Christopher O Connell and Marc Polmans will play each other in the quarter of the Kobe Challenger for the 6th time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Friday at 11:00 am on COURT B. In the following lines 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.
As per the initial odds, Christopher O Connell is the pick to win this match.
Christopher O Connell -> 1.42
Marc Polmans -> 2.78
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Prediction and head to head Christopher O Connell vs. Marc Polmans
This will be the 6th time that Christopher O Connell and Marc Polmans clash against each other. The head to head is 5-0 for O Connell (see full H2H stats), but they have never played each other on indoor hard courts.
The last time that they fought against each other, O Connell won 4-6 6-1 6-4 in the semifinal in Australia F1 back in 2016.
Christopher O Connell
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 14-17 | 10-7 | 3-7 | 0-0 | 1-3 | 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. 84 (career-high), Christopher reached the quarter after defeating Colin Sinclair 6-77 7-610 7-63 and Beibit Zhukayev 6-2 6-75 6-1.
In the 2nd round, The Australian defeated Zhukayev (6-2 6-75 6-1). During the match, O Connell scored 94 points vs Zhukayev’s 73. The Australian was quite aggressive to blast 48 winners.
Talking about the service games, O Connell scored 11 aces and he committed only 5 double faults. Christopher O Connell conceded no breaks for the entire match to put 68% of his first serves in, win 87% (48/55) of the points behind his 1st serve and 50% (13/26) on the 2nd serve. O Connell broke Zhukayev 4 times after converting 44% of his break points (4/9).
Overall Performance in this tournament
The Australian has surrendered 2 set in this competition to win 52% of the points he played.
O Connell has a solid win-loss record in the last 10 years having won 64% of his matches (319-177). 2-0 on indoor hard courts in 2022. In connection with his performance on the same surface of this tournament, O Connell has an overall 14-8 match record in the last years on indoor hard courts.
The Australian’s best result of the season was getting to the final in the Split Challenger,the Porto Challenger and the Yokohama Challenger.
Christopher has a compiled 49-24 win-loss record in 2022, 2-0 on indoor hard courts (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Kobe Challenger
O Connell has never competed in this tournament before.
Marc Polmans
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 9-9 | 5-3 | 3-5 | 0-0 | 1-1 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 24-28 | 18-18 | 4-4 | 0-1 | 2-5 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 50-35 | 32-23 | 14-9 | 2-1 | 2-2 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 18-13 | 14-12 | 0-0 | 4-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 15-28 | 1-6 | 8-13 | 2-6 | 4-3 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 371, Polmans reached the quarter after beating Hikaru Shiraishi 7-5 4-6 6-0, Renta Tokuda 6-3 4-6 6-2, Li Tu 6-73 6-2 6-3 and Zdenek Kolar 6-1 6-4.
In the 2nd round, The Australian had a good straight sets win against Kolar (6-1 6-4). During the match Polmans scored 60 points vs Kolar’s 48. Marc was very aggressive to blast 23 winners.
Talking about serving, Polmans bagged 3 aces and he committed only 6 double faults. Overall, Marc Polmans was exceptionally efficient on serve to win 74% (23/31) of his 1st serve and 54% (13/24) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve once. Marc broke Kolar 4 times after converting 40% of his break points (4/10).
Overall Performance in this tournament
Polmans started his run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, he has conceded 3 set in the tournament to win 54% of the points he played.
Polmans’s best result of the current year was reaching the final in the Sydney Challenger.
Marc has an overall 17-11 win-loss record in 2022, 4-0 on indoor hard courts (See FULL STATS).
H2H Performance in the tournament (main draw)
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | O Connell | Polmans |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 2 | 4 |
| Tot Set | 6 | 11 |
| Tot Games | 67 | 102 |
| Pts | 223-202 | 351-301 |
| Total Points | 425 | 652 |
| Winners | 105 | 141 |
| %Winners | 47% | 40% |
O Connell played 2 matches while Polmans competed in 4 matches. Polmans started his run from the qualifications while O Connell had a direct access to the main draw. Both players lost a set in the event. Christopher O Connell conceded 2 sets, while Marc Polmans surrendered 3 sets. O Connell has played 5 set(s) less than Polmans (6 vs 11). Therefore, O Connell played 35 games less than Polmans. Christopher scored 105 winners (47% of the total points). On the other side, Polmans blasted 141 winners (40%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | O Connell | Polmans |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 23 | 21 |
| Avg per match | 11.5 | 5.3 |
| 1st in | 132/214 | 191/316 |
| %1st in | 62% | 60% |
| 1st pts | 105/132 | 141/191 |
| %1st pts | 80% | 74% |
| 2nd pts | 47/82 | 65/125 |
| %2nd pts | 57% | 52% |
O Connell struck 23 aces (11.5 per match). Polmans managed to score 21 aces (5.3 per match). O Connell won 80% points behind his first serve. He pretty solid on his second serve to win 57% of the points. On the other side, Polmans won 74% of the points behind his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 52% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | O Connell | Polmans |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 5 | 20 |
| Converted | 5/13 | 20/54 |
| % Converted | 38% | 37% |
| Conceded | 5 | 20 |
| Saved | 4 | 12 |
| % Saved | 80% | 60% |
| Times Broken | 1 | 8 |
Christopher broke his opponents 5 times with a 38% conversion rate. Christopher dropped his serve once and he saved 80% of the break points that he conceded. Marc broke his opponents 20 times with a 37% conversion rate. The Australian conceded his serve 8 times and he saved 60% of the break points that he conceded.
| O Connell | ||||
| R1 Sinclair |
R2 Zhukayev |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-77 7-610 7-63 | 6-2 6-75 6-1 | ||
| Tot Set | 3 | 3 | 6 | |
| Tot Games | 39 | 28 | 67 | |
| pts | 129-129 | 94-73 | 223-202 | |
| Total points | 258 | 167 | 425 | |
| Winners | 57 | 48 | 105 | |
| %Winners | 44% | 51% | 47% | |
| SERVE | ||||
| Aces | 12 | 11 | 23 | |
| Double Faults | 4 | 5 | 9 | |
| 1st in | 77/133 | 55/81 | 132/214 | |
| % 1st in | 58% | 68% | 62% | |
| 1st pts | 57/77 | 48/55 | 105/132 | |
| % 1st pts | 74% | 87% | 80% | |
| 2nd pts | 34/56 | 13/26 | 47/82 | |
| % 2nd pts | 61% | 50% | 57% | |
| Breaks | ||||
| Won | 1 | 4 | 5 | |
| Converted | 1/4 | 4/9 | 5/13 | |
| Converted % | 25% | 44% | 38% | |
| Conceded | 5 | 0 | 5 | |
| Saved | 4/5 | 0/0 | 4 | |
| Saved % | 80% | – | 40% | |
| Times Broken | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
| Polmans | ||||||
| Q1 Shiraishi |
Q3 Tokuda |
R1 Tu |
R2 Kolar |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 7-5 4-6 6-0 | 6-3 4-6 6-2 | 6-73 6-2 6-3 | 6-1 6-4 | ||
| Tot Set | 3 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 11 | |
| Tot Games | 28 | 27 | 30 | 17 | 102 | |
| pts | 90-76 | 83-75 | 118-102 | 60-48 | 351-301 | |
| Total points | 166 | 158 | 220 | 108 | 652 | |
| Winners | 41 | 39 | 38 | 23 | 141 | |
| %Winners | 46% | 47% | 32% | 38% | 40% | |
| SERVE | ||||||
| Aces | 9 | 4 | 5 | 3 | 21 | |
| Double Faults | 4 | 3 | 4 | 6 | 17 | |
| 1st in | 53/94 | 51/75 | 56/92 | 31/55 | 191/316 | |
| % 1st in | 56% | 68% | 61% | 56% | 60% | |
| 1st pts | 41/53 | 39/51 | 38/56 | 23/31 | 141/191 | |
| % 1st pts | 77% | 76% | 68% | 74% | 74% | |
| 2nd pts | 20/41 | 11/24 | 21/36 | 13/24 | 65/125 | |
| % 2nd pts | 49% | 46% | 58% | 54% | 52% | |
| Breaks | ||||||
| Won | 5 | 5 | 6 | 4 | 20 | |
| Converted | 5/8 | 5/14 | 6/22 | 4/10 | 20/54 | |
| Converted % | 63% | 36% | 27% | 40% | 37% | |
| Conceded | 6 | 8 | 4 | 2 | 20 | |
| Saved | 4/6 | 5/8 | 2/4 | 1/2 | 12 | |
| Saved % | 67% | 63% | 50% | 50% | 115% | |
| Times Broken | 2 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 8 | |
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