Quentin Halys and Christopher O Connell will square off in the qualifications of the Dubai Duty Free Tennis Championships for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Sunday at 1:30 pm on COURT 1. 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 Quentin Halys who should win in 3 sets.
As per the initial odds, Quentin Halys is the pick to win this match.
Quentin Halys -> 1.63
Christopher O Connell -> 2.18
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Prediction and head to head Quentin Halys vs. Christopher O Connell
There is no head to head record between Quentin Halys and Christopher O Connell since this will be the first time that they will square off in the main tour.
Quentin Halys
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 19-31 | 12-14 | 4-6 | 1-7 | 2-4 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 47-27 | 6-6 | 14-10 | 22-10 | 5-1 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 26-26 | 11-13 | 10-6 | 3-6 | 2-1 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 57-26 | 5-7 | 9-4 | 32-10 | 6-5 | 5-0 |
| 2021 | 35-27 | 14-8 | 10-9 | 8-8 | 0-1 | 3-1 |
Ranked no. 64, the French player got to the qualifications after defeating Nikoloz Basilashvili 4-6 6-3 3-0 ret..
In the qualifications against Basilashvili, the French player had a free pass after Basilashvili retired on a 4-6 6-3 3-0 . scoreline.
Halys has favorable match record in the last 10 years having won 56% of his matches (321-249). 4-4 on hard in 2023. Regarding his performance on the same surface of this event, Halys has an overall 100-77 record in the last years on hard.
Halys has an overall 7-7 win-loss record in 2023, 4-4 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in Dubai
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. 94, the Australian reached the qualifications after beating Kareem Allaf 6-3 6-4.
In the qualifications, The Australian had a good straight sets win against Allaf (6-3 6-4). During the match O scored 62 points vs Allaf’s 48. The Australian was pretty aggressive to blast 27 winners.
About the serving games, O struck 4 aces and he was pretty steady in conceding no double faults for the entire match. Christopher O Connell was quite efficient on serve to win 82% (27/33) of his 1st serve and 67% (14/21) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. O broke Allaf twice after converting 67% of his break points (2/3).
Christopher has a compiled 5-6 win-loss record in 2023, 5-6 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in Dubai
Previously, his best result was reaching the 1st round in 2021 and 2022. See his history.
H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Halys | O |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 1 | 1 |
| Tot Set | 4 | 2 |
| Tot Games | 22 | 19 |
| Pts | 76-62 | 62-48 |
| Total Points | 138 | 110 |
| Winners | 36 | 27 |
| %Winners | 47% | 44% |
Both Halys and O played 1 match. Also both players started their run from the qualifications.At the moment, Quentin Halys conceded 1 set while Christopher O Connell hasn’t lost a set so far. Halys has played 2 sets more than O (4 vs 2). Therefore, Halys played 3 games more than O. Quentin scored 36 winners (47% of the total points). On the other side, The Australian made 27 winners (44%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Halys | O |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 17 | 4 |
| Avg per match | 17 | 4 |
| 1st in | 45/66 | 33/54 |
| %1st in | 68% | 61% |
| 1st pts | 36/45 | 27/33 |
| %1st pts | 80% | 82% |
| 2nd pts | 10/21 | 14/21 |
| %2nd pts | 48% | 67% |
Halys made 17 aces . O recorded 4 aces . Halys won 80% points behind his first serve. He was rock solid on his second serve to win 48% of the points. On the other side, O won 82% of the points on his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 67% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Halys | O |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 3 | 2 |
| Converted | 3/7 | 2/3 |
| % Converted | 43% | 67% |
| Conceded | 2 | 1 |
| Saved | 1 | 1 |
| % Saved | 50% | 100% |
| Times Broken | 1 | 0 |
The French player broke his opponent 3 times with a 43% conversion rate. Quentin surrendered his serve once and he saved 50% of the break points that he conceded. The Australian broke his opponent twice with a 67% conversion rate. The Australian was rock solid on his serve as he has never conceded a single service game after saving 1 break points.
| Halys | |||
| Q1 Basilashvili |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 4-6 6-3 3-0 ret. | ||
| Tot Set | 3 | 3 | |
| Tot Games | 22 | 22 | |
| pts | 76-62 | 76-62 | |
| Total points | 138 | 138 | |
| Winners | 36 | 36 | |
| %Winners | 47% | 47% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 17 | 17 | |
| Double Faults | 3 | 3 | |
| 1st in | 45/66 | 45/66 | |
| % 1st in | 68% | 68% | |
| 1st pts | 36/45 | 36/45 | |
| % 1st pts | 80% | 80% | |
| 2nd pts | 10/21 | 10/21 | |
| % 2nd pts | 48% | 48% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 3 | 3 | |
| Converted | 3/7 | 3/7 | |
| Converted % | 43% | 43% | |
| Conceded | 2 | 2 | |
| Saved | 1/2 | 1 | |
| Saved % | 50% | 50% | |
| Times Broken | 1 | 1 | |
| O | |||
| Q1 Allaf |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-3 6-4 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 19 | 19 | |
| pts | 62-48 | 62-48 | |
| Total points | 110 | 110 | |
| Winners | 27 | 27 | |
| %Winners | 44% | 44% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 4 | 4 | |
| Double Faults | 0 | 0 | |
| 1st in | 33/54 | 33/54 | |
| % 1st in | 61% | 61% | |
| 1st pts | 27/33 | 27/33 | |
| % 1st pts | 82% | 82% | |
| 2nd pts | 14/21 | 14/21 | |
| % 2nd pts | 67% | 67% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 2 | 2 | |
| Converted | 2/3 | 2/3 | |
| Converted % | 67% | 67% | |
| Conceded | 1 | 1 | |
| Saved | 1/1 | 1 | |
| Saved % | 100% | 100% | |
| Times Broken | 0 | 0 | |
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