Ricardas Berankis - Gleb Sakharov

France Challenger tournament - QF rounds, and we have two interesting players here. Lithuanian player Ricardas Berankis ex ATP 50 and Gleb Sakharov in his best ranking so far 153.

Let's talk about players :

Ricardas Berankis (ATP 136) - A best Lithuanian player, but he isn't best for himslef right now, Richardo had best season few years ago when he reached TOP50 its was big achievment and he was prooud of it. Ex junior first racket didn't find himself in mens tennis for a while, but now he is good enough to win one more challenger, he does that every year. Berankis can hit good forehand, make a great return or hit decent serve, but he have one problem he isn't good at net - and every match he is loosing from 5 to 10 points at net, that always demotivates him.

Gleb Sakharov (ATP 153) - Player is not real Frenchman, but he living here for long time, i guess he became French a lot time ago. Gleb is classic challenger draw player, sometimes he is even playing in Futures, but for now he is stable at this level. He have normal serve, pretty good hits, but his tennis skills are not so perceft to reach top100 and he is not young anymorem in my opinion he still can improve, but not so much to be great and that enough for him.

In the end - Lithuanian is better player and he is going to win this match so far i know, but Gleb won't give up easily, he will take at least on set even if he aint so good player, but he is defending his home court and that must help him.

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