Alex Molcan and Christopher O Connell will clash against each other in the 1st round of the Qatar ExxonMobil Open for the 2nd time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Monday at 2:30 pm on CENTRE COURT. 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 Christopher O Connell who should win in 3 sets.
As per the initial odds, Christopher O Connell is the pick to win this match.
Christopher O Connell -> 1.727
Alex Molcan -> 2.16
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Prediction and head to head Alex Molcan vs. Christopher O Connell
This will be the 2nd time that Alex Molcan and Christopher O Connell clash against each other. The head to head is 1-0 for Molcan (see full H2H stats), but they have never competed against each other on hard.
The last time that they locked horns, Molcan won 6-3 5-7 6-3 in the qualifications in Hamburg back in 2021.
Alex Molcan
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 47-15 | 7-3 | 38-10 | 2-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 13-17 | 3-5 | 10-11 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 26-27 | 10-8 | 13-13 | 3-5 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 29-24 | 7-8 | 18-9 | 1-4 | 3-3 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 65-24 | 8-3 | 42-14 | 13-6 | 2-1 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 72 (career-high), Molcan will start his run in Doha after he played his last match in Montpellier where he lost 7-6(5) 6-0 to Dzumhur in the 1st round on the 1st of February.
Molcan has a compiled 3-3 win-loss record in 2022, 3-2 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Talking about his overall career, The Slovakian has an overall 202-119 record. He has a positive 52-26 record on hard.
Previously in Doha
Alex has never competed in this tournament before.
Christopher O Connell
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 23-28 | 19-15 | 3-7 | 0-0 | 1-6 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 28-26 | 23-16 | 2-4 | 3-5 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 38-34 | 19-18 | 11-9 | 4-3 | 4-4 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 50-25 | 30-16 | 12-5 | 3-1 | 5-3 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 22-16 | 14-9 | 3-3 | 1-1 | 4-3 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 148, Christopher reached the 1st round after defeating Mubarak Shannan Zayid 6-2 6-1 and Pavel Kotov 6-2 6-2.
In the qualifications, Christopher had a good straight sets win against Kotov (6-2 6-2). During the match O scored 62 points vs Kotov’s 41. Christopher was extremely aggressive to blast 24 winners.
About the serving games, O scored 2 aces and he committed only 1 double fault for the entire match. Overall, Christopher O Connell was extremely efficient on serve to win 73% (24/33) of his 1st serve and 63% (12/19) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve once. The Australian broke Kotov 5 times after converting 56% of his break points (5/9).
Overall Performance in this tournament
O started his run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, he hasn’t conceded yet a set in this competition to win 62% of the points he played.
Christopher has an overall 6-3 win-loss record in 2022, 6-3 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in Doha
Previously, his best result was reaching the 1st round in 2021. See his history.
Head 2 Head
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- Christopher EubanksEubanks – Elias YmerYmer (7-66 6-4) – See score progression
- Thomas FabbianoFabbiano – Joao SousaSousa (7-66 6-4) – See score progression
- Christopher O ConnellO Connell – Pavel KotovKotov (6-2 6-2) – See score progression
- Jozef KovalikKovalik – Illya MarchenkoMarchenko (6-1 7-68) – See score progression
Upcoming matches in the draw
- Thomas FabbianoFabbiano – Botic Van De ZandschulpVan De Zandschulp (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Malek JaziriJaziri – Alejandro Davidovich FokinaDavidovich Fokina (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Daniel EvansEvans – Egor GerasimovGerasimov (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- David GoffinGoffin – Emil RuusuvuoriRuusuvuori (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Jozef KovalikKovalik – Alexander BublikBublik (1-1) – H2H and prediction
- Marton FucsovicsFucsovics – Lloyd HarrisHarris (1-2) – H2H and prediction
- Jiri VeselyVesely – Arthur RinderknechRinderknech (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Taro DanielDaniel – Andy MurrayMurray (1-1) – H2H and prediction
- Karen KhachanovKhachanov – Mackenzie McdonaldMcdonald (2-0) – H2H and prediction
- Christopher EubanksEubanks – Soon-Woo KwonKwon (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Alex MolcanMolcan – Christopher O ConnellO Connell (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Lorenzo MusettiMusetti – Elias YmerYmer (0-0) – H2H and prediction
