Antoine Escoffier and Ricardas Berankis will fight against each other in the 2nd round of the Taipei Challenger for the 2nd time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Wednesday at 3:30 pm on CENTER COURT. In the following lines 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 3 sets.
As per the initial odds, Ricardas Berankis is the pick to win this match.
Ricardas Berankis -> 1.64
Antoine Escoffier -> 2.17
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Prediction and head to head Antoine Escoffier vs. Ricardas Berankis
This will be the 2nd time that Antoine Escoffier and Ricardas Berankis clash against each other. The head to head is 1-0 for Berankis (see full H2H stats), but they have never played each other on hard.
The last time that they played, Berankis won 2-6 6-3 6-2 in the quarter in the St. Brieuc Challenger back in 2023.
Antoine Escoffier
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 21-19 | 13-8 | 0-1 | 7-9 | 1-1 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 40-30 | 21-14 | 1-2 | 17-12 | 1-2 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 44-33 | 12-12 | 0-2 | 31-16 | 1-2 | 0-1 |
| 2021 | 56-26 | 19-8 | 11-8 | 26-10 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 17-6 | 8-1 | 0-0 | 7-5 | 0-0 | 2-0 |
Ranked no. 228, the French player reached the 2nd round after beating James McCabe 6-1 4-6 7-64.
In the 1st round, The French player defeated McCabe (6-1 4-6 7-64). During the match, Escoffier scored 97 points vs McCabe’s 79. Escoffier was pretty aggressive to blast 47 winners.
Talking about the service games, Escoffier recorded 3 aces and he committed only 3 double faults. Overall, Antoine Escoffier was very efficient on serve to win 80% (47/59) of his 1st serve and 55% (11/20) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve twice. Escoffier broke McCabe 4 times after converting 50% of his break points (4/8).
Escoffier has a solid record in the last 10 years having won 61% of his matches (393-247). 3-7 on hard in 2024. In connection with his performance on the same surface of this competition, Escoffier has a compiled 205-123 win-loss record in the last years on hard.
Escoffier’s best result of the year was getting to the semifinal in Balma.
Escoffier has an aggregate 10-16 win-loss record in 2024, 3-7 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Taipei Challenger
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. 324, the Lithuanian reached the 2nd round after defeating Brandon Holt 6-1 6-1.
In the 1st round, Richard had a good straight sets win against Holt (6-1 6-1). During the match Berankis scored 59 points vs Holt’s 28. Berankis was pretty aggressive to blast 17 winners.
Talking about serving, Berankis made 4 aces and he was extremely solid in conceding no double faults for the entire match. Ricardas Berankis was exceptionally efficient on serve to win 85% (17/20) of his 1st serve and 85% (11/13) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. Berankis broke Holt 5 times after converting 42% of his break points (5/12).
Berankis’s best result of the current season was reaching the semifinal in the Gwangju Challenger.
The Lithuanian has an aggregate 21-12 win-loss record in 2024, 11-6 on hard (See FULL STATS).
H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Escoffier | Berankis |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 1 | 1 |
| Tot Set | 3 | 2 |
| Tot Games | 30 | 14 |
| Pts | 97-79 | 59-28 |
| Total Points | 176 | 87 |
| Winners | 47 | 17 |
| %Winners | 48% | 29% |
Both Escoffier and Berankis played 1 match. At the moment, Antoine Escoffier conceded 1 set while Ricardas Berankis hasn’t dropped a set so far. Escoffier has played 1 set more than Berankis (3 vs 2). Therefore, Escoffier played 16 games more than Berankis. The French player scored 47 winners (48% of the total points). On the other side, Berankis managed to score 17 winners (29%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Escoffier | Berankis |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 3 | 4 |
| Avg per match | 3 | 4 |
| 1st in | 59/79 | 20/33 |
| %1st in | 75% | 61% |
| 1st pts | 47/59 | 17/20 |
| %1st pts | 80% | 85% |
| 2nd pts | 11/20 | 11/13 |
| %2nd pts | 55% | 85% |
Escoffier bagged 3 aces . Berankis managed to score 4 aces . Escoffier won 80% points behind his first serve. He extremely effective on his second serve to win 55% of the points. On the other side, Berankis won 85% of the points behind his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 85% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Escoffier | Berankis |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 4 | 5 |
| Converted | 4/8 | 5/12 |
| % Converted | 50% | 42% |
| Conceded | 4 | 0 |
| Saved | 2 | 0 |
| % Saved | 50% | 0% |
| Times Broken | 2 | 0 |
The French player broke his opponent 4 times with a 50% conversion rate. The French player surrendered his serve twice and he saved 50% of the break points that he conceded. Richard broke his opponent 5 times with a 42% conversion rate. Berankis was rock solid on his serve as he has never conceded a single service game after saving 0 break points.
| Escoffier | |||
| R1 McCabe |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-1 4-6 7-64 | ||
| Tot Set | 3 | 3 | |
| Tot Games | 30 | 30 | |
| pts | 97-79 | 97-79 | |
| Total points | 176 | 176 | |
| Winners | 47 | 47 | |
| %Winners | 48% | 48% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 3 | 3 | |
| Double Faults | 3 | 3 | |
| 1st in | 59/79 | 59/79 | |
| % 1st in | 75% | 75% | |
| 1st pts | 47/59 | 47/59 | |
| % 1st pts | 80% | 80% | |
| 2nd pts | 11/20 | 11/20 | |
| % 2nd pts | 55% | 55% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 4 | 4 | |
| Converted | 4/8 | 4/8 | |
| Converted % | 50% | 50% | |
| Conceded | 4 | 4 | |
| Saved | 2/4 | 2 | |
| Saved % | 50% | 50% | |
| Times Broken | 2 | 2 | |
| Berankis | |||
| R1 Holt |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-1 6-1 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 14 | 14 | |
| pts | 59-28 | 59-28 | |
| Total points | 87 | 87 | |
| Winners | 17 | 17 | |
| %Winners | 29% | 29% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 4 | 4 | |
| Double Faults | 0 | 0 | |
| 1st in | 20/33 | 20/33 | |
| % 1st in | 61% | 61% | |
| 1st pts | 17/20 | 17/20 | |
| % 1st pts | 85% | 85% | |
| 2nd pts | 11/13 | 11/13 | |
| % 2nd pts | 85% | 85% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 5 | 5 | |
| Converted | 5/12 | 5/12 | |
| Converted % | 42% | 42% | |
| Conceded | 0 | 0 | |
| Saved | 0/0 | 0 | |
| Saved % | – | 0% | |
| Times Broken | 0 | 0 | |
Head 2 Head
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WWWWWLLLWW Tennis Scores in Taipei Challenger
- Antoine EscoffierEscoffier – James McCabeMcCabe (6-1 4-6 7-64) – See score progression
- Evgeny DonskoyDonskoy – Omar JasikaJasika (6-4 7-68) – See score progression
- Arthur FeryFery – Tung-Lin WuWu (6-1 7-5) – See score progression
- Li TuTu – Philip SekulicSekulic (7-5 6-2) – See score progression
- Rio NoguchiNoguchi – Alafia AyeniAyeni (7-62 6-3) – See score progression
- Adam WaltonWalton – Yuta ShimizuShimizu (7-65 6-0) – See score progression
- Max PurcellPurcell – James Kent TrotterKent Trotter (6-73 6-3 6-2) – See score progression
- Ji Sung NamSung Nam – Yunseong ChungChung (6-4 7-60) – See score progression
- Ramkumar RamanathanRamanathan – Bang Shuo YinShuo Yin (6-4 6-4) – See score progression
- Blake EllisEllis – Tsung-Hao HuangHuang (6-2 6-4) – See score progression
- Ricardas BerankisBerankis – Brandon HoltHolt (6-1 6-1) – See score progression
- Yu Hsiou HsuHsiou Hsu – Yasutaka UchiyamaUchiyama (7-65 6-3) – See score progression
- James DuckworthDuckworth – Mukund SasikumarSasikumar (6-3 6-4) – See score progression
- Illya MarchenkoMarchenko – Hiroki MoriyaMoriya (6-3 7-64) – See score progression
- Remy BertolaBertola – Ray HoHo (6-3 6-1) – See score progression
- Seong Chan HongChan Hong – Moez EcharguiEchargui (7-67 6-2) – See score progression
- Max PurcellPurcell – James Kent TrotterKent Trotter (6-7(3) 6-3 6-2) – See score progression
- Remy BertolaBertola – Ray HoHo (6-3 6-1) – See score progression
- Illya MarchenkoMarchenko – Hiroki MoriyaMoriya (6-3 7-6(4)) – See score progression
- Evgeny DonskoyDonskoy – Omar JasikaJasika (6-4 7-6(8)) – See score progression
- Rio NoguchiNoguchi – Alafia AyeniAyeni (7-6(2) 6-3) – See score progression
- Antoine EscoffierEscoffier – James McCabeMcCabe (6-1 4-6 7-6(4)) – See score progression
- Ricardas BerankisBerankis – Brandon HoltHolt (6-1 6-1) – See score progression
Upcoming matches in the draw
- Illya MarchenkoMarchenko – Evgeny DonskoyDonskoy (5-1) – H2H and prediction
- Antoine EscoffierEscoffier – Richard BerankisBerankis (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Ji Sung NamSung Nam – Adam WaltonWalton (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Li TuTu – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Ramkumar RamanathanRamanathan – James DuckworthDuckworth (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Max PurcellPurcell – Remy BertolaBertola (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Blake EllisEllis – Seong Chan HongChan Hong (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Yu Hsiou HsuHsiou Hsu – Rio NoguchiNoguchi (0-2) – H2H and prediction
