Ricardas Berankis - Daniel Masur

Game preview : Welcome to Saint Petersburg Open tournament. One of the richest tournaments in all ATP250 category is very special place for players and people and it isn't all about money, this ATP/WTA event is very bright and colourful in many ways. Today we had a first round and few matches on it, but tomorrow will bring us much more fights. Ričardas Berankis every year competor came here again this year, his opponent is Daniel Masur from Germany playing first time in this event. He already won two matches in Q round.

Let's talk about players :

Ričardas Berankis (177) - Lithuanian player, who mostly plays on hard courts and inside courts. Few past years was really diffucult for him, he was diagnosed with ashtma, also that effected his tennis life and his shape. He lost many matches in past with no real competition, he was devastated. Anyway this year he is playing much better, he won one challenger title, made one final in other challenger. Ričardas is shorter player, but he have a very solid serve, he is also very fast and real figher.

Daniel Masur (296) - German is also struggling this year, he can't compete good enough with better players on challenger level. He lost many matches this year comparing to last year, still he reached a main draw here, that is very good for him. Daniel like to play strong on tennis court, he also have a good serve, he is also fast, but his mistakes on court are terrible and it is main reason why he is loosing so many matches, same goes for Lithuanian.

What to expect ? We can say both players are really simillar in many way's. Ričardas can serve a good serve, but Daniel can do it too. They both makes same mistakes and that is the reason why we can see a 3 sets tomorrow. They are not so confident and solid players to win in this match with result 2-0 or 0-2. Our guess is they will make at least 23 game's.

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