Who Will Win: Mcdonald Vs Nishioka? Prediction For ATP Atlanta Open 2024

What Time Will Mackenzie McDonald Play Against Yoshihito Nishioka?

McDonald and Nishioka are on the Day 3 Schedule at Atlanta Open 2024 on Wednesday 24 July 2024. Lets breakdown the career, past stats and recent form of these players and predict who will get the victory.

Who Will Win In This Head-To-Head?

In their head-to-head matchups, Yoshihito Nishioka leads Mackenzie McDonald with a record of 4 wins to 2.

Their previous meetings are as follows:
– 2019 Estoril (Portugal) on clay: Nishioka defeated McDonald with a score of 6-2, 6-4 in the round of 32.
– 2019 Roland Garros (France) on clay: Nishioka defeated McDonald with a score of 6-7(7), 6-0, 4-6, 6-2, 6-3 in the first round.
– 2021 Moscow (Russia) on hard court: McDonald defeated Nishioka with a score of 6-3, 6-4 in the round of 32.
– 2023 Adelaide-1 (Australia) on hard court: Nishioka defeated McDonald with a score of 6-4, 6-3 in the round of 16.
– 2023 Australian Open (Australia) on hard court: Nishioka defeated McDonald with a score of 7-6(6), 6-3, 6-2 in the round of 32.
– 2023 Delray Beach (U.S.A.) on hard court: McDonald defeated Nishioka with a score of 6-3, 3-6, 6-2 in the round of 16.
– In another meeting, the 2014 Lexington Challenger Qualifying (U.S.A.) on hard court: Nishioka defeated McDonald with a score of 6-3, 6-4 in the third qualifying round.

Mackenzie McDonald, 29 years old and currently ranked 97th in the world, reached his career-high ranking at No. 37 in October 2023. He fell out of the top 250 in 2020 after undergoing right hamstring surgery in 2019. In his career, he has a win-loss record of 4-9 in 2024, with a quarterfinal appearance in Newport and a second round appearance in Atlanta in both 2022 and 2024.

Notable achievements for McDonald include defeating former champions Nick Kyrgios and Kei Nishikori en route to his first ATP Tour final at the 2021 Washington tournament. He also won his first ATP Tour title in doubles at the 2022 Tokyo tournament partnering with Marcelo Melo. In the 2023 Australian Open, McDonald upset defending champion and World No. 2 Rafael Nadal in the second round, which is considered the biggest win of his career. He also defeated No. 7 Andrey Rublev en route to his first ATP Masters 1000 quarterfinal at the 2023 Toronto tournament. In previous Grand Slam tournaments, McDonald reached the fourth round at Wimbledon in 2018 as the No. 103

player and the fourth round at the Australian Open in 2021 as the No. 192 player, making him the lowest-ranked player to reach the Australian Open fourth round since No. 248 Guillermo Canas in 2004. Additionally, he qualified for the 2013 ATP Masters 1000 Cincinnati at the age of 18 and went on to win the 2016 NCAA singles and doubles titles for UCLA.

In this match, McDonald is aiming for his 18th career ATP Tour quarterfinal and his 13th on hard courts. He hopes to reach the quarterfinals in back-to-back weeks for the third time in his career, following his quarterfinal appearance in Newport last week and previous appearances in Delray Beach-Acapulco in 2019 and Florence-Naples in 2022.

Yoshihito Nishioka, 28 years old and currently ranked 86th in the world, reached his career-high ranking at No. 24 in June 2023. He achieved this ranking by advancing to the fourth round at the 2023 Australian Open and Roland Garros, both for the first time in his career. Notable accomplishments for Nishioka include defeating World No. 2 Casper Ruud en route to his second ATP Tour title at the 2022 Seoul tournament. He also saved two match points against Denis Shapovalov en route to his first title at the 2018 Shenzhen tournament as the 171st-ranked qualifier. Nishioka rallied from a set down three times en route to the 2020 Delray Beach final and saved one match point against Alex de Minaur en route to the 2022 Washington final. He defeated his fellow countryman and World No. 5 Kei Nishikori en route to the 2019 ATP Masters 1000 Cincinnati quarterfinals as a qualifier.

In the 2024 season, Nishioka is aiming for his second ATP Tour quarterfinal (he reached the quarterfinals in Eastbourne, losing to Aleksandar Vukic). This would be his 22nd quarterfinal appearance of his career, and the first on hard courts since Zhuhai in September last year, where he lost to Karen Khachanov in the semifinals. He currently holds a 6-1 record against lower-ranked players on the tour-level this season.

The match between McDonald and Nishioka will take place at the Grandstand court.

My Conclusion / Prediction:

My pick is that McDonald will win.
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