 6-1). During the match, Berankis scored 56 points vs Fenty’s 23. Berankis was extremely aggressive to blast 19 winners.
Regarding the service games, Berankis blasted 7 aces and he was pretty steady in conceding no double faults. Ricardas Berankis was exceptionally effective on serve to win 90% (19/21) of his 1st serve and 90% (9/10) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. Berankis broke Fenty 5 times after converting 71% of his break points (5/7).
Berankis has positive record in the last 10 years having won 57% of his matches (263-202). 5-3 on hard in 2024. Regarding his performance on the same surface of this tournament, Berankis has a compiled 102-89 match record in the last years on hard.
The Lithuanian’s best result of the current year was getting to the semifinal in the Gwangju Challenger.
Berankis has an aggregate 15-9 win-loss record in 2024, 5-3 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Shenzhen 1 Challenger
Berankis has never competed in this tournament before.
Blake Ellis
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 22-16 | 14-12 | 1-1 | 0-0 | 7-3 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 51-29 | 43-25 | 0-0 | 4-2 | 4-2 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 13-11 | 13-11 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 24-14 | 16-8 | 0-0 | 8-5 | 0-0 | 0-1 |
| 2020 | 11-6 | 8-5 | 0-0 | 3-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 393, the Australian reached the qualifications after defeating Moez Echargui 3-6 7-65 7-63.
In the qualifications against Echargui, The Australian recovered from a 1-set down deficit before winning (3-6 7-65 7-63).During the match Ellis scored less points (3) than Echargui. In fact, the world no. 329 won 120 points vs Echargui’s. That means that Ellis was more focused during the important points. The Australian was exceptionally aggressive to blast 47 winners.
Talking about serving, Ellis bagged 19 aces and he committed only 9 double faults. Blake Ellis lost the serve 5 times and he saved 5 break points. Furthermore, Ellis put 46% of his first serves in, winning 80% (47/59) of the points behind his 1st serve and 44% (31/70) on the 2nd serve. Ellis broke Echargui 3 times after converting 20% of his break points (3/15).
Ellis’s best result of the current year was getting to the semifinal in M25 Mildura and M25 Swan Hill.
Blake has an overall 15-10 win-loss record in 2024, 9-8 on hard (See FULL STATS).
H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Berankis | Ellis |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 1 | 1 |
| Tot Set | 2 | 3 |
| Tot Games | 15 | 35 |
| Pts | 56-23 | 120-123 |
| Total Points | 79 | 243 |
| Winners | 19 | 47 |
| %Winners | 34% | 39% |
Both Berankis and Ellis played 1 match. Also both players started their run from the qualifications.At the moment, Blake Ellis dropped 1 set while Ricardas Berankis hasn’t surrendered a set so far. Berankis has played 1 set(s) less than Ellis (2 vs 3). Therefore, Berankis played 20 games less than Ellis. Richard scored 19 winners (34% of the total points). On the other side, Blake bagged 47 winners (39%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Berankis | Ellis |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 7 | 19 |
| Avg per match | 7 | 19 |
| 1st in | 21/31 | 59/129 |
| %1st in | 68% | 46% |
| 1st pts | 19/21 | 47/59 |
| %1st pts | 90% | 80% |
| 2nd pts | 9/10 | 31/70 |
| %2nd pts | 90% | 44% |
Berankis made 7 aces . Ellis struck 19 aces . Berankis won 90% points on his first serve. He quite strong on his second serve to win 90% of the points. On the other side, Ellis won 80% of the points on his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 44% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Berankis | Ellis |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 5 | 3 |
| Converted | 5/7 | 3/15 |
| % Converted | 71% | 20% |
| Conceded | 0 | 10 |
| Saved | 0 | 5 |
| % Saved | 0% | 50% |
| Times Broken | 0 | 5 |
The Lithuanian broke his opponent 5 times with a 71% conversion rate. Richard extremely effective on his serve as he has never dropped a single service game after saving 0 break points. Blake broke his opponent 3 times with a 20% conversion rate. Blake conceded his serve 5 times and he saved 50% of the break points that he conceded.
| Berankis | |||
| Q1 Fenty | Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-2 6-1 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 15 | 15 | |
| pts | 56-23 | 56-23 | |
| Total points | 79 | 79 | |
| Winners | 19 | 19 | |
| %Winners | 34% | 34% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 7 | 7 | |
| Double Faults | 0 | 0 | |
| 1st in | 21/31 | 21/31 | |
| % 1st in | 68% | 68% | |
| 1st pts | 19/21 | 19/21 | |
| % 1st pts | 90% | 90% | |
| 2nd pts | 9/10 | 9/10 | |
| % 2nd pts | 90% | 90% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 5 | 5 | |
| Converted | 5/7 | 5/7 | |
| Converted % | 71% | 71% | |
| Conceded | 0 | 0 | |
| Saved | 0/0 | 0 | |
| Saved % | – | 0% | |
| Times Broken | 0 | 0 | |
| Ellis | |||
| Q1 Echargui | Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 3-6 7-65 7-63 | ||
| Tot Set | 3 | 3 | |
| Tot Games | 35 | 35 | |
| pts | 120-123 | 120-123 | |
| Total points | 243 | 243 | |
| Winners | 47 | 47 | |
| %Winners | 39% | 39% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 19 | 19 | |
| Double Faults | 9 | 9 | |
| 1st in | 59/129 | 59/129 | |
| % 1st in | 46% | 46% | |
| 1st pts | 47/59 | 47/59 | |
| % 1st pts | 80% | 80% | |
| 2nd pts | 31/70 | 31/70 | |
| % 2nd pts | 44% | 44% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 3 | 3 | |
| Converted | 3/15 | 3/15 | |
| Converted % | 20% | 20% | |
| Conceded | 10 | 10 | |
| Saved | 5/10 | 5 | |
| Saved % | 50% | 50% | |
| Times Broken | 5 | 5 | |
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