Christopher O Connell and Luke Saville will play each other in the 1st round of the Shanghai Challenger for the 3rd time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Tuesday at 1:30 pm 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 -> 1.032
Luke Saville -> 9.6
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Prediction and head to head Christopher O Connell vs. Luke Saville
This will be the 3rd time that Christopher O Connell and Luke Saville clash against each other. The head to head is 2-0 for Saville (see full H2H stats), 2-0 on hard.
The last time that they locked horns, Saville won 3-6 6-1 6-2 in the semifinal in Australia F8.
Christopher O Connell
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 25-21 | 23-16 | 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. 69, O Connell will start his run in the Shanghai Challenger after he played his last match at the Us Open where he lost 6-2 6-2 6-7(6) 6-2 to Medvedev in the 2nd round on the 31st of August.
The Australian has a composed 25-27 win-loss record in 2023, 10-14 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Christopher’s best result of the year was reaching the semifinal in the Split Challenger and Munich.
Talking about his overall career, Christopher has an overall 346-208 record. He has a positive 147-101 record on hard.
Previously in the Shanghai Challenger
Christopher has never competed in this tournament before.
Luke Saville
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 18-20 | 10-14 | 0-0 | 1-1 | 7-5 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 43-26 | 28-18 | 0-1 | 1-2 | 14-5 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 18-11 | 18-9 | 0-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 0-4 | 0-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 4-7 | 1-2 | 0-2 | 0-2 | 3-1 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 319, Saville will start his run in the Shanghai Challenger after he played his last match in the Zhangjiagang Challenger where he lost 7-6(3) 2-6 6-3 to McCabe in the 1st round on the 30th of August.
Luke has an overall 37-17 win-loss record in 2023, 23-11 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Luke’s best result of the season was getting to the final in M25 Swan Hill,M25 Roehampton and M15 Caloundra.
In terms of his career, Saville has an overall 372-281 record. He has a positive 258-200 record on hard.
Head 2 Head
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LLLLLWLLWL Tennis Scores in Shanghai Challenger
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- Alafia AyeniAyeni – Robert StrombachsStrombachs (4-6 6-4 7-61) – See score progression
- Nam Hoang LyHoang Ly – Hanwen LiLi (5-7 6-0 6-4) – See score progression
- Arjun KadheKadhe – Linang XiaoXiao (7-5 5-7 6-3) – See score progression
- Tao MuMu – Matthew Christopher RomiosChristopher Romios (6-4 6-0) – See score progression
- Yan BaiBai – Alexey ZakharovZakharov (6-3 6-3) – See score progression
- Nick ChappellChappell – Jose StathamStatham (7-6(2) 6-4) – See score progression
- Arjun KadheKadhe – Linang XiaoXiao (7-5 5-7 6-3) – See score progression
- Tao MuMu – Matthew Christopher RomiosChristopher Romios (6-4 6-0) – See score progression
- Alafia AyeniAyeni – Robert StrombachsStrombachs (4-6 6-4 7-6(1)) – See score progression
- Nam Hoang LyHoang Ly – Hanwen LiLi (5-7 6-0 6-4) – See score progression
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- Alex BoltBolt – Yosuke WatanukiWatanuki (0-1) – H2H and prediction
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- Marc PolmansPolmans – Filip PeliwoPeliwo (1-0) – H2H and prediction
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- Tung-Lin WuWu – Fajing SunSun (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Antoine BellierBellier – Arjun KadheKadhe (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Tao MuMu – Yan BaiBai (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Alafia AyeniAyeni – Mikalai HaliakHaliak (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Hanyi LiuLiu – Yasutaka UchiyamaUchiyama (0-0) – H2H and prediction
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