Christopher O Connell and Ji Sung Nam will play each other in the 2nd round of the Busan Challenger for the 2nd time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Wednesday at 11:00 am on CENTER COURT. 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 -> 1.22
Ji Sung Nam -> 4.00
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Prediction and head to head Christopher O Connell vs. Ji Sung Nam
This will be the 2nd time that Christopher O Connell and Ji Sung Nam clash against each other. The head to head is 1-0 for O Connell (see full H2H stats), but they have never competed against each other on hard.
The last time that they squared off, O Connell won 6-1 4-6 6-4 in the 3rd round in the Drummondville Challenger back in 2020.
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 reached the 2nd round after defeating Mukund Sasikumar 6-4 6-2.
In the 1st round, The Australian had a good straight sets win against Kumar Mukund (6-4 6-2). During the match, O Connell scored 64 points vs Kumar Mukund’s 55. O Connell was extremely aggressive to blast 17 winners.
Regarding the service games, O Connell recorded 7 aces and he committed only 3 double faults. Christopher O Connell lost the serve twice and he saved 5 break points. Furthermore, O Connell put 46% of his first serves in, winning 68% (17/25) of the points behind his 1st serve and 55% (16/29) on the 2nd serve. The Australian broke Kumar Mukund 5 times after converting 50% of his break points (5/10).
O Connell has a solid record in the last 10 years having won 64% of his matches (310-176). 23-15 on hard in 2022. Regarding his performance on the same surface of this competition, O Connell has a composed 129-84 match record in the last years on hard.
Christopher’s best result of the current year was reaching the final in the Split Challenger and the Porto Challenger.
Christopher has an aggregate 40-23 win-loss record in 2022, 23-15 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Busan Challenger
O Connell has never competed in this tournament before.
Ji Sung Nam
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 6-7 | 5-4 | 1-2 | 0-0 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 15-20 | 13-15 | 2-4 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 26-19 | 24-13 | 2-4 | 0-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 4-7 | 2-6 | 0-0 | 1-1 | 1-0 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 3-6 | 1-2 | 0-1 | 2-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 509, Ji got to the 2nd round after defeating Kaichi Uchida 6-3 6-3.
In the 1st round, The Korean had a good straight sets win against Uchida (6-3 6-3). During the match Sung Nam scored 63 points vs Uchida’s 46. Sung Nam was very aggressive to blast 26 winners.
Talking about serving, Sung Nam fired 3 aces and he committed only 2 double faults. Ji Sung Nam lost the serve twice and he saved 2 break points. Furthermore, Sung Nam put 72% of his first serves in, winning 68% (26/38) of the points behind his 1st serve and 40% (6/15) on the 2nd serve. The Korean broke Uchida 5 times after converting 63% of his break points (5/8).
The Korean’s best result of the season was reaching the final in M15 Chiang Rai.
Ji has an aggregate 25-15 win-loss record in 2022, 23-10 on hard (See FULL STATS).
H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | O Connell | Sung Nam |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 1 | 1 |
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 |
| Tot Games | 18 | 18 |
| Pts | 64-55 | 63-46 |
| Total Points | 119 | 109 |
| Winners | 17 | 26 |
| %Winners | 27% | 41% |
Both O Connell and Sung Nam played 1 match. Both players have not lost a single set in this event so far. Talking about their workload, O Connell and Sung Nam have played the same amount of sets 2. They also played the same amount of games (18). The Australian scored 17 winners (27% of the total points). On the other side, The Korean made 26 winners (41%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | O Connell | Sung Nam |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 7 | 3 |
| Avg per match | 7 | 3 |
| 1st in | 25/54 | 38/53 |
| %1st in | 46% | 72% |
| 1st pts | 17/25 | 26/38 |
| %1st pts | 68% | 68% |
| 2nd pts | 16/29 | 6/15 |
| %2nd pts | 55% | 40% |
O Connell managed to score 7 aces . Sung Nam recorded 3 aces . O Connell won 68% points behind his first serve. He pretty effective on his second serve to win 55% of the points. On the other side, Sung Nam won 68% of the points behind his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 40% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | O Connell | Sung Nam |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 5 | 5 |
| Converted | 5/10 | 5/8 |
| % Converted | 50% | 63% |
| Conceded | 7 | 4 |
| Saved | 5 | 2 |
| % Saved | 71% | 50% |
| Times Broken | 2 | 2 |
O Connell broke his opponent 5 times with a 50% conversion rate. The Australian conceded his serve twice and he saved 71% of the break points that he conceded. The Korean broke his opponent 5 times with a 63% conversion rate. The Korean conceded his serve twice and he saved 50% of the break points that he conceded.
| O Connell | |||
| R1 Kumar Mukund |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-4 6-2 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 18 | 18 | |
| pts | 64-55 | 64-55 | |
| Total points | 119 | 119 | |
| Winners | 17 | 17 | |
| %Winners | 27% | 27% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 7 | 7 | |
| Double Faults | 3 | 3 | |
| 1st in | 25/54 | 25/54 | |
| % 1st in | 46% | 46% | |
| 1st pts | 17/25 | 17/25 | |
| % 1st pts | 68% | 68% | |
| 2nd pts | 16/29 | 16/29 | |
| % 2nd pts | 55% | 55% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 5 | 5 | |
| Converted | 5/10 | 5/10 | |
| Converted % | 50% | 50% | |
| Conceded | 7 | 7 | |
| Saved | 5/7 | 5 | |
| Saved % | 71% | 71% | |
| Times Broken | 2 | 2 | |
| Sung Nam | |||
| R1 Uchida |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-3 6-3 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 18 | 18 | |
| pts | 63-46 | 63-46 | |
| Total points | 109 | 109 | |
| Winners | 26 | 26 | |
| %Winners | 41% | 41% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 3 | 3 | |
| Double Faults | 2 | 2 | |
| 1st in | 38/53 | 38/53 | |
| % 1st in | 72% | 72% | |
| 1st pts | 26/38 | 26/38 | |
| % 1st pts | 68% | 68% | |
| 2nd pts | 6/15 | 6/15 | |
| % 2nd pts | 40% | 40% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 5 | 5 | |
| Converted | 5/8 | 5/8 | |
| Converted % | 63% | 63% | |
| Conceded | 4 | 4 | |
| Saved | 2/4 | 2 | |
| Saved % | 50% | 50% | |
| Times Broken | 2 | 2 | |
Head 2 Head
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LWLLWWWLWL Tennis Scores in Busan Challenger
- Max PurcellPurcell – Rinky HijikataHijikata (3-6 7-612 6-4) – See score progression
- Kamil MajchrzakMajchrzak – Maximilian MartererMarterer (6-3 6-1) – See score progression
- John MillmanMillman – Dalibor SvrcinaSvrcina (6-3 6-4) – See score progression
- Marek GengelGengel – Hiroki MoriyaMoriya (1-6 6-4 6-2) – See score progression
- Joris De LooreDe Loore – Skander MansouriMansouri (7-65 7-62) – See score progression
- Christopher O ConnellO Connell – Mukund SasikumarSasikumar (6-4 6-2) – See score progression
- Marc PolmansPolmans – James DuckworthDuckworth (6-4 2-6 6-4) – See score progression
- Ji Sung NamSung Nam – Kaichi UchidaUchida (6-3 6-3) – See score progression
- Kimmer CoppejansCoppejans – Aleksandar KovacevicKovacevic (4-6 6-4 7-5) – See score progression
- Radu AlbotAlbot – Tung-Lin WuWu (6-3 2-6 6-2) – See score progression
- Soon-Woo KwonKwon – Maximilian NeuchristNeuchrist (6-4 6-2) – See score progression
- Seong Chan HongChan Hong – Li TuTu (6-3 3-6 6-1) – See score progression
- Hamad MedjedovicMedjedovic – Keegan SmithSmith (6-4 7-5) – See score progression
- Yunseong ChungChung – Chun Hsin TsengHsin Tseng (7-5 7-5) – See score progression
- Aleksandar VukicVukic – Shintaro MochizukiMochizuki (6-4 6-3) – See score progression
- Aleksandar VukicVukic – Shintaro MochizukiMochizuki (6-4 6-3) – See score progression
- Kamil MajchrzakMajchrzak – Maximilian MartererMarterer (6-3 6-1) – See score progression
- John MillmanMillman – Dalibor SvrcinaSvrcina (6-3 6-4) – See score progression
- Yunseong ChungChung – Chun Hsin TsengHsin Tseng (7-5 7-5) – See score progression
Upcoming matches in the draw
- John MillmanMillman – Marek GengelGengel (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Ji Sung NamSung Nam – Christopher O ConnellO Connell (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Joris De LooreDe Loore – Radu AlbotAlbot (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Marc PolmansPolmans – Max PurcellPurcell (3-4) – H2H and prediction
- Christopher EubanksEubanks – Naoki NakagawaNakagawa (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Seong Chan HongChan Hong – Yunseong ChungChung (2-0) – H2H and prediction
- Soon-Woo KwonKwon – Aleksandar VukicVukic (0-0) – H2H and prediction
