James Duckworth and Mackenzie Mcdonald will clash against each other in the qualifications of the National Bank Open for the 2^nd time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Monday at 11:00 am on COURT 5. In this post, we analyze their head to head performance and 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 -> 1.53
James Duckworth -> 2.4

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Prediction and head to head James Duckworth vs. Mackenzie Mcdonald

This will be the 2^nd time that James Duckworth and Mackenzie Mcdonald square off. The head to head is 1-0 for Mcdonald (see full H2H stats), 1-0 on hard.

The last time that they squared off, Mcdonald won 6-3 6-3 in the 1^st round in Indian wells back in 2021.

James Duckworth

Ranked no. 81, the Australian got to the qualifications after beating Camilo Ugo Carabelli 6-3 6-4.

In the qualifications, James had a good straight sets win against Ugo Carabelli (6-3 6-4). During the match, Duckworth scored 66 points vs Ugo Carabelli’s 48. Duckworth was quite aggressive to blast 25 winners.

Talking about the service games, Duckworth blasted 6 aces and he committed only 2 double faults. James Duckworth was pretty efficient on serve to win 93% (25/27) of his 1st serve and 67% (16/24) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. James was clinical in his return game without wasting any break point and break Ugo Carabelli twice.

Duckworth has a solid record in the last 10 years having won 61% of his matches (303-195). 17-9 on hard in 2024. Regarding his performance on the same surface of this tournament, Duckworth has an overall 212-118 match record in the last years on hard.

The Australian’s best result of the current year was reaching the final in the Shenzhen 1 Challenger.

The Australian has a compiled 34-19 win-loss record in 2024, 17-9 on hard (See FULL STATS).

Previously in Toronto

Mackenzie Mcdonald

Ranked no. 93, Mackenzie reached the qualifications after defeating Giovanni Mpetshi Perricard 6-7(5) 6-3 6-4.

In the qualifications against Mpetshi Perricard, Mackenzie recovered from a 1-set down deficit before winning (6-7⁵ 6-3 6-4). During the match Mcdonald scored 126 points vs Mpetshi Perricard’s 107. Mackenzie was very aggressive to blast 55 winners.

About the serving games, Mcdonald struck 4 aces and he committed only 5 double faults. Mackenzie Mcdonald was extremely effective on serve to win 74% (55/74) of his 1st serve and 61% (33/54) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. The American broke Mpetshi Perricard twice after converting 29% of his break points (2/7).

Mcdonald has an overall 7-15 win-loss record in 2024, 2-5 on hard (See FULL STATS).

Previously in Toronto

Previously, his best result was reaching the quarter in 2023. See his history.

H2H Performance in the tournament

Matches, sets, games and points

Points	Duckworth	Mcdonald
Match played	1	1
Tot Set	2	3
Tot Games	19	32
Pts	66-48	126-107
Total Points	114	233
Winners	25	55
%Winners	38%	44%

Both Duckworth and Mcdonald played 1 match. Also both players started their run from the qualifications.At the moment, Mackenzie Mcdonald dropped 1 set while James Duckworth hasn’t conceded a set so far. Duckworth has played 1 set(s) less than Mcdonald (2 vs 3). Therefore, Duckworth played 13 games less than Mcdonald. Duckworth scored 25 winners (38% of the total points). On the other side, Mackenzie blasted 55 winners (44%).

Serve Performance

Serve	Duckworth	Mcdonald
Aces	6	4
Avg per match	6	4
1st in	27/51	74/128
%1st in	53%	58%
1st pts	25/27	55/74
%1st pts	93%	74%
2nd pts	16/24	33/54
%2nd pts	67%	61%

Duckworth struck 6 aces . Mcdonald managed to score 4 aces . Duckworth won 93% points on his first serve. He very solid his second serve to win 67% of the points. On the other side, Mcdonald won 74% 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

Breaks	Duckworth	Mcdonald
Won	2	2
Converted	2/2	2/7
% Converted	100%	29%
Conceded	2	17
Saved	2	17
% Saved	100%	100%
Times Broken	0	0

Duckworth broke his opponent twice with a 100% conversion rate. The Australian pretty effective on his serve as he has never surrendered a single service game after saving 2 break points. Mackenzie broke his opponent twice with a 29% conversion rate. Mcdonald was rock solid on his serve as he has never conceded a single service game after saving 17 break points.

Duckworth
	Q1 Ugo	Total
Score	6-3 6-4
Tot Set	2	2
Tot Games	19	19
pts	66-48	66-48
Total points	114	114
Winners	25	25
%Winners	38%	38%
SERVE
Aces	6	6
Double Faults	2	2
1st in	27/51	27/51
% 1st in	53%	53%
1st pts	25/27	25/27
% 1st pts	93%	93%
2nd pts	16/24	16/24
% 2nd pts	67%	67%
Breaks
Won	2	2
Converted	2/2	2/2
Converted %	100%	100%
Conceded	2	2
Saved	2/2	2
Saved %	100%	100%
Times Broken	0	0

Mcdonald
	Q1 Mpetshi	Total
Score	6-75 6-3 6-4
Tot Set	3	3
Tot Games	32	32
pts	126-107	126-107
Total points	233	233
Winners	55	55
%Winners	44%	44%
SERVE
Aces	4	4
Double Faults	5	5
1st in	74/128	74/128
% 1st in	58%	58%
1st pts	55/74	55/74
% 1st pts	74%	74%
2nd pts	33/54	33/54
% 2nd pts	61%	61%
Breaks
Won	2	2
Converted	2/7	2/7
Converted %	29%	29%
Conceded	17	17
Saved	17/17	17
Saved %	100%	100%
Times Broken	0	0

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