Mackenzie Mcdonald and Tomas Machac will clash against each other in the 2^nd round of the Nur-Sultan 2 Challenger for the 1^st time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Thursday at 1:30 pm on CENTER COURT. Here you can find the head to head analysis and the prediction.

Prediction, odds and live streaming

The pick for Tennis Tonic is Mackenzie Mcdonald who should win in 3 sets.

As per the initial odds, Mackenzie Mcdonald is the pick to win this match.
Mackenzie Mcdonald -> 1.7
Tomas Machac -> 2.15

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Prediction and head to head Mackenzie Mcdonald vs. Tomas Machac

There is no head to head record between Mackenzie Mcdonald and Tomas Machac since this will be the first time that they will play each other in the main tour.

Mackenzie Mcdonald

Ranked no. 118, Mackenzie got to the 2^nd round after beating Brayden Schnur 6-3 4-6 6-4.

In the 1^st round, Mackenzie defeated Schnur (6-3 4-6 6-4). During the match Mcdonald scored 94 points vs Schnur’s 88. Mcdonald was extremely aggressive to blast 39 winners.

Talking about the service games, Mcdonald managed to score 9 aces and he committed only 2 double faults. Mackenzie Mcdonald lost the serve twice and he saved 4 break points. Furthermore, Mcdonald put 56% of his first serves in, winning 80% (39/49) of the points behind his 1st serve and 47% (18/38) on the 2nd serve. Mcdonald broke Schnur 4 times after converting 36% of his break points (4/11).

Mcdonald has a favorable win-loss record in the last 10 years having won 58% of his matches (200-144). 6-0 on indoor hard courts in 2021. Talking about his performance on the same surface of this event, Mcdonald has a 37-24 record in the last years on indoor hard courts.

Mackenzie’s best result of the year was reaching the final in the Sultan 1 Challenger.

Mackenzie has a 10-3 win-loss record in 2021, 6-0 on indoor hard courts (See FULL STATS).

Previously in the Sultan 2 Challenger

Mcdonald has never competed in this tournament before.

Sultan 2 Challenger

Mcdonald's Record

Tomas Machac

Ranked no. 166 (career high), the Czech got to the 2^nd round after defeating Henri Laaksonen 7-5 6-2.

In the 1^st round, Machac had a good straight sets win against Laaksonen (7-5 6-2). During the match Machac scored 86 points vs Laaksonen’s 69. Tomas was very aggressive to blast 23 winners.

Talking about serving, Machac fired 2 aces and he committed only 2 double faults. Overall, Tomas Machac was exceptionally effective on serve to win 77% (23/30) of his 1st serve and 61% (17/28) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve once. Machac broke Laaksonen 4 times after converting 25% of his break points (4/16).

Tomas has a 7-3 win-loss record in 2021, 3-1 on indoor hard courts (See FULL STATS).

Sultan 2 Challenger

Machac's Record

H2H Performance in the tournament

Matches, sets, games and points

Both Mcdonald and Machac played 1 match. At the moment, Mackenzie Mcdonald lost 1 set while Tomas Machac hasn’t surrendered a set so far. Mcdonald has played 1 set more than Machac (3 vs 2). Therefore, Mcdonald played 9 games more than Machac. The American scored 39 winners (41% of the total points). On the other side, The Czech bagged 23 winners (27%).

Serve Performance

Mcdonald struck 9 aces . Machac recorded 2 aces . Mcdonald won 80% points on his first serve. He pretty solid on his second serve to win 47% of the points. On the other side, Machac won 77% of the points behind his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 61% of the points.

How they played the important points

Mcdonald broke his opponent 4 times with a 36% conversion rate. Mackenzie dropped his serve twice and he saved 67% of the break points that he conceded. The Czech broke his opponent 4 times with a 25% conversion rate. Tomas conceded his serve once and he saved 80% of the break points that he conceded.

Head 2 Head

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Mackenzie
Mcdonald

0:1

Tomas
Machac

Rank

132

High

37

0I.hard1

Rank

25

High

25

Win Loss

Mcdonald

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Machac

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2024 2023 2022

25 - 23

37 - 22

18-12

Hard

22-11

2-1

I Hard

5-4

0-4

Clay

9-5

5-6

Grass

1-2

Tennis Scores in Sultan 2 Challenger

• Taro DanielDaniel – Denis IstominIstomin (6-2 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Sebastian OfnerOfner – Timofey SkatovSkatov (6-3 7-6⁴) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Prajnesh GunneswaranGunneswaran – Tatsuma ItoIto (6-3 2-0 ret.) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Frederico Ferreira SilvaFerreira Silva – Ramkumar RamanathanRamanathan (6-4 7-5) – Stats, scores, rankings

Upcoming matches in the draw

• James DuckworthDuckworth – Vladyslav ManafovManafov (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Mackenzie McdonaldMcdonald – Tomas MachacMachac (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Sebastian OfnerOfner – Frederico Ferreira SilvaFerreira Silva (0-1) – H2H and prediction
• Soon-Woo KwonKwon – Peter PolanskyPolansky (1-1) – H2H and prediction
• Tung-Lin WuWu – Viktor TroickiTroicki (0-0) – H2H and prediction

Mcdonald

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