Mccartney Kessler and Lin Zhu will face off in the 2nd round of the Rothesay Open for the 2nd time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Thursday at 11:00 am on COURT 2. Here the head to head stats and relative prediction.
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The pick for Tennis Tonic is Mccartney Kessler who should win in 2 sets.
Mccartney Kessler -> 1.31
Lin Zhu -> 3.45
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Prediction and head to head Mccartney Kessler vs. Lin Zhu
This will be the 2nd time that Mccartney Kessler and Lin Zhu square off. The head to head is 1-0 for Kessler (see full H2H stats), but they have never played each other on grass.
The last time that they locked horns, Kessler won 3-6 6-4 7-5 in the 1st round in the Charleston back in 2024.
Mccartney Kessler
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Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
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2025 | 27-16 | 17-8 | 4-6 | 0-0 | 6-2 | 0-0 |
2024 | 39-22 | 28-13 | 2-6 | 5-0 | 4-3 | 0-0 |
2023 | 44-24 | 21-12 | 11-7 | 12-5 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
2022 | 8-2 | 6-2 | 2-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
2021 | 10-5 | 10-3 | 0-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 42 (career-high), the American reached the 2nd round after beating Beatriz Haddad Maia 7-5 6-7(3) 7-5.
In the 1st round, Mccartney defeated Haddad Maia (7-5 6-73 7-5). During the match, Kessler scored 114 points vs Haddad Maia’s 98. Mccartney was exceptionally aggressive to blast 42 winners.
Regarding the service games, Kessler made 2 aces and she committed only 3 double faults. Overall, Mccartney Kessler was pretty effective on serve to win 72% (42/58) of her 1st serve and 57% (27/47) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent her to concede the serve 3 times. The American broke Haddad Maia 5 times after converting 50% of her break points (5/10).
Kessler has a solid win-loss record in the last 8 years having won 65% of her matches (154-84). 2-1 on grass in 2025. In connection with her performance on the same surface of this tournament, Kessler has a compiled6-4 record in the last 8 years on grass.
Her best result of the current year was winning the title in Hobart where she defeated Elise Mertens in the final 6-4 3-6 6-0.
The American has an aggregate 23-15 win-loss record in 2025, 2-1 on grass (See FULL STATS)
.Previously in Nottingham
The American has never competed in this tournament before.
Lin Zhu
Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
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2025 | 11-7 | 9-5 | 0-0 | 1-1 | 1-1 | 0-0 |
2024 | 15-19 | 12-10 | 0-5 | 0-0 | 3-4 | 0-0 |
2023 | 28-24 | 23-17 | 0-2 | 1-2 | 4-3 | 0-0 |
2022 | 41-26 | 34-15 | 6-6 | 1-2 | 0-3 | 0-0 |
2021 | 13-14 | 8-10 | 0-1 | 4-0 | 1-3 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 309, the Chinese got to the 2nd round after beating Aliaksandra Sasnovich 6-4 6-1.
In the 1st round, Lin had a good straight sets win against Sasnovich (6-4 6-1). During the match Zhu scored 66 points vs Sasnovich’s 49. The Chinese was pretty aggressive to blast 27 winners.
Talking about serving, Zhu was unable to score even 1 ace for the entire match and she committed only 3 double faults. Lin Zhu lost the serve twice and she saved 7 break points. Furthermore, Zhu put 63% of her first serves in, winning 68% (27/40) of the points behind her 1st serve and 43% (10/23) on the 2nd serve. Zhu broke Sasnovich 5 times after converting 63% of her break points (5/8).
Zhu’s best result of the season was getting to the final in the W35 Goyang.
Lin has a compiled 11-6 win-loss record in 2025, 1-0 on grass (See FULL STATS).
Previously in Nottingham
Previously, her best result was reaching the 2nd round in 2023. See her history.
H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
Points | Kessler | Zhu |
---|---|---|
Match played | 1 | 1 |
Tot Set | 3 | 2 |
Tot Games | 37 | 17 |
Pts | 114-98 | 66-49 |
Total Points | 212 | 115 |
Winners | 42 | 27 |
%Winners | 37% | 41% |
Both Kessler and Zhu played 1 match. At the moment, Mccartney Kessler conceded 1 set while Lin Zhu hasn’t dropped a set so far. Kessler has played 1 set more than Zhu (3 vs 2). Therefore, Kessler played 20 games more than Zhu. The American scored 42 winners (37% of the total points). On the other side, The Chinese fired 27 winners (41%).
Serve Performance
Serve | Kessler | Zhu |
---|---|---|
Aces | 2 | 0 |
Avg per match | 2 | 0 |
1st in | 58/105 | 40/63 |
%1st in | 55% | 63% |
1st pts | 42/58 | 27/40 |
%1st pts | 72% | 68% |
2nd pts | 27/47 | 10/23 |
%2nd pts | 57% | 43% |
Kessler made 2 aces . Zhu didn’t manage to fire a single ace to far. Kessler won 72% points on her first serve. She was rock solid on her second serve to win 57% of the points. On the other side, Zhu won 68% of the points on her first serve. She had a solid display on her second serve to win 43% of the points.
How they played the important points
Breaks | Kessler | Zhu |
---|---|---|
Won | 5 | 5 |
Converted | 5/10 | 5/8 |
% Converted | 50% | 63% |
Conceded | 6 | 9 |
Saved | 3 | 7 |
% Saved | 50% | 78% |
Times Broken | 3 | 2 |
The American broke her opponent 5 times with a 50% conversion rate. Kessler lost her serve 3 times and she saved 50% of the break points that she conceded. The Chinese broke her opponent 5 times with a 63% conversion rate. Zhu conceded her serve twice and she saved 78% of the break points that she conceded.
Kessler | |||
R1 Haddad Maia | Total | ||
---|---|---|---|
Score | 7-5 6-73 7-5 | ||
Tot Set | 3 | 3 | |
Tot Games | 37 | 37 | |
pts | 114-98 | 114-98 | |
Total points | 212 | 212 | |
Winners | 42 | 42 | |
%Winners | 37% | 37% | |
SERVE | |||
Aces | 2 | 2 | |
Double Faults | 3 | 3 | |
1st in | 58/105 | 58/105 | |
% 1st in | 55% | 55% | |
1st pts | 42/58 | 42/58 | |
% 1st pts | 72% | 72% | |
2nd pts | 27/47 | 27/47 | |
% 2nd pts | 57% | 57% | |
Breaks | |||
Won | 5 | 5 | |
Converted | 5/10 | 5/10 | |
Converted % | 50% | 50% | |
Conceded | 6 | 6 | |
Saved | 3/6 | 3 | |
Saved % | 50% | 50% | |
Times Broken | 3 | 3 |
Zhu | |||
R1 Sasnovich | Total | ||
---|---|---|---|
Score | 6-4 6-1 | ||
Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
Tot Games | 17 | 17 | |
pts | 66-49 | 66-49 | |
Total points | 115 | 115 | |
Winners | 27 | 27 | |
%Winners | 41% | 41% | |
SERVE | |||
Aces | 0 | 0 | |
Double Faults | 3 | 3 | |
1st in | 40/63 | 40/63 | |
% 1st in | 63% | 63% | |
1st pts | 27/40 | 27/40 | |
% 1st pts | 68% | 68% | |
2nd pts | 10/23 | 10/23 | |
% 2nd pts | 43% | 43% | |
Breaks | |||
Won | 5 | 5 | |
Converted | 5/8 | 5/8 | |
Converted % | 63% | 63% | |
Conceded | 9 | 9 | |
Saved | 7/9 | 7 | |
Saved % | 78% | 78% | |
Times Broken | 2 | 2 |
Tennis Scores in Nottingham
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- Rebecca SramkovaSramkova – Yulia PutintsevaPutintseva (6-1 4-6 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Harry BourchierBourchier – Jesse DelaneyDelaney (6-1 6-0) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Manish SureshkumarSureshkumar – Hao Yuan NgYuan Ng (6-1 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Ryota TanumaTanuma – Kelsey StevensonStevenson (6-2 1-0 ret.) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Jonathan GrayGray – Rimpei KawakamiKawakami (6-3 5-4 ret.) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Kazuma KawachiKawachi – Takuto NikiNiki (6-2 2-1 ret.) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Alec AdamsonAdamson – Siddhant BanthiaBanthia (6-3 6-0) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Linda NoskovaLinda – Francesca JonesFrancesca (6-1 6-3) – See score progression
Upcoming matches in the draw
- Mccartney KesslerKessler – Lin ZhuZhu (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Francesca JonesJones – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Leylah Annie FernandezAnnie Fernandez – Cristina BucsaBucsa (2-0) – H2H and prediction
- Magda LinetteLinette – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Anna BlinkovaBlinkova – Clara TausonTauson (1-2) – H2H and prediction