Richard Berankis - Mirza Basič

Game prievew : Welcome to Orleans challenger tournament, a fun tournament to watch and nice prizes for players to win. 127,000 Euros prize fond and 125 ranking point's for winner. This event is in France and year by year he is growing up and atracting more and more good players. In this match we have two interesting players, players from out top100.

Let's talk about players :

Ričardas Berankis (164) - 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, after that he had a surgery for his back. 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 short player, but he have a very solid serve, he is also very fast and real figher. After lucky tournament in Russia he came here to collect more points.

Mirza Basič (188) - Player from Bosnia and Hercogovina is really tall with strong serve and fast hits from forehand. Mirza never was in top100 and now he is going away from this goal to be in top 100. Why tall player is strugling is hard to say, but this year he have 22/20 win/lose balance. 115/71 indoors balance in his career.

What to expect in this match : Well, players are totally different - Height, weight and style. Lithuanian is really fast, good at fast tennis, Mirza is much slower but he is good at the net, he can aproach net smart, not like Richard who always struggle with it. Anyway they are different players and already met 5 times before, almost all matches went with over 22 game's so for today they both can do it again.

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