Christopher O Connell and Mukund Sasikumar will clash against each other in the 1st round of the Busan Challenger for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Tuesday at 3:30 pm on COURT 3. Here the head to head stats and relative 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 -> 1.131
Mukund Sasikumar -> 5.25
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Prediction and head to head Christopher O Connell vs. Mukund Sasikumar
There is no head to head record between Christopher O Connell and Mukund Sasikumar since this will be the first time that they will play each other in the main tour.
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. 107, Christopher will start his run in the Busan Challenger after he played his last match in the Seoul Challenger where he lost 6-4 6-7(4) 6-1 to Tu in the quarter on the 14th of October.
O Connell has an aggregate 39-23 win-loss record in 2022, 22-15 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Christopher’s best result of the year was reaching the final in the Split Challenger and the Porto Challenger.
Talking about his overall career, The Australian has an overall 310-179 record. He has a positive 129-86 record on hard.
Previously in the Busan Challenger
O Connell has never competed in this tournament before.
Mukund Sasikumar
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 20-17 | 20-17 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 25-31 | 21-25 | 0-1 | 2-3 | 2-2 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 48-35 | 33-21 | 6-7 | 9-7 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 28-32 | 25-24 | 2-3 | 1-4 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 8-9 | 4-4 | 0-3 | 4-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 360, Kumar Mukund reached the 1st round after beating Duckhee Lee 6-1 6-4 and Naoki Nakagawa 6-3 6-4.
In the qualifications, Sasi had a good straight sets win against Nakagawa (6-3 6-4). During the match Kumar Mukund scored 66 points vs Nakagawa’s 53. Sasi was pretty aggressive to blast 30 winners.
About the serving games, Kumar Mukund blasted 4 aces and he was exceptionally solid in conceding no double faults for the entire match. Mukund Sasikumar was extremely effective on serve to win 83% (30/36) of his 1st serve and 59% (17/29) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. Sasi broke Nakagawa twice after converting 29% of his break points (2/7).
Overall Performance in this tournament
Kumar Mukund started his run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, he hasn’t surrendered yet a set in this tournament to conquer 58% of the points he played.
Sasi’s best result of the year was getting to the final in the Forli 1 Challenger,M15 Jakarta and M25 Sintra.
Kumar Mukund has an aggregate 38-27 win-loss record in 2022, 24-14 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Head 2 Head
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