Christopher O Connell overcomes Zsombor Piros 7-63 6-2 in the semifinal in Cordenons Challenger on Saturday. O Connell will face off with Jeremy Jahn in the final.
Score, report, and key facts
1st set.
O Connell clinched the set after recovering from 1 break down. In fact, after conceding his serve in the 5th (2-3) game, The Australian broke back in the 6th (3-3) game before winning the set at the following breaker at 3.
2nd set.
O Connell came out strong at the beginning of the set after breaking Piros in the 1st game (1-0) before consolidating his break and lead 4-0. Yet, there was more to do for the Australian to win the set as the Hungarian found the way to break back in the 6th (2-4) game. Christopher kept his focus to break the Hungarian in the 7th (5-2) game before managing to win the set (6-2).
A crucial moment of the match was when O Connell won 4 consecutive games in the 2nd set to change the scoreline from 0-0 to 4-0.
Statistics
At the end of the match, O Connell scored 86 points vs. the Hungarian’s 69 points.
O Connell won this match even if he had some problems in converting his break points because he converted only 44% (4/9). On the other side, Piros was far from perfect in converting his break points as he converted only 13% of his break points (2/15). That was one of the key issues for his loss.
After this contest, the head to head between O Connell and Piros is 1-0.
Next Match: Christopher O Connell vs. Jeremy Jahn – stats
O Connell will compete against Jahn in the final.
There is no head to head record between Christopher O Connell and Jeremy Jahn since this will be the first time that they will square off in the main tour.
Tennis Scores in Cordenons Challenger
- Christopher O ConnellChristopher – Zsombor PirosZsombor (7-63 6-2) – See score progression
- Jeremy JahnJeremy – Markus ErikssonMarkus (6-1 6-1) – See score progression
Upcoming matches
- Jeremy JahnJeremy – Christopher O ConnellChristopher (0-0) – See H2H details