Ben Shelton and Mackenzie Mcdonald will face off in the 2nd round of the Citi Open for the 2nd time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Tuesday at 6:00 pm on Stadium. Here the head to head stats and relative prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Ben Shelton who should win in 2 sets.
Ben Shelton -> 1.191
Mackenzie Mcdonald -> 4.7
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Prediction and head to head Ben Shelton vs. Mackenzie Mcdonald
This will be the 2nd time that Ben Shelton and Mackenzie Mcdonald clash against each other. The head to head is 1-0 for Shelton (see full H2H stats), but they have never competed against each other on hard.
The last time that they squared off, Shelton won 7-5 6-4 in the 1st round in Barcelona back in 2023.
Ben Shelton
24 - 15win/loss
9
5
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 40-24 | 23-9 | 7-5 | 4-6 | 6-4 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 42-26 | 22-13 | 8-4 | 8-5 | 4-4 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 28-26 | 21-13 | 4-8 | 1-2 | 2-3 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 40-11 | 16-9 | 0-0 | 24-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 18-7 | 7-3 | 5-2 | 6-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 8 (career-high), Shelton will start his run in Washington after he played his last match at Wimbledon where he lost 7-6(2) 6-4 6-4 to Sinner in the quarter on the 9th of July.
Shelton has an aggregate 23-15 win-loss record in 2025, 9-5 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Ben’s best result of the year was reaching the final in Munich.
Talking about his overall career, The American has an overall 151-85 record. He has a positive 75-43 record on hard.
Previously in Washington
Previously, his best result was reaching the semifinal in 2024. See his history.
Mackenzie Mcdonald
23 - 18win/loss
112
37
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 40-31 | 24-16 | 1-4 | 9-6 | 6-5 | 0-0 |
| 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 |
Ranked no. 95, Mackenzie reached the 2nd round after beating Colton Smith 6-4 6-1.
In the 1st round, Mackenzie had a good straight sets win against Smith (6-4 6-1). During the match Mcdonald scored 56 points vs Smith’s 41. Mcdonald was very aggressive to blast 22 winners.
Talking about serving, Mcdonald fired 4 aces and he committed only 2 double faults. Overall, Mackenzie Mcdonald was quite efficient on serve to win 79% (22/28) of his 1st serve and 57% (12/21) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve once. Mcdonald broke Smith 4 times after converting 57% of his break points (4/7).
Mackenzie’s best result of the current season was getting to the final in the San Diego Challenger.
Mcdonald has an overall 23-17 win-loss record in 2025, 11-6 on hard (See FULL STATS)
.Previously in Washington
Previously, his best result was reaching the final in 2021. See his history.
Tennis Scores in Washington
- Alexandre MullerMuller – Beibit ZhukayevZhukayev (6-4 6-4) – See score progression
- Aleksandar VukicVukic – Giovanni Mpetshi PerricardMpetshi Perricard (6-4 3-6 6-3) – See score progression
- Yoshihito NishiokaNishioka – Jenson BrooksbyBrooksby (6-4 5-7 6-1) – See score progression
- Matteo ArnaldiArnaldi – Daniel AltmaierAltmaier (4-6 6-2 7-62) – See score progression
- Learner TienTien – Emilio NavaNava (6-1 6-4) – See score progression
- Reilly OpelkaOpelka – Murphy CassoneCassone (7-64 6-75 6-3) – See score progression
- Mackenzie McdonaldMcdonald – Colton SmithSmith (6-4 6-1) – See score progression
- Cameron NorrieNorrie – Billy HarrisHarris (6-3 7-64) – See score progression
- Daniel EvansEvans – Zizou BergsBergs (3-6 6-4 6-3) – See score progression
- Fabian MarozsanMarozsan – Benjamin BonziBonzi (7-5 6-1) – See score progression
- Ethan QuinnQuinn – Christopher O ConnellO Connell (6-3 6-2) – See score progression
- Hugo Nys/Edouard Roger-VasselinNys/Edouard Roger-Vasselin – Nick Kyrgios/Gael MonfilsKyrgios/Gael Monfils (6-2 6-2) – See score progression
- Aleksandar VukicVukic – Giovanni Mpetshi PerricardMpetshi Perricard (6-4 3-6 6-3) – See score progression
- Learner TienTien – Emilio NavaNava (6-1 6-4) – See score progression
- Yoshihito NishiokaNishioka – Jenson BrooksbyBrooksby (6-4 5-7 6-1) – See score progression
Upcoming matches in the draw
- Gael MonfilsMonfils – Yibing WuWu (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- David GoffinGoffin – Bu YunchaoketeYunchaokete (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Daniil MedvedevMedvedev – Reilly OpelkaOpelka (4-2) – H2H and prediction
- Quentin HalysHalys – Aleksandar KovacevicKovacevic (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Cameron NorrieNorrie – Lorenzo MusettiMusetti (0-2) – H2H and prediction
- Alexandre MullerMuller – Holger Vitus Nodskov RuneVitus Nodskov Rune (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Taylor Harry FritzHarry Fritz – Aleksandar VukicVukic (2-0) – H2H and prediction
- Jaume Antoni Munar ClarAntoni Munar Clar – Marcos GironGiron (1-1) – H2H and prediction
- Fabian MarozsanMarozsan – Gabriel DialloDiallo (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Brandon NakashimaNakashima – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Flavio CobolliCobolli – Yoshihito NishiokaNishioka (1-1) – H2H and prediction