Mccartney Kessler and Ena Shibahara will face off in the 1st round of the Japan Open Tennis Championships for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Monday at 12:30 pm on Center Court. In this post, we analyze their head to head performance and prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Mccartney Kessler who should win in 3 sets.
Mccartney Kessler -> 1.63
Ena Shibahara -> 2.28
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Prediction and head to head Mccartney Kessler vs. Ena Shibahara
There is no head to head record between Mccartney Kessler and Ena Shibahara since this will be the first time that they will square off in the main tour.
Mccartney Kessler
37 - 20win/loss
68
63
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 39-22 | 28-13 | 2-6 | 5-0 | 4-3 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 44-24 | 21-12 | 11-7 | 12-5 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 8-2 | 6-2 | 2-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 10-5 | 10-3 | 0-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 77, Kessler will start her run in Osaka after she played her last match in the Hong Kong where she lost 6-3 ret. to Tomljanovic in the quarter on the 4th of October.
Mccartney has a compiled 37-20 win-loss record in 2024, 26-11 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Her best result of the current year was winning the title the W75 Rome where she beat Liv Hovde in the final 6-4 6-1 and the Puerto Vallarta where she beat Taylah Preston in the final 5-7 6-3 6-0 and the W100 Landisville where she overcame Olivia Gadecki in the final 4-6 6-2 6-4 and in Cleveland where she beat Beatriz Haddad Maia in the final 1-6 6-1 7-5.
Talking about her overall career, Mccartney has an overall 129-67 record. She has a positive 88-41 record on hard.
Previously in Osaka
Kessler has never competed in this tournament before.
Ena Shibahara
49 - 18win/loss
135
132
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 49-19 | 42-14 | 5-3 | 0-0 | 2-2 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 16-15 | 12-12 | 4-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 16-15 | 11-8 | 1-3 | 4-4 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 5-7 | 5-7 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 0-1 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 143 (career-high), the American reached the 1st round after beating Linda Fruhvirtova 3-6 7-6(4) 7-5 and Marina Stakusic 2-6 7-6(2) 7-6(7).
In the qualifications against Stakusic, Shibahara recovered from a 1-set down deficit before winning (2-6 7-62 7-67). During the match Shibahara and Stakusic scored the same amount of points (123). However, the world no. 77 was stronger during the important points and that was the most significant difference in the match. The American was very aggressive to blast 57 winners.
About the serving games, Shibahara blasted 9 aces and she committed only 5 double faults. Ena Shibahara lost the serve 3 times and she saved 9 break points. Furthermore, Shibahara put 63% of her first serves in, winning 73% (57/78) of the points behind her 1st serve and 42% (19/45) on the 2nd serve. The American broke Stakusic once after converting 8% of her break points (1/13).
Overall Performance in this tournament
The American started her run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, she has conceded 2 set in the tournament to win 51% of the points she played.
Her best result of the current season was winning the title the W35 Spring where she overcame Iva Jovic in the final 6-2 4-6 6-3.
Ena has a compiled 49-18 win-loss record in 2024, 42-13 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Tennis Scores in Osaka
- Connor FarrenFarren – Tom EvansEvans (6-2 1-6 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Marco BrugnerottoBrugnerotto – Gabriel PetitPetit (4-6 6-3 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Siddharth VishwakarmaVishwakarma – Jake DelaneyDelaney (6-4 6-0) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Cheong-Eui KimKim – Naru ShirafujiShirafuji (6-4 6-1) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Roy HobbsHobbs – Shamirul Shahril Mohd Adam DasShahril Mohd Adam Das (6-4 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Michail PervolarakisPervolarakis – Chien-Hsun LoLo (6-4 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Quentin RobertRobert – Cheng-Yu YuYu (6-4 3-6 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
Upcoming matches in the draw
- Magdalena FrechFrech – Maria Camila Osorio SerranoCamila Osorio Serrano (1-4) – H2H and prediction
- Mccartney KesslerKessler – Ena ShibaharaShibahara (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Sofia KeninKenin – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Jessika PonchetPonchet – Elisabetta CocciarettoCocciaretto (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Elise MertensMertens – Mai HontamaHontama (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Kimberly BirrellBirrell – Saisai ZhengZheng (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Jessica Bouzas ManeiroBouzas Maneiro – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Viktoriya TomovaTomova – Suzan LamensLamens (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Lucia BronzettiBronzetti – Cristina BucsaBucsa (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Ana BogdanBogdan – Veronika KudermetovaKudermetova (3-1) – H2H and prediction
- Moyuka UchijimaUchijima – Marie BouzkovaBouzkova (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Diane ParryParry – (0-3) – H2H and prediction
- Bianca Vanessa AndreescuVanessa Andreescu – Greetje MinnenMinnen (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Laura SiegemundSiegemund – Harriet DartDart (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Clara TausonTauson – Katie VolynetsVolynets (0-1) – H2H and prediction