Keegan Smith and Marc Polmans will square off in the 2nd round of the Gwangju Challenger for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Wednesday at 11:00 am on COURT 1. In this post, we analyze their head to head performance and prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Keegan Smith who should win in 3 sets.
As per the initial odds, Keegan Smith is the pick to win this match.
Keegan Smith -> 1.83
Marc Polmans -> 1.93
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Prediction and head to head Keegan Smith vs. Marc Polmans
There is no head to head record between Keegan Smith and Marc Polmans since this will be the first time that they will play each other in the main tour.
Keegan Smith
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 17-14 | 17-12 | 0-1 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 35-26 | 31-20 | 0-0 | 4-6 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 30-24 | 26-14 | 3-4 | 1-6 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 16-5 | 8-2 | 0-0 | 8-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 7-4 | 7-4 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 340, the American reached the 2nd round after beating Joris De Loore 1-6 6-4 6-4.
In the 1st round against De Loore, Keegan recovered from a 1-set down deficit before winning (1-6 6-4 6-4).During the match, Smith scored less points (5) than De Loore. In fact, the world no. 340 won 74 points vs De Loore’s. That means that Smith was more focused during the important points. Smith was exceptionally aggressive to blast 35 winners.
Talking about the service games, Smith scored just 1 ace in the encounter and he committed only 1 double fault. Keegan Smith lost the serve 6 times. Furthermore, Smith put 85% of his first serves in, winning 53% (35/66) of the points behind his 1st serve and 50% (6/12) on the 2nd serve. Keegan broke De Loore 5 times after converting 71% of his break points (5/7).
Smith has a solid match record in the last 7 years having won 65% of his matches (94-51). 24-11 on hard in 2022. Talking about his performance on the same surface of this tournament, Smith has an aggregate78-37 win-loss record in the last 7 years on hard.
Smith’s best result of the current season was getting to the final in M25 Cancun and M25 Bakersfield.
Keegan has an aggregate 27-19 win-loss record in 2022, 24-11 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Gwangju Challenger
Smith has never competed in this tournament before.
Marc Polmans
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 7-14 | 3-6 | 4-4 | 0-0 | 0-4 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 50-35 | 32-23 | 14-9 | 2-1 | 2-2 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 18-13 | 14-12 | 0-0 | 4-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 15-28 | 1-6 | 8-13 | 2-6 | 4-3 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 11-16 | 2-6 | 5-4 | 4-6 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 787, the Australian reached the 2nd round after defeating John Millman 6-4 0-0 ret..
In the 1st round against Millman, the Australian had a free pass after Millman retired on a 6-4 0-0 . scoreline.
Marc has a compiled 5-7 win-loss record in 2022, 5-7 on hard (See FULL STATS).
H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Smith | Polmans |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 1 | 1 |
| Tot Set | 3 | 3 |
| Tot Games | 27 | 10 |
| Pts | 74-79 | 32-27 |
| Total Points | 153 | 59 |
| Winners | 35 | 13 |
| %Winners | 47% | 41% |
Both Smith and Polmans played 1 match. At the moment, Keegan Smith lost 1 set while Marc Polmans hasn’t lost a set so far. Talking about their workload, Smith and Polmans have played the same amount of sets 3. However, Smith played 17 games more than Polmans. Keegan scored 35 winners (47% of the total points). On the other side, Polmans blasted 13 winners (41%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Smith | Polmans |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 1 | 1 |
| Avg per match | 1 | 1 |
| 1st in | 66/78 | 15/26 |
| %1st in | 85% | 58% |
| 1st pts | 35/66 | 13/15 |
| %1st pts | 53% | 87% |
| 2nd pts | 6/12 | 7/11 |
| %2nd pts | 50% | 64% |
Smith made 1 ace . Polmans also scored 1 ace . Smith won 53% points behind his first serve. He pretty solid on his second serve to win 50% of the points. On the other side, Polmans won 87% of the points behind his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 64% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Smith | Polmans |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 5 | 1 |
| Converted | 5/7 | 1/2 |
| % Converted | 71% | 50% |
| Conceded | 6 | 0 |
| Saved | 0 | 0 |
| % Saved | 0% | 0% |
| Times Broken | 6 | 0 |
Smith broke his opponent 5 times with a 71% conversion rate. Smith lost his serve 6 times and he saved 0% of the break points that he conceded. Marc broke his opponent once with a 50% conversion rate. Marc was rock solid on his serve as he has never conceded a single service game after saving 0 break points.
| Smith | ||||
| Q3 Hee Lee |
R1 De Loore |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-2 6-1 | 1-6 6-4 6-4 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 3 | 5 | |
| Tot Games | 15 | 27 | 42 | |
| pts | – | 74-79 | 74-79 | |
| Total points | 0 | 153 | 153 | |
| Winners | 35 | 35 | ||
| %Winners | 0% | 47% | 47% | |
| SERVE | ||||
| Aces | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
| Double Faults | 1 | 1 | ||
| 1st in | / | 66/78 | 66/78 | |
| % 1st in | 0% | 85% | 85% | |
| 1st pts | / | 35/66 | 35/66 | |
| % 1st pts | 0% | 53% | 53% | |
| 2nd pts | / | 6/12 | 6/12 | |
| % 2nd pts | 0% | 50% | 50% | |
| Breaks | ||||
| Won | 5 | 5 | ||
| Converted | / | 5/7 | 5/7 | |
| Converted % | 0% | 71% | 71% | |
| Conceded | 6 | 6 | ||
| Saved | 0/ | 0/6 | 0 | |
| Saved % | – | 0% | 0% | |
| Times Broken | 6 | 6 | ||
| Polmans | ||||
| R1 Millman |
Total | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-4 0-0 ret. | |||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | ||
| Tot Games | 10 | 10 | ||
| pts | 32-27 | 32-27 | ||
| Total points | 59 | 59 | ||
| Winners | 13 | 13 | ||
| %Winners | 41% | 41% | ||
| SERVE | ||||
| Aces | 1 | 1 | ||
| Double Faults | 0 | 0 | ||
| 1st in | 15/26 | 15/26 | ||
| % 1st in | 58% | 58% | ||
| 1st pts | 13/15 | 13/15 | ||
| % 1st pts | 87% | 87% | ||
| 2nd pts | 7/11 | 7/11 | ||
| % 2nd pts | 64% | 64% | ||
| Breaks | ||||
| Won | 1 | 1 | ||
| Converted | 1/2 | 1/2 | ||
| Converted % | 50% | 50% | ||
| Conceded | 0 | 0 | ||
| Saved | 0/0 | 0 | ||
| Saved % | – | 0% | ||
| Times Broken | 0 | 0 | ||
Head 2 Head
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LLLLLLLWWW Tennis Scores in Gwangju Challenger
- Emilio GomezGomez – Ben PataelPatael (7-67 6-2) – See score progression
- Ryan PenistonPeniston – Naoki NakagawaNakagawa (7-5 5-7 6-3) – See score progression
- Rinky HijikataHijikata – Aleksandar KovacevicKovacevic (6-4 6-4) – See score progression
- Maximilian NeuchristNeuchrist – Duckhee LeeLee (4-6 6-0 6-3) – See score progression
- Ji Sung NamSung Nam – Yunseong ChungChung (1-6 6-3 7-5) – See score progression
- Mukund SasikumarSasikumar – Seong Chan HongChan Hong (4-6 6-1 7-5) – See score progression
- Dalibor SvrcinaSvrcina – Christopher O ConnellO Connell (6-4 6-2) – See score progression
- Keegan SmithSmith – Joris De LooreDe Loore (1-6 6-4 6-4) – See score progression
- Zsombor PirosPiros – Kimmer CoppejansCoppejans (6-4 4-6 6-2) – See score progression
- Li TuTu – Tung-Lin WuWu (6-72 7-69 6-1) – See score progression
- Jason JungJung – Nicolas BarrientosBarrientos (6-1 4-6 7-66) – See score progression
- Uisung ParkPark – Jay ClarkeClarke (6-3 3-6 6-2) – See score progression
- Maximilian MartererMarterer – Marek GengelGengel (6-3 3-6 7-5) – See score progression
- Marc PolmansPolmans – John MillmanMillman (6-4 0-0 ret.) – See score progression
- Yibing WuWu – Sanhui ShinShin (6-3 6-2) – See score progression
- Uisung ParkPark – Jay ClarkeClarke (6-3 3-6 6-2) – See score progression
- Rinky HijikataHijikata – Aleksandar KovacevicKovacevic (6-4 6-4) – See score progression
Upcoming matches in the draw
- Emilio GomezGomez – Sasi Kumar MukundKumar Mukund (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Maximilian NeuchristNeuchrist – Ryan PenistonPeniston (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Ji Sung NamSung Nam – Yibing WuWu (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Maximilian MartererMarterer – Jason JungJung (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Marc PolmansPolmans – Keegan SmithSmith (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Skander MansouriMansouri – Christopher EubanksEubanks (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Zsombor PirosPiros – Li TuTu (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Rinky HijikataHijikata – Dalibor SvrcinaSvrcina (0-0) – H2H and prediction
