Reilly Opelka bests Christopher O Connell 6-3 7-5 in the 2nd round in Geneva on Wednesday. Opelka will square off with Tallon Griekspoor in the quarter. The match lasted 1 hour and 28 minutes. This will be his best result in this event. In the past, the best he could do in the past was reaching the 1st round in 2021. Here you can see his history at this event.
The American added to his prize money € 6,780 after conquering this match. He has won already € 16,160 after this win. If he wins the next match, Reilly will add € 11,725 to his earnings to get in total € 27,885 in total.
Highlights Reilly Opelka vs. Christopher O Connell Gonet Geneva Open – Geneva
Stats: aces, double faults, breaks, winners
At the end of the match, Reilly scored 73 points vs. O Connell’s 57.
Opelka
The American served very well to win 83% of the points (25/30) behind his first serve, and he won 75% points (18/24) on his second serve. Opelka blasted 13 aces and he committed 1 double fault. Opelka won this match even if he was not so effective in converting his break points as he converted only 33% (3/9) of the procured opportunities.
O Connell
On the other side, Christopher wasn’t able to conquer any break point (0/1
). That was one of the key issues for his loss.After this match, the head to head between Opelka and O Connell is 1-0 for Reilly.
Draw and next match H2H: Reilly Opelka vs. Tallon Griekspoor – stats
Opelka will play Griekspoor in the quarter.
This will be the 2nd time that Reilly Opelka and Tallon Griekspoor play each other. The head to head is 1-0 for Opelka (see full H2H stats), 1-0 on clay.
Live score progression and stats
The American won the set after he broke Christopher in the 7th (4-3) and in the 9th (6-3) game.
Christopher was completely outplayed in the last 4 games of the set when the scoreline went from 2-3
to 6-3.They played 64 points. Opelka was the winner of the set after clinching 8 points more than the Australian (36-28). The American conceded 8 points on serve (19-8). on the other side of the court, the Australian conceded 17 points on serve (20-17).
The set was even with both players refusing to concede anything to the opposition. Eventually, the only discrepancy was one break that Opelka conquered in the 12th game (7-5).
Opelka was unable to convert any of the 4 conquered break points. He had 4 break points opportunities in the 4th (2-1 15-40, 30-40 and 40-A) and the 12th game (6-5 15-40). On the other side, the American didn’t concede a single break point during this set.
They contested 66 points. Reilly conquered the set after winning 10 more points than Christopher (38-28). Opelka was extremely solid on serve to drop just 3 points (24-3). On the losing side, Christopher conceded 14 points on serve (25-14).
Tennis Scores in Geneva
- Tallon GriekspoorGriekspoor – Johan NiklesNikles (6-3 7-5) – Stats and score progression
- Casper RuudRuud – Benoit PairePaire (6-3 6-1) – Stats and score progression
- Reilly OpelkaOpelka – Christopher O ConnellO Connell (6-3 7-5) – Stats and score progression
- Thanasi KokkinakisKokkinakis – Federico DelbonisDelbonis (1-6 7-5 7-5) – Stats and score progression
- Ilya IvashkaIvashka – Denis ShapovalovShapovalov (6-4 6-72 6-3) – Stats and score progression
- Joao SousaSousa – Nikoloz BasilashviliBasilashvili (6-4 6-3) – Stats and score progression
- Richard GasquetGasquet – Daniil MedvedevMedvedev (6-2 7-65) – Stats and score progression
- Kamil MajchrzakMajchrzak – Marco CecchinatoCecchinato (6-2 6-3) – Stats and score progression
Upcoming matches
- Richard GasquetGasquet – Kamil MajchrzakMajchrzak (0-0) – H2H details and stats
- Thanasi KokkinakisKokkinakis – Casper RuudRuud (0-0) – H2H details and stats
- Ilya IvashkaIvashka – Joao SousaSousa (0-2) – H2H details and stats
- Tallon GriekspoorGriekspoor – Reilly OpelkaOpelka (0-1) – H2H details and stats