James McCabe and Hiroki Moriya will clash against each other in the 1st round of the Ningboo Challenger for the 5th time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Tuesday at 1:30 pm on Grandstand. In this post, we analyze their head to head performance and prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is James McCabe who should win in 3 sets.
As per the initial odds, James McCabe is the pick to win this match.
James McCabe -> 1.43
Hiroki Moriya -> 2.58
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Prediction and head to head James McCabe vs. Hiroki Moriya
This will be the 5th time that James McCabe and Hiroki Moriya face off. The head to head is 3-1 for McCabe (see full H2H stats), 3-1 on hard.
The last time that they fought against each other, McCabe won 6-4 6-3 in the 1st round in the Sydney Challenger back in 2025.
James McCabe
28 - 27win/loss
255
164
LWLWLLLLLL | Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 28-27 | 13-18 | 0-1 | 6-2 | 9-6 | 0-0 |
| 2025 | 34-36 | 24-28 | 0-2 | 3-1 | 7-5 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 55-35 | 47-28 | 1-2 | 1-1 | 6-4 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 29-27 | 24-14 | 2-6 | 1-3 | 2-4 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 39-27 | 30-19 | 9-8 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 255, the Australian will start his run in the Ningboo Challenger after he played his last match in the Guangzhou Challenger where he lost 4-6 7-6(1) 6-4 to Dylan Hara Friend in the 2nd round on the 21st of October.
James has an aggregate 28-27 win-loss record in 2026, 13-18 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Talking about his overall career, The Australian has an overall 202-157 record. He has a positive 155-112 record on hard.
Previously in the Ningboo Challenger
The Australian has never competed in this tournament before.
Hiroki Moriya
34 - 30win/loss
482
143
WWLLWLWLLW | Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 34-30 | 30-28 | 0-0 | 3-1 | 1-1 | 0-0 |
| 2025 | 24-24 | 24-24 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 38-32 | 36-28 | 0-0 | 2-2 | 0-2 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 31-28 | 31-27 | 0-0 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 27-30 | 18-19 | 0-0 | 7-9 | 1-1 | 1-1 |
Ranked no. 482, Moriya reached the 1st round after defeating Taisei Ichikawa 6-4 6-4 and Timofei Derepasko 7-6(2) 6-2.
In the qualifications, Moriya had a good straight sets win against Derepasko (7-62 6-2). During the match Moriya scored 77 points vs Derepasko’s 61. The Japanese was extremely aggressive to blast 28 winners.
About the serving games, Moriya managed to score 5 aces and he was quite steady in conceding no double faults for the entire match. Hiroki Moriya lost the serve twice. Furthermore, Moriya put 62% of his first serves in, winning 70% (28/40) of the points behind his 1st serve and 60% (15/25) on the 2nd serve. The Japanese broke Derepasko 4 times after converting 31% of his break points (4/13).
Overall Performance in this tournament
Hiroki started his run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, he hasn’t surrendered yet a set in this event to conquer 54% of the points he played.
ATP Ningboo Challenger - Hiroki Moriya's projected path
Moriya’s best result of the current season was reaching the semifinal in M25 Launceston.
Moriya has a compiled 34-30 win-loss record in 2026, 30-28 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Head 2 Head
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