Andy Murray and Christopher O Connell will fight against each other in the 1st round of the Mercedes Cup for the 2nd time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Tuesday at 1:30 pm on CENTER COURT. In the following paragraphs, 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 -> 1.41
Christopher O Connell -> 3
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Prediction and head to head Andy Murray vs. Christopher O Connell
This will be the 2nd time that Andy Murray and Christopher O Connell face off. The head to head is 1-0 for Murray (see full H2H stats), but they have never competed against each other on grass.
The last time that they fought against each other, Murray won 6-7(4) 6-3 7-5 in the 1st round in Dubai back in February 2022.
Highlights Andy Murray vs Christopher O Connell – Dubai 21-February-2022
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. 68, the Brit will start his run in Stuttgart after he played his last match in the Surbiton Challenger where he lost 5-7 7-6(4) 6-3 to Kudla in the semifinal on the 4th of June.
Murray has an aggregate 15-9 win-loss record in 2022, 3-1 on grass (See FULL STATS).
Andy’s best result of the current year was getting to the final in Sydney.
Talking about his overall career, Murray has an overall 804-260 record. He has a positive 120-32 record on grass.
Previously in Stuttgart
Murray has never competed in this tournament before.
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. 116, O reached the 1st round after beating Daniel Masur 7-66 7-5 and Peter Gojowczyk 6-3 6-4.
In the qualifications, Christopher had a good straight sets win against Gojowczyk (6-3 6-4). During the match O scored 58 points vs Gojowczyk’s 46. O was pretty aggressive to blast 27 winners.
About the serving games, O scored 5 aces and he committed only 2 double faults. Overall, Christopher O Connell was very efficient on serve to win 73% (27/37) of his 1st serve and 68% (13/19) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve once. O broke Gojowczyk 3 times after converting 60% of his break points (3/5).
Overall Performance in this tournament
Christopher started his run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, he hasn’t conceded yet a set in this tournament to win 54% of the points he played.
The Australian’s best result of the current season was reaching the final in the Split Challenger.
Christopher has an overall 25-12 win-loss record in 2022, 4-1 on grass (See FULL STATS).
Previously in Stuttgart
Previously, his best result was reaching the qualifications in 2021. See his history.
Tennis Scores in Stuttgart
- Radu AlbotAlbot – Joao SousaSousa (6-2 7-67) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Hubert Hurkacz/Mate PavicHurkacz/Mate Pavic – Dustin Brown/Evan KingBrown/Evan King (6-3 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Lorenzo SonegoSonego – Benoit PairePaire (7-5 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Oscar OtteOtte – Daniel AltmaierAltmaier (7-62 7-64) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Jan-Lennard StruffStruff – Marcos GironGiron (7-5 5-7 7-68) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Benjamin BonziBonzi – Feliciano LopezLopez (6-4 6-1) – Stats, scores, rankings
Upcoming matches in the draw
- Andy MurrayMurray – Christopher O ConnellO Connell (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Radu AlbotAlbot – Matteo BerrettiniBerrettini (0-2) – H2H and prediction
- Denis KudlaKudla – Alexander BublikBublik (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Marton FucsovicsFucsovics – Jurij RodionovRodionov (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Oscar OtteOtte – Denis ShapovalovShapovalov (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Lorenzo SonegoSonego – Jan-Lennard StruffStruff (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Ugo HumbertHumbert – Arthur RinderknechRinderknech (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Maxime CressyCressy – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Jiri LeheckaLehecka – Nick KyrgiosKyrgios (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Lorenzo MusettiMusetti – Nikoloz BasilashviliBasilashvili (0-0) – H2H and prediction