Marc Polmans and Yuta Shimizu will clash against each other in the 2nd round of the Playford Challenger for the 3rd time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Wednesday at 3:00 pm on CENTER COURT. 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 3 sets.
As per the initial odds, Marc Polmans is the pick to win this match.
Marc Polmans -> 1.5
Yuta Shimizu -> 2.46
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Prediction and head to head Marc Polmans vs. Yuta Shimizu
This will be the 3rd time that Marc Polmans and Yuta Shimizu square off. The head to head is 2-0 for Polmans (see full H2H stats), 2-0 on hard.
The last time that they played, Polmans won 2-6 7-5 6-4 in the 1st round in the Gwangju Challenger back in May 2023.
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. 160, Marc got to the 2nd round after defeating Filip Peliwo 6-4 6-0.
In the 1st round, Polmans had a good straight sets win against Peliwo (6-4 6-0). During the match, Polmans scored 60 points vs Peliwo’s 42. Polmans was very aggressive to blast 28 winners.
Regarding the service games, Polmans fired 12 aces and he committed only 1 double fault. Marc Polmans was quite efficient on serve to win 78% (28/36) of his 1st serve and 55% (6/11) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. Polmans broke Peliwo 4 times after converting 44% of his break points (4/9).
Polmans has favorable win-loss record in the last 10 years having won 56% of his matches (297-231). 24-18 on hard in 2023. In connection with his performance on the same surface of this tournament, Polmans has an overall 171-131 record in the last years on hard.
Marc’s best result of the current season was reaching the final in M25 Canberra and the Guangzhou Challenger.
Marc has an overall 40-29 win-loss record in 2023, 24-18 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Playford Challenger
Yuta Shimizu
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 17-14 | 13-11 | 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. 266, Yuta got to the 2nd round after defeating Kai Wehnelt 6-4 6-4.
In the 1st round, Yuta had a good straight sets win against Wehnelt (6-4 6-4). During the match Shimizu scored 77 points vs Wehnelt’s 70. The Japanese was extremely aggressive to blast 35 winners.
Talking about serving, Shimizu bagged 2 aces and he was exceptionally steady in conceding no double faults for the entire match. Yuta Shimizu lost the serve once and he saved 7 break points. Furthermore, Shimizu put 71% of his first serves in, winning 69% (35/51) of the points behind his 1st serve and 43% (9/21) on the 2nd serve. Shimizu broke Wehnelt 3 times after converting 27% of his break points (3/11).
The Japanese’s best result of the current season was getting to the final in M25 Burnie,the Puerto Vallarta Challenger and the Chicago Challenger.
Shimizu has a composed 30-18 win-loss record in 2023, 30-18 on hard (See FULL STATS).
H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Polmans | Shimizu |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 1 | 1 |
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 |
| Tot Games | 16 | 20 |
| Pts | 60-42 | 77-70 |
| Total Points | 102 | 147 |
| Winners | 28 | 35 |
| %Winners | 47% | 45% |
Both Polmans and Shimizu played 1 match. Both players have not conceded a single set in this event so far. Talking about their workload, Polmans and Shimizu have played the same amount of sets 2. However, Polmans played 4 games less than Shimizu. The Australian scored 28 winners (47% of the total points). On the other side, Shimizu struck 35 winners (45%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Polmans | Shimizu |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 12 | 2 |
| Avg per match | 12 | 2 |
| 1st in | 36/47 | 51/72 |
| %1st in | 77% | 71% |
| 1st pts | 28/36 | 35/51 |
| %1st pts | 78% | 69% |
| 2nd pts | 6/11 | 9/21 |
| %2nd pts | 55% | 43% |
Polmans scored 12 aces . Shimizu scored 2 aces . Polmans won 78% points behind his first serve. He was rock solid on his second serve to win 55% of the points. On the other side, Shimizu won 69% of the points behind his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 43% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Polmans | Shimizu |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 4 | 3 |
| Converted | 4/9 | 3/11 |
| % Converted | 44% | 27% |
| Conceded | 3 | 8 |
| Saved | 3 | 7 |
| % Saved | 100% | 88% |
| Times Broken | 0 | 1 |
Polmans broke his opponent 4 times with a 44% conversion rate. The Australian very solid his serve as he has never conceded a single service game after saving 3 break points. Yuta broke his opponent 3 times with a 27% conversion rate. The Japanese conceded his serve once and he saved 88% of the break points that he conceded.
| Polmans | |||
| R1 Peliwo |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-4 6-0 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 16 | 16 | |
| pts | 60-42 | 60-42 | |
| Total points | 102 | 102 | |
| Winners | 28 | 28 | |
| %Winners | 47% | 47% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 12 | 12 | |
| Double Faults | 1 | 1 | |
| 1st in | 36/47 | 36/47 | |
| % 1st in | 77% | 77% | |
| 1st pts | 28/36 | 28/36 | |
| % 1st pts | 78% | 78% | |
| 2nd pts | 6/11 | 6/11 | |
| % 2nd pts | 55% | 55% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 4 | 4 | |
| Converted | 4/9 | 4/9 | |
| Converted % | 44% | 44% | |
| Conceded | 3 | 3 | |
| Saved | 3/3 | 3 | |
| Saved % | 100% | 100% | |
| Times Broken | 0 | 0 | |
| Shimizu | |||
| R1 Wehnelt |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-4 6-4 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 20 | 20 | |
| pts | 77-70 | 77-70 | |
| Total points | 147 | 147 | |
| Winners | 35 | 35 | |
| %Winners | 45% | 45% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 2 | 2 | |
| Double Faults | 0 | 0 | |
| 1st in | 51/72 | 51/72 | |
| % 1st in | 71% | 71% | |
| 1st pts | 35/51 | 35/51 | |
| % 1st pts | 69% | 69% | |
| 2nd pts | 9/21 | 9/21 | |
| % 2nd pts | 43% | 43% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 3 | 3 | |
| Converted | 3/11 | 3/11 | |
| Converted % | 27% | 27% | |
| Conceded | 8 | 8 | |
| Saved | 7/8 | 7 | |
| Saved % | 88% | 88% | |
| Times Broken | 1 | 1 | |
Head 2 Head
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