Jordan Thompson and Christopher O Connell will square off in the quarter of the Surbiton Challenger for the 3rd time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Friday at 1:30 pm on COURT 1. 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 Jordan Thompson who should win in 3 sets.
Jordan Thompson -> 1.7
Christopher O Connell -> 2.15
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Prediction and head to head Jordan Thompson vs. Christopher O Connell
This will be the 3rd time that Jordan Thompson and Christopher O Connell play each other. The head to head is 2-0 for Thompson (see full H2H stats), but they have never played each other on grass.
The last time that they played, Thompson won 1-6 7-5 6-4 in the 1st round in Melbourne back in January 2022.
Highlights Jordan Thompson vs Christopher O Connell – Melbourne 05-January-2022
Jordan Thompson
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 16-18 | 7-10 | 2-3 | 3-2 | 4-3 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 35-24 | 23-13 | 3-5 | 5-3 | 4-3 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 41-28 | 22-15 | 0-3 | 7-4 | 12-6 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 40-26 | 18-14 | 2-6 | 8-1 | 12-5 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 23-25 | 10-11 | 2-6 | 0-1 | 9-5 | 2-2 |
Ranked no. 82, Jordan reached the quarter after beating Marius Copil 6-3 6-4 and Ramkumar Ramanathan 7-5 6-3.
In the 2nd round, The Australian had a good straight sets win against Ramanathan (7-5 6-3). During the match, Thompson scored 80 points vs Ramanathan’s 56. The Australian was pretty aggressive to blast 34 winners.
Regarding the service games, Thompson struck 4 aces and he committed only 1 double fault. Jordan Thompson was very effective on serve to win 94% (34/36) of his 1st serve and 65% (11/17) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. Thompson broke Ramanathan twice after converting 25% of his break points (2/8).
Overall Performance in this tournament
Thompson hasn’t lost yet a set in this tournament to win 58% of the points he played.
Thompson has a solid record in the last 10 years having won 60% of his matches (358-243). 2-0 on grass in 2022. Talking about his performance on the same surface of this competition, Thompson has a composed 41-33 win-loss record in the last years on grass.
Thompson has an overall 10-13 win-loss record in 2022, 2-0 on grass (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Surbiton Challenger
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. 117, O reached the quarter after defeating Soon-Woo Kwon 4-6 6-4 6-3 and Alastair Gray 6-3 7-65.
In the 2nd round, Christopher had a good straight sets win against Gray (6-3 7-65). During the match O scored 82 points vs Gray’s 65. O was exceptionally aggressive to blast 41 winners.
About the serving games, O scored just 1 ace during the entire match and he committed only 1 double fault for the entire match. Christopher O Connell lost the serve twice and he saved 4 break points. Furthermore, O put 79% of his first serves in, winning 75% (41/55) of the points behind his 1st serve and 33% (5/15) on the 2nd serve. Christopher broke Gray 3 times after converting 27% of his break points (3/11).
Overall Performance in this tournament
O has conceded 1 set in the tournament to win 55% of the points he played.
Christopher’s best result of the year was reaching the final in the Split Challenger.
Christopher has a compiled 23-11 win-loss record in 2022, 2-0 on grass (See FULL STATS).
H2H Performance in the tournament (main draw)
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Thompson | O |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 2 | 2 |
| Tot Set | 4 | 5 |
| Tot Games | 40 | 51 |
| Pts | 148-108 | 170-141 |
| Total Points | 256 | 311 |
| Winners | 60 | 79 |
| %Winners | 41% | 46% |
Both Thompson and O played 2 matches. At the moment, Christopher O Connell surrendered 1 set while Jordan Thompson hasn’t dropped a set so far. Thompson has played 1 set(s) less than O (4 vs 5). Therefore, Thompson played 11 games less than O. The Australian scored 60 winners (41% of the total points). On the other side, O bagged 79 winners (46%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Thompson | O |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 8 | 8 |
| Avg per match | 4 | 4 |
| 1st in | 74/110 | 103/150 |
| %1st in | 67% | 69% |
| 1st pts | 60/74 | 79/103 |
| %1st pts | 81% | 77% |
| 2nd pts | 25/36 | 23/47 |
| %2nd pts | 69% | 49% |
Thompson made 8 aces (4 per match). O recorded 8 aces (4 per match). Thompson won 81% points behind his first serve. He extremely effective on his second serve to win 69% of the points. On the other side, O won 77% of the points behind his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 49% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Thompson | O |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 5 | 7 |
| Converted | 5/16 | 7/23 |
| % Converted | 31% | 30% |
| Conceded | 2 | 16 |
| Saved | 1 | 11 |
| % Saved | 50% | 69% |
| Times Broken | 1 | 5 |
Jordan broke his opponents 5 times with a 31% conversion rate. Thompson dropped his serve once and he saved 50% of the break points that he conceded. The Australian broke his opponents 7 times with a 30% conversion rate. O conceded his serve 5 times and he saved 69% of the break points that he conceded.
| Thompson | ||||
| R1 Copil | R2 Ramanathan | Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-3 6-4 | 7-5 6-3 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | 4 | |
| Tot Games | 19 | 21 | 40 | |
| pts | 68-52 | 80-56 | 148-108 | |
| Total points | 120 | 136 | 256 | |
| Winners | 26 | 34 | 60 | |
| %Winners | 38% | 43% | 41% | |
| SERVE | ||||
| Aces | 4 | 4 | 8 | |
| Double Faults | 1 | 1 | 2 | |
| 1st in | 38/57 | 36/53 | 74/110 | |
| % 1st in | 67% | 68% | 67% | |
| 1st pts | 26/38 | 34/36 | 60/74 | |
| % 1st pts | 68% | 94% | 81% | |
| 2nd pts | 14/19 | 11/17 | 25/36 | |
| % 2nd pts | 74% | 65% | 69% | |
| Breaks | ||||
| Won | 3 | 2 | 5 | |
| Converted | 3/8 | 2/8 | 5/16 | |
| Converted % | 38% | 25% | 31% | |
| Conceded | 2 | 0 | 2 | |
| Saved | 1/2 | 0/0 | 1 | |
| Saved % | 50% | – | 25% | |
| Times Broken | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
| O | ||||
| R1 Kwon | R2 Gray | Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 4-6 6-4 6-3 | 6-3 7-65 | ||
| Tot Set | 3 | 2 | 5 | |
| Tot Games | 29 | 22 | 51 | |
| pts | 88-76 | 82-65 | 170-141 | |
| Total points | 164 | 147 | 311 | |
| Winners | 38 | 41 | 79 | |
| %Winners | 43% | 50% | 46% | |
| SERVE | ||||
| Aces | 7 | 1 | 8 | |
| Double Faults | 2 | 1 | 3 | |
| 1st in | 48/80 | 55/70 | 103/150 | |
| % 1st in | 60% | 79% | 69% | |
| 1st pts | 38/48 | 41/55 | 79/103 | |
| % 1st pts | 79% | 75% | 77% | |
| 2nd pts | 18/32 | 5/15 | 23/47 | |
| % 2nd pts | 56% | 33% | 49% | |
| Breaks | ||||
| Won | 4 | 3 | 7 | |
| Converted | 4/12 | 3/11 | 7/23 | |
| Converted % | 33% | 27% | 30% | |
| Conceded | 10 | 6 | 16 | |
| Saved | 7/10 | 4/6 | 11 | |
| Saved % | 70% | 67% | 69% | |
| Times Broken | 3 | 2 | 5 | |
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