Reilly Opelka and Jordan Thompson will play each other in the 2nd round of the Sydney Tennis Classic for the 2nd time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Wednesday at 4:00 pm on KEN ROSEWALL ARENA. In the following paragraphs, you can find the head to head analysis and prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Reilly Opelka who should win in 3 sets.
As per the initial odds, Reilly Opelka is the pick to win this match.
Reilly Opelka -> 1.58
Jordan Thompson -> 2.45
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Prediction and head to head Reilly Opelka vs. Jordan Thompson
This will be the 2nd time that Reilly Opelka and Jordan Thompson face off. The head to head is 1-0 for Thompson (see full H2H stats), but they have never competed against each other on hard.
The last time that they locked horns, Thompson won 7-5 6-2 in the quarter in the Surbiton Challenger back in 2017.
Reilly Opelka
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 33-28 | 14-11 | 5-6 | 7-6 | 7-5 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 8-10 | 2-8 | 0-0 | 3-1 | 3-1 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 1-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 1-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 21-15 | 10-7 | 6-5 | 4-0 | 1-3 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 21-23 | 14-11 | 6-4 | 1-6 | 0-2 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 25, Reilly will start his run in Sydney after he played his last match in Melbourne where he lost 4-6 7-6(5) 7-6(9) to Cressy in the 2nd round on the 6th of January.
The American has an overall 0-1 win-loss record in 2022, 0-1 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Talking about his overall career, Reilly has an overall 187-147 record. He has a positive 90-75 record on hard.
Previously in Sydney
Previously, his best result was reaching the 2nd round in 2019. See his history.
Jordan Thompson
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 16-18 | 7-10 | 2-3 | 3-2 | 4-3 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 35-24 | 23-13 | 3-5 | 5-3 | 4-3 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 41-28 | 22-15 | 0-3 | 7-4 | 12-6 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 40-26 | 18-14 | 2-6 | 8-1 | 12-5 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 23-25 | 10-11 | 2-6 | 0-1 | 9-5 | 2-2 |
Ranked no. 73, Thompson reached the 2nd round after beating Marcos Giron 6-4 6-2.
In the 1st round, Jordan had a good straight sets win against Giron (6-4 6-2). During the match Thompson scored 58 points vs Giron’s 46. Jordan was extremely aggressive to blast 27 winners.
Talking about serving, Thompson recorded 4 aces and he was pretty steady in conceding no double faults for the entire match. Jordan Thompson lost the serve once and he saved 3 break points. Furthermore, Thompson put 72% of his first serves in, winning 69% (27/39) of the points behind his 1st serve and 53% (8/15) on the 2nd serve. The Australian broke Giron 4 times after converting 67% of his break points (4/6).
The Australian has an overall 2-1 win-loss record in 2022, 2-1 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Head 2 Head
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- Andy MurrayMurray – Viktor DurasovicDurasovic (6-3 6-1) – See score progression
- Sebastian BaezBaez – Christopher O ConnellO Connell (6-2 1-6 7-64) – See score progression
- Dusan LajovicLajovic – Alejandro Davidovich FokinaDavidovich Fokina (7-65 6-4) – See score progression
- Pedro Martinez PorteroMartinez Portero – Alexei PopyrinPopyrin (6-4 6-4) – See score progression
- Maxime CressyCressy – Adrian MannarinoMannarino (6-3 7-5) – See score progression
- Miomir KecmanovicKecmanovic – Stefano TravagliaTravaglia (6-2 6-3) – See score progression
- Fabio FogniniFognini – Daniel AltmaierAltmaier (6-3 7-5) – See score progression
- Jordan ThompsonThompson – Marcos GironGiron (6-4 6-2) – See score progression
- Lorenzo SonegoSonego – Hugo GastonGaston (3-6 6-3 7-5) – See score progression
- David GoffinGoffin – Facundo BagnisBagnis (6-4 6-4) – See score progression
- Miomir KecmanovicKecmanovic – Stefano TravagliaTravaglia (6-2 6-3) – See score progression
- Maxime CressyCressy – Adrian MannarinoMannarino (6-3 7-5) – See score progression
- Dusan LajovicLajovic – Alejandro Davidovich FokinaDavidovich Fokina (7-6(5) 6-4) – See score progression
- Andy MurrayMurray – Viktor DurasovicDurasovic (6-3 6-1) – See score progression
Upcoming matches in the draw
- Andy MurrayMurray – Nikoloz BasilashviliBasilashvili (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Daniel EvansEvans – Pedro Martinez PorteroMartinez Portero (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Federico DelbonisDelbonis – Denis KudlaKudla (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Jiri VeselyVesely – Brandon NakashimaNakashima (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Aslan KaratsevKaratsev – Miomir KecmanovicKecmanovic (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Jordan ThompsonThompson – Reilly OpelkaOpelka (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Sebastian BaezBaez – Lorenzo SonegoSonego (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Maxime CressyCressy – Dusan LajovicLajovic (0-0) – H2H and prediction
