Mackenzie Mcdonald and Thomas Fancutt will clash against each other in the 1st round of the Shenzhen Challenger for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Wednesday at 12:30 pm on COURT 3. In the following lines you can find the head to head analysis and prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Mackenzie Mcdonald who should win in 2 sets.
As per the initial odds, Mackenzie Mcdonald is the pick to win this match.
Mackenzie Mcdonald -> 1.035
Thomas Fancutt -> 9.2
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Prediction and head to head Mackenzie Mcdonald vs. Thomas Fancutt
There is no head to head record between Mackenzie Mcdonald and Thomas Fancutt since this will be the first time that they will square off in the main tour.
Mackenzie Mcdonald
18 - 21win/loss
132
37
LWLWWWWWWW | Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 26-23 | 18-12 | 0-4 | 3-1 | 5-6 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 35-30 | 23-15 | 0-6 | 4-3 | 8-6 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 27-31 | 16-16 | 4-6 | 4-5 | 3-4 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 42-26 | 15-12 | 12-5 | 9-6 | 6-3 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 15-16 | 10-11 | 1-1 | 4-4 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 137, Mcdonald will start his run in the Shenzhen Challenger after he played his last match in the Hangzhou Challenger where he lost 2-6 7-6(5) 6-4 to Duckworth in the final on the 13th of October.
The American has an overall 18-21 win-loss record in 2024, 12-11 on hard (See FULL STATS).
The American’s best result of the season was getting to the final in the Nonthaburi 4 Challenger and the Hangzhou Challenger.
Talking about his overall career, Mcdonald has an overall 305-243 record. He has a positive 199-142 record on hard.
Previously in the Shenzhen Challenger
Mackenzie has never competed in this tournament before.
Thomas Fancutt
11 - 15win/loss
717
382
LWLWLWWLLW | Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 13-18 | 8-10 | 5-7 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 28-20 | 18-17 | 0-0 | 1-1 | 8-1 | 1-1 |
| 2022 | 34-23 | 28-18 | 6-5 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 16-18 | 16-15 | 0-0 | 0-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 2-5 | 0-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 2-2 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 790, Fancutt reached the 1st round after beating Hanyi Liu 6-4 6-4 and Wishaya Trongcharoenchaikul 6-4 6-2.
In the qualifications, Thomas had a good straight sets win against Trongcharoenchaikul (6-4 6-2). During the match Fancutt scored 60 points vs Trongcharoenchaikul’s 41. The Australian was pretty aggressive to blast 24 winners.
Talking about serving, Fancutt scored 6 aces and he committed only 1 double fault for the entire match. Overall, Thomas Fancutt was pretty effective on serve to win 75% (24/32) of his 1st serve and 69% (11/16) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve once. Thomas broke Trongcharoenchaikul 4 times after converting 80% of his break points (4/5).
Overall Performance in this tournament
The Australian started his run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, he hasn’t conceded yet a set in this tournament to conquer 57% of the points he played.
Thomas has an overall 11-15 win-loss record in 2024, 6-7 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Head 2 Head
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LWLWLWWLLW Tennis Scores in Shenzhen Challenger
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- Fajing SunSun – Ryuki MatsudaMatsuda (7-5 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Arthur CazauxCazaux – Yaojie ZengZeng (6-3 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Rio NoguchiNoguchi – Yusuke TakahashiTakahashi (6-3 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Tianhui ZhangZhang – Philip SekulicSekulic (3-6 6-3 7-5) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Arthur WeberWeber – Kaichi UchidaUchida (4-6 7-5 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Ramkumar RamanathanRamanathan – Ugo BlanchetBlanchet (7-64 6-76 7-68) – Stats, scores, rankings
- James McCabeMcCabe – Vadym UrsuUrsu (2-6 6-3 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Rigele TeTe – Yuta ShimizuShimizu (6-3 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Kris Van WykVan Wyk – Mitsuki Wei Kang LeongWei Kang Leong (7-64 2-6 7-5) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Linang XiaoXiao – Ye Cong MoCong Mo (6-1 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Billy HarrisHarris – Kasidit SamrejSamrej (6-4 6-71 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Mukund SasikumarSasikumar – Petr Bar BiryukovBar Biryukov (6-1 3-6 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Saba PurtseladzePurtseladze – Xing Dao ChenDao Chen (6-3 6-1) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Yan BaiBai – Yu Hsiou HsuHsiou Hsu (6-4 3-6 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
Upcoming matches in the draw
- Mackenzie McdonaldMcdonald – Thomas FancuttFancutt (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Sasi Kumar MukundKumar Mukund – Yan BaiBai (0-4) – H2H and prediction
- Billy HarrisHarris – Saba PurtseladzePurtseladze (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Fajing SunSun – Adam WaltonWalton (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Kris Van WykVan Wyk – Ramkumar RamanathanRamanathan (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Arthur WeberWeber – Rigele TeTe (0-0) – H2H and prediction
