Mackenzie Mcdonald and Alex Bolt will clash against each other in the 1^st round of the Birmingham Challenger for the 7^th time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Tuesday at 11:00 am 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 Alex Bolt who should win in 3 sets.

As per the initial odds, Alex Bolt is the pick to win this match.
Alex Bolt -> 1.81
Mackenzie Mcdonald -> 1.92

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Prediction and head to head Mackenzie Mcdonald vs. Alex Bolt

This will be the 7^th time that Mackenzie Mcdonald and Alex Bolt play each other. The head to head is 3-3 for Mcdonald and Bolt (see full H2H stats),but they are 2-2 on grass.

The last time that they locked horns, Mcdonald won 6-2 6-2 in the qualifications in at the Australian Open back in January 2025.

Mackenzie Mcdonald

Ranked no. 98, Mcdonald will start his run in the Birmingham Challenger after he played his last match at the Roland Garros where he lost 6-3 6-3 6-3 to Djokovic in the 1^st round on the 27^th of May.

The American has a compiled 16-12 win-loss record in 2025, 0-0 on grass (See FULL STATS).

This will be the first match of the season on grass.

Mackenzie’s best result of the year was reaching the final in the San Diego Challenger.

Talking about his overall career, Mackenzie has an overall 329-257 record. He has a positive 35-28 record on grass.

Previously in the Birmingham Challenger

The American has never competed in this tournament before.

Alex Bolt

Ranked no. 197, Alex reached the 1^st round after defeating Charles Broom 6-3 7-6(4) and Giles Hussey 7-5 6-3.

In the qualifications, Alex had a good straight sets win against Hussey (7-5 6-3). During the match Bolt scored 71 points vs Hussey’s 54. Alex was very aggressive to blast 28 winners.

About the serving games, Bolt struck 3 aces and he committed only 1 double fault for the entire match. Overall, Alex Bolt was very efficient on serve to win 82% (28/34) of his 1st serve and 59% (13/22) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve once. The Australian broke Hussey 3 times after converting 43% of his break points (3/7).

Overall Performance in this tournament

Bolt started his run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, he hasn’t conceded yet a set in this event to win 55% of the points he played.

The Australian’s best result of the current year was reaching the final in the Wuxi Challenger.

Bolt has an overall 11-10 win-loss record in 2025, 2-0 on grass (See FULL STATS).

Tennis Scores in Birmingham Challenger

• Rinky HijikataHijikata – Billy HarrisHarris (6-1 3-6 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Lloyd HarrisHarris – Jay ClarkeClarke (6-4 3-6 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Nicolas JarryJarry – Tristan SchoolkateSchoolkate (6-7⁸ 6-4 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings

Upcoming matches in the draw

• Adrian MannarinoMannarino – Yoshihito NishiokaNishioka (2-0) – H2H and prediction
• Daniel EvansEvans – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• James DuckworthDuckworth – Brandon HoltHolt (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Yasutaka UchiyamaUchiyama – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Alex BoltBolt – Mackenzie McdonaldMcdonald (3-3) – H2H and prediction
• Kamil MajchrzakMajchrzak – (1-0) – H2H and prediction
• Yosuke WatanukiWatanuki – (1-1) – H2H and prediction
• Nicolas Moreno De AlboranMoreno De Alboran – Christopher O ConnellO Connell (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Marc-Andrea HueslerHuesler – Harold MayotMayot (0-2) – H2H and prediction
• Otto VirtanenVirtanen – Aleksandar VukicVukic (0-0) – H2H and prediction