Jaqueline Cristian and Mccartney Kessler will fight against each other in the 1st round of the Internationaux de Strasbourg for the 3rd time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Monday at 1:00 pm on COURT PATRICE DOMINGUEZ. 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 Mccartney Kessler who should win in 3 sets.
As per the initial odds, Mccartney Kessler is the pick to win this match.
Mccartney Kessler -> 1.81
Jaqueline Cristian -> 1.99
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Prediction and head to head Jaqueline Cristian vs. Mccartney Kessler
This will be the 3rd time that Jaqueline Cristian and Mccartney Kessler face off. The head to head is 2-0 for Cristian (see full H2H stats), 1-0 on clay.
The last time that they played each other, Cristian won 6-7(6) 6-0 6-3 in the 1st round in Wuhan back in 2025.
Jaqueline Cristian
14 - 12win/loss
60
28
LLWLLWWWLL | Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 17-16 | 10-7 | 5-6 | 1-1 | 1-2 | 0-0 |
| 2025 | 32-25 | 20-15 | 12-6 | 0-1 | 0-3 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 28-32 | 5-15 | 17-11 | 5-4 | 1-2 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 51-28 | 4-7 | 28-11 | 15-6 | 1-3 | 3-1 |
| 2022 | 13-16 | 9-8 | 0-0 | 4-8 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 28 (career-high), Jaqueline will start her run in Strasbourg after she played her last match in Rome where she lost 6-7(5) 7-6(2) 6-4 to Pliskova in the 2nd round on the 8th of May.
Jaqueline has a composed 13-12 win-loss record in 2026, 2-4 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Talking about her overall career, Cristian has an overall 360-257 record. She has a positive 171-106 record on clay.
Previously in Strasbourg
Previously, her best result was reaching the qualifications in 2018 and 2019. See her history.
Mccartney Kessler
13 - 12win/loss
77
30
LLLWLLWLWW | Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 18-21 | 8-11 | 7-6 | 0-0 | 3-4 | 0-0 |
| 2025 | 37-24 | 27-16 | 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 |
Ranked no. 50, Kessler reached the 1st round after defeating Renata Zarazua 7-5 6-2 and Oksana Selekhmeteva 6-4 6-4.
In the qualifications, Kessler had a good straight sets win against Selekhmeteva (6-4 6-4). During the match Kessler scored 78 points vs Selekhmeteva’s 61. Kessler was exceptionally aggressive to blast 30 winners.
About the serving games, Kessler scored just 1 ace during the entire match and she committed only 3 double faults. Mccartney Kessler lost the serve 3 times and she saved 6 break points. Furthermore, Kessler put 63% of her first serves in, winning 65% (30/46) of the points behind her 1st serve and 48% (13/27) on the 2nd serve. The American broke Selekhmeteva 5 times after converting 45% of her break points (5/11).
Overall Performance in this tournament
The American started her run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, she hasn’t lost yet a set in this competition to win 56% of the points she played.
WTA Strasbourg - Mccartney Kessler's projected path
The American has a compiled 13-11 win-loss record in 2026, 6-4 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Previously in Strasbourg
Previously, her best result was reaching the 1st round in 2025. See her history.
Head 2 Head
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Upcoming matches in the draw
- Magdalena FrechFrech – (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Mccartney KesslerKessler – Jaqueline CristianCristian (0-2) – H2H and prediction
- Darya KasatkinaKasatkina – Ludmilla SamsonovaSamsonova (0-2) – H2H and prediction
- Madison KeysKeys – Cristina BucsaBucsa (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Diane ParryParry – Emma RaducanuRaducanu (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Marie BouzkovaBouzkova – Katerina SiniakovaSiniakova (0-2) – H2H and prediction
- Emma NavarroNavarro – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Ann LiLi – Ekaterina AlexandrovaAlexandrova (0-2) – H2H and prediction
