Thanasi Kokkinakis and Marc Polmans will play each other in the semifinal of the Sydney Challenger for the 1^st time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Saturday at 11:00 am on Court 2. 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 Thanasi Kokkinakis who should win in 2 sets.

As per the initial odds, Thanasi Kokkinakis is the pick to win this match.
Thanasi Kokkinakis -> 1.28
Marc Polmans -> 3.5

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Prediction and head to head Thanasi Kokkinakis vs. Marc Polmans

There is no head to head record between Thanasi Kokkinakis and Marc Polmans since this will be the first time that they will fight against each other in the main tour.

Thanasi Kokkinakis

Ranked no. 67 (career-high), Thanasi got to the semifinal after defeating Filip Peliwo 6-3 6-1, Philip Sekulic 7-5 7-5 and Rio Noguchi 6-3 7-6⁵.

In the quarter, Thanasi had a good straight sets win against Noguchi (6-3 7-6⁵). During the match, Kokkinakis scored 71 points vs Noguchi’s 59. The Australian was extremely aggressive to blast 36 winners.

Talking about the service games, Kokkinakis scored 4 aces and he was quite steady in conceding no double faults. Thanasi Kokkinakis was very effective on serve to win 84% (36/43) of his 1st serve and 59% (10/17) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. Kokkinakis was clinical in his return game without wasting any break point and break Noguchi twice.

Overall Performance in this tournament

Thanasi hasn’t conceded yet a set in this competition to win 56% of the points he played.

Kokkinakis has a solid win-loss record in the last 9 years having won 62% of his matches (226-139). 31-17 on hard in 2023. In connection with his performance on the same surface of this tournament, Kokkinakis has a compiled153-83 win-loss record in the last 9 years on hard.

His best result of the current year was winning the title the Manama Challenger where he defeated Abedallah Shelbayh in the final 6-1 6-4.

Thanasi has a compiled 40-25 win-loss record in 2023, 31-17 on hard (See FULL STATS).

Previously in the Sydney Challenger

The Australian has never competed in this tournament before.

Marc Polmans

Ranked no. 161, Marc got to the semifinal after beating Colin Sinclair 6-4 6-2

, Arthur Weber 6-4 6-4 and Blake Mott 6-3 4-6 6-3.

In the quarter, Polmans defeated Mott (6-3 4-6 6-3). During the match Polmans scored 80 points vs Mott’s 70. Marc was quite aggressive to blast 39 winners.

Talking about serving, Polmans made 6 aces and he committed only 1 double fault for the entire match. Overall, Marc Polmans was quite effective on serve to win 74% (39/53) of his 1st serve and 59% (13/22) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve twice. Marc broke Mott 4 times after converting 80% of his break points (4/5).

Overall Performance in this tournament

Marc has conceded 1 set in the tournament to win 56% of the points he played.

Marc’s best result of the current year was reaching the final in M25 Canberra and the Guangzhou Challenger.

The Australian has a compiled 43-30 win-loss record in 2023, 27-19 on hard (See FULL STATS).

Previously in the Sydney Challenger

Previously, his best result was reaching the final in 2022. See his history.

H2H Performance in the tournament (main draw)

Matches, sets, games and points

Points	Kokkinakis	Polmans
Match played	3	3
Tot Set	6	7
Tot Games	62	66
Pts	221-171	222-176
Total Points	392	398
Winners	104	103
%Winners	47%	46%

Both Kokkinakis and Polmans played 3 matches. At the moment, Marc Polmans dropped 1 set while Thanasi Kokkinakis hasn’t lost a set so far. Kokkinakis has played 1 set(s) less than Polmans (6 vs 7). Therefore, Kokkinakis played 4 games less than Polmans. Thanasi scored 104 winners (47% of the total points). On the other side, The Australian blasted 103 winners (46%).

Serve Performance

Serve	Kokkinakis	Polmans
Aces	27	24
Avg per match	9	8
1st in	122/176	134/186
%1st in	69%	72%
1st pts	104/122	103/134
%1st pts	85%	77%
2nd pts	28/54	31/52
%2nd pts	52%	60%

Kokkinakis recorded 27 aces (9 per match). Polmans blasted 24 aces (8 per match). Kokkinakis won 85% points on his first serve. He pretty solid on his second serve to win 52% of the points. On the other side, Polmans won 77% of the points on his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 60% of the points.

How they played the important points

Breaks	Kokkinakis	Polmans
Won	8	9
Converted	8/21	9/23
% Converted	38%	39%
Conceded	7	8
Saved	7	6
% Saved	100%	75%
Times Broken	0	2

Kokkinakis broke his opponents 8 times with a 38% conversion rate. Kokkinakis was rock solid on his serve as he has never surrendered a single service game after saving 7 break points. The Australian broke his opponents 9 times with a 39% conversion rate. Marc conceded his serve twice and he saved 75% of the break points that he conceded.

Kokkinakis
	R1 Peliwo	R2 Sekulic	1/4 Noguchi	Total
Score	6-3 6-1	7-5 7-5	6-3 7-65
Tot Set	2	2	2	6
Tot Games	16	24	22	62
pts	71-49	79-63	71-59	221-171
Total points	120	142	130	392
Winners	26	42	36	104
%Winners	37%	53%	51%	47%
SERVE
Aces	9	14	4	27
Double Faults	2	0	0	2
1st in	32/51	47/65	43/60	122/176
% 1st in	63%	72%	72%	69%
1st pts	26/32	42/47	36/43	104/122
% 1st pts	81%	89%	84%	85%
2nd pts	10/19	8/18	10/17	28/54
% 2nd pts	53%	44%	59%	52%
Breaks
Won	4	2	2	8
Converted	4/13	2/6	2/2	8/21
Converted %	31%	33%	100%	38%
Conceded	5	0	2	7
Saved	5/5	0/0	2/2	7
Saved %	100%	–	100%	67%
Times Broken	0	0	0	0

Polmans
	R1 Sinclair	R2 Weber	1/4 Mott	Total
Score	6-4 6-2	6-4 6-4	6-3 4-6 6-3
Tot Set	2	2	3	7
Tot Games	18	20	28	66
pts	67-47	75-59	80-70	222-176
Total points	114	134	150	398
Winners	25	39	39	103
%Winners	37%	52%	49%	46%
SERVE
Aces	13	5	6	24
Double Faults	2	3	1	6
1st in	29/48	52/63	53/75	134/186
% 1st in	60%	83%	71%	72%
1st pts	25/29	39/52	39/53	103/134
% 1st pts	86%	75%	74%	77%
2nd pts	12/19	6/11	13/22	31/52
% 2nd pts	63%	55%	59%	60%
Breaks
Won	3	2	4	9
Converted	3/9	2/9	4/5	9/23
Converted %	33%	22%	80%	39%
Conceded	0	6	2	8
Saved	0/0	6/6	0/2	6
Saved %	–	100%	0%	33%
Times Broken	0	0	2	2

Tennis Scores in Sydney Challenger

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