James McCabe and Luke Saville will face off in the 2nd round of the Burnie 2 Challenger for the 2nd time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Thursday at 10:00 am on CENTER COURT. Here the head to head stats and relative prediction.
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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 -> 1.8
Luke Saville -> 1.94
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Prediction and head to head James McCabe vs. Luke Saville
This will be the 2nd time that James McCabe and Luke Saville clash against each other. The head to head is 1-0 for McCabe (see full H2H stats), 1-0 on hard.
The last time that they locked horns, McCabe won 7-6(3) 2-6 6-3 in the 1st round in the Zhangjiagang Challenger back in 2023.
James McCabe
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| 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. 276, James reached the 2nd round after beating Blake Ellis 6-4 6-4.
In the 1st round, McCabe had a good straight sets win against Ellis (6-4 6-4). During the match, McCabe scored 58 points vs Ellis’s 44. The Australian was very aggressive to blast 27 winners.
Regarding the service games, McCabe blasted 9 aces and he committed only 2 double faults. Overall, James McCabe was very efficient on serve to win 90% (27/30) of his 1st serve and 59% (10/17) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve once. The Australian broke Ellis 3 times after converting 50% of his break points (3/6).
McCabe has a winning match record in the last 5 years having won 58% of his matches (88-64). 3-5 on hard in 2024. In connection with his performance on the same surface of this competition, McCabe has an aggregate74-43 record in the last 5 years on hard.
McCabe has an aggregate 3-5 win-loss record in 2024, 3-5 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Burnie 2 Challenger
Luke Saville
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 19-22 | 11-16 | 0-0 | 1-1 | 7-5 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 43-26 | 28-18 | 0-1 | 1-2 | 14-5 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 18-11 | 18-9 | 0-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 0-4 | 0-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 4-7 | 1-2 | 0-2 | 0-2 | 3-1 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 299, Luke got to the 2nd round after defeating Benjamin Lock 6-1 6-0.
In the 1st round, Luke had a good straight sets win against Lock (6-1 6-0). During the match Saville scored 57 points vs Lock’s 28. Luke was extremely aggressive to blast 21 winners.
Talking about serving, Saville fired 4 aces and he committed only 2 double faults. Luke Saville was quite efficient on serve to win 88% (21/24) of his 1st serve and 58% (7/12) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. Saville broke Lock 5 times after converting 50% of his break points (5/10).
Luke has an aggregate 3-3 win-loss record in 2024, 3-3 on hard (See FULL STATS).
H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | McCabe | Saville |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 1 | 1 |
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 |
| Tot Games | 20 | 13 |
| Pts | 58-44 | 57-28 |
| Total Points | 102 | 85 |
| Winners | 27 | 21 |
| %Winners | 47% | 37% |
Both McCabe and Saville played 1 match. Both players have not surrendered a single set in this event so far. Talking about their workload, McCabe and Saville have played the same amount of sets 2. However, McCabe played 7 games more than Saville. The Australian scored 27 winners (47% of the total points). On the other side, Saville recorded 21 winners (37%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | McCabe | Saville |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 9 | 4 |
| Avg per match | 9 | 4 |
| 1st in | 30/47 | 24/36 |
| %1st in | 64% | 67% |
| 1st pts | 27/30 | 21/24 |
| %1st pts | 90% | 88% |
| 2nd pts | 10/17 | 7/12 |
| %2nd pts | 59% | 58% |
McCabe managed to score 9 aces . Saville bagged 4 aces . McCabe won 90% points on his first serve. He pretty effective on his second serve to win 59% of the points. On the other side, Saville won 88% of the points on his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 58% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | McCabe | Saville |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 3 | 5 |
| Converted | 3/6 | 5/10 |
| % Converted | 50% | 50% |
| Conceded | 1 | 0 |
| Saved | 0 | 0 |
| % Saved | 0% | 0% |
| Times Broken | 1 | 0 |
The Australian broke his opponent 3 times with a 50% conversion rate. The Australian conceded his serve once and he saved 0% of the break points that he conceded. Luke broke his opponent 5 times with a 50% conversion rate. Saville was rock solid on his serve as he has never conceded a single service game after saving 0 break points.
| McCabe | |||
| R1 Ellis |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-4 6-4 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 20 | 20 | |
| pts | 58-44 | 58-44 | |
| Total points | 102 | 102 | |
| Winners | 27 | 27 | |
| %Winners | 47% | 47% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 9 | 9 | |
| Double Faults | 2 | 2 | |
| 1st in | 30/47 | 30/47 | |
| % 1st in | 64% | 64% | |
| 1st pts | 27/30 | 27/30 | |
| % 1st pts | 90% | 90% | |
| 2nd pts | 10/17 | 10/17 | |
| % 2nd pts | 59% | 59% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 3 | 3 | |
| Converted | 3/6 | 3/6 | |
| Converted % | 50% | 50% | |
| Conceded | 1 | 1 | |
| Saved | 0/1 | 0 | |
| Saved % | 0% | 0% | |
| Times Broken | 1 | 1 | |
| Saville | |||
| R1 Lock |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-1 6-0 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 13 | 13 | |
| pts | 57-28 | 57-28 | |
| Total points | 85 | 85 | |
| Winners | 21 | 21 | |
| %Winners | 37% | 37% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 4 | 4 | |
| Double Faults | 2 | 2 | |
| 1st in | 24/36 | 24/36 | |
| % 1st in | 67% | 67% | |
| 1st pts | 21/24 | 21/24 | |
| % 1st pts | 88% | 88% | |
| 2nd pts | 7/12 | 7/12 | |
| % 2nd pts | 58% | 58% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 5 | 5 | |
| Converted | 5/10 | 5/10 | |
| Converted % | 50% | 50% | |
| Conceded | 0 | 0 | |
| Saved | 0/0 | 0 | |
| Saved % | – | 0% | |
| Times Broken | 0 | 0 | |
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