Christopher O Connell and Gijs Brouwer will face off in the 2nd round of the Chicago Challenger for the 2nd time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Thursday at 11:30 am on COURT 21. 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.
As per the initial odds, Christopher O Connell is the pick to win this match.
Christopher O Connell -> 1.161
Gijs Brouwer -> 4.95
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Prediction and head to head Christopher O Connell vs. Gijs Brouwer
This will be the 2nd time that Christopher O Connell and Gijs Brouwer face off. The head to head is 1-0 for O Connell (see full H2H stats), but they have never played each other on hard.
The last time that they fought against each other, O Connell won 6-4 4-6 7-6(4) in the semifinal in M25 Casinalbo back in 2019.
Christopher O Connell
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 11-13 | 9-8 | 2-4 | 0-0 | 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. 110, the Australian got to the 2nd round after defeating Evan Zhu 6-3 6-4.
In the 1st round, The Australian had a good straight sets win against Zhu (6-3 6-4). During the match, O Connell scored 67 points vs Zhu’s 54. The Australian was quite aggressive to blast 26 winners.
Talking about the service games, O Connell made 3 aces and he committed only 4 double faults. Christopher O Connell lost the serve twice and he saved 1 break points. Furthermore, O Connell put 61% of his first serves in, winning 74% (26/35) of the points behind his 1st serve and 45% (10/22) on the 2nd serve. O Connell broke Zhu 4 times after converting 80% of his break points (4/5).
O Connell has a solid record in the last 10 years having won 64% of his matches (302-168). 15-7 on hard in 2022. Regarding his performance on the same surface of this tournament, O Connell has a compiled 121-76 record in the last years on hard.
The Australian’s best result of the current season was getting to the final in the Split Challenger and the Porto Challenger.
Christopher has a compiled 32-15 win-loss record in 2022, 15-7 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Chicago Challenger
O Connell has never competed in this tournament before.
Gijs Brouwer
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 23-19 | 6-5 | 6-5 | 4-5 | 7-4 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 24-34 | 5-8 | 3-6 | 12-15 | 4-5 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 47-27 | 12-5 | 13-5 | 14-12 | 8-5 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 47-25 | 9-5 | 12-10 | 21-10 | 0-0 | 5-0 |
| 2020 | 20-10 | 13-4 | 5-4 | 2-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 196, Gijs got to the 2nd round after beating Keegan Smith 6-3 6-4.
In the 1st round, The Dutch had a good straight sets win against Smith (6-3 6-4). During the match Brouwer scored 67 points vs Smith’s 57. Gijs was pretty aggressive to blast 30 winners.
Talking about serving, Brouwer made 2 aces and he committed only 5 double faults. Gijs Brouwer lost the serve twice and he saved 5 break points. Furthermore, Brouwer put 63% of his first serves in, winning 73% (30/41) of the points behind his 1st serve and 42% (10/24) on the 2nd serve. The Dutch broke Smith 4 times after converting 33% of his break points (4/12).
Brouwer’s best result of the current season was getting to the final in the Tunis Challenger.
Gijs has an aggregate 37-21 win-loss record in 2022, 6-3 on hard (See FULL STATS).
H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | O Connell | Brouwer |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 1 | 1 |
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 |
| Tot Games | 19 | 19 |
| Pts | 67-54 | 67-57 |
| Total Points | 121 | 124 |
| Winners | 26 | 30 |
| %Winners | 39% | 45% |
Both O Connell and Brouwer played 1 match. Both players have not conceded a single set in this event so far. Talking about their workload, O Connell and Brouwer have played the same amount of sets 2. They also played the same amount of games (19). The Australian scored 26 winners (39% of the total points). On the other side, Brouwer made 30 winners (45%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | O Connell | Brouwer |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 3 | 2 |
| Avg per match | 3 | 2 |
| 1st in | 35/57 | 41/65 |
| %1st in | 61% | 63% |
| 1st pts | 26/35 | 30/41 |
| %1st pts | 74% | 73% |
| 2nd pts | 10/22 | 10/24 |
| %2nd pts | 45% | 42% |
O Connell fired 3 aces . Brouwer fired 2 aces . O Connell won 74% points on his first serve. He pretty solid on his second serve to win 45% of the points. On the other side, Brouwer won 73% of the points behind his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 42% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | O Connell | Brouwer |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 4 | 4 |
| Converted | 4/5 | 4/12 |
| % Converted | 80% | 33% |
| Conceded | 3 | 7 |
| Saved | 1 | 5 |
| % Saved | 33% | 71% |
| Times Broken | 2 | 2 |
The Australian broke his opponent 4 times with a 80% conversion rate. O Connell dropped his serve twice and he saved 33% of the break points that he conceded. Brouwer broke his opponent 4 times with a 33% conversion rate. Brouwer conceded his serve twice and he saved 71% of the break points that he conceded.
| O Connell | |||
| R1 Zhu |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-3 6-4 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 19 | 19 | |
| pts | 67-54 | 67-54 | |
| Total points | 121 | 121 | |
| Winners | 26 | 26 | |
| %Winners | 39% | 39% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 3 | 3 | |
| Double Faults | 4 | 4 | |
| 1st in | 35/57 | 35/57 | |
| % 1st in | 61% | 61% | |
| 1st pts | 26/35 | 26/35 | |
| % 1st pts | 74% | 74% | |
| 2nd pts | 10/22 | 10/22 | |
| % 2nd pts | 45% | 45% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 4 | 4 | |
| Converted | 4/5 | 4/5 | |
| Converted % | 80% | 80% | |
| Conceded | 3 | 3 | |
| Saved | 1/3 | 1 | |
| Saved % | 33% | 33% | |
| Times Broken | 2 | 2 | |
| Brouwer | |||
| R1 Smith |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-3 6-4 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 19 | 19 | |
| pts | 67-57 | 67-57 | |
| Total points | 124 | 124 | |
| Winners | 30 | 30 | |
| %Winners | 45% | 45% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 2 | 2 | |
| Double Faults | 5 | 5 | |
| 1st in | 41/65 | 41/65 | |
| % 1st in | 63% | 63% | |
| 1st pts | 30/41 | 30/41 | |
| % 1st pts | 73% | 73% | |
| 2nd pts | 10/24 | 10/24 | |
| % 2nd pts | 42% | 42% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 4 | 4 | |
| Converted | 4/12 | 4/12 | |
| Converted % | 33% | 33% | |
| Conceded | 7 | 7 | |
| Saved | 5/7 | 5 | |
| Saved % | 71% | 71% | |
| Times Broken | 2 | 2 | |
Head 2 Head
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WWLLWLWWWW Tennis Scores in Chicago Challenger
- Radu AlbotAlbot – Enzo CouacaudCouacaud (6-2 6-3) – See score progression
- Brandon HoltHolt – Alexander RitschardRitschard (4-6 6-2 6-2) – See score progression
- Jordan ThompsonThompson – Paul JubbJubb (7-68 6-75 6-3) – See score progression
- Liam BroadyBroady – Li TuTu (6-3 6-2) – See score progression
- Ryan HarrisonHarrison – Christopher EubanksEubanks (7-65 7-69) – See score progression
- Gijs BrouwerBrouwer – Keegan SmithSmith (6-3 6-4) – See score progression
- Billy HarrisHarris – Aleksandar KovacevicKovacevic (6-3 4-6 6-3) – See score progression
- Ernesto EscobedoEscobedo – Stefan KozlovKozlov (6-4 7-62) – See score progression
- Antoine EscoffierEscoffier – Kaichi UchidaUchida (7-65 6-3) – See score progression
- Christopher O ConnellO Connell – Evan ZhuZhu (6-3 6-4) – See score progression
- Zachary SvajdaSvajda – Aidan MchughMchugh (6-4 6-2) – See score progression
- Borna GojoGojo – Henri LaaksonenLaaksonen (3-6 7-65 6-4) – See score progression
- Gijs Brouwer/Reese StalderBrouwer/Reese Stalder – Robert Galloway/Alex LawsonGalloway/Alex Lawson (7-65 6-3) – See score progression
- Roman SafiullinSafiullin – Mitchell KruegerKrueger (6-3 6-3) – See score progression
- Genaro Alberto OlivieriAlberto Olivieri – Dalibor SvrcinaSvrcina (4-6 6-4 6-3) – See score progression
- Mikhail KukushkinKukushkin – Govind NandaNanda (3-6 6-4 6-3) – See score progression
- Ben SheltonShelton – Dmitry PopkoPopko (6-0 7-65) – See score progression
- Nathaniel Lammons/Jack WithrowLammons/Jack Withrow – Dalibor Svrcina/Petros TsitsipasSvrcina/Petros Tsitsipas (6-2 6-4) – See score progression
- Antoine EscoffierEscoffier – Kaichi UchidaUchida (7-6(5) 6-3) – See score progression
- Radu AlbotAlbot – Enzo CouacaudCouacaud (6-2 6-3) – See score progression
- Ernesto EscobedoEscobedo – Stefan KozlovKozlov (6-4 7-6(2)) – See score progression
- Zachary SvajdaSvajda – Aidan MchughMchugh (6-4 6-2) – See score progression
- Liam BroadyBroady – Li TuTu (6-3 6-2) – See score progression
- Brandon HoltHolt – Alexander RitschardRitschard (4-6 6-2 6-2) – See score progression
Upcoming matches in the draw
- Ryan HarrisonHarrison – Jordan ThompsonThompson (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Antoine EscoffierEscoffier – Radu AlbotAlbot (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Liam BroadyBroady – Brandon HoltHolt (2-0) – H2H and prediction
- Ernesto EscobedoEscobedo – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Billy HarrisHarris – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Borna GojoGojo – Mikhail KukushkinKukushkin (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Gijs BrouwerBrouwer – Christopher O ConnellO Connell (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Genaro Alberto OlivieriAlberto Olivieri – Roman SafiullinSafiullin (0-0) – H2H and prediction
