Marc Polmans and Brandon Walkin will face off in the 1st round of the Burnie Challenger for the 2nd time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Tuesday at 12:30 pm on COURT 4. In this post, we analyze their head to head performance and prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Marc Polmans who should win in 2 sets.
As per the initial odds, Marc Polmans is the pick to win this match.
Marc Polmans -> 1.065
Brandon Walkin -> 7.4
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Prediction and head to head Marc Polmans vs. Brandon Walkin
This will be the 2nd time that Marc Polmans and Brandon Walkin fight against each other. The head to head is 1-0 for Polmans (see full H2H stats), but they have never competed against each other on hard.
The last time that they locked horns, Polmans won 6-3 6-3 in the 1st round in Australia F3 (Canberra) back in 2017.
Marc Polmans
Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
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2024 | 24-27 | 18-18 | 4-4 | 0-0 | 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 |
2020 | 11-16 | 2-6 | 5-4 | 4-6 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 303, the Australian will start his run in the Burnie Challenger after he played his last match at the Australian Open where he lost 3-6 6-2 6-3 to Trungelliti in the qualifications on the 11th of January.
Polmans has a composed 3-2 win-loss record in 2023, 3-2 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Talking about his overall career, Marc has an overall 269-211 record. He has a positive 155-119 record on hard.
Previously in the Burnie Challenger
Previously, his best result was reaching the 3rd round in 2019. See his history.
Brandon Walkin
Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
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2024 | 1-4 | 1-4 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
2023 | 19-20 | 13-10 | 6-9 | 0-0 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
2022 | 12-19 | 3-6 | 9-13 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
2021 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
2020 | 5-6 | 5-6 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 853, the Australian reached the 1st round after defeating Jason Taylor 7-5 6-1 and Edward Winter 2-6 7-69 6-0.
In the qualifications against Winter, Brandon recovered from a 1-set down deficit before winning (2-6 7-69 6-0). During the match Walkin scored 89 points vs Winter’s 82. Brandon was very aggressive to blast 44 winners.
Talking about serving, Walkin managed to score 5 aces and he committed only 3 double faults. Brandon Walkin lost the serve 3 times. Furthermore, Walkin put 71% of his first serves in, winning 72% (44/61) of the points behind his 1st serve and 36% (9/25) on the 2nd serve. The Australian broke Winter 4 times after converting 67% of his break points (4/6).
Overall Performance in this tournament
The Australian started his run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, he has conceded 1 set in the tournament to win 55% of the points he played.
Walkin has an aggregate 4-1 win-loss record in 2023, 4-1 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Head 2 Head
Tennis Scores in Burnie Challenger
- Shuichi SekiguchiSekiguchi – Dane SweenySweeny (6-2 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Max PurcellPurcell – Alex BoltBolt (6-2 7-5) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Adam WaltonWalton – Yuki MochizukiMochizuki (7-5 6-1) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Yuta ShimizuShimizu – Maxime ChazalChazal (6-2 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Tristan SchoolkateSchoolkate – Rio NoguchiNoguchi (6-3 2-6 6-1) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Thomas FancuttFancutt – Yasutaka UchiyamaUchiyama (3-6 7-64 7-5) – Stats, scores, rankings
Upcoming matches in the draw
- Dayne KellyKelly – Naoki NakagawaNakagawa (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- James DuckworthDuckworth – Makoto OchiOchi (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Marc PolmansPolmans – Brandon WalkinWalkin (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Omar JasikaJasika – (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Jake DelaneyDelaney – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Yusuke TakahashiTakahashi – Rinky HijikataHijikata (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Blake EllisEllis – Luke SavilleSaville (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Matthew Christopher RomiosChristopher Romios – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Adam WaltonWalton – Shuichi SekiguchiSekiguchi (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Yuta ShimizuShimizu – Tristan SchoolkateSchoolkate (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Daisuke SumizawaSumizawa – Hiroki MoriyaMoriya (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Shinji HazawaHazawa – (0-0) – H2H and prediction