Max Purcell and Marc Polmans will face off in the 2nd round of the Burnie Challenger for the 9th time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Wednesday at 12:30 pm on COURT 3. Here the head to head stats and relative prediction.
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The pick for Tennis Tonic is Max Purcell who should win in 3 sets.
As per the initial odds, Max Purcell is the pick to win this match.
Max Purcell -> 1.727
Marc Polmans -> 2.02
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Prediction and head to head Max Purcell vs. Marc Polmans
This will be the 9th time that Max Purcell and Marc Polmans square off. The head to head is 4-4 for Purcell and Polmans (see full H2H stats),but they are 2-2 on hard.
The last time that they squared off, Polmans won 6-2 6-4 in the 2nd round in the Busan Challenger back in 2022.
Max Purcell
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 7-13 | 4-10 | 2-2 | 1-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 52-28 | 45-17 | 2-3 | 5-5 | 0-3 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 36-29 | 21-15 | 5-8 | 2-2 | 8-4 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 21-14 | 13-9 | 0-1 | 4-1 | 4-3 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 5-12 | 3-5 | 1-2 | 1-5 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 200, Purcell reached the 2nd round after defeating Alex Bolt 6-2 7-5.
In the 1st round, Purcell had a good straight sets win against Bolt (6-2 7-5). During the match, Purcell scored 74 points vs Bolt’s 62. Max was very aggressive to blast 26 winners.
Talking about the service games, Purcell wasn’t able to score even 1 ace in the course of the match and he was quite steady in conceding no double faults. Max Purcell lost the serve twice and he saved 3 break points. Furthermore, Purcell put 68% of his first serves in, winning 60% (26/43) of the points behind his 1st serve and 65% (13/20) on the 2nd serve. Max broke Bolt 5 times after converting 33% of his break points (5/15).
Purcell has a winning record in the last 9 years having won 57% of his matches (216-161). 6-2 on hard in 2023. Talking about his performance on the same surface of this tournament, Purcell has an overall156-112 win-loss record in the last 9 years on hard.
The Australian has an overall 6-2 win-loss record in 2023, 6-2 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Burnie Challenger
Marc Polmans
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 7-8 | 3-5 | 4-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 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, Polmans reached the 2nd round after defeating Brandon Walkin 6-2 6-4.
In the 1st round, Marc had a good straight sets win against Walkin (6-2 6-4). During the match Polmans scored 67 points vs Walkin’s 49. Polmans was extremely aggressive to blast 26 winners.
About the serving games, Polmans managed to score 2 aces and he committed only 2 double faults. Overall, Marc Polmans was exceptionally effective on serve to win 76% (26/34) of his 1st serve and 58% (11/19) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve once. Polmans broke Walkin 4 times after converting 40% of his break points (4/10).
The Australian has an overall 4-2 win-loss record in 2023, 4-2 on hard (See FULL STATS).
H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Purcell | Polmans |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 1 | 1 |
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 |
| Tot Games | 20 | 18 |
| Pts | 74-62 | 67-49 |
| Total Points | 136 | 116 |
| Winners | 26 | 26 |
| %Winners | 35% | 39% |
Both Purcell and Polmans played 1 match. Both players have not lost a single set in this event so far. Talking about their workload, Purcell and Polmans have played the same amount of sets 2. However, Purcell played 2 games more than Polmans. The Australian scored 26 winners (35% of the total points). On the other side, Polmans blasted 26 winners (39%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Purcell | Polmans |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 0 | 2 |
| Avg per match | 0 | 2 |
| 1st in | 43/63 | 34/53 |
| %1st in | 68% | 64% |
| 1st pts | 26/43 | 26/34 |
| %1st pts | 60% | 76% |
| 2nd pts | 13/20 | 11/19 |
| %2nd pts | 65% | 58% |
Purcell didn’t manage to fire a single ace to far. Polmans made 2 aces . Purcell won 60% points on his first serve. He very solid his second serve to win 65% of the points. On the other side, Polmans won 76% of the points on his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 58% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Purcell | Polmans |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 5 | 4 |
| Converted | 5/15 | 4/10 |
| % Converted | 33% | 40% |
| Conceded | 5 | 4 |
| Saved | 3 | 3 |
| % Saved | 60% | 75% |
| Times Broken | 2 | 1 |
Purcell broke his opponent 5 times with a 33% conversion rate. Max conceded his serve twice and he saved 60% of the break points that he conceded. Polmans broke his opponent 4 times with a 40% conversion rate. Marc conceded his serve once and he saved 75% of the break points that he conceded.
| Purcell | |||
| R1 Bolt |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-2 7-5 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 20 | 20 | |
| pts | 74-62 | 74-62 | |
| Total points | 136 | 136 | |
| Winners | 26 | 26 | |
| %Winners | 35% | 35% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 0 | 0 | |
| Double Faults | 0 | 0 | |
| 1st in | 43/63 | 43/63 | |
| % 1st in | 68% | 68% | |
| 1st pts | 26/43 | 26/43 | |
| % 1st pts | 60% | 60% | |
| 2nd pts | 13/20 | 13/20 | |
| % 2nd pts | 65% | 65% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 5 | 5 | |
| Converted | 5/15 | 5/15 | |
| Converted % | 33% | 33% | |
| Conceded | 5 | 5 | |
| Saved | 3/5 | 3 | |
| Saved % | 60% | 60% | |
| Times Broken | 2 | 2 | |
| Polmans | |||
| R1 Walkin |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-2 6-4 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 18 | 18 | |
| pts | 67-49 | 67-49 | |
| Total points | 116 | 116 | |
| Winners | 26 | 26 | |
| %Winners | 39% | 39% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 2 | 2 | |
| Double Faults | 2 | 2 | |
| 1st in | 34/53 | 34/53 | |
| % 1st in | 64% | 64% | |
| 1st pts | 26/34 | 26/34 | |
| % 1st pts | 76% | 76% | |
| 2nd pts | 11/19 | 11/19 | |
| % 2nd pts | 58% | 58% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 4 | 4 | |
| Converted | 4/10 | 4/10 | |
| Converted % | 40% | 40% | |
| Conceded | 4 | 4 | |
| Saved | 3/4 | 3 | |
| Saved % | 75% | 75% | |
| Times Broken | 1 | 1 | |
Head 2 Head
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LWWWLWLLLW Tennis Scores in Burnie Challenger
- James McCabeMcCabe – Omar JasikaJasika (6-3 7-61) – See score progression
- Dayne KellyKelly – Naoki NakagawaNakagawa (3-6 6-2 6-3) – See score progression
- Jake DelaneyDelaney – Jeremy JinJin (7-5 7-65) – See score progression
- Shinji HazawaHazawa – Charlie CamusCamus (6-4 2-6 7-64) – See score progression
- Rinky HijikataHijikata – Yusuke TakahashiTakahashi (6-3 6-2) – See score progression
- Hiroki MoriyaMoriya – Daisuke SumizawaSumizawa (6-3 6-3) – See score progression
- Philip SekulicSekulic – Matthew Christopher RomiosChristopher Romios (7-5 6-1) – See score progression
- James DuckworthDuckworth – Makoto OchiOchi (6-1 6-4) – See score progression
- Marc PolmansPolmans – Brandon WalkinWalkin (6-2 6-4) – See score progression
- Blake EllisEllis – Luke SavilleSaville (6-4 7-5) – See score progression
- Tristan SchoolkateSchoolkate – Rio NoguchiNoguchi (6-3 2-6 6-1) – See score progression
- Thomas FancuttFancutt – Yasutaka UchiyamaUchiyama (3-6 7-64 7-5) – See score progression
- Yuta ShimizuShimizu – Maxime ChazalChazal (6-2 6-4) – See score progression
- Shuichi SekiguchiSekiguchi – Dane SweenySweeny (6-2 6-4) – See score progression
- Max PurcellPurcell – Alex BoltBolt (6-2 7-5) – See score progression
- Adam WaltonWalton – Yuki MochizukiMochizuki (7-5 6-1) – See score progression
Upcoming matches in the draw
- James DuckworthDuckworth – Jake DelaneyDelaney (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Max PurcellPurcell – Marc PolmansPolmans (4-4) – H2H and prediction
- Thomas FancuttFancutt – Shinji HazawaHazawa (0-2) – H2H and prediction
- Blake EllisEllis – Rinky HijikataHijikata (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Adam WaltonWalton – Shuichi SekiguchiSekiguchi (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Yuta ShimizuShimizu – Tristan SchoolkateSchoolkate (0-0) – H2H and prediction
