Christopher O Connell topples Ryan Peniston 6-3 5-7 6-2 in the 3rd round in Las Vegas Challenger on Thursday. O Connell will square off with Marcos Giron in the quarter.
Score, report, and key facts
1st set.
There was not much difference between them in this set with the exception of 1 break that Christopher conquered in the 4th game (3-1) before winning the set (6-3).
2nd set.
Peniston conquered the set after recovering from 1 break down. In fact, after dropping his serve in the 5th (2-3) game, The Brit broke back in the 8th (4-4) and in the 12th (7-5) game before winning the set 7-5.
3rd set.
O Connell in this set was too good for Ryan and consequentely he won 6-2. Peniston broke Christopher 3 times in the 3rd (2-1), in the 5th (4-1) and in the 7th (5-2) game. However, O Connell broke his opponent in the 6th (4-2) game, but that didn’t prevent his to conquer the set (6-2).
A crucial moment of the match was when Christopher won 4 consecutive games in the 3rd set to change the scoreline from 0-1 to 4-1.
Statistics
At the end of the match, O Connell scored 101 points vs. the Brit’s 80 points.
Christopher served exceptionally well to win 78% of the points (39/50) behind his first serve, and he won 53% points (18/34) on his second serve. O Connell won this match even if he was struggling in finding the solution in converting his break points as he converted only 36% (5/14). On the other side, Ryan was pretty focused in converting 60% of the break points that he conquered points (3/5). Nonetheless, that was not enough to win the encounter.
After this contest, the head to head between O Connell and Peniston is 1-0.
Next Match: Christopher O Connell vs. Marcos Giron – stats
O Connell will compete against Giron in the quarter.
There is no head to head record between Christopher O Connell and Marcos Giron since this will be the first time that they will play each other at pro level.
Tennis Scores in Las Vegas Challenger
- Steve JohnsonJohnson – Michael RedlickiRedlicki (6-4 6-4) – See score progression
- Taro DanielDaniel – Gonzalo EscobarEscobar (6-3 6-3) – See score progression
- Marcos GironGiron – Michail PervolarakisPervolarakis (6-0 7-64) – See score progression
- Christopher O ConnellO Connell – Ryan PenistonPeniston (6-3 5-7 6-2) – See score progression
- Stefan KozlovKozlov – Alexander RitschardRitschard (5-7 6-4 6-1) – See score progression
- James DuckworthDuckworth – Dmitry PopkoPopko (6-3 6-4) – See score progression
- Vasek PospisilPospisil – Mitchell KruegerKrueger (6-4 6-1) – See score progression
- Ernesto EscobedoEscobedo – Emilio GomezGomez (7-5 3-6 6-3) – See score progression
Upcoming matches
- Vasek PospisilPospisil – Taro DanielDaniel (0-1) – See H2H details
- Steve JohnsonJohnson – Ernesto EscobedoEscobedo (2-0) – See H2H details
- Christopher O ConnellO Connell – Marcos GironGiron (0-0) – See H2H details
- Stefan KozlovKozlov – James DuckworthDuckworth (0-0) – See H2H details
