Sebastian Baez and Christopher O Connell will clash against each other in the 1st round of the Swiss Indoors Basel for the 2nd time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Monday at 2:30 pm on IWB COURT 1. 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 3 sets.
Christopher O Connell -> 1.85
Sebastian Baez -> 1.952
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Prediction and head to head Sebastian Baez vs. Christopher O Connell
This will be the 2nd time that Sebastian Baez and Christopher O Connell fight against each other. The head to head is 1-0 for Baez (see full H2H stats), but they have never competed against each other on indoor hard courts.
The last time that they squared off, Baez won 6-2 1-6 7-6(4) in the 1st round in Sydney back in 2022.
Highlights Sebastian Baez vs Christopher O Connell – Sydney 11-January-2022
Sebastian Baez
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 20-27 | 3-9 | 17-14 | 0-3 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 31-28 | 5-9 | 26-11 | 0-5 | 0-3 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 33-27 | 9-7 | 22-13 | 1-5 | 1-2 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 35-32 | 6-12 | 27-12 | 0-6 | 2-2 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 56-16 | 2-1 | 52-12 | 2-2 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 29, Sebastian will start his run in Basel after he played his last match in Stockholm where he lost 7-6(5) 6-2 to Wolf in the 1st round on the 17th of October.
Baez has a composed 32-24 win-loss record in 2023, 0-2 on indoor hard courts (See FULL STATS).
His best result of the current year was winning the title in Cordoba where he overcame Federico Coria in the final 6-1 3-6 6-3 and in Kitzbuhel where he defeated Dominic Thiem in the final 6-3 6-1 and in Salem where he beat Jiri Lehecka in the final 6-4 6-3.
Talking about his overall career, Baez has an overall 219-118 record. He has a negative 2-11 record on indoor hard courts.
Previously in Basel
Previously, his best result was reaching the 1st round in 2022. See his history.
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. 61, Christopher reached the 1st round after beating Maxime Cressy 7-63 7-5 and Thiago Seyboth Wild 7-64 7-64.
In the qualifications, The Australian had a good straight sets win against Seyboth Wild (7-64 7-64). During the match O scored 81 points vs Seyboth Wild’s 76. Christopher was exceptionally aggressive to blast 39 winners.
Talking about serving, O managed to score 6 aces and he was quite solid in conceding no double faults for the entire match. Christopher O Connell was quite efficient on serve to win 80% (39/49) of his 1st serve and 61% (17/28) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match.
Overall Performance in this tournament
O started his run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, he hasn’t lost yet a set in this competition to win 52% of the points he played.
His best result of the year was winning the title the Shanghai Challenger where he defeated Yosuke Watanuki in the final 6-3 7-5.
The Australian has a composed 36-31 win-loss record in 2023, 2-0 on indoor hard courts (See FULL STATS).
Previously in Basel
The Australian has never competed in this tournament before.
Tennis Scores in Basel
- Benjamin HassanHassan – Dominik KoepferKoepfer (6-2 2-6 6-4) – See score progression
- Botic Van De ZandschulpVan De Zandschulp – Arthur RinderknechRinderknech (7-64 6-3) – See score progression
- Christopher O ConnellO Connell – Thiago Seyboth WildSeyboth Wild (7-64 7-64) – See score progression
- Alexander ShevchenkoShevchenko – Remy BertolaBertola (6-3 7-5) – See score progression
Upcoming matches in the draw
- Andy MurrayMurray – Yannick HanfmannHanfmann (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Stan WawrinkaWawrinka – Alexander ShevchenkoShevchenko (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Dusan LajovicLajovic – Hubert HurkaczHurkacz (0-3) – H2H and prediction
- Jan-Lennard StruffStruff – Christopher EubanksEubanks (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Alexander BublikBublik – Casper RuudRuud (1-5) – H2H and prediction
- Botic Van De ZandschulpVan De Zandschulp – Roberto Bautista AgutBautista Agut (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Christopher O ConnellO Connell – Sebastian BaezBaez (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Nicolas JarryJarry – Adrian MannarinoMannarino (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Taylor Harry FritzHarry Fritz – Max PurcellPurcell (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Tallon GriekspoorGriekspoor – Laslo DjereDjere (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Tomas Martin EtcheverryMartin Etcheverry – Sebastian KordaKorda (0-2) – H2H and prediction
- Ugo HumbertHumbert – Marcos GironGiron (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Alex De MinaurDe Minaur – Diego Sebastian SchwartzmanSebastian Schwartzman (2-0) – H2H and prediction
- Holger Vitus Nodskov RuneVitus Nodskov Rune – Miomir KecmanovicKecmanovic (0-1) – H2H and prediction