Christopher O Connell and Ye Cong Mo will play each other in the 2nd round of the Guangzhou Challenger for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Thursday at 2:00 pm on COURT 5. 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 -> 1.091
Ye Cong Mo -> 6.45
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Prediction and head to head Christopher O Connell vs. Ye Cong Mo
There is no head to head record between Christopher O Connell and Ye Cong Mo since this will be the first time that they will square off in the main tour.
Christopher O Connell
17 - 18win/loss
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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, Christopher reached the 2nd round after defeating Tristan Lamasine 6-3 6-2.
In the 1st round, O Connell had a good straight sets win against Lamasine (6-3 6-2). During the match, O Connell scored 61 points vs Lamasine’s 42. Christopher was quite aggressive to blast 27 winners.
Regarding the service games, O Connell struck 4 aces and he was exceptionally consistent in conceding no double faults. Overall, Christopher O Connell was exceptionally efficient on serve to win 73% (27/37) of his 1st serve and 64% (9/14) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve once. The Australian broke Lamasine 4 times after converting 36% of his break points (4/11).
O Connell has a solid record in the last 10 years having won 62% of his matches (340-207). 15-13 on hard in 2024. Regarding his performance on the same surface of this competition, O Connell has an overall 151-104 match record in the last years on hard.
O Connell has an aggregate 17-18 win-loss record in 2024, 15-13 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Guangzhou Challenger
Ye Cong Mo
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 25-24 | 22-22 | 3-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 39-20 | 36-18 | 3-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 29-9 | 29-9 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 610, Ye got to the 2nd round after defeating Markos Kalovelonis 6-2 7-5.
In the 1st round, Ye had a good straight sets win against Kalovelonis (6-2 7-5). During the match Cong Mo scored 68 points vs Kalovelonis’s 44. Ye was extremely aggressive to blast 29 winners.
About the serving games, Cong Mo scored 13 aces and he committed only 4 double faults. Ye Cong Mo was very effective on serve to win 91% (29/32) of his 1st serve and 74% (14/19) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. Cong Mo broke Kalovelonis 3 times after converting 60% of his break points (3/5).
The Chinese’s best result of the current season was reaching the final in M25 Luan.
Ye has a composed 23-19 win-loss record in 2024, 20-17 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Guangzhou Challenger
Previously, his best result was reaching the 1st round in 2023. See his history.
H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | O Connell | Cong Mo |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 1 | 1 |
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 |
| Tot Games | 17 | 20 |
| Pts | 61-42 | 68-44 |
| Total Points | 103 | 112 |
| Winners | 27 | 29 |
| %Winners | 44% | 43% |
Both O Connell and Cong Mo played 1 match. Both players have not lost a single set in this event so far. Talking about their workload, O Connell and Cong Mo have played the same amount of sets 2. However, O Connell played 3 games less than Cong Mo. The Australian scored 27 winners (44% of the total points). On the other side, Cong Mo managed to score 29 winners (43%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | O Connell | Cong Mo |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 4 | 13 |
| Avg per match | 4 | 13 |
| 1st in | 37/51 | 32/51 |
| %1st in | 73% | 63% |
| 1st pts | 27/37 | 29/32 |
| %1st pts | 73% | 91% |
| 2nd pts | 9/14 | 14/19 |
| %2nd pts | 64% | 74% |
O Connell scored 4 aces . Cong Mo scored 13 aces . O Connell won 73% points on his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 64% of the points. On the other side, Cong Mo won 91% of the points behind his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 74% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | O Connell | Cong Mo |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 4 | 3 |
| Converted | 4/11 | 3/5 |
| % Converted | 36% | 60% |
| Conceded | 2 | 3 |
| Saved | 1 | 3 |
| % Saved | 50% | 100% |
| Times Broken | 1 | 0 |
O Connell broke his opponent 4 times with a 36% conversion rate. O Connell dropped his serve once and he saved 50% of the break points that he conceded. The Chinese broke his opponent 3 times with a 60% conversion rate. Ye was rock solid on his serve as he has never conceded a single service game after saving 3 break points.
| O Connell | |||
| R1 Lamasine |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-3 6-2 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 17 | 17 | |
| pts | 61-42 | 61-42 | |
| Total points | 103 | 103 | |
| Winners | 27 | 27 | |
| %Winners | 44% | 44% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 4 | 4 | |
| Double Faults | 0 | 0 | |
| 1st in | 37/51 | 37/51 | |
| % 1st in | 73% | 73% | |
| 1st pts | 27/37 | 27/37 | |
| % 1st pts | 73% | 73% | |
| 2nd pts | 9/14 | 9/14 | |
| % 2nd pts | 64% | 64% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 4 | 4 | |
| Converted | 4/11 | 4/11 | |
| Converted % | 36% | 36% | |
| Conceded | 2 | 2 | |
| Saved | 1/2 | 1 | |
| Saved % | 50% | 50% | |
| Times Broken | 1 | 1 | |
| Cong Mo | |||
| R1 Kalovelonis |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-2 7-5 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 20 | 20 | |
| pts | 68-44 | 68-44 | |
| Total points | 112 | 112 | |
| Winners | 29 | 29 | |
| %Winners | 43% | 43% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 13 | 13 | |
| Double Faults | 4 | 4 | |
| 1st in | 32/51 | 32/51 | |
| % 1st in | 63% | 63% | |
| 1st pts | 29/32 | 29/32 | |
| % 1st pts | 91% | 91% | |
| 2nd pts | 14/19 | 14/19 | |
| % 2nd pts | 74% | 74% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 3 | 3 | |
| Converted | 3/5 | 3/5 | |
| Converted % | 60% | 60% | |
| Conceded | 3 | 3 | |
| Saved | 3/3 | 3 | |
| Saved % | 100% | 100% | |
| Times Broken | 0 | 0 | |
Head 2 Head
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