Christopher O Connell and Juan Pablo Ficovich will clash against each other in the 2nd round of the Biella Challenger for the 3rd time of their career. They are scheduled to play on Thursday at 3:30 pm on CAMPO 3. Here the head to head stats and the relative prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Juan Pablo Ficovich who should win in 3 sets.
As per the initial odds, Juan Pablo Ficovich is the pick to win this match.
Juan Pablo Ficovich -> 1.72
Christopher O Connell -> 2.00
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Prediction and head to head Christopher O Connell vs. Juan Pablo Ficovich
This will be the 3rd time that Christopher O Connell and Juan Pablo Ficovich play each other. The head to head is 1-1 for O Connell and Pablo Ficovich (see full H2H stats),but they are 1-1 on clay.
Christopher O Connell
Ranked no. 112, O Connell got to the 2nd round after defeating Ramkumar Ramanathan 6-4 6-2.
In the 1st round, Christopher had a good straight sets win against Ramanathan (6-4 6-2). During the match O Connell scored 65 points vs Ramanathan’s 44. The Australian was exceptionally aggressive to blast 26 winners.
Talking about the service games, O Connell made 4 aces and he was quite steady in conceding no double faults. Overall, Christopher O Connell was quite effective on serve to win 76% (26/34) of his 1st serve and 64% (9/14) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve once. The Australian broke Ramanathan 4 times after converting 40% of his break points (4/10).
O Connell has a solid record in the last 8 years having won 64% of his matches (250-143). 1-1 on clay in 2020. In connection with his performance on the same surface of this tournament, O Connell has a 135-64 win-loss record in the last 8 years on clay.
The Australian’s best result of the current year was getting to the semi-finals in the Drummondville Challenger.
The Australian has a 9-10 win-loss record in 2020, 1-1 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Last year in the Biella Challenger
The Australian didn’t play in the Biella Challenger in 2019.
Juan Pablo Ficovich
Ranked no. 206, Juan reached the 2nd round after defeating Guillermo Garcia-Lopez 6-3 6-2.
In the 1st round, Pablo Ficovich had a good straight sets win against Garcia-Lopez (6-3 6-2). During the match Pablo Ficovich scored 69 points vs Garcia-Lopez’s 48. The Argentine was quite aggressive to blast 30 winners.
Talking about serving, Pablo Ficovich made 6 aces and he committed only 1 double fault for the entire match. Overall, Juan Pablo Ficovich was quite efficent on serve to win 75% (30/40) of his 1st serve and 58% (11/19) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve once. Pablo Ficovich broke Garcia-Lopez 4 times after converting 44% of his break points (4/9).
The Argentine’s best result of the current year was reaching the final in the Morelos Challenger.
Pablo Ficovich has a 11-11 win-loss record in 2020, 7-7 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Last year in the Biella Challenger
Pablo Ficovich didn’t play in the Biella Challenger in 2019.
H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | O Connell | Pablo Ficovich |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 1 | 1 |
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 |
| Tot Games | 18 | 17 |
| Pts | 65-44 | 69-48 |
| Total Points | 109 | 117 |
| Winners | 26 | 30 |
| %Winners | 40% | 43% |
Both O Connell and Pablo Ficovich played 1 match. Both players have not conceded a single set in this event so far. Talking about their workload, O Connell and Pablo Ficovich have played the same amount of sets 2. However, O Connell played 1 game more than Pablo Ficovich. Christopher scored 26 winners (40% of the total points). On the other side, Pablo Ficovich managed to score 30 winners (43%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | O Connell | Pablo Ficovich |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 4 | 6 |
| Avg per match | 4 | 6 |
| 1st in | 34/48 | 40/59 |
| %1st in | 71% | 68% |
| 1st pts | 26/34 | 30/40 |
| %1st pts | 76% | 75% |
| 2nd pts | 9/14 | 11/19 |
| %2nd pts | 64% | 58% |
O Connell blasted 4 aces . Pablo Ficovich managed to score 6 aces . O Connell won 76% points on his first serve. He pretty effective on his second serve to win 64% of the points. On the other side, Pablo Ficovich won 75% of the points on his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 58% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | O Connell | Pablo Ficovich |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 4 | 4 |
| Converted | 4/10 | 4/9 |
| % Converted | 40% | 44% |
| Conceded | 2 | 7 |
| Saved | 1 | 6 |
| % Saved | 50% | 86% |
| Times Broken | 1 | 1 |
The Australian broke his opponent 4 times with a 40% conversion rate. Christopher conceded his serve once and he saved 50% of the break points that he conceded. The Argentine broke his opponent 4 times with a 44% conversion rate. Juan conceded his serve once and he saved 86% of the break points that he conceded.
| O Connell | |||
| R1 Ramanathan |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-4 6-2 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 18 | 18 | |
| pts | 65-44 | 65-44 | |
| Total points | 109 | 109 | |
| Winners | 26 | 26 | |
| %Winners | 40% | 40% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 4 | 4 | |
| Double Faults | 0 | 0 | |
| 1st in | 34/48 | 34/48 | |
| % 1st in | 71% | 71% | |
| 1st pts | 26/34 | 26/34 | |
| % 1st pts | 76% | 76% | |
| 2nd pts | 9/14 | 9/14 | |
| % 2nd pts | 64% | 64% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 4 | 4 | |
| Converted | 4/10 | 4/10 | |
| Converted % | 40% | 40% | |
| Conceded | 2 | 2 | |
| Saved | 1/2 | 1 | |
| Saved % | 50% | 50% | |
| Times Broken | 1 | 1 | |
| Pablo Ficovich | |||
| R1 Garcia-Lopez |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-3 6-2 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 17 | 17 | |
| pts | 69-48 | 69-48 | |
| Total points | 117 | 117 | |
| Winners | 30 | 30 | |
| %Winners | 43% | 43% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 6 | 6 | |
| Double Faults | 1 | 1 | |
| 1st in | 40/59 | 40/59 | |
| % 1st in | 68% | 68% | |
| 1st pts | 30/40 | 30/40 | |
| % 1st pts | 75% | 75% | |
| 2nd pts | 11/19 | 11/19 | |
| % 2nd pts | 58% | 58% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 4 | 4 | |
| Converted | 4/9 | 4/9 | |
| Converted % | 44% | 44% | |
| Conceded | 7 | 7 | |
| Saved | 6/7 | 6 | |
| Saved % | 86% | 86% | |
| Times Broken | 1 | 1 | |
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