Taylor Fritz and Mackenzie Mcdonald will play each other in the 2nd round of the Korea Open for the 5th time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Thursday at 5:00 pm on CENTER COURT. Here the head to head stats and relative prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Taylor Fritz who should win in 2 sets.
As per the initial odds, Taylor Fritz is the pick to win this match.
Taylor Fritz -> 1.285
Mackenzie Mcdonald -> 3.64
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Prediction and head to head Taylor Fritz vs. Mackenzie Mcdonald
This will be the 5th time that Taylor Fritz and Mackenzie Mcdonald play each other. The head to head is 3-1 for Fritz (see full H2H stats),but they are 1-1 on hard.
The last time that they fought against each other, Mcdonald won 3-6 6-4 6-3 in the 1st round in Delray beach back in 2019.
Taylor Fritz
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 16-7 | 11-5 | 4-2 | 1-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 54-24 | 35-11 | 11-6 | 5-3 | 3-4 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 46-21 | 24-8 | 5-3 | 9-7 | 8-3 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 34-22 | 20-13 | 4-5 | 8-3 | 2-1 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 15-16 | 11-9 | 2-3 | 2-4 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 12 (career-high), he will start his run in Seoul after he played his last match in the Laver Cup where he overcame 6-1 4-6 10-8 to Norrie in the round robin on the 24th of September.
The American has an overall 37-17 win-loss record in 2022, 20-8 on hard (See FULL STATS).
His best result of the year was winning the title in Indian Wells where he overcame Rafael Nadal in the final 6-3 7-6(5) and in Eastbourne where he beat Maxime Cressy in the final 6-2 6-7(4) 7-6(4).
Talking about his overall career, Fritz has an overall 289-189 record. He has a positive 174-100 record on hard.
Previously in Seoul
Fritz has never competed in this tournament before.
Mackenzie Mcdonald
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 0-3 | 0-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 35-30 | 23-15 | 0-6 | 4-3 | 8-6 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 27-31 | 16-16 | 4-6 | 4-5 | 3-4 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 42-26 | 15-12 | 12-5 | 9-6 | 6-3 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 15-16 | 10-11 | 1-1 | 4-4 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 82, Mackenzie got to the 2nd round after beating Pedro Martinez Portero 7-5 6-4.
In the 1st round, Mackenzie had a good straight sets win against Martinez Portero (7-5 6-4). During the match Mcdonald scored 79 points vs Martinez Portero’s 65. The American was pretty aggressive to blast 39 winners.
About the serving games, Mcdonald fired 10 aces and he committed only 2 double faults. Mackenzie Mcdonald conceded no breaks for the entire match to save 4 break points. Furthermore, Mcdonald put 66% of his first serves in, winning 83% (39/47) of the points behind his 1st serve and 46% (11/24) on the 2nd serve. Mcdonald broke Martinez Portero twice after converting 40% of his break points (2/5).
Mcdonald has an aggregate 20-25 win-loss record in 2022, 11-13 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Head 2 Head
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