Christopher O Connell and Yuki Bhambri will face off in the qualifications of the Dubai Duty Free Tennis Championships for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Sunday at 2:30 pm on COURT 1. In this post, we analyze their head to head performance and prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Christopher O Connell who should win in 2 sets.
Christopher O Connell -> 1.25
Yuki Bhambri -> 3.95
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Prediction and head to head Christopher O Connell vs. Yuki Bhambri
There is no head to head record between Christopher O Connell and Yuki Bhambri since this will be the first time that they will square off in the main tour.
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, the Australian reached the qualifications after defeating Henri Laaksonen 6-3 7-5.
In the qualifications, O Connell had a good straight sets win against Laaksonen (6-3 7-5). During the match, O Connell scored 64 points vs Laaksonen’s 46. Christopher was pretty aggressive to blast 32 winners.
Talking about the service games, O Connell bagged 10 aces and he committed only 1 double fault. Overall, Christopher O Connell was quite effective on serve to win 89% (32/36) of his 1st serve and 56% (10/18) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve once. Christopher broke Laaksonen 3 times after converting 43% of his break points (3/7).
O Connell has a solid record in the last 10 years having won 64% of his matches (277-157). 7-4 on hard in 2022. Regarding his performance on the same surface of this event, O Connell has a composed 113-73 record in the last years on hard.
O Connell has an overall 7-4 win-loss record in 2022, 7-4 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in Dubai
Yuki Bhambri
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 1-4 | 1-3 | 0-0 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 7-6 | 6-4 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 1-1 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 2-2 | 2-1 | 0-0 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2019 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 669, the Indian reached the qualifications after beating Joao Sousa 6-3 3-6 7-65.
In the qualifications, Yuki defeated Sousa (6-3 3-6 7-65). During the match Bhambri scored 99 points vs Sousa’s 97. The Indian was extremely aggressive to blast 56 winners.
About the serving games, Bhambri fired 7 aces and he committed only 6 double faults. Yuki Bhambri lost the serve once and he saved 6 break points. Furthermore, Bhambri put 73% of his first serves in, winning 79% (56/71) of the points behind his 1st serve and 46% (12/26) on the 2nd serve. Bhambri broke Sousa once after converting 25% of his break points (1/4).
Yuki has a compiled 3-2 win-loss record in 2022, 3-2 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in Dubai
Previously, his best result was reaching the 1st round in 2016 and 2021. See his history.
H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | O Connell | Bhambri |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 1 | 1 |
| Tot Set | 2 | 3 |
| Tot Games | 21 | 31 |
| Pts | 64-46 | 99-97 |
| Total Points | 110 | 196 |
| Winners | 32 | 56 |
| %Winners | 50% | 57% |
Both O Connell and Bhambri played 1 match. Also both players started their run from the qualifications.At the moment, Yuki Bhambri dropped 1 set while Christopher O Connell hasn’t surrendered a set so far. O Connell has played 1 set(s) less than Bhambri (2 vs 3). Therefore, O Connell played 10 games less than Bhambri. The Australian scored 32 winners (50% of the total points). On the other side, Bhambri made 56 winners (57%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | O Connell | Bhambri |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 10 | 7 |
| Avg per match | 10 | 7 |
| 1st in | 36/54 | 71/97 |
| %1st in | 67% | 73% |
| 1st pts | 32/36 | 56/71 |
| %1st pts | 89% | 79% |
| 2nd pts | 10/18 | 12/26 |
| %2nd pts | 56% | 46% |
O Connell struck 10 aces . Bhambri blasted 7 aces . O Connell won 89% points behind his first serve. He very solid his second serve to win 56% of the points. On the other side, Bhambri won 79% of the points behind his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 46% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | O Connell | Bhambri |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 3 | 1 |
| Converted | 3/7 | 1/4 |
| % Converted | 43% | 25% |
| Conceded | 1 | 7 |
| Saved | 0 | 6 |
| % Saved | 0% | 86% |
| Times Broken | 1 | 1 |
Christopher broke his opponent 3 times with a 43% conversion rate. The Australian lost his serve once and he saved 0% of the break points that he conceded. Bhambri broke his opponent once with a 25% conversion rate. Bhambri conceded his serve once and he saved 86% of the break points that he conceded.
| O Connell | |||
| Q1 Laaksonen | Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-3 7-5 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 21 | 21 | |
| pts | 64-46 | 64-46 | |
| Total points | 110 | 110 | |
| Winners | 32 | 32 | |
| %Winners | 50% | 50% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 10 | 10 | |
| Double Faults | 1 | 1 | |
| 1st in | 36/54 | 36/54 | |
| % 1st in | 67% | 67% | |
| 1st pts | 32/36 | 32/36 | |
| % 1st pts | 89% | 89% | |
| 2nd pts | 10/18 | 10/18 | |
| % 2nd pts | 56% | 56% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 3 | 3 | |
| Converted | 3/7 | 3/7 | |
| Converted % | 43% | 43% | |
| Conceded | 1 | 1 | |
| Saved | 0/1 | 0 | |
| Saved % | 0% | 0% | |
| Times Broken | 1 | 1 | |
| Bhambri | |||
| Q1 Sousa | Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-3 3-6 7-65 | ||
| Tot Set | 3 | 3 | |
| Tot Games | 31 | 31 | |
| pts | 99-97 | 99-97 | |
| Total points | 196 | 196 | |
| Winners | 56 | 56 | |
| %Winners | 57% | 57% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 7 | 7 | |
| Double Faults | 6 | 6 | |
| 1st in | 71/97 | 71/97 | |
| % 1st in | 73% | 73% | |
| 1st pts | 56/71 | 56/71 | |
| % 1st pts | 79% | 79% | |
| 2nd pts | 12/26 | 12/26 | |
| % 2nd pts | 46% | 46% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 1 | 1 | |
| Converted | 1/4 | 1/4 | |
| Converted % | 25% | 25% | |
| Conceded | 7 | 7 | |
| Saved | 6/7 | 6 | |
| Saved % | 86% | 86% | |
| Times Broken | 1 | 1 | |
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