Christopher O Connell and Mattia Bellucci will square off in the 2nd round of the U.S. Open for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Thursday at 11:00 am on Court 12. Here the head to head stats and relative prediction.
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The pick for Tennis Tonic is Mattia Bellucci who should win in 5 sets.
As per the initial odds, Mattia Bellucci is the pick to win this match.
Mattia Bellucci -> 1.56
Christopher O Connell -> 2.43
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Prediction and head to head Christopher O Connell vs. Mattia Bellucci
There is no head to head record between Christopher O Connell and Mattia Bellucci since this will be the first time that they will face off in the main tour.
Christopher O Connell
15 - 17win/loss
66
53
LWWLLWLLLL | Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| 2020 | 12-12 | 4-5 | 4-3 | 4-4 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 87, O Connell reached the 2nd round after defeating Nicolas Jarry 6-4 6-3 4-6 6-3.
In the 1st round, The Australian had a good straight sets win against Jarry (6-4 6-3 4-6 6-3). During the match, O Connell scored 118 points vs Jarry’s 114. The Australian was extremely aggressive to blast 46 winners.
Talking about the service games, O Connell made 11 aces and he committed only 4 double faults. Overall, Christopher O Connell was very efficient on serve to win 79% (46/58) of his 1st serve and 57% (32/56) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve once. Christopher broke Jarry 4 times after converting 25% of his break points (4/16).
O Connell has a solid win-loss record in the last 10 years having won 62% of his matches (338-206). 13-12 on hard in 2024. Talking about his performance on the same surface of this event, O Connell has an overall 149-103 match record in the last years on hard.
The Australian has an aggregate 15-17 win-loss record in 2024, 13-12 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously at the U.S. Open
Mattia Bellucci
37 - 24win/loss
104
101
LWWWWLWLWW | Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 48-30 | 31-16 | 5-2 | 6-8 | 6-4 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 33-34 | 22-19 | 2-9 | 4-3 | 5-3 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 66-23 | 30-4 | 25-12 | 11-7 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 39-18 | 29-10 | 5-3 | 5-4 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 15-6 | 13-3 | 0-1 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 2-1 |
Ranked no. 101 (career-high), Bellucci reached the 2nd round after defeating Aidan Mayo 6-2 7-5, Federico Agustin Gomez 7-5 6-2, Kamil Majchrzak 6-3 6-3 and Stan Wawrinka 6-4 7-6(5) 6-3.
In the 1st round, The Italian had a good straight sets win against Wawrinka (6-4 7-65 6-3). During the match Bellucci scored 106 points vs Wawrinka’s 85. Bellucci was quite aggressive to blast 51 winners.
Talking about serving, Bellucci bagged 12 aces and he committed only 1 double fault for the entire match. Overall, Mattia Bellucci was extremely effective on serve to win 88% (51/58) of his 1st serve and 63% (20/32) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve once. The Italian broke Wawrinka 3 times after converting 50% of his break points (3/6).
Bellucci’s best result of the current season was getting to the final in the Cary Challenger.
Mattia has a compiled 37-24 win-loss record in 2024, 21-11 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously at the U.S. Open
Previously, his best result was reaching the qualifications in 2023. See his history.
H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | O Connell | Bellucci |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 1 | 4 |
| Tot Set | 4 | 9 |
| Tot Games | 38 | 90 |
| Pts | 118-114 | 291-223 |
| Total Points | 232 | 514 |
| Winners | 46 | 124 |
| %Winners | 39% | 43% |
O Connell played 1 match while Bellucci competed in 4 matches. Bellucci started his run from the qualifications while O Connell had a direct access to the main draw. At the moment, Christopher O Connell conceded 1 set while Mattia Bellucci hasn’t conceded a set so far. O Connell has played 5 set(s) less than Bellucci (4 vs 9). Therefore, O Connell played 52 games less than Bellucci. Christopher scored 46 winners (39% of the total points). On the other side, Bellucci struck 124 winners (43%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | O Connell | Bellucci |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 11 | 27 |
| Avg per match | 11 | 6.8 |
| 1st in | 58/114 | 153/245 |
| %1st in | 51% | 62% |
| 1st pts | 46/58 | 124/153 |
| %1st pts | 79% | 81% |
| 2nd pts | 32/56 | 57/92 |
| %2nd pts | 57% | 62% |
O Connell scored 11 aces . Bellucci struck 27 aces (6.8 per match). O Connell won 79% points on his first serve. He pretty solid on his second serve to win 57% of the points. On the other side, Bellucci won 81% of the points behind his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 62% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | O Connell | Bellucci |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 4 | 15 |
| Converted | 4/16 | 15/24 |
| % Converted | 25% | 63% |
| Conceded | 5 | 7 |
| Saved | 4 | 3 |
| % Saved | 80% | 43% |
| Times Broken | 1 | 4 |
Christopher broke his opponent 4 times with a 25% conversion rate. Christopher conceded his serve once and he saved 80% of the break points that he conceded. The Italian broke his opponents 15 times with a 63% conversion rate. Mattia conceded his serve 4 times and he saved 43% of the break points that he conceded.
| O Connell | |||
| R1 Jarry |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-4 6-3 4-6 6-3 | ||
| Tot Set | 4 | 4 | |
| Tot Games | 38 | 38 | |
| pts | 118-114 | 118-114 | |
| Total points | 232 | 232 | |
| Winners | 46 | 46 | |
| %Winners | 39% | 39% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 11 | 11 | |
| Double Faults | 4 | 4 | |
| 1st in | 58/114 | 58/114 | |
| % 1st in | 51% | 51% | |
| 1st pts | 46/58 | 46/58 | |
| % 1st pts | 79% | 79% | |
| 2nd pts | 32/56 | 32/56 | |
| % 2nd pts | 57% | 57% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 4 | 4 | |
| Converted | 4/16 | 4/16 | |
| Converted % | 25% | 25% | |
| Conceded | 5 | 5 | |
| Saved | 4/5 | 4 | |
| Saved % | 80% | 80% | |
| Times Broken | 1 | 1 | |
| Bellucci | ||||||
| Q1 Mayo |
Q2 Agustin |
Q3 Majchrzak |
R1 Wawrinka |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-2 7-5 | 7-5 6-2 | 6-3 6-3 | 6-4 7-65 6-3 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 9 | |
| Tot Games | 20 | 20 | 18 | 32 | 90 | |
| pts | 64-47 | 67-51 | 54-40 | 106-85 | 291-223 | |
| Total points | 111 | 118 | 94 | 191 | 514 | |
| Winners | 25 | 28 | 20 | 51 | 124 | |
| %Winners | 39% | 42% | 37% | 48% | 43% | |
| SERVE | ||||||
| Aces | 4 | 6 | 5 | 12 | 27 | |
| Double Faults | 1 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 8 | |
| 1st in | 35/53 | 32/54 | 28/48 | 58/90 | 153/245 | |
| % 1st in | 66% | 59% | 58% | 64% | 62% | |
| 1st pts | 25/35 | 28/32 | 20/28 | 51/58 | 124/153 | |
| % 1st pts | 71% | 88% | 71% | 88% | 81% | |
| 2nd pts | 12/18 | 11/22 | 14/20 | 20/32 | 57/92 | |
| % 2nd pts | 67% | 50% | 70% | 63% | 62% | |
| Breaks | ||||||
| Won | 4 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 15 | |
| Converted | 4/4 | 4/8 | 4/6 | 3/6 | 15/24 | |
| Converted % | 100% | 50% | 67% | 50% | 63% | |
| Conceded | 1 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 7 | |
| Saved | 0/1 | 1/2 | 0/1 | 2/3 | 3 | |
| Saved % | 0% | 50% | 0% | 67% | 117% | |
| Times Broken | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4 | |
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