Christopher O Connell and Yan Bai will clash against each other in the quarter of the Shanghai Challenger for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Friday at 11:00 am on CENTER COURT. 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 -> 1.21
Yan Bai -> 4.2

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Prediction and head to head Christopher O Connell vs. Yan Bai

There is no head to head record between Christopher O Connell and Yan Bai since this will be the first time that they will face off in the main tour.

Christopher O Connell

Christopher O Connell

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Rank
115
High
53
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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
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Ranked no. 69, O Connell got to the quarter after beating Luke Saville 6-4 6-0 and Yasutaka Uchiyama 7-63 4-1 ret..

In the 2nd round against Uchiyama, the Australian had a free pass after Uchiyama retired on a 7-63 4-1 . scoreline.

O Connell has a solid win-loss record in the last 10 years having won 63% of his matches (346-204). 12-14 on hard in 2023. Talking about his performance on the same surface of this tournament, O Connell has an aggregate 147-98 win-loss record in the last years on hard.

O Connell’s best result of the season was getting to the semifinal in the Split Challenger and Munich.

O Connell has an overall 27-27 win-loss record in 2023, 12-14 on hard (See FULL STATS).

Previously in the Shanghai Challenger

Christopher has never competed in this tournament before.

Shanghai Challenger
O Connell's Record

Yan Bai

Yan Bai

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Rank
486
High
200
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Year Total Hard Clay I.hard Grass Carpet
2025 29-13 13-8 9-1 7-3 0-1 0-0
2024 52-21 47-19 4-1 1-1 0-0 0-0
2023 46-16 42-13 2-1 2-2 0-0 0-0
2022 6-4 6-4 0-0 0-0 0-0 0-0
2021 0-0 0-0 0-0 0-0 0-0 0-0
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Ranked no. 679, Yan reached the quarter after beating Yusuke Takahashi 6-2 6-4, Alexey Zakharov 6-3 6-3, Tao Mu 6-3 4-6 7-5 and Dominik Palan 6-3 6-2.

In the 2nd round, Bai had a good straight sets win against Palan (6-3 6-2). During the match Bai scored 60 points vs Palan’s 53. The Chinese was very aggressive to blast 34 winners.

About the serving games, Bai scored just 1 ace during the entire match and he was quite solid in conceding no double faults for the entire match. Yan Bai conceded no breaks for the entire match to save 2 break points. Furthermore, Bai put 71% of his first serves in, winning 74% (34/46) of the points behind his 1st serve and 42% (8/19) on the 2nd serve. Yan broke Palan 3 times after converting 43% of his break points (3/7).

Overall Performance in this tournament

Yan started his run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, he has conceded 1 set in the tournament to win 54% of the points he played.

The Chinese’s best result of the year was getting to the final in M15 Tianjin.

Bai has a compiled 33-8 win-loss record in 2023, 31-7 on hard (See FULL STATS).

Shanghai Challenger
Bai's Record

H2H Performance in the tournament

C.O Connell
Y.Bai
2h:31
2h:31
Time on court​
!
7h:33
7h:33
1h:23
1h:23
Last match​
1h:22
1h:22
2
2
Match played
!
4
4
34
34
Games Played​
84
84
5
5
Set played​​
9
9
114
114
Total points​
306
306
57
57
Avg point​
76.5
76.5
49
49
Winners
139
139
24.5
24.5
Avg Winners​
34.8
34.8
43%
43%
Ratio winners
45%
45%
-- Serve --
13
13
Aces
6
6
6.5
6.5
Avg Aces
1.5
1.5
0
0
Double Faults
0
0
0
0
Avg Double Faults
0
0
49/55
49/55
1st won total​
139/197
139/197
!
89%
89%
1st won %
!
71%
71%
18/29
18/29
2nd won total​
35/68
35/68
!
62%
62%
2nd won %
51%
51%
-- Break Points --
6/10
6/10
BP won
16/33
16/33
3/5
3/5
Avg BP won
4/8.3
4/8.3
!
60%
60%
Won
48%
48%
0
0
Conceded
16
16
0
0
Avg Conceded
4
4
0
0
Broken
5
5
!
0
0
Avg Broken
1.3
1.3
0
0
Saved
11
11
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Matches, sets, games and points

Points O Connell Bai
Match played 2 4
Tot Set 5 9
Tot Games 34 84
Pts 114-75 306-256
Total Points 189 562
Winners 49 139
%Winners 43% 45%

O Connell played 2 matches while Bai competed in 4 matches. Bai started his run from the qualifications while O Connell had a direct access to the main draw. At the moment, Yan Bai surrendered 1 set while Christopher O Connell hasn’t lost a set so far. O Connell has played 4 set(s) less than Bai (5 vs 9). Therefore, O Connell played 50 games less than Bai. O Connell scored 49 winners (43% of the total points). On the other side, The Chinese fired 139 winners (45%).

Serve Performance

Serve O Connell Bai
Aces 13 6
Avg per match 6.5 1.5
1st in 55/84 197/265
%1st in 65% 74%
1st pts 49/55 139/197
%1st pts 89% 71%
2nd pts 18/29 35/68
%2nd pts 62% 51%

O Connell scored 13 aces (6.5 per match). Bai fired 6 aces (1.5 per match). O Connell won 89% points on his first serve. He extremely effective on his second serve to win 62% of the points. On the other side, Bai won 71% of the points behind his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 51% of the points.

How they played the important points

Breaks O Connell Bai
Won 6 16
Converted 6/10 16/33
% Converted 60% 48%
Conceded 0 16
Saved 0 11
% Saved 0% 69%
Times Broken 0 5

Christopher broke his opponents 6 times with a 60% conversion rate. The Australian very solid his serve as he has never lost a single service game after saving 0 break points. Yan broke his opponents 16 times with a 48% conversion rate. The Chinese conceded his serve 5 times and he saved 69% of the break points that he conceded.

O Connell
R1
Saville		 R2
Uchiyama		 Total
Score 6-4 6-0 7-63 4-1 ret.
Tot Set 2 2 4
Tot Games 16 18 34
pts 55-34 59-41 114-75
Total points 89 100 189
Winners 23 26 49
%Winners 42% 44% 43%
SERVE
Aces 4 9 13
Double Faults 0 0 0
1st in 25/41 30/43 55/84
% 1st in 61% 70% 65%
1st pts 23/25 26/30 49/55
% 1st pts 92% 87% 89%
2nd pts 9/16 9/13 18/29
% 2nd pts 56% 69% 62%
Breaks
Won 4 2 6
Converted 4/6 2/4 6/10
Converted % 67% 50% 60%
Conceded 0 0 0
Saved 0/0 0/0 0
Saved % – – 0%
Times Broken 0 0 0
Bai
Q1
Takahashi		 Q3
Zakharov		 R1
Mu		 R2
Palan		 Total
Score 6-2 6-4 6-3 6-3 6-3 4-6 7-5 6-3 6-2
Tot Set 2 2 3 2 9
Tot Games 18 18 31 17 84
pts 71-54 65-42 110-107 60-53 306-256
Total points 125 107 217 113 562
Winners 31 23 51 34 139
%Winners 44% 35% 46% 57% 45%
SERVE
Aces 2 2 1 1 6
Double Faults 0 0 0 0 0
1st in 37/51 28/43 86/106 46/65 197/265
% 1st in 73% 65% 81% 71% 74%
1st pts 31/37 23/28 51/86 34/46 139/197
% 1st pts 84% 82% 59% 74% 71%
2nd pts 6/14 11/15 10/20 8/19 35/68
% 2nd pts 43% 73% 50% 42% 51%
Breaks
Won 3 4 6 3 16
Converted 3/7 4/9 6/10 3/7 16/33
Converted % 43% 44% 60% 43% 48%
Conceded 1 2 11 2 16
Saved 1/1 1/2 7/11 2/2 11
Saved % 100% 50% 64% 100% 157%
Times Broken 0 1 4 0 5

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