Prediction Of Musetti Vs O’Connell H2H, Who Will Win At ATP Chengdu Open 2024?

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Musetti and O’Connell are on the Day 4 Schedule at Chengdu Open 2024 on Saturday 21 September 2024. Lets breakdown the career, past stats and recent form of these players and predict who will get the victory.

Who Will Win In This Head-To-Head?

Lorenzo Musetti, a 22-year-old Italian tennis player, will be facing Christopher O’Connell from Australia for the first time. Musetti is currently ranked as the world number 19 and has achieved a career-high ranking of number 15. In the year 2024, he has a record of 34 wins and 22 losses, reaching two finals. Musetti has a 2-1 record in Chengdu, having reached the semifinals in 2023.

During the 2022 season, Musetti broke into the top 20 in January and reached his career-high ranking in June. He achieved his personal-best of 34 wins in that season. In the 2022 Hamburg final, Musetti defeated the 19-year-old Carlos Alcaraz, becoming the youngest player to reach an ATP Tour final since 2005.

At the 2023 Monte-Carlo tournament, Musetti had a remarkable victory, winning 6-0 6-0 against Nardi in the second round, which was his first such victory in an ATP Masters 1000 event since 2016. He also had a major upset in the same tournament when he defeated the number one player in the world, Novak Djokovic, in the third round. This win was considered the biggest of his career, and it led him to reach the quarterfinals of an ATP Masters 1000 event for the second time.

In the 2024 Paris Olympics, Musetti captured the bronze medal after upsetting the defending champion, Alexander Zverev. This achievement marked the first Olympic singles medal for Team Italy in the Open Era. Musetti won his second ATP title at the 2022 Naples tournament, where he did not drop a set. In the final, he defeated his fellow countryman and United Cup teammate, Matteo Berrettini, which made this victory even more remarkable as it happened on home soil.

Notably, Musetti reached the singles final in the boys’ category at the 2018 US Open and won the 2019 Australian Open in the boys’ category. Additionally, in 2020, he defeated Stan Wawrinka at the Rome tournament, becoming the first player born in 2002 to win an ATP Tour match.

In the current Chengdu tournament,

Musetti aims to achieve his personal-best 35th win of the season and his 28th tour-level quarterfinal, which would be his 7th quarterfinal appearance in 2024. He has previously been the number one seed in an ATP Tour event three times in his career.

On the other hand, Christopher O’Connell is a 30-year-old Australian player who is currently ranked as the world number 75, with a career-high ranking of 53. In 2024, he has a win-loss record of 14-16, with his best result being a quarterfinal appearance in Adelaide. In the 2023 Chengdu tournament, O’Connell reached the quarterfinals with a 3-1 record.

O’Connell started his journey from being unranked and made his way into the top 200 in September 2019 and the top 100 in July 2022. He achieved his career-high ranking of 53 in September 2023 after winning his fifth Challenger title in Shanghai without losing a set. O’Connell reached his first ATP Tour semifinal in San Diego in 2022 and his first ATP Tour quarterfinal in Atlanta in 2021 as a qualifier. He successfully qualified for six tour-level events in 2022, including his hometown tournament in Sydney.

In terms of notable victories, O’Connell defeated the number 13 player in the world, Diego Schwartzman, at the 2022 Australian Open, which was his biggest win thus far. He also defeated the number 16 player, Alexander Zverev, to reach the semifinals of the 2023 Munich tournament.

In 2019, O’Connell played a total of 108 main draw and qualifying singles matches across all tours, earning a record of 50 wins and 11 losses on the ITF World Tennis Tour. He won three titles out of the ten finals he reached.

In the upcoming match, O’Connell will attempt to reach his 10th ATP Tour quarterfinal, with his current record standing at 2 wins and 7 losses in this stage. He has only managed to secure two wins against top 20 players in his career, with victories over Schwartzman at the 2022 Australian Open and Zverev at the 2023 Munich tournament.

My Conclusion / Prediction:

My pick is that Musetti will win.
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