Christopher O Connell and Emilio Nava will face off in the 1st round of the Malaga Challenger for the 1st 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 Christopher O Connell who should win in 2 sets.
Christopher O Connell -> 1.4
Emilio Nava -> 2.86
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Prediction and head to head Christopher O Connell vs. Emilio Nava
There is no head to head record between Christopher O Connell and Emilio Nava since this will be the first time that they will fight against each other in the main tour.
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. 108 (career-high), Christopher will start his run in the Malaga Challenger after he played his last match in Halle where he lost 6-4 6-4 to Huesler in the qualifications on the 12th of June.
Christopher has a composed 26-14 win-loss record in 2022, 9-6 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Christopher’s best result of the current season was getting to the final in the Split Challenger.
Talking about his overall career, The Australian has an overall 297-170 record. He has a positive 116-77 record on hard.
Previously in the Malaga Challenger
The Australian has never competed in this tournament before.
Emilio Nava
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 56-28 | 8-7 | 45-19 | 0-0 | 3-2 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 34-34 | 16-15 | 8-9 | 8-5 | 2-5 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 40-31 | 24-14 | 12-8 | 4-9 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 41-27 | 15-15 | 14-6 | 12-6 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 40-16 | 9-6 | 27-7 | 4-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 233 (career-high), the American will start his run in the Malaga Challenger after he played his last match in the Blois Challenger where he lost 6-1 6-4
to Kopriva in the 2nd round on the 15th of June.Emilio has a composed 25-13 win-loss record in 2022, 2-3 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Emilio’s best result of the current year was reaching the final in the Shymkent 1 Challenger.
In terms of his career, Emilio has an overall 97-55 record. He has a positive 35-28 record on hard.
Tennis Scores in Malaga Challenger
- Emilio GomezGomez – Yasutaka UchiyamaUchiyama (7-66 5-7 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Altug CelikbilekCelikbilek – Hiroki MoriyaMoriya (6-3 6-75 7-5) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Constant LestienneLestienne – Evgeny DonskoyDonskoy (2-6 6-3 7-64) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Alberto Barroso CamposBarroso Campos – Vasek PospisilPospisil (6-3 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Nicolas Alvarez VaronaAlvarez Varona – Ernesto EscobedoEscobedo (7-64 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Steven DiezDiez – Tung-Lin WuWu (6-3 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
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- Andrey KuznetsovKuznetsov – Yuki BhambriBhambri (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Roberto MarcoraMarcora – Lukas LackoLacko (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Frederico Ferreira SilvaFerreira Silva – Marek GengelGengel (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Dmitry PopkoPopko – Kaichi UchidaUchida (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Christopher O ConnellO Connell – Emilio NavaNava (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Daniel CukiermanCukierman – Jason JungJung (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Gabriel DecampsDecamps – Michael MmohMmoh (0-0) – H2H and prediction