Andy Murray and Christopher O Connell will face off in the 1st round of the Dubai Duty Free Tennis Championships for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Monday at 7:00 pm on CENTRE COURT. In the following lines you can find the head to head analysis and prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Andy Murray who should win in 2 sets.
Andy Murray -> 1.31
Christopher O Connell -> 3.58
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Prediction and head to head Andy Murray vs. Christopher O Connell
There is no head to head record between Andy Murray and Christopher O Connell since this will be the first time that they will face off in the main tour.
Andy Murray
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 7-13 | 5-6 | 1-3 | 0-2 | 1-2 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 31-18 | 13-10 | 5-4 | 2-2 | 11-2 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 29-20 | 12-11 | 2-0 | 5-5 | 10-4 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 20-16 | 5-5 | 0-0 | 12-9 | 3-2 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 3-4 | 3-2 | 0-1 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 87, the Brit will start his run in Dubai after he played his last match in Doha where he lost 6-0 6-1 to Bautista-Agut in the 2nd round on the 16th of February.
Murray has a compiled 7-5 win-loss record in 2022, 6-4 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Murray’s best result of the year was reaching the final in Sydney.
Talking about his overall career, The Brit has an overall 796-256 record. He has a positive 372-112 record on hard.
Previously in Dubai
Previously, he won this tournament once in 2017. See his history.
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, O reached the 1st round after beating Henri Laaksonen 6-3 7-5 and Yuki Bhambri 6-3 6-4.
In the qualifications, Christopher had a good straight sets win against Bhambri (6-3 6-4). During the match O scored 62 points vs Bhambri’s 47. O was extremely aggressive to blast 28 winners.
Talking about serving, O made 7 aces and he committed only 2 double faults. Christopher O Connell was quite effective on serve to win 88% (28/32) of his 1st serve and 61% (14/23) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. The Australian broke Bhambri twice after converting 50% of his break points (2/4).
Overall Performance in this tournament
O started his run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, he hasn’t surrendered yet a set in this competition to conquer 58% of the points he played.
The Australian has an overall 8-4 win-loss record in 2022, 8-4 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in Dubai
Previously, his best result was reaching the 1st round in 2021. See his history.
Tennis Scores in Dubai
- Jiri VeselyVesely – Alexei PopyrinPopyrin (7-64 6-76 6-2) – See score progression
- Christopher O ConnellO Connell – Yuki BhambriBhambri (6-3 6-4) – See score progression
- Richard BerankisBerankis – Pavel KotovKotov (7-66 5-7 6-4) – See score progression
- Taro DanielDaniel – Alex MolcanMolcan (6-3 7-63) – See score progression
Upcoming matches in the draw
- Andy MurrayMurray – Christopher O ConnellO Connell (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Novak DjokovicDjokovic – Lorenzo MusettiMusetti (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Daniel EvansEvans – Andrey RublevRublev (3-2) – H2H and prediction
- David GoffinGoffin – Taro DanielDaniel (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Filip KrajinovicKrajinovic – Malek JaziriJaziri (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Marton FucsovicsFucsovics – Denis ShapovalovShapovalov (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Jan-Lennard StruffStruff – Richard BerankisBerankis (5-0) – H2H and prediction
- Jiri VeselyVesely – Marin CilicCilic (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Aslan KaratsevKaratsev – Mackenzie McdonaldMcdonald (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Botic Van De ZandschulpVan De Zandschulp – Lloyd HarrisHarris (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Karen KhachanovKhachanov – Alex De MinaurDe Minaur (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Hubert HurkaczHurkacz – Alexander BublikBublik (1-1) – H2H and prediction
- Arthur RinderknechRinderknech – Roberto Bautista AgutBautista Agut (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Ilya IvashkaIvashka – Soon-Woo KwonKwon (2-2) – H2H and prediction
- Alejandro Davidovich FokinaDavidovich Fokina – Jannik SinnerSinner (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Felix Auger AliassimeAuger Aliassime – Nikoloz BasilashviliBasilashvili (3-0) – H2H and prediction