Ricardas Berankis and Yanki Erel will square off in the 2^nd round of the Abidjan 2 Challenger for the 2^nd time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Thursday at 10:00 am on COURT COFINA NEEMBA. 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 2 sets.

As per the initial odds, Ricardas Berankis is the pick to win this match.
Ricardas Berankis -> 1.25
Yanki Erel -> 3.64

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Prediction and head to head Ricardas Berankis vs. Yanki Erel

This will be the 2^nd time that Ricardas Berankis and Yanki Erel fight against each other. The head to head is 1-0 for Berankis (see full H2H stats), 1-0 on hard.

The last time that they squared off, Berankis won 6-4 7-6(4) in the qualifications in the Guangzhou Challenger back in 2024.

Ricardas Berankis

Ranked no. 294, the Lithuanian reached the 2^nd round after defeating Benoit Paire 7-6(4) ret..

In the 1^st round against Paire, Berankis had a free pass after Paire retired on a 7-6⁴ . scoreline.

Berankis has favorable record in the last 10 years having won 58% of his matches (265-195). 6-3 on hard in 2025. In connection with his performance on the same surface of this event, Berankis has a composed 106-91 record in the last years on hard.

The Lithuanian’s best result of the current season was getting to the final in the Abidjan 1 Challenger.

Berankis has an aggregate 15-6 win-loss record in 2025, 6-3 on hard (See FULL STATS).

Previously in the Abidjan 2 Challenger

Yanki Erel

Ranked no. 616, Erel got to the 2^nd round after defeating Myko Yohann Himad Kouame 6-1 6-3, S D Prajwal Dev 6-1 6-4 and Daniil Glinka 6-4 6-4.

In the 1^st round, Erel had a good straight sets win against Glinka (6-4 6-4). During the match Erel scored 65 points vs Glinka’s 55. Yanki was very aggressive to blast 30 winners.

Talking about serving, Erel made 3 aces and he committed only 3 double faults. Yanki Erel lost the serve once and he saved 2 break points. Furthermore, Erel put 68% of his first serves in, winning 77% (30/39) of the points behind his 1st serve and 50% (9/18) on the 2nd serve. Yanki broke Glinka 3 times after converting 43% of his break points (3/7).

The Turk has an aggregate 8-4 win-loss record in 2025, 5-3 on hard (See FULL STATS).

H2H Performance in the tournament

Matches, sets, games and points

Points	Berankis	Erel
Match played	1	3
Tot Set	2	6
Tot Games	13	53
Pts	52-48	190-141
Total Points	100	331
Winners	18	79
%Winners	35%	42%

Berankis played 1 match while Erel competed in 3 matches. Erel started his run from the qualifications while Berankis had a direct access to the main draw. Both players have not lost a single set in this event so far. Berankis has played 4 set(s) less than Erel (2 vs 6). Therefore, Berankis played 40 games less than Erel. The Lithuanian scored 18 winners (35% of the total points). On the other side, Erel struck 79 winners (42%).

Serve Performance

Serve	Berankis	Erel
Aces	4	15
Avg per match	4	5
1st in	25/48	100/161
%1st in	52%	62%
1st pts	18/25	79/100
%1st pts	72%	79%
2nd pts	14/23	29/61
%2nd pts	61%	48%

Berankis blasted 4 aces . Erel struck 15 aces (5 per match). Berankis won 72% points behind his first serve. He was rock solid on his second serve to win 61% of the points. On the other side, Erel won 79% of the points on his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 48% of the points.

How they played the important points

Breaks	Berankis	Erel
Won	0	12
Converted	0/2	12/21
% Converted	0%	57%
Conceded	3	10
Saved	3	7
% Saved	100%	70%
Times Broken	0	3

Richard hasn’t manged yet to break his opponent. He didn’t manage to even clinch a single break point. Richard was rock solid on his serve as he has never surrendered a single service game after saving 3 break points without even conceding a single break point. Yanki broke his opponents 12 times with a 57% conversion rate. Yanki conceded his serve 3 times and he saved 70% of the break points that he conceded.

Berankis
	R1 Paire	Total
Score	7-64 ret.
Tot Set	1	1
Tot Games	13	13
pts	52-48	52-48
Total points	100	100
Winners	18	18
%Winners	35%	35%
SERVE
Aces	4	4
Double Faults	4	4
1st in	25/48	25/48
% 1st in	52%	52%
1st pts	18/25	18/25
% 1st pts	72%	72%
2nd pts	14/23	14/23
% 2nd pts	61%	61%
Breaks
Won	0	0
Converted	0/2	0/2
Converted %	0%	0%
Conceded	3	3
Saved	3/3	3
Saved %	100%	100%
Times Broken	0	0

Erel
	Q1 Yohann Himad Kouame	Q3 D Prajwal Dev	R1 Glinka	Total
Score	6-1 6-3	6-1 6-4	6-4 6-4
Tot Set	2	2	2	6
Tot Games	16	17	20	53
pts	65-45	60-41	65-55	190-141
Total points	110	101	120	331
Winners	21	28	30	79
%Winners	32%	47%	46%	42%
SERVE
Aces	4	8	3	15
Double Faults	5	3	3	11
1st in	25/50	36/54	39/57	100/161
% 1st in	50%	67%	68%	62%
1st pts	21/25	28/36	30/39	79/100
% 1st pts	84%	78%	77%	79%
2nd pts	12/25	8/18	9/18	29/61
% 2nd pts	48%	44%	50%	48%
Breaks
Won	5	4	3	12
Converted	5/9	4/5	3/7	12/21
Converted %	56%	80%	43%	57%
Conceded	3	4	3	10
Saved	2/3	3/4	2/3	7
Saved %	67%	75%	67%	209%
Times Broken	1	1	1	3

Tennis Scores in Abidjan 2 Challenger

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Upcoming matches in the draw

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