Ramkumar Ramanathan and Kris Van Wyk will clash against each other in the 2^nd round of the Shenzhen Challenger for the 1^st time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Thursday at 1:00 pm on COURT 3. In the following paragraphs, you can find the head to head analysis and prediction.

Prediction, odds and live streaming

The pick for Tennis Tonic is Ramkumar Ramanathan who should win in 3 sets.

As per the initial odds, Ramkumar Ramanathan is the pick to win this match.
Ramkumar Ramanathan -> 1.49
Kris Van Wyk -> 2.48

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Prediction and head to head Ramkumar Ramanathan vs. Kris Van Wyk

There is no head to head record between Ramkumar Ramanathan and Kris Van Wyk since this will be the first time that they will play each other in the main tour.

Ramkumar Ramanathan

Ranked no. 279, the Indian reached the 2^nd round after defeating Ugo Blanchet 7-6(4) 6-7(6) 7-6(8).

In the 1^st round, The Indian defeated Blanchet (7-6⁴ 6-7⁶ 7-6⁸). During the match, Ramanathan scored 115 points vs Blanchet’s 113. The Indian was extremely aggressive to blast 58 winners.

Talking about the service games, Ramanathan overwhelmed his opponent with 25 aces and he committed only 6 double faults. Ramkumar Ramanathan was extremely effective on serve to win 84% (58/69) of his 1st serve and 67% (31/46) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match.

Ramanathan has winning win-loss record in the last 10 years having won 52% of his matches (324-296). 22-20 on hard in 2024. Talking about his performance on the same surface of this tournament, Ramanathan has a compiled 201-157 record in the last years on hard.

The Indian’s best result of the current season was getting to the final in M25 New Delhi and M15 Chandigarh.

Ramanathan has an overall 23-22 win-loss record in 2024, 22-20 on hard (See FULL STATS).

Previously in the Shenzhen Challenger

Kris Van Wyk

Ranked no. 385, the South African got to the 2^nd round after beating Mitsuki Wei Kang Leong 7-6(4) 2-6 7-5.

In the 1^st round, The South African defeated Wei Kang Leong (7-6⁴ 2-6 7-5).During the match Van scored less points (4) than Wei Kang Leong. In fact, the world no. 279 won 103 points vs Wei Kang Leong’s. That means that Van was more focused during the important points. Kris was very aggressive to blast 37 winners.

Talking about serving, Van managed to score 4 aces and he committed only 7 double faults. Kris Van Wyk lost the serve 7 times and he saved 5 break points. Furthermore, Van put 54% of his first serves in, winning 63% (37/59) of the points behind his 1st serve and 46% (23/50) on the 2nd serve. Van broke Wei Kang Leong 6 times after converting 75% of his break points (6/8).

Van’s best result of the season was reaching the final in M15 Sharm ElSheikh,M15 Monastir,M15 Hillcrest and M25 Guiyang.

Kris has an overall 54-31 win-loss record in 2024, 54-31 on hard (See FULL STATS).

H2H Performance in the tournament

Matches, sets, games and points

Points	Ramanathan	Van
Match played	1	1
Tot Set	3	3
Tot Games	39	33
Pts	115-113	103-107
Total Points	228	210
Winners	58	37
%Winners	50%	36%

Both Ramanathan and Van played 1 match. Both players lost a set in the event. Ramkumar Ramanathan surrendered 1 set, while Kris Van Wyk conceded 1 set. Talking about their workload, Ramanathan and Van have played the same amount of sets 3. However, Ramanathan played 6 games more than Van. Ramkumar scored 58 winners (50% of the total points). On the other side, Kris managed to score 37 winners (36%).

Serve Performance

Serve	Ramanathan	Van
Aces	25	4
Avg per match	25	4
1st in	69/115	59/109
%1st in	60%	54%
1st pts	58/69	37/59
%1st pts	84%	63%
2nd pts	31/46	23/50
%2nd pts	67%	46%

Ramanathan bagged 25 aces . Van scored 4 aces . Ramanathan won 84% points on his first serve. He very solid his second serve to win 67% of the points. On the other side, Van won 63% of the points on his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 46% of the points.

How they played the important points

Breaks	Ramanathan	Van
Won	0	6
Converted	0/1	6/8
% Converted	0%	75%
Conceded	0	12
Saved	0	5
% Saved	0%	42%
Times Broken	0	7

The Indian hasn’t manged yet to break his opponent. He didn’t manage to even clinch a single break point. The Indian pretty solid on his serve as he has never lost a single service game after saving 0 break points without even conceding a single break point. Kris broke his opponent 6 times with a 75% conversion rate. Van conceded his serve 7 times and he saved 42% of the break points that he conceded.

Ramanathan
	R1 Blanchet	Total
Score	7-64 6-76 7-68
Tot Set	3	3
Tot Games	39	39
pts	115-113	115-113
Total points	228	228
Winners	58	58
%Winners	50%	50%
SERVE
Aces	25	25
Double Faults	6	6
1st in	69/115	69/115
% 1st in	60%	60%
1st pts	58/69	58/69
% 1st pts	84%	84%
2nd pts	31/46	31/46
% 2nd pts	67%	67%
Breaks
Won	0	0
Converted	0/1	0/1
Converted %	0%	0%
Conceded	0	0
Saved	0/0	0
Saved %	–	0%
Times Broken	0	0

Van
	R1 Wei Kang Leong	Total
Score	7-64 2-6 7-5
Tot Set	3	3
Tot Games	33	33
pts	103-107	103-107
Total points	210	210
Winners	37	37
%Winners	36%	36%
SERVE
Aces	4	4
Double Faults	7	7
1st in	59/109	59/109
% 1st in	54%	54%
1st pts	37/59	37/59
% 1st pts	63%	63%
2nd pts	23/50	23/50
% 2nd pts	46%	46%
Breaks
Won	6	6
Converted	6/8	6/8
Converted %	75%	75%
Conceded	12	12
Saved	5/12	5
Saved %	42%	42%
Times Broken	7	7

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• Saba PurtseladzePurtseladze – Billy HarrisHarris (6-4 7-6⁵) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Adam WaltonWalton – Fajing SunSun (7-6⁵ 7-5) – Stats, scores, rankings
• James McCabeMcCabe – Linang XiaoXiao (6-3 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings

Upcoming matches in the draw

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• Kris Van WykVan Wyk – Ramkumar RamanathanRamanathan (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Arthur WeberWeber – Rigele TeTe (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Saba PurtseladzePurtseladze – Yan BaiBai (0-0) – H2H and prediction