Christopher O Connell and Taro Daniel will face off in the 2nd round of the Chengdu Open for the 2nd time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Friday at 1:00 pm on COURT 1. 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 3 sets.
As per the initial odds, Christopher O Connell is the pick to win this match.
Christopher O Connell -> 1.83
Taro Daniel -> 1.98
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Prediction and head to head Christopher O Connell vs. Taro Daniel
This will be the 2nd time that Christopher O Connell and Taro Daniel play each other. The head to head is 1-0 for Daniel (see full H2H stats), but they have never played each other on hard.
The last time that they locked horns, Daniel won 6-0 6-2 6-4 in the 1st round in at the French Open back in May 2023.
Highlights Taro Daniel vs Christopher O Connell – French Open 29-May-2023
Christopher O Connell
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 13-13 | 10-7 | 3-6 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 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. 53 (career-high), the Australian got to the 2nd round after beating Alibek Kachmazov 7-63 6-4.
In the 1st round, The Australian had a good straight sets win against Kachmazov (7-63 6-4). During the match, O Connell scored 84 points vs Kachmazov’s 73. O Connell was pretty aggressive to blast 30 winners.
Regarding the service games, O Connell made 6 aces and he committed only 1 double fault. Christopher O Connell lost the serve twice and he saved 6 break points. Furthermore, O Connell put 60% of his first serves in, winning 68% (30/44) of the points behind his 1st serve and 62% (18/29) on the 2nd serve. O Connell broke Kachmazov 3 times after converting 33% of his break points (3/9).
O Connell has a solid win-loss record in the last 10 years having won 63% of his matches (352-205). 18-15 on hard in 2023. Regarding his performance on the same surface of this tournament, O Connell has a compiled 153-99 win-loss record in the last years on hard.
His best result of the current season was winning the title the Shanghai Challenger where he defeated Yosuke Watanuki in the final 6-3 7-5.
The Australian has an overall 33-28 win-loss record in 2023, 18-15 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in Chengdu
O Connell has never competed in this tournament before.
Taro Daniel
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 4-15 | 4-9 | 0-5 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 31-33 | 16-16 | 5-11 | 9-3 | 1-3 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 45-30 | 34-16 | 7-10 | 2-1 | 2-3 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 43-29 | 27-17 | 12-7 | 2-2 | 2-3 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 30-25 | 5-7 | 21-15 | 4-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 95, Daniel got to the 2nd round after defeating Aleksandar Vukic 4-6 6-4 6-2.
In the 1st round against Vukic, Taro recovered from a 1-set down deficit before winning (4-6 6-4 6-2). During the match Daniel scored 90 points vs Vukic’s 80. Daniel was extremely aggressive to blast 30 winners.
Talking about serving, Daniel fired 7 aces and he committed only 5 double faults. Overall, Taro Daniel was extremely effective on serve to win 73% (30/41) of his 1st serve and 53% (20/38) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve 3 times. Taro broke Vukic 5 times after converting 36% of his break points (5/14).
Daniel has a compiled 30-24 win-loss record in 2023, 20-11 on hard (See FULL STATS).
H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | O Connell | Daniel |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 1 | 1 |
| Tot Set | 2 | 3 |
| Tot Games | 23 | 28 |
| Pts | 84-73 | 90-80 |
| Total Points | 157 | 170 |
| Winners | 30 | 30 |
| %Winners | 36% | 33% |
Both O Connell and Daniel played 1 match. At the moment, Taro Daniel dropped 1 set while Christopher O Connell hasn’t surrendered a set so far. O Connell has played 1 set(s) less than Daniel (2 vs 3). Therefore, O Connell played 5 games less than Daniel. The Australian scored 30 winners (36% of the total points). On the other side, Taro struck 30 winners (33%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | O Connell | Daniel |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 6 | 7 |
| Avg per match | 6 | 7 |
| 1st in | 44/73 | 41/79 |
| %1st in | 60% | 52% |
| 1st pts | 30/44 | 30/41 |
| %1st pts | 68% | 73% |
| 2nd pts | 18/29 | 20/38 |
| %2nd pts | 62% | 53% |
O Connell fired 6 aces . Daniel struck 7 aces . O Connell won 68% points on his first serve. He extremely effective on his second serve to win 62% of the points. On the other side, Daniel won 73% of the points on his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 53% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | O Connell | Daniel |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 3 | 5 |
| Converted | 3/9 | 5/14 |
| % Converted | 33% | 36% |
| Conceded | 8 | 7 |
| Saved | 6 | 4 |
| % Saved | 75% | 57% |
| Times Broken | 2 | 3 |
O Connell broke his opponent 3 times with a 33% conversion rate. O Connell dropped his serve twice and he saved 75% of the break points that he conceded. Daniel broke his opponent 5 times with a 36% conversion rate. Daniel conceded his serve 3 times and he saved 57% of the break points that he conceded.
| O Connell | |||
| R1 Kachmazov |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 7-63 6-4 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 23 | 23 | |
| pts | 84-73 | 84-73 | |
| Total points | 157 | 157 | |
| Winners | 30 | 30 | |
| %Winners | 36% | 36% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 6 | 6 | |
| Double Faults | 1 | 1 | |
| 1st in | 44/73 | 44/73 | |
| % 1st in | 60% | 60% | |
| 1st pts | 30/44 | 30/44 | |
| % 1st pts | 68% | 68% | |
| 2nd pts | 18/29 | 18/29 | |
| % 2nd pts | 62% | 62% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 3 | 3 | |
| Converted | 3/9 | 3/9 | |
| Converted % | 33% | 33% | |
| Conceded | 8 | 8 | |
| Saved | 6/8 | 6 | |
| Saved % | 75% | 75% | |
| Times Broken | 2 | 2 | |
| Daniel | |||
| R1 Vukic |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 4-6 6-4 6-2 | ||
| Tot Set | 3 | 3 | |
| Tot Games | 28 | 28 | |
| pts | 90-80 | 90-80 | |
| Total points | 170 | 170 | |
| Winners | 30 | 30 | |
| %Winners | 33% | 33% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 7 | 7 | |
| Double Faults | 5 | 5 | |
| 1st in | 41/79 | 41/79 | |
| % 1st in | 52% | 52% | |
| 1st pts | 30/41 | 30/41 | |
| % 1st pts | 73% | 73% | |
| 2nd pts | 20/38 | 20/38 | |
| % 2nd pts | 53% | 53% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 5 | 5 | |
| Converted | 5/14 | 5/14 | |
| Converted % | 36% | 36% | |
| Conceded | 7 | 7 | |
| Saved | 4/7 | 4 | |
| Saved % | 57% | 57% | |
| Times Broken | 3 | 3 | |
Head 2 Head
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LLLLLLLWLL Tennis Scores in Chengdu
- Marcos GironGiron – Alexander BublikBublik (7-66 6-3) – See score progression
- Dusan LajovicLajovic – Zizou BergsBergs (6-4 1-6 6-3) – See score progression
- Christopher O ConnellO Connell – Alibek KachmazovKachmazov (7-63 6-4) – See score progression
- Philip SekulicSekulic – Nuno BorgesBorges (7-5 5-7 6-3) – See score progression
- Juan Pablo VarillasPablo Varillas – Jie CuiCui (6-1 6-3) – See score progression
- Jordan ThompsonThompson – Max PurcellPurcell (6-2 7-68) – See score progression
- Arthur RinderknechRinderknech – Li TuTu (7-65 7-66) – See score progression
- Miomir KecmanovicKecmanovic – Benjamin LockLock (6-2 6-3) – See score progression
- Pavel KotovKotov – Daniel Elahi GalanElahi Galan (7-5 7-5) – See score progression
- Taro DanielDaniel – Aleksandar VukicVukic (4-6 6-4 6-2) – See score progression
- Corentin MoutetMoutet – Tao MuMu (6-2 6-2) – See score progression
- Roman SafiullinSafiullin – Brandon NakashimaNakashima (6-4 6-4) – See score progression
- Pavel KotovKotov – Daniel Elahi GalanElahi Galan (7-5 7-5) – See score progression
Upcoming matches in the draw
- Grigor DimitrovDimitrov – Juan Pablo VarillasPablo Varillas (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Marcos GironGiron – Arthur RinderknechRinderknech (2-0) – H2H and prediction
- Jordan ThompsonThompson – Dusan LajovicLajovic (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Alexander ZverevZverev – Pavel KotovKotov (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Christopher O ConnellO Connell – Taro DanielDaniel (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Roman SafiullinSafiullin – Daniel EvansEvans (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Corentin MoutetMoutet – Miomir KecmanovicKecmanovic (0-1) – H2H and prediction
