World number 59 Mackenzie McDonald faces the 252nd-ranked Tu Li in the second round of the 2023 Newport Open on Thursday, July 20. Get the predictions and odds of this Mackenzie McDonald v Tu Li match along with its preview, head to head, and tips here.
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Mackenzie McDonald v Tu Li Head to Head
No previous matches have been played between these two.
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McDonald Returns after 5-4 on Grass
After starting off the grass court season with a first round defeat at the Surbiton Challenger, McDonald looked to have recovered reasonably well to deliver solid performances at two of the remaining four tournaments he played.
At the Rosmalen Open, McDonald was a straight-set winner over Ilya Ivashka and Borna Coric before he fell in the quarterfinals. He followed that up with a first round defeat at Queen’s after needing to qualify for the event, but then shocked Taylor Fritz at the Eastbourne International on his way to the semifinals.
McDonald would have liked to do a lot better than his first round loss at Wimbledon as he went down to Alexander Bublik in four sets but he now has a chance to turn things around.
Having featured in only one edition of this tournament – he lost his opener here in 2016 – McDonald had a first round bye this time. He will look to take advantage of getting drawn against a player who has never been ranked better than 190th in the world here.
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Li Continues Shocking Run
In the only three main draw matches of his career, Li had never won a match. The only main draw match he played this year before coming into this tournament was at Mallorca where he had won successive qualifiers to make it to round one, only to lose to the same player, Pavel Kotov, whom he had defeated in the qualifiers.
This time around Li has gone one better and clinched his maiden main draw victory at the highest level.
After overcoming Matija Pecotic in his opening qualifier and then stunning the 4/6 favourite Illya Marchenko in the second qualifying round, Li went one better to defeat the fellow Aussie and Aleksandar Vukic in the opener here.
Vukic started out a 3/10 favourite in the match but it became very clear he wasn’t going to get a lot of opportunities to break the Li serve. He did break back in the fourth game of the second but in the tie-breaker that followed didn’t get any set-points to level things out, losing 6-3, 7-6 (6).
Can Tu Li now make things uncomfortable for McDonald as well?
McDonald v Li Prediction and Tip
McDonald has had a good run on grass but there is always some amount of exhaustion associated with the end of grass swing and that’s where Li could take advantage. Games handicap looks to be a good option.
Tips:
- Low Risk Tip: Games Handicap Tu Li +4.5: 8/11
- Moderate Risk Tip: McDonald to win AND Over 20.5 games in the match: 5/4
The 2023 ATP Newport will be played from July 17 to 23. You can get all the tennis betting news with our tennis betting blog here. Also get rest of the tennis match previews here.
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