Alexander Bublik and Christopher O Connell will clash against each other in the 2^nd round of the Great Ocean Road Open for the 2^nd time of their career. They are scheduled to compete on Wednesday at 6.30 pm on COURT 14. In the following lines you can find the head to head analysis and the prediction.

Prediction, odds and live streaming

The pick for Tennis Tonic is Alexander Bublik who should win in 3 sets.

As per the initial odds, Alexander Bublik is the pick to win this match.
Alexander Bublik -> 1.53
Christopher O Connell -> 2.58

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This will be the 2^nd time that Alexander Bublik and Christopher O Connell face off. The head to head is 1-0 for O (see full H2H stats), 1-0 on hard.

Alexander Bublik

Ranked no. 45 (career high), Bublik will start his run in Melbourne after he played his last match in Antalya where he lost 2-0 ret. to De Minaur in the final on the 13^th of January.

The Kazakhstani has a 4-1 win-loss record in 2021, 4-1 on hard (See FULL STATS).

The Kazakhstani’s best result of the season was getting to the final in Antalya.

Talking about his overall career, Bublik has an overall 239-156 record. He has a positive 109-65 record on hard.

Last year in Melbourne

Bublik had to surrender in the 1^st round to Jordan Thompson.

Christopher O Connell

Ranked no. 121, Christopher got to the 2^nd round after defeating Dominik Koepfer 5-7 6-4 6-1.

In the 1^st round against Koepfer, Christopher recovered from a 1-set down deficit before winning (5-7 6-4 6-1). During the match O scored 94 points vs Koepfer’s 84. The Australian was extremely aggressive to blast 45 winners.

Talking about serving, O fired 10 aces and he committed only 1 double fault for the entire match. Christopher O Connell lost the serve 3 times and he saved 9 break points. Furthermore, O put 64% of his first serves in, winning 74% (45/61) of the points behind his 1st serve and 43% (15/35) on the 2nd serve. Christopher broke Koepfer 5 times after converting 56% of his break points (5/9).

The Australian has a 1-0 win-loss record in 2021, 1-0 on hard (See FULL STATS).

Last year in Melbourne

The Australian surrendered in the 1^st round to Andrey Rublev.

Head 2 Head

• 0Slam
• 8Main
• 7Chall
• 4Minor

• 0Slam
• 0Main
• 6Chall
• 9Minor

Alexander
Bublik

1:1

Christopher
O Connell

Rank

11

High

11

1Hard1

Rank

115

High

53

Win Loss

Bublik

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O Connell

LLWLLWWLWW

2025 2024 2023

48 - 23

23 - 28

12-10

Hard

19-15

8-6

I Hard

0-0

23-6

Clay

3-7

5-1

Grass

1-6

Tennis Scores in Melbourne

• Cedrik-Marcel StebeStebe – Hugo DellienDellien (6-4 6-4) – See score progression
• Botic Van De ZandschulpVan De Zandschulp – Tristan SchoolkateSchoolkate (6-4 7-5) – See score progression
• Jordan ThompsonThompson – Gianluca MagerMager (4-6 6-4 6-3) – See score progression
• Mikael TorpegaardTorpegaard – Pedro Martinez PorteroMartinez Portero (6-4 7-5) – See score progression
• Carlos Alcaraz GarfiaAlcaraz Garfia – Attila BalazsBalazs (2-2 ret.) – See score progression
• Mario Vilella MartinezVilella Martinez – Yannick HanfmannHanfmann (7-6² 6-4) – See score progression
• Sergiy StakhovskyStakhovsky – Roman SafiullinSafiullin (6-7⁵ 6-4 6-3) – See score progression
• Pablo CuevasCuevas – Pablo AndujarAndujar (6-4 6-2) – See score progression
• Pierre-Hugues HerbertHerbert – Maxime CressyCressy (6-7² 7-6² 7-5) – See score progression
• Matthew EbdenEbden – Federico DelbonisDelbonis (6-3 7-6⁶) – See score progression
• Sam QuerreyQuerrey – Henri LaaksonenLaaksonen (4-6 7-6⁵ 6-0) – See score progression
• Tennys SandgrenSandgren – John-Patrick SmithSmith (6-3 5-7 6-4) – See score progression
• Dane SweenySweeny – Ji Sung NamSung Nam (7-6⁴ 7-5) – See score progression
• Thiago Moura MonteiroMoura Monteiro – Thomas FancuttFancutt (6-4 6-4) – See score progression
• Robin HaaseHaase – Kimmer CoppejansCoppejans (6-4 6-3) – See score progression
• Kamil MajchrzakMajchrzak – Laslo DjereDjere (6-3 6-4) – See score progression
• Max PurcellPurcell – Norbert GombosGombos (6-4 6-4) – See score progression
• Christopher O ConnellO Connell – Dominik KoepferKoepfer (5-7 6-4 6-1) – See score progression
• Aleksandar VukicVukic – Yen-Hsun LuLu (6-4 7-5) – See score progression
• Aljaz BedeneBedene – Yasutaka UchiyamaUchiyama (7-6⁵ 7-6⁵) – See score progression
• Salvatore CarusoCaruso – Andreas SeppiSeppi (7-5 7-6⁵) – See score progression
• Kevin AndersonAnderson – Feliciano LopezLopez (6-4 7-5) – See score progression
• Soon-Woo KwonKwon – Andrej MartinMartin (6-3 6-7⁵ 7-6⁴) – See score progression
• Stefano TravagliaTravaglia – Roberto Carballes BaenaCarballes Baena (2-6 7-5 7-6²) – See score progression
• Matthew EbdenEbden – Federico DelbonisDelbonis (6-3 7-6(6)) – See score progression
• Thiago Moura MonteiroMoura Monteiro – Thomas FancuttFancutt (6-4 6-4) – See score progression
• Sam QuerreyQuerrey – Henri LaaksonenLaaksonen (4-6 7-6(5) 6-0) – See score progression
• Sergiy StakhovskyStakhovsky – Roman SafiullinSafiullin (6-7(5) 6-4 6-3) – See score progression
• Botic Van De ZandschulpVan De Zandschulp – Tristan SchoolkateSchoolkate (6-4 7-5) – See score progression
• Cedrik-Marcel StebeStebe – Hugo DellienDellien (6-4 6-4) – See score progression

• Sam QuerreyQuerrey – Stefano TravagliaTravaglia (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Robin HaaseHaase – Pablo CuevasCuevas (2-1) – H2H and prediction
• Kevin AndersonAnderson – Cedrik-Marcel StebeStebe (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Matthew EbdenEbden – Thiago Moura MonteiroMoura Monteiro (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Aljaz BedeneBedene – Dane SweenySweeny (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• David GoffinGoffin – Carlos Alcaraz GarfiaAlcaraz Garfia (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Salvatore CarusoCaruso – Tennys SandgrenSandgren (1-0) – H2H and prediction
• Jordan ThompsonThompson – Pierre-Hugues HerbertHerbert (1-0) – H2H and prediction
• Botic Van De ZandschulpVan De Zandschulp – Kamil MajchrzakMajchrzak (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Christopher O ConnellO Connell – Alexander BublikBublik (1-0) – H2H and prediction
• Mario Vilella MartinezVilella Martinez – Nikoloz BasilashviliBasilashvili (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Hubert HurkaczHurkacz – Mikael TorpegaardTorpegaard (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Reilly OpelkaOpelka – Sergiy StakhovskyStakhovsky (1-0) – H2H and prediction
• Max PurcellPurcell – Karen KhachanovKhachanov (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Aleksandar VukicVukic – Jannik SinnerSinner (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Miomir KecmanovicKecmanovic – Soon-Woo KwonKwon (0-0) – H2H and prediction

Bublik

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