Soon-Woo Kwon and Peter Polansky will play each other in the 2nd round of the Nur-Sultan 2 Challenger for the 3rd time of their career. They are scheduled to compete on Thursday at 11:00 am on COURT 1. In this post, we analyze their head to head performance and the prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Soon-Woo Kwon who should win in 2 sets.
Soon-Woo Kwon -> 1.14
Peter Polansky -> 5.7
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Prediction and head to head Soon-Woo Kwon vs. Peter Polansky
This will be the 3rd time that Soon-Woo Kwon and Peter Polansky fight against each other. The head to head is 1-1 for Kwon and Polansky (see full H2H stats), but they have never played each other on indoor hard courts.
The last time that they played, Kwon won 6-7(4) 6-3 4-0 ret. in the 2nd round in the Shenzhen Challenger back in 2017.
Soon-Woo Kwon
Ranked no. 78, Kwon reached the 2nd round after beating Blaz Rola 7-5 6-2.
In the 1st round, Kwon had a good straight sets win against Rola (7-5 6-2). During the match Kwon scored 72 points vs Rola’s 59. Soon-Woo was quite aggressive to blast 23 winners.
Regarding the service games, Kwon fired 2 aces and he committed only 6 double faults. Soon-Woo Kwon lost the serve twice and he saved 7 break points. Furthermore, Kwon put 49% of his first serves in, winning 68% (23/34) of the points behind his 1st serve and 51% (18/35) on the 2nd serve. Soon-Woo broke Rola 5 times after converting 63% of his break points (5/8).
Kwon has a solid match record in the last 8 years having won 63% of his matches (215-124). 8-1 on indoor hard courts in 2021. Regarding his performance on the same surface of this tournament, Kwon has a 30-12 record in the last 8 years on indoor hard courts.
Kwon’s best result of the year was reaching the final in the Biella 2 Challenger.
The Korean has a 9-4 win-loss record in 2021, 8-1 on indoor hard courts (See FULL STATS)
.Previously in the Sultan 2 Challenger
Kwon has never competed in this tournament before.
Peter Polansky
Ranked no. 221, Polansky reached the 2nd round after beating Ulises Blanch 7-62 4-3 ret..
In the 1st round, Polansky had a good straight sets win against Blanch (7-62
4-3 ret.). During the match Polansky scored 67 points vs Blanch’s 56. Peter was pretty aggressive to blast 25 winners.Talking about serving, Polansky struck 7 aces and he committed only 1 double fault for the entire match. Overall, Peter Polansky was extremely efficient on serve to win 81% (25/31) of his 1st serve and 60% (21/35) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve once. Peter broke Blanch once after converting 50% of his break points (1/2).
Polansky has a 4-4 win-loss record in 2021, 1-1 on indoor hard courts (See FULL STATS).
Tennis Scores in Sultan 2 Challenger
- Frederico Ferreira SilvaFerreira Silva – Ramkumar RamanathanRamanathan (6-4 7-5) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Taro DanielDaniel – Denis IstominIstomin (6-2 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Sebastian OfnerOfner – Timofey SkatovSkatov (6-3 7-64) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Prajnesh GunneswaranGunneswaran – Tatsuma ItoIto (6-3 2-0 ret.) – Stats, scores, rankings
Upcoming matches in the draw
- James DuckworthDuckworth – Vladyslav ManafovManafov (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Mackenzie McdonaldMcdonald – Tomas MachacMachac (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Sebastian OfnerOfner – Frederico Ferreira SilvaFerreira Silva (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Soon-Woo KwonKwon – Peter PolanskyPolansky (1-1) – H2H and prediction
- Tung-Lin WuWu – Viktor TroickiTroicki (0-0) – H2H and prediction