Marc Polmans and Yuta Shimizu will play each other in the 1st round of the Gwangju Challenger for the 2nd time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Tuesday at 10:30 am on SHOW COURT. In the following paragraphs, 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 -> 1.72
Yuta Shimizu -> 2.03
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Prediction and head to head Marc Polmans vs. Yuta Shimizu
This will be the 2nd time that Marc Polmans and Yuta Shimizu play each other. The head to head is 1-0 for Polmans (see full H2H stats), 1-0 on hard.
The last time that they squared off, Polmans won 4-6 6-0 6-4 in the 2nd round in the Sydney Challenger back in 2022.
Marc Polmans
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 7-13 | 3-5 | 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. 209, Marc will start his run in the Gwangju Challenger after he played his last match in the Seoul Challenger where he lost 5-7 6-4 6-3 to Kudla in the 2nd round on the 27th of April.
Marc has a compiled 21-10 win-loss record in 2023, 8-7 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Polmans’s best result of the season was getting to the final in M25 Canberra.
Talking about his overall career, Polmans has an overall 287-219 record. He has a positive 160-124 record on hard.
Previously in the Gwangju Challenger
Previously, his best result was reaching the semifinal in 2022. See his history.
Yuta Shimizu
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 16-13 | 12-10 | 0-0 | 4-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 36-24 | 35-23 | 0-0 | 1-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 44-23 | 36-21 | 7-1 | 1-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 18-12 | 12-8 | 0-0 | 5-4 | 1-0 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 11-1 | 6-1 | 0-0 | 5-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 245, Yuta will start his run in the Gwangju Challenger after he played his last match in the Seoul Challenger where he lost 6-3 3-6 7-5
to Eubanks in the 1st round on the 24th of April.Shimizu has an overall 21-8 win-loss record in 2023, 21-8 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Shimizu’s best result of the current year was getting to the final in M25 Burnie and the Puerto Vallarta Challenger.
In terms of his career, The Japanese has an overall 203-99 record. He has a positive 154-74 record on hard.
Previously in the Gwangju Challenger
Yuta has never competed in this tournament before.
Tennis Scores in Gwangju Challenger
- Christopher EubanksEubanks – Lloyd HarrisHarris (7-63 4-6 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Rinky HijikataHijikata – Gabriel DialloDiallo (6-2 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Brandon HoltHolt – Cem IlkelIlkel (3-6 6-0 6-1) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Li TuLi – Tung-Lin WuTung-Lin (6-3 6-2) – See score progression
Upcoming matches in the draw
- Marc PolmansPolmans – Yuta ShimizuShimizu (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Altug CelikbilekCelikbilek – Emilio GomezGomez (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Max PurcellPurcell – Richard BerankisBerankis (1-1) – H2H and prediction
- Aleksandar VukicVukic – Sho ShimabukuroShimabukuro (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Yunseong ChungChung – Kaichi UchidaUchida (1-2) – H2H and prediction
- Uisung ParkPark – Jordan ThompsonThompson (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Brandon HoltHolt – Christopher EubanksEubanks (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Rinky HijikataHijikata – Li TuTu (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Bu YunchaoketeYunchaokete – Sanhui ShinShin (0-0) – H2H and prediction