Marc Polmans and Stefano Napolitano will face off in the qualifications of the Shanghai Rolex Masters for the 2nd time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Tuesday at 12:30 pm on COURT 4. In the following lines you can find the head to head analysis and prediction.
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The pick for Tennis Tonic is Marc Polmans who should win in 3 sets.
As per the initial odds, Marc Polmans is the pick to win this match.
Marc Polmans -> 1.615
Stefano Napolitano -> 2.2
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Prediction and head to head Marc Polmans vs. Stefano Napolitano
This will be the 2nd time that Marc Polmans and Stefano Napolitano 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 played each other, Polmans won 6-3 7-5 in the quarter in the Zhangjiagang Challenger back in 2019.
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. 140, Marc reached the qualifications after beating Alibek Kachmazov 3-6 6-3 7-63.
In the qualifications against Kachmazov, Polmans recovered from a 1-set down deficit before winning (3-6 6-3 7-63). During the match, Polmans scored 112 points vs Kachmazov’s 103. The Australian was exceptionally aggressive to blast 51 winners.
Talking about the service games, Polmans scored 9 aces and he committed only 5 double faults. Marc Polmans lost the serve 3 times and he saved 6 break points. Furthermore, Polmans put 71% of his first serves in, winning 76% (51/67) of the points behind his 1st serve and 50% (14/28) on the 2nd serve. Marc broke Kachmazov 3 times after converting 20% of his break points (3/15).
Polmans has winning win-loss record in the last 10 years having won 56% of his matches (296-230). 23-17 on hard in 2023. In connection with his performance on the same surface of this event, Polmans has a compiled 170-130 record in the last years on hard.
Marc’s best result of the season was reaching the final in M25 Canberra and the Guangzhou Challenger.
Polmans has a composed 39-28 win-loss record in 2023, 23-17 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in Shanghai
Polmans has never competed in this tournament before.
Stefano Napolitano
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 24-12 | 9-3 | 11-6 | 0-0 | 4-3 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 53-23 | 9-6 | 38-13 | 6-4 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 25-24 | 1-1 | 20-15 | 4-8 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 2-17 | 1-2 | 1-9 | 0-6 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 5-8 | 0-1 | 1-4 | 4-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 253, Napolitano got to the qualifications after beating Omar Jasika 6-1 7-5.
In the qualifications, Napolitano had a good straight sets win against Jasika (6-1 7-5). During the match Napolitano scored 71 points vs Jasika’s 51. The Italian was very aggressive to blast 23 winners.
Talking about serving, Napolitano scored 5 aces and he was extremely steady in conceding no double faults for the entire match. Overall, Stefano Napolitano was extremely efficient on serve to win 77% (23/30) of his 1st serve and 58% (14/24) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve once. Napolitano broke Jasika 5 times after converting 56% of his break points (5/9).
Stefano’s best result of the year was getting to the final in M15 Frascati and M25 Biella.
Stefano has an aggregate 46-20 win-loss record in 2023, 8-5 on hard (See FULL STATS).
H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Polmans | Napolitano |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 1 | 1 |
| Tot Set | 3 | 2 |
| Tot Games | 31 | 19 |
| Pts | 112-103 | 71-51 |
| Total Points | 215 | 122 |
| Winners | 51 | 23 |
| %Winners | 46% | 32% |
Both Polmans and Napolitano played 1 match. Also both players started their run from the qualifications.At the moment, Marc Polmans lost 1 set while Stefano Napolitano hasn’t conceded a set so far. Polmans has played 1 set more than Napolitano (3 vs 2). Therefore, Polmans played 12 games more than Napolitano. The Australian scored 51 winners (46% of the total points). On the other side, The Italian managed to score 23 winners (32%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Polmans | Napolitano |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 9 | 5 |
| Avg per match | 9 | 5 |
| 1st in | 67/95 | 30/54 |
| %1st in | 71% | 56% |
| 1st pts | 51/67 | 23/30 |
| %1st pts | 76% | 77% |
| 2nd pts | 14/28 | 14/24 |
| %2nd pts | 50% | 58% |
Polmans bagged 9 aces . Napolitano made 5 aces . Polmans won 76% points on his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 50% of the points. On the other side, Napolitano won 77% 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 | Polmans | Napolitano |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 3 | 5 |
| Converted | 3/15 | 5/9 |
| % Converted | 20% | 56% |
| Conceded | 9 | 6 |
| Saved | 6 | 5 |
| % Saved | 67% | 83% |
| Times Broken | 3 | 1 |
Marc broke his opponent 3 times with a 20% conversion rate. Polmans surrendered his serve 3 times and he saved 67% of the break points that he conceded. The Italian broke his opponent 5 times with a 56% conversion rate. The Italian conceded his serve once and he saved 83% of the break points that he conceded.
| Polmans | |||
| Q1 Kachmazov |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 3-6 6-3 7-63 | ||
| Tot Set | 3 | 3 | |
| Tot Games | 31 | 31 | |
| pts | 112-103 | 112-103 | |
| Total points | 215 | 215 | |
| Winners | 51 | 51 | |
| %Winners | 46% | 46% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 9 | 9 | |
| Double Faults | 5 | 5 | |
| 1st in | 67/95 | 67/95 | |
| % 1st in | 71% | 71% | |
| 1st pts | 51/67 | 51/67 | |
| % 1st pts | 76% | 76% | |
| 2nd pts | 14/28 | 14/28 | |
| % 2nd pts | 50% | 50% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 3 | 3 | |
| Converted | 3/15 | 3/15 | |
| Converted % | 20% | 20% | |
| Conceded | 9 | 9 | |
| Saved | 6/9 | 6 | |
| Saved % | 67% | 67% | |
| Times Broken | 3 | 3 | |
| Napolitano | |||
| Q1 Jasika |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-1 7-5 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 19 | 19 | |
| pts | 71-51 | 71-51 | |
| Total points | 122 | 122 | |
| Winners | 23 | 23 | |
| %Winners | 32% | 32% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 5 | 5 | |
| Double Faults | 0 | 0 | |
| 1st in | 30/54 | 30/54 | |
| % 1st in | 56% | 56% | |
| 1st pts | 23/30 | 23/30 | |
| % 1st pts | 77% | 77% | |
| 2nd pts | 14/24 | 14/24 | |
| % 2nd pts | 58% | 58% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 5 | 5 | |
| Converted | 5/9 | 5/9 | |
| Converted % | 56% | 56% | |
| Conceded | 6 | 6 | |
| Saved | 5/6 | 5 | |
| Saved % | 83% | 83% | |
| Times Broken | 1 | 1 | |
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