Ricardas Berankis and Yanki Erel will square off in the qualifications of the Guangzhou Challenger for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Monday at 11:00 am on COURT 6. In this post, we analyze their head to head performance and prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Ricardas Berankis who should win in 3 sets.
As per the initial odds, Ricardas Berankis is the pick to win this match.
Ricardas Berankis -> 1.44
Yanki Erel -> 2.66
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Prediction and head to head Ricardas Berankis vs. Yanki Erel
There is no head to head record between Ricardas Berankis and Yanki Erel since this will be the first time that they will fight against each other in the main tour.
Ricardas Berankis
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 22-14 | 12-8 | 0-0 | 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 reached the qualifications after beating Ramkumar Ramanathan 6-2 3-6 6-1.
In the qualifications, Richard defeated Ramanathan (6-2 3-6 6-1). During the match, Berankis scored 81 points vs Ramanathan’s 64. Richard was extremely aggressive to blast 34 winners.
Talking about the service games, Berankis managed to score 10 aces and he committed only 4 double faults. Ricardas Berankis lost the serve twice and he saved 5 break points. Furthermore, Berankis put 61% of his first serves in, winning 77% (34/44) of the points behind his 1st serve and 50% (14/28) on the 2nd serve. Richard broke Ramanathan 5 times after converting 45% of his break points (5/11).
Berankis has good match record in the last 10 years having won 57% of his matches (265-203). 7-4 on hard in 2024. In connection with his performance on the same surface of this tournament, Berankis has an aggregate 104-90 win-loss record in the last years on hard.
The Lithuanian’s best result of the season was getting to the semifinal in the Gwangju Challenger.
The Lithuanian has an overall 17-10 win-loss record in 2024, 7-4 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Guangzhou Challenger
The Lithuanian has never competed in this tournament before.
Yanki Erel
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 16-13 | 12-10 | 0-0 | 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 defeating Fajing Sun 6-3 6-4.
In the qualifications, The Turk had a good straight sets win against Sun (6-3 6-4). During the match Erel scored 66 points vs Sun’s 53. Erel was exceptionally aggressive to blast 26 winners.
About the serving games, Erel bagged 3 aces and he committed only 1 double fault for the entire match. Overall, Yanki Erel was very effective on serve to win 74% (26/35) of his 1st serve and 58% (14/24) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve once. Yanki broke Sun 3 times after converting 38% of his break points (3/8).
Erel’s best result of the current year was reaching the final in M15 Doha.
The Turk has a composed 14-10 win-loss record in 2024, 10-7 on hard (See FULL STATS).
H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Berankis | Erel |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 1 | 1 |
| Tot Set | 3 | 2 |
| Tot Games | 24 | 19 |
| Pts | 81-64 | 66-53 |
| Total Points | 145 | 119 |
| Winners | 34 | 26 |
| %Winners | 42% | 39% |
Both Berankis and Erel played 1 match. Also both players started their run from the qualifications.At the moment, Ricardas Berankis surrendered 1 set while Yanki Erel hasn’t surrendered a set so far. Berankis has played 1 set more than Erel (3 vs 2). Therefore, Berankis played 5 games more than Erel. Richard scored 34 winners (42% of the total points). On the other side, The Turk recorded 26 winners (39%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Berankis | Erel |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 10 | 3 |
| Avg per match | 10 | 3 |
| 1st in | 44/72 | 35/59 |
| %1st in | 61% | 59% |
| 1st pts | 34/44 | 26/35 |
| %1st pts | 77% | 74% |
| 2nd pts | 14/28 | 14/24 |
| %2nd pts | 50% | 58% |
Berankis scored 10 aces . Erel bagged 3 aces . Berankis won 77% points on his first serve. He very solid his second serve to win 50% of the points. On the other side, Erel won 74% of the points on 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 | Erel |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 5 | 3 |
| Converted | 5/11 | 3/8 |
| % Converted | 45% | 38% |
| Conceded | 7 | 4 |
| Saved | 5 | 3 |
| % Saved | 71% | 75% |
| Times Broken | 2 | 1 |
Richard broke his opponent 5 times with a 45% conversion rate. Berankis surrendered his serve twice and he saved 71% of the break points that he conceded. Erel broke his opponent 3 times with a 38% conversion rate. Yanki conceded his serve once and he saved 75% of the break points that he conceded.
| Berankis | |||
| Q1 Ramanathan |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-2 3-6 6-1 | ||
| Tot Set | 3 | 3 | |
| Tot Games | 24 | 24 | |
| pts | 81-64 | 81-64 | |
| Total points | 145 | 145 | |
| Winners | 34 | 34 | |
| %Winners | 42% | 42% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 10 | 10 | |
| Double Faults | 4 | 4 | |
| 1st in | 44/72 | 44/72 | |
| % 1st in | 61% | 61% | |
| 1st pts | 34/44 | 34/44 | |
| % 1st pts | 77% | 77% | |
| 2nd pts | 14/28 | 14/28 | |
| % 2nd pts | 50% | 50% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 5 | 5 | |
| Converted | 5/11 | 5/11 | |
| Converted % | 45% | 45% | |
| Conceded | 7 | 7 | |
| Saved | 5/7 | 5 | |
| Saved % | 71% | 71% | |
| Times Broken | 2 | 2 | |
| Erel | |||
| Q1 Sun |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-3 6-4 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 19 | 19 | |
| pts | 66-53 | 66-53 | |
| Total points | 119 | 119 | |
| Winners | 26 | 26 | |
| %Winners | 39% | 39% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 3 | 3 | |
| Double Faults | 1 | 1 | |
| 1st in | 35/59 | 35/59 | |
| % 1st in | 59% | 59% | |
| 1st pts | 26/35 | 26/35 | |
| % 1st pts | 74% | 74% | |
| 2nd pts | 14/24 | 14/24 | |
| % 2nd pts | 58% | 58% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 3 | 3 | |
| Converted | 3/8 | 3/8 | |
| Converted % | 38% | 38% | |
| Conceded | 4 | 4 | |
| Saved | 3/4 | 3 | |
| Saved % | 75% | 75% | |
| Times Broken | 1 | 1 | |
Head 2 Head
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