Chris O'Connell has been memorably described by his Sydney pal Jordan Thompson as a "silent assassin" on the tennis court -- but the quiet one is beginning to make quite a noise at the Romanian Open.
The 30-year-old O'Connell, a player who gives everything to drag the best out of himself tournament after tournament but is happy out of the limelight, reached his first quarter-final of the season in Bucharest on Thursday with another notable win over the fourth seed, Nicolas Jarry.
