Taylor Fritz will face Mackenzie McDonald in the second round of the Korea Open. The game will start on September 29 at 07:00.
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Bookmaker Ratings: Prediction #1 – Handicap (-3.5) for Fritz – 1.78.
Bookmaker Ratings: Prediction #2 – Total Games Under 22 – 1.84.
Fritz is capable of losing this match purely for his own reasons. McDonald has been performing poorly this season. He is particularly bad just in the second half of the season.
The tennis players have met each other four times before. The last face-off ended in three sets, but we believe that the upcoming match will follow a slightly different scenario. McDonald’s current playing conditions leave much to be desired, so we expect a confident victory for Fritz in this match.
Fritz is having a fine season. Taylor has triumphed in two tournaments this year. First, he won the Indian Wells Masters, beating Rafael Nadal (6-3, 7-6) in two sets in the final.
Fritz then clinched victory at the grass-court event in Eastbourne with a win over Maxime Cressy (6-2, 6-7, 7-6). The American also reached the Wimbledon quarter-finals for the first time this season, where he was stopped by Rafael Nadal (6-3, 5-7, 6-3, 5-7, 6-7) in five sets.
There has been at least one tie-break in Fritz’s last five matches.
McDonald has not been able to boast much this season. Mackenzie has only been more or less good this year on the courts in Dubai, where he reached the quarterfinals. This was his best result so far this year.
At all the other tournaments, McDonald was knocked out pretty fast. In the first round of this year’s competition in Seoul, McDonald defeated Pedro Martinez Portero (7-5, 6-4) in two sets.
McDonald has failed to get past the second round in his last 11 tournaments.
In 3 of McDonald’s last 5 matches, less than 9.5 games have been played in the first set. We offer to bet on “1st Set Games – Under 9.5” with odds of 1.84.
Type of Court – Indoor Hard
Speed of Court – 8/10
Fritz’s Rating – 12
Taylor Fritz Wins/Losses in 2022 – 37/17
McDonald’s Rating – 82
Mackenzie McDonald Wins/Losses in 2022 – 20/25
Fritz leads with a score of 3-1 in the head-to-head encounters. The last time they met was at the Delray Beach Open in 2019. In that match, McDonald defeated Fritz (3-6, 6-4, 6-3) in three sets.
The match will be played at Center Court, Seoul Olympic Park Tennis Center, Seoul, Korea.
We recommend checking out the odds for the Korea Open: Fritz vs McDonald at 22bet and MelBet.