Mackenzie Mcdonald and Kaito Uesugi will fight against each other in the 1st round of the Taipei 2 Challenger for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Wednesday at 1:30 pm on COURT 1. 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.
Mackenzie Mcdonald -> 1.031
Kaito Uesugi -> 9.5
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Prediction and head to head Mackenzie Mcdonald vs. Kaito Uesugi
There is no head to head record between Mackenzie Mcdonald and Kaito Uesugi since this will be the first time that they will play each other in the main tour.
Mackenzie Mcdonald
23 - 21win/loss
132
37
| 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. 120, the American will start his run in the Taipei 2 Challenger after he won the title in the Shenzhen Challenger after beating 6-4 7-6(4) Cazaux in the final.
Mcdonald has a compiled 23-21 win-loss record in 2024, 1-0 on indoor hard courts (See FULL STATS).
His best result of the current season was conquering the title the Shenzhen Challenger where he beat Arthur Cazaux in the final 6-4 7-6(4).
Mcdonald won his last 5 matches.
Talking about his overall career, Mackenzie has an overall 310-243 record. He has a positive 49-38 record on indoor hard courts.
Previously in the Taipei 2 Challenger
The American has never competed in this tournament before.
Kaito Uesugi
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 10-5 | 8-4 | 0-0 | 2-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 9-8 | 9-8 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 11-10 | 7-7 | 4-2 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 1-1 | 1-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Currently unranked, Uesugi reached the 1st round after beating Ergi Kirkin 6-3 6-3 and Seongbin Sim 6-2 6-2.
In the qualifications, Kaito had a good straight sets win against Sim (6-2 6-2). During the match Uesugi scored 56 points vs Sim’s 32. Uesugi was quite aggressive to blast 18 winners.
About the serving games, Uesugi managed to score 3 aces and he committed only 1 double fault for the entire match. Kaito Uesugi was extremely effective on serve to win 78% (18/23) of his 1st serve and 78% (14/18) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. Uesugi broke Sim 4 times after converting 44% of his break points (4/9).
Overall Performance in this tournament
Kaito started his run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, he hasn’t surrendered yet a set in this event to conquer 60% of the points he played.
Uesugi has a composed 7-3 win-loss record in 2024, 2-0 on indoor hard courts (See FULL STATS)
.Tennis Scores in Taipei 2 Challenger
- Mukund SasikumarSasikumar – Thanapet ChantaChanta (2-6 6-2 6-0) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Chak Lam Coleman WongLam Coleman Wong – Sanhui ShinShin (6-4 3-6 6-1) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Kuan-Yi LeeLee – Mitsuki Wei Kang LeongWei Kang Leong (6-4 1-6 7-5) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Adam WaltonWalton – Antoine EscoffierEscoffier (6-4 1-6 6-1) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Kokoro IsomuraIsomura – Ramkumar RamanathanRamanathan (7-63 7-65) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Yasutaka UchiyamaUchiyama – Hyeon ChungChung (6-0 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Tsung-Hao HuangHuang – Julian OcleppoOcleppo (7-5 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Maxime JanvierMaxime – Ray HoRay (6-1 6-2) – See score progression
Upcoming matches in the draw
- Hiroki MoriyaMoriya – Chun Hsin TsengHsin Tseng (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Sasi Kumar MukundKumar Mukund – Yasutaka UchiyamaUchiyama (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Aleksandar VukicVukic – Yusuke TakahashiTakahashi (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Tung-Lin WuWu – Goncalo OliveiraOliveira (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Kaito UesugiUesugi – Mackenzie McdonaldMcdonald (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Yu Hsiou HsuHsiou Hsu – Yosuke WatanukiWatanuki (1-1) – H2H and prediction
- Alafia AyeniAyeni – Taro DanielDaniel (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Adam WaltonWalton – Tsung-Hao HuangHuang (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Rio NoguchiNoguchi – Benoit PairePaire (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Kasidit SamrejSamrej – Kaichi UchidaUchida (0-1) – H2H and prediction