Otto Virtanen and James McCabe will play each other in the 1^st round of the Cap Cana Challenger for the 2^nd time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Wednesday at 8:00 pm on GRANDSTAND. In the following paragraphs, you can find the head to head analysis and prediction.

Prediction, odds and live streaming

The pick for Tennis Tonic is Otto Virtanen who should win in 3 sets.

As per the initial odds, Otto Virtanen is the pick to win this match.
Otto Virtanen -> 1.52
James McCabe -> 2.4

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Prediction and head to head Otto Virtanen vs. James McCabe

This will be the 2^nd time that Otto Virtanen and James McCabe square off. The head to head is 1-0 for Virtanen (see full H2H stats), but they have never competed against each other on hard.

The last time that they played, Virtanen won 6-4 6-4 in the 1^st round in the Biel Challenger back in 2023.

Otto Virtanen

Ranked no. 115, Otto will start his run in the Cap Cana Challenger after he played his last match in Dubai where he lost 6-3 7-6(5) to Safiullin in the qualifications on the 23^rd of February.

Virtanen has an overall 3-7 win-loss record in 2025, 2-4 on hard (See FULL STATS).

Talking about his overall career, Otto has an overall 208-143 record. He has a negative 23-28 record on hard.

Previously in the Cap Cana Challenger

Otto has never competed in this tournament before.

James McCabe

Ranked no. 196 (career-high), the Australian reached the 1^st round after beating Unknown Player bye and Guido Andreozzi w/o.

In the qualifications, The Australian defeated Andreozzi (w/o). During the match McCabe and Andreozzi scored the same amount of points (). However, the world no. 115 was stronger during the important points and that was the most significant difference in the match. McCabe was not very aggressive do strike just winners.

About the serving games, McCabe couldn’t to score even 1 ace for the entire match and he was pretty consistent in conceding no double faults for the entire match. James McCabe conceded no breaks for the entire match to put 0% of his first serves in, win 0% (/) of the points behind his 1st serve and 0% (/) on the 2nd serve.

The Australian’s best result of the season was getting to the semifinal in the Bengaluru Challenger.

James has a compiled 11-8 win-loss record in 2025, 11-8 on hard (See FULL STATS).

Tennis Scores in Cap Cana Challenger

• Benjamin BonziBonzi – Rodrigo Pacheco MendezPacheco Mendez (2-6 6-2 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Aleksandar KovacevicKovacevic – Mattia BellucciBellucci (6-4 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Fabio FogniniFognini – Tristan SchoolkateSchoolkate (1-6 6-3 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Chak Lam Coleman WongLam Coleman Wong – Billy HarrisHarris (6-3 6-7⁴ 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings

Upcoming matches in the draw

• Dusan LajovicLajovic – Daniel AltmaierAltmaier (0-2) – H2H and prediction
• Constant LestienneLestienne – Cameron NorrieNorrie (1-2) – H2H and prediction
• Roberto CidCid – Sho ShimabukuroShimabukuro (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Thiago Seyboth WildSeyboth Wild – Nicolas MejiaMejia (2-0) – H2H and prediction
• August HolmgrenHolmgren – Govind NandaNanda (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Otto VirtanenVirtanen – (1-0) – H2H and prediction
• Tristan BoyerBoyer – Damir DzumhurDzumhur (0-0) – H2H and prediction