Christopher O Connell and Carlos Gimeno Valero will play each other in the 1st round of the Zagreb Challenger for the 2nd time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Tuesday at 10:00 am on COURT 17. 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 -> 1.38
Carlos Gimeno Valero -> 2.94
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Prediction and head to head Christopher O Connell vs. Carlos Gimeno Valero
This will be the 2nd time that Christopher O Connell and Carlos Gimeno Valero square off. The head to head is 1-0 for Gimeno Valero (see full H2H stats), 1-0 on clay.
The last time that they competed against each other, Gimeno Valero won 6-7(5) 2-5 ret. in the 2nd round in the Barcelona Challenger back in 2020.
Christopher O Connell
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| 2020 | 12-12 | 4-5 | 4-3 | 4-4 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 125, O Connell will start his run in the Zagreb Challenger after he won the title in the Split Challenger after beating 6-3 2-0 ret. Piros in the final.
O Connell has a compiled 18-8 win-loss record in 2022, 9-2 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Christopher’s best result of the current season was reaching the final in the Split Challenger.
The Australian won his last 5 matches.
Talking about his overall career, The Australian has an overall 289-164 record. He has a positive 150-71 record on clay.
Previously in the Zagreb Challenger
Christopher has never competed in this tournament before.
Carlos Gimeno Valero
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 23-8 | 0-0 | 23-8 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 25-16 | 0-0 | 25-16 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 18-15 | 0-0 | 18-15 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 24-16 | 3-2 | 20-13 | 1-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 14-5 | 5-1 | 9-4 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 373, Carlos reached the 1st round after beating Bozo Barun 6-3 7-61 and Tristan Lamasine 7-5 1-6 7-5.
In the qualifications, The Spaniard defeated Lamasine (7-5 1-6 7-5).During the match Gimeno Valero scored less points (7) than Lamasine. In fact, the world no. 125 won 92 points vs Lamasine’s. That means that Gimeno Valero was more focused during the important points. Gimeno Valero was extremely aggressive to blast 39 winners.
About the serving games, Gimeno Valero couldn’t to score even 1 ace for the entire match and he committed only 3 double faults. Carlos Gimeno Valero lost the serve 5 times and he saved 3 break points. Furthermore, Gimeno Valero put 85% of his first serves in, winning 55% (39/71) of the points behind his 1st serve and 69% (9/13) on the 2nd serve. Gimeno Valero broke Lamasine 5 times after converting 45% of his break points (5/11).
Overall Performance in this tournament
Carlos started his run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, he has conceded 1 set in the tournament to win 51% of the points he played.
The Spaniard has an aggregate 13-10 win-loss record in 2022, 13-10 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Tennis Scores in Zagreb Challenger
- Mirza BasicBasic – Kalin IvanovskiIvanovski (6-1 6-1) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Alexandre MullerMuller – Juan Pablo FicovichPablo Ficovich (4-6 6-3 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Andrey KuznetsovKuznetsov – Aleksandar VukicVukic (6-1 6-1) – Stats, scores, rankings
Upcoming matches in the draw
- Lukas LackoLacko – Filip MisolicMisolic (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Mirza BasicBasic – Andrey KuznetsovKuznetsov (1-3) – H2H and prediction
- Federico GaioGaio – Maximilian NeuchristNeuchrist (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Jordan ThompsonThompson – Yibing WuWu (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Maximilian MartererMarterer – Nicolas KickerKicker (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Daniel MasurMasur – Nerman FaticFatic (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Nino SerdarusicSerdarusic – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Felipe Meligeni Rodrigues AlvesMeligeni Rodrigues Alves – Jason Murray KublerMurray Kubler (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Vit KoprivaKopriva – Dimitar KuzmanovKuzmanov (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Duje AjdukovicAjdukovic – Tristan LamasineLamasine (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Carlos Gimeno ValeroGimeno Valero – Christopher O ConnellO Connell (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Fabian MarozsanMarozsan – Riccardo BonadioBonadio (0-1) – H2H and prediction