Nicolas Moreno De Alboran and James McCabe will play each other in the 2nd round of the Matsuyama Challenger for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Thursday at 10:00 am on COURT 6. 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 Nicolas Moreno De Alboran who should win in 2 sets.

As per the initial odds, Nicolas Moreno De Alboran is the pick to win this match.
Nicolas Moreno De Alboran -> 1.39
James McCabe -> 2.81

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Prediction and head to head Nicolas Moreno De Alboran vs. James McCabe

There is no head to head record between Nicolas Moreno De Alboran and James McCabe since this will be the first time that they will face off in the main tour.

Nicolas Moreno De Alboran

Nicolas Moreno De Alboran

47 - 34win/loss

Hard
17-12
I Hard
2-1
Clay
27-19
Grass
1-2
Rank
109
High
109
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Year Total Hard Clay I.hard Grass Carpet
2024 51-35 21-12 27-19 2-2 1-2 0-0
2023 39-30 25-16 10-8 4-5 0-1 0-0
2022 38-20 8-2 28-17 0-0 2-1 0-0
2021 44-20 22-11 22-9 0-0 0-0 0-0
2020 19-12 14-8 5-4 0-0 0-0 0-0
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Ranked no. 119 (career-high), the Spaniard reached the 2nd round after beating Tristan Schoolkate 6-4 7-5.

In the 1st round, Nicolas had a good straight sets win against Schoolkate (6-4 7-5). During the match, Moreno De Alboran scored 83 points vs Schoolkate’s 69. Nicolas was extremely aggressive to blast 34 winners.

Regarding the service games, Moreno De Alboran struck 9 aces and he committed only 2 double faults. Overall, Nicolas Moreno De Alboran was pretty efficient on serve to win 74% (34/46) of his 1st serve and 58% (11/19) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve once. Nicolas broke Schoolkate 3 times after converting 30% of his break points (3/10).

Moreno De Alboran has a solid record in the last 8 years having won 63% of his matches (239-140). 17-12 on hard in 2024. Regarding his performance on the same surface of this event, Moreno De Alboran has a compiled125-67 record in the last 8 years on hard.

Nicolas’s best result of the current year was getting to the final in the Villena Challenger.

The Spaniard has a compiled 47-34 win-loss record in 2024, 17-12 on hard (See FULL STATS).

Previously in the Matsuyama Challenger

Moreno De Alboran has never competed in this tournament before.

Matsuyama Challenger
Moreno De Alboran's Record

James McCabe

James McCabe

52 - 31win/loss

Hard
45-25
I Hard
0-0
Clay
1-2
Grass
6-4
Rank
260
High
258
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Year Total Hard Clay I.hard Grass Carpet
2024 54-33 46-26 1-2 1-1 6-4 0-0
2023 29-27 24-14 2-6 1-3 2-4 0-0
2022 39-27 30-19 9-8 0-0 0-0 0-0
2021 17-5 17-5 0-0 0-0 0-0 0-0
2020 0-0 0-0 0-0 0-0 0-0 0-0
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Ranked no. 265, McCabe reached the 2nd round after beating Christoph Negritu 6-7(4) 6-0 6-3, Shintaro Imai 6-2 6-3 and Benoit Paire 6-7(2) 6-4 6-4.

In the 1st round against Paire, The Australian recovered from a 1-set down deficit before winning (6-72 6-4 6-4). During the match McCabe scored 121 points vs Paire’s 112. McCabe was very aggressive to blast 51 winners.

About the serving games, McCabe scored 12 aces and he committed only 4 double faults. James McCabe lost the serve twice and he saved 9 break points. Furthermore, McCabe put 55% of his first serves in, winning 77% (51/66) of the points behind his 1st serve and 45% (24/53) on the 2nd serve. The Australian broke Paire 4 times after converting 44% of his break points (4/9).

McCabe’s best result of the year was reaching the final in M25 Nottingham and M25 Roehampton.

James has an overall 52-31 win-loss record in 2024, 45-25 on hard (See FULL STATS).

Previously in the Matsuyama Challenger

Previously, his best result was reaching the 2nd round in 2023. See his history.

Matsuyama Challenger
McCabe's Record

H2H Performance in the tournament

N.Moreno Alboran
J.McCabe
1h:39
1h:39
Time on court​
!
5h:40
5h:40
1h:39
1h:39
Last match​
!
2h:30
2h:30
1
1
Match played
!
3
3
22
22
Games Played​
78
78
2
2
Set played​​
8
8
83
83
Total points​
281
281
83
83
Avg point​
93.7
93.7
34
34
Winners
119
119
34
34
Avg Winners​
39.7
39.7
41%
41%
Ratio winners
42%
42%
-- Serve --
9
9
Aces
30
30
9
9
Avg Aces
10
10
2
2
Double Faults
9
9
2
2
Avg Double Faults
3
3
34/46
34/46
1st won total​
119/150
119/150
!
74%
74%
1st won %
!
79%
79%
11/19
11/19
2nd won total​
56/112
56/112
58%
58%
2nd won %
50%
50%
-- Break Points --
3/10
3/10
BP won
12/22
12/22
3/10
3/10
Avg BP won
4/7.3
4/7.3
30%
30%
Won
!
55%
55%
4
4
Conceded
17
17
4
4
Avg Conceded
5.7
5.7
1
1
Broken
2
2
1
1
Avg Broken
!
0.7
0.7
3
3
Saved
15
15
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Matches, sets, games and points

Points Moreno De Alboran McCabe
Match played 1 3
Tot Set 2 8
Tot Games 22 78
Pts 83-69 281-233
Total Points 152 514
Winners 34 119
%Winners 41% 42%

Moreno De Alboran played 1 match while McCabe competed in 3 matches. McCabe started his run from the qualifications while Moreno De Alboran had a direct access to the main draw. At the moment, James McCabe lost 2 sets while Nicolas Moreno De Alboran hasn’t dropped a set so far. Moreno De Alboran has played 6 set(s) less than McCabe (2 vs 8). Therefore, Moreno De Alboran played 56 games less than McCabe. Nicolas scored 34 winners (41% of the total points). On the other side, The Australian managed to score 119 winners (42%).

Serve Performance

Serve Moreno De Alboran McCabe
Aces 9 30
Avg per match 9 10
1st in 46/65 150/262
%1st in 71% 57%
1st pts 34/46 119/150
%1st pts 74% 79%
2nd pts 11/19 56/112
%2nd pts 58% 50%

Moreno De Alboran fired 9 aces . McCabe bagged 30 aces (10 per match). Moreno De Alboran won 74% points on his first serve. He quite strong on his second serve to win 58% of the points. On the other side, McCabe won 79% of the points behind his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 50% of the points.

How they played the important points

Breaks Moreno De Alboran McCabe
Won 3 12
Converted 3/10 12/22
% Converted 30% 55%
Conceded 4 17
Saved 3 15
% Saved 75% 88%
Times Broken 1 2

Moreno De Alboran broke his opponent 3 times with a 30% conversion rate. Moreno De Alboran surrendered his serve once and he saved 75% of the break points that he conceded. James broke his opponents 12 times with a 55% conversion rate. McCabe conceded his serve twice and he saved 88% of the break points that he conceded.

Moreno De Alboran
R1
Schoolkate 		Total
Score 6-4 7-5
Tot Set 2 2
Tot Games 22 22
pts 83-69 83-69
Total points 152 152
Winners 34 34
%Winners 41% 41%
SERVE
Aces 9 9
Double Faults 2 2
1st in 46/65 46/65
% 1st in 71% 71%
1st pts 34/46 34/46
% 1st pts 74% 74%
2nd pts 11/19 11/19
% 2nd pts 58% 58%
Breaks
Won 3 3
Converted 3/10 3/10
Converted % 30% 30%
Conceded 4 4
Saved 3/4 3
Saved % 75% 75%
Times Broken 1 1
McCabe
Q1
Negritu		 Q3
Imai		 R1
Paire		 Total
Score 6-74 6-0 6-3 6-2 6-3 6-72 6-4 6-4
Tot Set 3 2 3 8
Tot Games 28 17 33 78
pts 104-79 56-42 121-112 281-233
Total points 183 98 233 514
Winners 43 25 51 119
%Winners 41% 45% 42% 42%
SERVE
Aces 8 10 12 30
Double Faults 3 2 4 9
1st in 53/88 31/55 66/119 150/262
% 1st in 60% 56% 55% 57%
1st pts 43/53 25/31 51/66 119/150
% 1st pts 81% 81% 77% 79%
2nd pts 19/35 13/24 24/53 56/112
% 2nd pts 54% 54% 45% 50%
Breaks
Won 5 3 4 12
Converted 5/9 3/4 4/9 12/22
Converted % 56% 75% 44% 55%
Conceded 6 0 11 17
Saved 6/6 0/0 9/11 15
Saved % 100% – 82% 182%
Times Broken 0 0 2 2

Tennis Scores in Matsuyama Challenger

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