Edas Butvilas and Alex Rybakov will face off in the qualifications of the Charleston Challenger for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Monday at 12:30 pm 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 Edas Butvilas who should win in 3 sets.
As per the initial odds, Edas Butvilas is the pick to win this match.
Edas Butvilas -> 1.48
Alex Rybakov -> 2.5
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Prediction and head to head Edas Butvilas vs. Alex Rybakov
There is no head to head record between Edas Butvilas and Alex Rybakov since this will be the first time that they will clash against each other in the main tour.
Edas Butvilas
47 - 20win/loss
253
251
WLLLWLWWWW | Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 54-24 | 28-12 | 26-9 | 0-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 32-23 | 14-9 | 9-9 | 9-4 | 0-0 | 0-1 |
| 2022 | 4-10 | 1-2 | 2-4 | 1-3 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 1-5 | 0-1 | 1-4 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 365 (career-high), the Lithuanian reached the qualifications after defeating Sawyer Severance 6-1 6-0.
In the qualifications, The Lithuanian had a good straight sets win against Severance (6-1 6-0). During the match, Butvilas scored 53 points vs Severance’s 20. Butvilas was very aggressive to blast 18 winners.
Regarding the service games, Butvilas struck 4 aces and he committed only 2 double faults. Edas Butvilas lost the serve once and he saved 1 break points. Furthermore, Butvilas put 50% of his first serves in, winning 95% (18/19) of the points behind his 1st serve and 47% (9/19) on the 2nd serve. Butvilas broke Severance 6 times after converting 67% of his break points (6/9).
Butvilas has a solid win-loss record in the last 4 years having won 60% of his matches (84-57). 22-9 on hard in 2024. Talking about his performance on the same surface of this event, Butvilas has a composed37-21 match record in the last 4 years on hard.
The Lithuanian’s best result of the season was getting to the final in M15 Heraklion,M15 Kursumlijska Banja,M25 La Nucia and Nova.
Butvilas has a compiled 47-19 win-loss record in 2024, 22-9 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Charleston Challenger
Butvilas has never competed in this tournament before.
Alex Rybakov
20 - 14win/loss
575
289
LLWWWLWWLW | Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 29-20 | 11-8 | 12-8 | 6-4 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 22-25 | 5-8 | 7-9 | 10-8 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 30-23 | 5-7 | 20-12 | 5-4 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 39-26 | 4-4 | 35-22 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 24-9 | 12-5 | 9-3 | 3-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 628, the American got to the qualifications after defeating Luke Saville 6-3 6-4.
In the qualifications, Alex had a good straight sets win against Saville (6-3 6-4). During the match Rybakov scored 68 points vs Saville’s 53. Rybakov was quite aggressive to blast 27 winners.
Talking about serving, Rybakov struck 6 aces and he committed only 4 double faults. Overall, Alex Rybakov was pretty effective on serve to win 82% (27/33) of his 1st serve and 55% (12/22) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve once. Rybakov broke Saville 3 times after converting 33% of his break points (3/9).
Rybakov’s best result of the current year was reaching the final in M15 Sunrise.
Alex has a composed 19-14 win-loss record in 2024, 7-5 on hard (See FULL STATS).
H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Butvilas | Rybakov |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 1 | 1 |
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 |
| Tot Games | 13 | 19 |
| Pts | 53-20 | 68-53 |
| Total Points | 73 | 121 |
| Winners | 18 | 27 |
| %Winners | 34% | 40% |
Both Butvilas and Rybakov 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, Butvilas and Rybakov have played the same amount of sets 2. However, Butvilas played 6 games less than Rybakov. Butvilas scored 18 winners (34% of the total points). On the other side, Rybakov fired 27 winners (40%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Butvilas | Rybakov |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 4 | 6 |
| Avg per match | 4 | 6 |
| 1st in | 19/38 | 33/55 |
| %1st in | 50% | 60% |
| 1st pts | 18/19 | 27/33 |
| %1st pts | 95% | 82% |
| 2nd pts | 9/19 | 12/22 |
| %2nd pts | 47% | 55% |
Butvilas fired 4 aces . Rybakov blasted 6 aces . Butvilas won 95% points on his first serve. He quite strong on his second serve to win 47% of the points. On the other side, Rybakov won 82% of the points on his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 55% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Butvilas | Rybakov |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 6 | 3 |
| Converted | 6/9 | 3/9 |
| % Converted | 67% | 33% |
| Conceded | 2 | 2 |
| Saved | 1 | 1 |
| % Saved | 50% | 50% |
| Times Broken | 1 | 1 |
The Lithuanian broke his opponent 6 times with a 67% conversion rate. The Lithuanian conceded his serve once and he saved 50% of the break points that he conceded. Rybakov broke his opponent 3 times with a 33% conversion rate. Alex conceded his serve once and he saved 50% of the break points that he conceded.
| Butvilas | |||
| Q1 Severance |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-1 6-0 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 13 | 13 | |
| pts | 53-20 | 53-20 | |
| Total points | 73 | 73 | |
| Winners | 18 | 18 | |
| %Winners | 34% | 34% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 4 | 4 | |
| Double Faults | 2 | 2 | |
| 1st in | 19/38 | 19/38 | |
| % 1st in | 50% | 50% | |
| 1st pts | 18/19 | 18/19 | |
| % 1st pts | 95% | 95% | |
| 2nd pts | 9/19 | 9/19 | |
| % 2nd pts | 47% | 47% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 6 | 6 | |
| Converted | 6/9 | 6/9 | |
| Converted % | 67% | 67% | |
| Conceded | 2 | 2 | |
| Saved | 1/2 | 1 | |
| Saved % | 50% | 50% | |
| Times Broken | 1 | 1 | |
| Rybakov | |||
| Q1 Saville |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-3 6-4 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 19 | 19 | |
| pts | 68-53 | 68-53 | |
| Total points | 121 | 121 | |
| Winners | 27 | 27 | |
| %Winners | 40% | 40% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 6 | 6 | |
| Double Faults | 4 | 4 | |
| 1st in | 33/55 | 33/55 | |
| % 1st in | 60% | 60% | |
| 1st pts | 27/33 | 27/33 | |
| % 1st pts | 82% | 82% | |
| 2nd pts | 12/22 | 12/22 | |
| % 2nd pts | 55% | 55% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 3 | 3 | |
| Converted | 3/9 | 3/9 | |
| Converted % | 33% | 33% | |
| Conceded | 2 | 2 | |
| Saved | 1/2 | 1 | |
| Saved % | 50% | 50% | |
| Times Broken | 1 | 1 | |
Head 2 Head
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