Shintaro Mochizuki and James McCabe will play each other in the qualifications of the Tunis Challenger for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Monday at 10:30 am on COURT CENTRAL. Here the head to head stats and relative prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Shintaro Mochizuki who should win in 2 sets.
As per the initial odds, Shintaro Mochizuki is the pick to win this match.
Shintaro Mochizuki -> 1.31
James McCabe -> 3.22
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Prediction and head to head Shintaro Mochizuki vs. James McCabe
There is no head to head record between Shintaro Mochizuki and James McCabe since this will be the first time that they will fight against each other in the main tour.
Shintaro Mochizuki
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 14-17 | 5-8 | 7-5 | 0-0 | 2-4 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 41-33 | 22-16 | 13-8 | 2-5 | 4-4 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 37-34 | 18-17 | 13-12 | 6-5 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 35-30 | 11-10 | 18-11 | 5-7 | 1-1 | 0-1 |
| 2020 | 20-14 | 14-12 | 6-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 213 (career-high), Shintaro reached the qualifications after defeating Andrea Arnaboldi 6-2 6-4.
In the qualifications, Shintaro had a good straight sets win against Arnaboldi (6-2 6-4). During the match, Mochizuki scored 60 points vs Arnaboldi’s 50. Shintaro was pretty aggressive to blast 27 winners.
Regarding the service games, Mochizuki scored just 1 ace throughout the match and he committed only 2 double faults. Shintaro Mochizuki conceded no breaks for the entire match to save 2 break points. Furthermore, Mochizuki put 52% of his first serves in, winning 84% (27/32) of the points behind his 1st serve and 50% (15/30) on the 2nd serve. Shintaro was clinical in his return game without wasting any break point and break Arnaboldi 3 times.
Mochizuki has a winning record in the last 6 years having won 56% of his matches (131-102). 12-6 on clay in 2023. Regarding his performance on the same surface of this competition, Mochizuki has an aggregate51-32 record in the last 6 years on clay.
His best result of the season was winning the title the Barletta Challenger where he overcame Santiago Rodriguez Taverna in the final 6-1 6-4.
The Japanese has an overall 25-15 win-loss record in 2023, 12-6 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Tunis Challenger
James McCabe
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 26-20 | 19-14 | 1-2 | 0-0 | 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 |
| 2021 | 17-5 | 17-5 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 271, James got to the qualifications after beating Majdi Ben Abdelwehid 6-1 6-0.
In the qualifications, The Australian had a good straight sets win against Ben Abdelwehid (6-1 6-0). During the match McCabe scored 53 points vs Ben Abdelwehid’s 21. The Australian was extremely aggressive to blast 23 winners.
Talking about serving, McCabe couldn’t to score even 1 ace for the entire match and he was very solid in conceding no double faults for the entire match. James McCabe was exceptionally effective on serve to win 88% (23/26) of his 1st serve and 55% (6/11) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. McCabe broke Ben Abdelwehid 5 times after converting 63% of his break points (5/8).
McCabe’s best result of the current year was reaching the semifinal in the Bengaluru Challenger and the Puerto Vallarta Challenger.
McCabe has an overall 19-12 win-loss record in 2023, 2-4 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Tunis Challenger
Previously, his best result was reaching the qualifications in 2022. See his history.
H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Mochizuki | McCabe |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 1 | 1 |
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 |
| Tot Games | 18 | 13 |
| Pts | 60-50 | 53-21 |
| Total Points | 110 | 74 |
| Winners | 27 | 23 |
| %Winners | 45% | 43% |
Both Mochizuki and McCabe played 1 match. Also both players started their run from the qualifications.Both players have not dropped a single set in this event so far. Talking about their workload, Mochizuki and McCabe have played the same amount of sets 2. However, Mochizuki played 5 games more than McCabe. Shintaro scored 27 winners (45% of the total points). On the other side, James blasted 23 winners (43%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Mochizuki | McCabe |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 1 | 0 |
| Avg per match | 1 | 0 |
| 1st in | 32/62 | 26/37 |
| %1st in | 52% | 70% |
| 1st pts | 27/32 | 23/26 |
| %1st pts | 84% | 88% |
| 2nd pts | 15/30 | 6/11 |
| %2nd pts | 50% | 55% |
Mochizuki scored 1 ace . McCabe didn’t manage to fire a single ace to far. Mochizuki won 84% points on his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 50% of the points. On the other side, McCabe won 88% of the points on his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 55% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Mochizuki | McCabe |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 3 | 5 |
| Converted | 3/3 | 5/8 |
| % Converted | 100% | 63% |
| Conceded | 2 | 1 |
| Saved | 2 | 1 |
| % Saved | 100% | 100% |
| Times Broken | 0 | 0 |
Shintaro broke his opponent 3 times with a 100% conversion rate. Shintaro extremely effective on his serve as he has never dropped a single service game after saving 2 break points. The Australian broke his opponent 5 times with a 63% conversion rate. James was rock solid on his serve as he has never conceded a single service game after saving 1 break points.
| Mochizuki | |||
| Q1 Arnaboldi |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-2 6-4 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 18 | 18 | |
| pts | 60-50 | 60-50 | |
| Total points | 110 | 110 | |
| Winners | 27 | 27 | |
| %Winners | 45% | 45% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 1 | 1 | |
| Double Faults | 2 | 2 | |
| 1st in | 32/62 | 32/62 | |
| % 1st in | 52% | 52% | |
| 1st pts | 27/32 | 27/32 | |
| % 1st pts | 84% | 84% | |
| 2nd pts | 15/30 | 15/30 | |
| % 2nd pts | 50% | 50% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 3 | 3 | |
| Converted | 3/3 | 3/3 | |
| Converted % | 100% | 100% | |
| Conceded | 2 | 2 | |
| Saved | 2/2 | 2 | |
| Saved % | 100% | 100% | |
| Times Broken | 0 | 0 | |
| McCabe | |||
| Q1 Ben |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-1 6-0 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 13 | 13 | |
| pts | 53-21 | 53-21 | |
| Total points | 74 | 74 | |
| Winners | 23 | 23 | |
| %Winners | 43% | 43% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 0 | 0 | |
| Double Faults | 0 | 0 | |
| 1st in | 26/37 | 26/37 | |
| % 1st in | 70% | 70% | |
| 1st pts | 23/26 | 23/26 | |
| % 1st pts | 88% | 88% | |
| 2nd pts | 6/11 | 6/11 | |
| % 2nd pts | 55% | 55% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 5 | 5 | |
| Converted | 5/8 | 5/8 | |
| Converted % | 63% | 63% | |
| Conceded | 1 | 1 | |
| Saved | 1/1 | 1 | |
| Saved % | 100% | 100% | |
| Times Broken | 0 | 0 | |
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