Ricardas Berankis - Philip Krajinovic

Moscow round 16 with many interesting unkown or ex good players. Prizes are good and motivation for players is higher and higher. In this round we have lithuanian Richard Berankis who can't find his good tennis and very talented and recently new comer in top100.

Ričardas Berankis (169) - 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 long journey he came back to Russia, where he made one of the biggest win in his career few years ago.

Philip Krajinovič (77) - Many years player from serbia couldn't keep up with good tennis and high rankings, but finally he made it, and now he is where he deserve to be. Philip really like to play on all courts, but he prefers slower courts like clay. 65/20 year balance shows us that he wins more often than looses, but on the other hand he mostly plays on challenger level, so this is ATP. Serbian can hit good serve, he is really fast and can defend good on baseline.

In the end - Maybe Serbian is really good now, but he won two tournaments in a row on clay, now he is playing in ATP tournament after Q round. He can be tired and his opponent Richard will took advantage of it.

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