Li Tu and Marc Polmans will square off in the 1st round of the Kobe Challenger for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Tuesday at 3:00 pm on COURT C. In the following lines you can find the head to head analysis and prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Marc Polmans who should win in 3 sets.
Marc Polmans -> 1.64
Li Tu -> 2.15
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Prediction and head to head Li Tu vs. Marc Polmans
There is no head to head record between Li Tu and Marc Polmans since this will be the first time that they will play each other in the main tour.
Li Tu
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 17-22 | 11-16 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 6-5 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 43-28 | 37-21 | 1-1 | 1-1 | 4-5 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 38-32 | 29-19 | 0-3 | 3-6 | 6-4 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 50-25 | 34-16 | 15-6 | 1-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 41-7 | 28-4 | 0-0 | 13-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 207, Li will start his run in the Kobe Challenger after he played his last match in the Matsuyama Challenger where he lost 6-2 6-2 to Jung in the 2nd round on the 10th of November.
Tu has a compiled 50-24 win-loss record in 2022, 1-2 on indoor hard courts (See FULL STATS).
The Australian’s best result of the year was reaching the final in M25 Bendigo,M25 Cairo,M15 Monastir,M25 Monastir,M15 Waco and the Seoul Challenger.
Talking about his overall career, The Australian has an overall 91-32 record. He has a positive 14-5 record on indoor hard courts.
Previously in the Kobe Challenger
Li has never competed in this tournament before.
Marc Polmans
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 36-21 | 32-14 | 3-6 | 0-0 | 1-1 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 24-28 | 18-18 | 4-4 | 0-1 | 2-5 | 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 |
Ranked no. 371, the Australian reached the 1st round after beating Hikaru Shiraishi 7-5 4-6 6-0 and Renta Tokuda 6-3 4-6 6-2.
In the qualifications, Polmans defeated Tokuda (6-3 4-6 6-2). During the match Polmans scored 83 points vs Tokuda’s 75. Polmans was extremely aggressive to blast 39 winners.
Talking about serving, Polmans struck 4 aces and he committed only 3 double faults. Marc Polmans lost the serve 3 times and he saved 5 break points. Furthermore, Polmans put 68% of his first serves in, winning 76% (39/51) of the points behind his 1st serve and 46% (11/24) on the 2nd serve. Polmans broke Tokuda 5 times after converting 36% of his break points (5/14).
Overall Performance in this tournament
The Australian started his run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, he has conceded 2 set in the tournament to win 53% of the points he played.
The Australian’s best result of the year was getting to the final in the Sydney Challenger.
Marc has an overall 15-11 win-loss record in 2022, 2-0 on indoor hard courts (See FULL STATS).
Tennis Scores in Kobe Challenger
- John MillmanMillman – Filip Cristian JianuCristian Jianu (6-3 3-6 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Rinky HijikataHijikata – Dane SweenySweeny (6-3 1-6 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Nino SerdarusicSerdarusic – Nicholas David IonelDavid Ionel (6-3 6-77 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Damir DzumhurDzumhur – Taisei IchikawaIchikawa (6-4 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
Upcoming matches in the draw
- Yuichi SugitaSugita – Beibit ZhukayevZhukayev (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Jason JungJung – Rio NoguchiNoguchi (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- James DuckworthDuckworth – Shinji HazawaHazawa (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Damir DzumhurDzumhur – Nino SerdarusicSerdarusic (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Kaichi UchidaUchida – Ramkumar RamanathanRamanathan (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Christopher O ConnellO Connell – Colin SinclairSinclair (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Marc PolmansPolmans – Li TuTu (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Shintaro ImaiImai – Hiroki MoriyaMoriya (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Nam Hoang LyHoang Ly – Frederico Ferreira SilvaFerreira Silva (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Yunseong ChungChung – Yosuke WatanukiWatanuki (1-2) – H2H and prediction
- Zdenek KolarKolar – Tatsuma ItoIto (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Sho ShimabukuroShimabukuro – Yasutaka UchiyamaUchiyama (1-0) – H2H and prediction