Vasek Pospisil and Christopher O Connell will square off in the 1st round of the Qatar ExxonMobil Open for the 3rd time of their career. They are scheduled to play on Tuesday at 2:30 pm on COURT A. Here you can find the head to head analysis and the prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Vasek Pospisil who should win in 3 sets.
Vasek Pospisil -> 1.65
Christopher O Connell -> 2.3
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Prediction and head to head Vasek Pospisil vs. Christopher O Connell
This will be the 3rd time that Vasek Pospisil and Christopher O Connell face off. The head to head is 2-0 for Pospisil (see full H2H stats), 1-0 on hard.
The last time that they competed against each other, Pospisil won 6-3 6-2 in the 3rd round in the Charlottesville Challenger back in 2019.
Vasek Pospisil
Ranked no. 67, Vasek will start his run in Doha after he played his last match at the Australian Open where he lost 6-2 6-2 6-4 to Medvedev in the 1st round on the 9th of February.
Pospisil has a 0-1 win-loss record in 2021, 0-1 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Talking about his overall career, Pospisil has an overall 447-323 record. He has a positive 245-160 record on hard.
Previously in Doha
Previously, his best result was reaching the 1st round in 2017. See his history.
Christopher O Connell
Ranked no. 122, Christopher reached the 1st round after defeating Thomas Fabbiano 6-3 7-67.
In the qualifications, Christopher had a good straight sets win against Fabbiano (6-3 7-67). During the match O scored 71 points vs Fabbiano’s 64. Christopher was pretty aggressive to blast 35 winners.
Talking about serving, O recorded 3 aces and he committed only 1 double fault for the entire match. Christopher O Connell lost the serve twice and he saved 1 break points. Furthermore, O put 68% of his first serves in, winning 74% (35/47) of the points behind his 1st serve and 50% (11/22) on the 2nd serve. The Australian was clinical in his return game without wasting any break point and break Fabbiano 3 times.
Christopher has a 3-2 win-loss record in 2021, 3-2 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Tennis Scores in Doha
- Alexander BublikBublik – Ramkumar RamanathanRamanathan (6-4 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Richard GasquetGasquet – Blaz RolaRola (6-4 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Nikoloz BasilashviliBasilashvili – John MillmanMillman (2-6 6-4 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Roberto Bautista AgutBautista Agut – Reilly OpelkaOpelka (4-6 6-3 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Taylor Harry FritzHarry Fritz – Lorenzo SonegoSonego (7-65 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Aslan KaratsevKaratsev – Mubarak Shannan ZayidShannan Zayid (6-4 6-0) – Stats, scores, rankings
Upcoming matches in the draw
- Jeremy ChardyChardy – Daniel EvansEvans (3-1) – H2H and prediction
- David GoffinGoffin – Filip KrajinovicKrajinovic (3-2) – H2H and prediction
- Dusan LajovicLajovic – Marton FucsovicsFucsovics (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Dominic ThiemThiem – Aslan KaratsevKaratsev (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Alexander BublikBublik – Roberto Bautista AgutBautista Agut (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Christopher O ConnellO Connell – Vasek PospisilPospisil (0-2) – H2H and prediction
- Borna CoricCoric – Malek JaziriJaziri (2-0) – H2H and prediction
- Andrey RublevRublev – Richard GasquetGasquet (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Lloyd HarrisHarris – Stan WawrinkaWawrinka (0-0) – H2H and prediction