Nino Serdarusic and Yanki Erel will face off in the qualifications of the Zagreb Challenger for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Monday at 10:30 am on CENTER COURT. In this post, we analyze their head to head performance and prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Nino Serdarusic who should win in 3 sets.
As per the initial odds, Nino Serdarusic is the pick to win this match.
Nino Serdarusic -> 1.44
Yanki Erel -> 2.66
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Prediction and head to head Nino Serdarusic vs. Yanki Erel
There is no head to head record between Nino Serdarusic and Yanki Erel since this will be the first time that they will square off in the main tour.
Nino Serdarusic
14 - 11win/loss
590
167
LLLWLWLLLW | Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 20-24 | 1-2 | 19-21 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 30-33 | 0-4 | 26-23 | 4-6 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 27-34 | 6-6 | 17-20 | 4-7 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 26-33 | 0-0 | 23-25 | 3-8 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 17-14 | 3-2 | 6-5 | 8-7 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 358, the Croatian got to the qualifications after beating Robert Strombachs 6-3 6-4.
In the qualifications, The Croatian had a good straight sets win against Strombachs (6-3 6-4). During the match, Serdarusic scored 61 points vs Strombachs’s 51. Serdarusic was exceptionally aggressive to blast 25 winners.
Talking about the service games, Serdarusic recorded 5 aces and he committed only 1 double fault. Overall, Nino Serdarusic was pretty efficient on serve to win 71% (25/35) of his 1st serve and 67% (12/18) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve once. Serdarusic broke Strombachs 3 times after converting 50% of his break points (3/6).
Serdarusic has positive match record in the last 10 years having won 55% of his matches (341-281). 12-8 on clay in 2024. In connection with his performance on the same surface of this tournament, Serdarusic has an aggregate 291-199 match record in the last years on clay.
Nino’s best result of the current season was getting to the final in M25 Santa Margherita di Pula.
Nino has a compiled 13-11 win-loss record in 2024, 12-8 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Zagreb Challenger
Yanki Erel
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 35-28 | 27-20 | 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. 390, Erel reached the qualifications after beating Domagoj Biljesko 6-4 6-2.
In the qualifications, Erel had a good straight sets win against Biljesko (6-4 6-2). During the match Erel scored 72 points vs Biljesko’s 55. The Turk was very aggressive to blast 29 winners.
Talking about serving, Erel managed to score 3 aces and he committed only 4 double faults. Overall, Yanki Erel was quite efficient on serve to win 76% (29/38) of his 1st serve and 52% (11/21) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve once. Yanki broke Biljesko 4 times after converting 44% of his break points (4/9).
The Turk’s best result of the current year was getting to the final in M15 Doha.
Yanki has an aggregate 17-13 win-loss record in 2024, 1-0 on clay (See FULL STATS).
H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Serdarusic | Erel |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 1 | 1 |
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 |
| Tot Games | 19 | 18 |
| Pts | 61-51 | 72-55 |
| Total Points | 112 | 127 |
| Winners | 25 | 29 |
| %Winners | 41% | 40% |
Both Serdarusic and Erel played 1 match. Also both players started their run from the qualifications.Both players have not surrendered a single set in this event so far. Talking about their workload, Serdarusic and Erel have played the same amount of sets 2. However, Serdarusic played 1 game more than Erel. The Croatian scored 25 winners (41% of the total points). On the other side, Yanki managed to score 29 winners (40%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Serdarusic | Erel |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 5 | 3 |
| Avg per match | 5 | 3 |
| 1st in | 35/53 | 38/59 |
| %1st in | 66% | 64% |
| 1st pts | 25/35 | 29/38 |
| %1st pts | 71% | 76% |
| 2nd pts | 12/18 | 11/21 |
| %2nd pts | 67% | 52% |
Serdarusic bagged 5 aces . Erel scored 3 aces . Serdarusic won 71% points behind his first serve. He extremely effective on his second serve to win 67% of the points. On the other side, Erel won 76% of the points behind his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 52% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Serdarusic | Erel |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 3 | 4 |
| Converted | 3/6 | 4/9 |
| % Converted | 50% | 44% |
| Conceded | 1 | 6 |
| Saved | 0 | 5 |
| % Saved | 0% | 83% |
| Times Broken | 1 | 1 |
Serdarusic broke his opponent 3 times with a 50% conversion rate. Serdarusic lost his serve once and he saved 0% of the break points that he conceded. The Turk broke his opponent 4 times with a 44% conversion rate. Erel conceded his serve once and he saved 83% of the break points that he conceded.
| Serdarusic | |||
| Q1 Strombachs |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-3 6-4 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 19 | 19 | |
| pts | 61-51 | 61-51 | |
| Total points | 112 | 112 | |
| Winners | 25 | 25 | |
| %Winners | 41% | 41% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 5 | 5 | |
| Double Faults | 1 | 1 | |
| 1st in | 35/53 | 35/53 | |
| % 1st in | 66% | 66% | |
| 1st pts | 25/35 | 25/35 | |
| % 1st pts | 71% | 71% | |
| 2nd pts | 12/18 | 12/18 | |
| % 2nd pts | 67% | 67% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 3 | 3 | |
| Converted | 3/6 | 3/6 | |
| Converted % | 50% | 50% | |
| Conceded | 1 | 1 | |
| Saved | 0/1 | 0 | |
| Saved % | 0% | 0% | |
| Times Broken | 1 | 1 | |
| Erel | |||
| Q1 Biljesko |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-4 6-2 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 18 | 18 | |
| pts | 72-55 | 72-55 | |
| Total points | 127 | 127 | |
| Winners | 29 | 29 | |
| %Winners | 40% | 40% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 3 | 3 | |
| Double Faults | 4 | 4 | |
| 1st in | 38/59 | 38/59 | |
| % 1st in | 64% | 64% | |
| 1st pts | 29/38 | 29/38 | |
| % 1st pts | 76% | 76% | |
| 2nd pts | 11/21 | 11/21 | |
| % 2nd pts | 52% | 52% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 4 | 4 | |
| Converted | 4/9 | 4/9 | |
| Converted % | 44% | 44% | |
| Conceded | 6 | 6 | |
| Saved | 5/6 | 5 | |
| Saved % | 83% | 83% | |
| Times Broken | 1 | 1 | |
Head 2 Head
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