James Duckworth and Mackenzie Mcdonald will clash against each other in the final of the Hangzhou Challenger for the 3^rd time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Sunday at 11:00 am on COURT 1. 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 -> 1.65
James Duckworth -> 2.13

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Prediction and head to head James Duckworth vs. Mackenzie Mcdonald

This will be the 3^rd time that James Duckworth and Mackenzie Mcdonald play each other. The head to head is 2-0 for Mcdonald (see full H2H stats), 2-0 on hard.

The last time that they fought against each other, Mcdonald won 7-6(4) 7-6(3) in the qualifications in Montreal back in August 2024.

James Duckworth

Ranked no. 75, James reached the final after beating Yasutaka Uchiyama 7-5 6-7(4) 7-6(5), Ramkumar Ramanathan 6-4 7-5, Adam Walton 6-4 6-4 and Chun Hsin Tseng 6-2 6-3.

In the semifinal, Duckworth had a good straight sets win against Hsin Tseng (6-2 6-3). During the match, Duckworth scored 67 points vs Hsin Tseng’s 46. James was very aggressive to blast 26 winners.

Talking about the service games, Duckworth fired 4 aces and he was pretty consistent in conceding no double faults. James Duckworth was extremely efficient on serve to win 76% (26/34) of his 1st serve and 72% (13/18) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. The Australian broke Hsin Tseng 3 times after converting 50% of his break points (3/6).

Overall Performance in this tournament

Duckworth has surrendered 1 set in this event to win 54% of the points he played.

Duckworth has a solid match record in the last 10 years having won 61% of his matches (308-200). 22-14 on hard in 2024. Regarding his performance on the same surface of this competition, Duckworth has a compiled 217-123 record in the last years on hard.

Duckworth’s best result of the year was reaching the final in the Shenzhen 1 Challenger.

Duckworth has an aggregate 39-24 win-loss record in 2024, 22-14 on hard (See FULL STATS).

Previously in the Hangzhou Challenger

Duckworth has never competed in this tournament before.

Mackenzie Mcdonald

Ranked no. 151, the American reached the final after defeating Yu Hsiou Hsu 6-2 6-4, Billy Harris 6-0 6-1, Rinky Hijikata 6-2 6-1 and Gabriel Diallo 7-6(9) 6-3.

In the semifinal, Mackenzie had a good straight sets win against Diallo (7-6⁹ 6-3). During the match Mcdonald scored 76 points vs Diallo’s 71. Mcdonald was very aggressive to blast 44 winners.

Talking about serving, Mcdonald struck 7 aces and he committed only 5 double faults. Mackenzie Mcdonald lost the serve once and he saved 4 break points. Furthermore, Mcdonald put 69% of his first serves in, winning 76% (44/58) of the points behind his 1st serve and 42% (11/26) on the 2nd serve. Mcdonald was clinical in his return game without wasting any break point and break Diallo twice.

Overall Performance in this tournament

Mackenzie hasn’t dropped yet a set in the tournament to win 60% of the points he played.

Mcdonald’s best result of the current season was getting to the final in the Nonthaburi 4 Challenger.

The American has an overall 18-20 win-loss record in 2024, 12-10 on hard (See FULL STATS).

H2H Performance in the tournament (main draw)

Matches, sets, games and points

Points	Duckworth	Mcdonald
Match played	4	4
Tot Set	9	8
Tot Games	97	68
Pts	328-283	248-165
Total Points	611	413
Winners	154	105
%Winners	47%	42%

Both Duckworth and Mcdonald played 4 matches. At the moment, James Duckworth conceded 1 set while Mackenzie Mcdonald hasn’t lost a set so far. Duckworth has played 1 set more than Mcdonald (9 vs 8). Therefore, Duckworth played 29 games more than Mcdonald. The Australian scored 154 winners (47% of the total points). On the other side, Mackenzie fired 105 winners (42%).

Serve Performance

Serve	Duckworth	Mcdonald
Aces	29	18
Avg per match	7.3	4.5
1st in	199/301	131/205
%1st in	66%	64%
1st pts	154/199	105/131
%1st pts	77%	80%
2nd pts	58/102	42/74
%2nd pts	57%	57%

Duckworth bagged 29 aces (7.3 per match). Mcdonald fired 18 aces (4.5 per match). Duckworth won 77% points on his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 57% of the points. On the other side, Mcdonald won 80% of the points on his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 57% of the points.

How they played the important points

Breaks	Duckworth	Mcdonald
Won	10	17
Converted	10/23	17/28
% Converted	43%	61%
Conceded	10	12
Saved	8	10
% Saved	80%	83%
Times Broken	2	2

Duckworth broke his opponents 10 times with a 43% conversion rate. The Australian lost his serve twice and he saved 80% of the break points that he conceded. Mackenzie broke his opponents 17 times with a 61% conversion rate. Mcdonald conceded his serve twice and he saved 83% of the break points that he conceded.

Duckworth
	R1 Uchiyama	R2 Ramanathan	1/4 Walton	1/2 Hsin	Total
Score	7-5 6-74 7-65	6-4 7-5	6-4 6-4	6-2 6-3
Tot Set	3	2	2	2	9
Tot Games	38	22	20	17	97
pts	130-124	72-64	59-49	67-46	328-283
Total points	254	136	108	113	611
Winners	61	35	32	26	154
%Winners	47%	49%	54%	39%	47%
SERVE
Aces	12	2	11	4	29
Double Faults	2	3	1	0	6
1st in	82/134	43/61	40/54	34/52	199/301
% 1st in	61%	70%	74%	65%	66%
1st pts	61/82	35/43	32/40	26/34	154/199
% 1st pts	74%	81%	80%	76%	77%
2nd pts	28/52	8/18	9/14	13/18	58/102
% 2nd pts	54%	44%	64%	72%	57%
Breaks
Won	2	3	2	3	10
Converted	2/6	3/7	2/4	3/6	10/23
Converted %	33%	43%	50%	50%	43%
Conceded	7	2	1	0	10
Saved	6/7	1/2	1/1	0/0	8
Saved %	86%	50%	100%	–	59%
Times Broken	1	1	0	0	2

Mcdonald
	R1 Hsiou	R2 Harris	1/4 Hijikata	1/2 Diallo	Total
Score	6-2 6-4	6-0 6-1	6-2 6-1	7-69 6-3
Tot Set	2	2	2	2	8
Tot Games	18	13	15	22	68
pts	60-40	56-25	56-29	76-71	248-165
Total points	100	81	85	147	413
Winners	22	19	20	44	105
%Winners	37%	34%	36%	58%	42%
SERVE
Aces	2	4	5	7	18
Double Faults	1	1	2	5	9
1st in	26/44	25/44	22/33	58/84	131/205
% 1st in	59%	57%	67%	69%	64%
1st pts	22/26	19/25	20/22	44/58	105/131
% 1st pts	85%	76%	91%	76%	80%
2nd pts	11/18	12/19	8/11	11/26	42/74
% 2nd pts	61%	63%	73%	42%	57%
Breaks
Won	4	6	5	2	17
Converted	4/7	6/9	5/10	2/2	17/28
Converted %	57%	67%	50%	100%	61%
Conceded	2	5	0	5	12
Saved	1/2	5/5	0/0	4/5	10
Saved %	50%	100%	–	80%	58%
Times Broken	1	0	0	1	2

Tennis Scores in Hangzhou Challenger

• Fajing Sun/Rigele TeSun/Rigele Te – Thomas Fancutt/Yuta ShimizuFancutt/Yuta Shimizu (6-3 7-5) – Stats, scores, rankings

Upcoming matches in the draw

• James DuckworthDuckworth – Mackenzie McdonaldMcdonald (0-2) – H2H and prediction