Prediction Of O’Connell Vs Michelsen H2H, Who Will Win At ATP Kinoshita Group Japan Open Tennis Championships 2024?

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O’Connell and Michelsen are on the Day 4 Schedule at Kinoshita Group Japan Open Tennis Championships 2024 on Saturday 28 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?

In their first meeting, Christopher O’Connell from Australia, aged 30, currently ranked 79th in the world, with a career-high ranking of 53, will face off against Alex Michelsen from the United States, aged 20, currently ranked 49th in the world, with a career-high ranking of 47.

O’Connell’s journey in the tennis world has seen him go from being unranked at the start of 2019 to breaking into the top 200 in September of that year. By the end of the 2022 season, he had reached a ranking of 78 before achieving his career-high of 53 in September 2023. He achieved this milestone after winning his fifth Challenger title in Shanghai without losing a set. O’Connell also recorded notable achievements such as reaching his first ATP Tour semifinal in 2022 at the San Diego tournament and his first ATP Tour quarterfinal as a qualifier in 2021 at Atlanta. He qualified for six tour-level events in 2022, including his hometown tournament in Sydney. In the 2022 Australian Open, he secured a significant victory against No. 13 Schwartzman, reaching the third round as a wildcard. He also defeated No. 16 Zverev in the 2023 Munich tournament, reaching his second ATP Tour semifinal. In 2019, O’Connell played 108 main draw and qualifying singles matches across all tours, achieving a 50-11 record on the ITF World Tennis Tour with three titles in ten finals. His recent performance shows a record of 11-2 across all levels since the US Open, with his two losses against No. 1 Sinner and No. 19 Musetti. O’Connell aims to reach his 10th ATP Tour quarterfinal, which would be his first above the ATP 250 level since the Adelaide tournament in January, where he lost to Korda.

On the other hand, Michelsen, at the young age of 20, broke into the top 50 of the PIF ATP Rankings in August 2024, just a day after his 20th birthday. This achievement made him the youngest American man to be ranked in the top 50 since Querrey in 2007. Michelsen also made his mark in the Grand Slam tournaments, becoming the youngest American man to reach the third round since Young at the 2007 US Open, by achieving the same feat at the 2024 Australian Open. In 2023, he earned his first ATP Tour win and reached his first quarterfinal, semifinal, and final at the Newport tournament, where he became the youngest American ATP Tour finalist since Fritz in 2016. Michelsen reached his second final at the 2024 Newport tournament, where he held one match point against Giron in the final. He also defeated former champion Carreno Busta on his way to his third final at the 2024 Winston-Salem tournament. Michelsen’s biggest win of his career came in the 2024 Los Cabos tournament, where he defeated No. 9 de Minaur in the second round, but unfortunately lost in the quarterfinals after squandering three match points against eventual champion Thompson. In addition to his singles success, Michelsen reached the doubles final of the 2024 ATP Masters 1000 Cincinnati with McDonald after defeating him in the singles qualifying. As a junior player, Michelsen reached a career-high ranking of No. 25 in the ITF Juniors and won the Wimbledon boys’ doubles title in 2022 with Gorzny. In Tokyo, Michelsen aims to advance to his 8th ATP Tour quarterfinal, which would be his second above the ATP 250 level since the Washington tournament in August, where he lost to Cobolli. If achieved, Michelsen would be the youngest Tokyo quarterfinalist since Shapovalov in 2018 at the age of 19.

My Conclusion / Prediction:

My pick is that O’Connell will win.
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