Marc Polmans and Yuta Shimizu will face off in the 2nd round of the Yokohama Challenger for the 4th time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Thursday at 2:30 pm on COURT 3. Here the head to head stats and relative 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 -> 1.79
Yuta Shimizu -> 1.95
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Prediction and head to head Marc Polmans vs. Yuta Shimizu
This will be the 4th time that Marc Polmans and Yuta Shimizu fight against each other. The head to head is 2-1 for Polmans (see full H2H stats), 2-1 on hard.
The last time that they squared off, Shimizu won 6-4 6-2 in the 2nd round in the Playford Challenger back in October 2023.
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. 163, Marc reached the 2nd round after beating Cem Ilkel 6-1 6-0.
In the 1st round, Polmans had a good straight sets win against Ilkel (6-1 6-0). During the match, Polmans scored 52 points vs Ilkel’s 21. Polmans was pretty aggressive to blast 16 winners.
Talking about the service games, Polmans scored 3 aces and he committed only 1 double fault. Marc Polmans was quite effective on serve to win 80% (16/20) of his 1st serve and 62% (8/13) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. Polmans broke Ilkel 6 times after converting 75% of his break points (6/8).
Polmans has positive win-loss record in the last 10 years having won 56% of his matches (304-235). 29-21 on hard in 2023. In connection with his performance on the same surface of this tournament, Polmans has an aggregate 176-134 record in the last years on hard.
The Australian’s best result of the current year was reaching the final in M25 Canberra,the Guangzhou Challenger and the Sydney Challenger.
The Australian has a compiled 47-33 win-loss record in 2023, 29-21 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Yokohama Challenger
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. 246, Yuta reached the 2nd round after beating Jason Jung 6-4 7-5.
In the 1st round, Shimizu had a good straight sets win against Jung (6-4 7-5). During the match Shimizu scored 76 points vs Jung’s 57. Yuta was pretty aggressive to blast 32 winners.
Talking about serving, Shimizu struck 5 aces and he committed only 2 double faults. Yuta Shimizu lost the serve twice and he saved 1 break points. Furthermore, Shimizu put 66% of his first serves in, winning 82% (32/39) of the points behind his 1st serve and 50% (10/20) on the 2nd serve. Yuta broke Jung 4 times after converting 50% of his break points (4/8).
Yuta’s best result of the year was getting to the final in M25 Burnie,the Puerto Vallarta Challenger and the Chicago Challenger.
Yuta has a compiled 34-22 win-loss record in 2023, 33-21 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 | 13 | 22 |
| Pts | 52-21 | 76-57 |
| Total Points | 73 | 133 |
| Winners | 16 | 32 |
| %Winners | 31% | 42% |
Both Polmans and Shimizu played 1 match. Both players have not surrendered 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 9 games less than Shimizu. Polmans scored 16 winners (31% of the total points). On the other side, The Japanese recorded 32 winners (42%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Polmans | Shimizu |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 3 | 5 |
| Avg per match | 3 | 5 |
| 1st in | 20/33 | 39/59 |
| %1st in | 61% | 66% |
| 1st pts | 16/20 | 32/39 |
| %1st pts | 80% | 82% |
| 2nd pts | 8/13 | 10/20 |
| %2nd pts | 62% | 50% |
Polmans fired 3 aces . Shimizu blasted 5 aces . Polmans won 80% points behind his first serve. He pretty solid on his second serve to win 62% of the points. On the other side, Shimizu won 82% of the points on his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 50% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Polmans | Shimizu |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 6 | 4 |
| Converted | 6/8 | 4/8 |
| % Converted | 75% | 50% |
| Conceded | 0 | 3 |
| Saved | 0 | 1 |
| % Saved | 0% | 33% |
| Times Broken | 0 | 2 |
Marc broke his opponent 6 times with a 75% conversion rate. Polmans was rock solid on his serve as he has never conceded a single service game after saving 0 break points. The Japanese broke his opponent 4 times with a 50% conversion rate. The Japanese conceded his serve twice and he saved 33% of the break points that he conceded.
| Polmans | |||
| R1 Ilkel |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-1 6-0 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 13 | 13 | |
| pts | 52-21 | 52-21 | |
| Total points | 73 | 73 | |
| Winners | 16 | 16 | |
| %Winners | 31% | 31% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 3 | 3 | |
| Double Faults | 1 | 1 | |
| 1st in | 20/33 | 20/33 | |
| % 1st in | 61% | 61% | |
| 1st pts | 16/20 | 16/20 | |
| % 1st pts | 80% | 80% | |
| 2nd pts | 8/13 | 8/13 | |
| % 2nd pts | 62% | 62% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 6 | 6 | |
| Converted | 6/8 | 6/8 | |
| Converted % | 75% | 75% | |
| Conceded | 0 | 0 | |
| Saved | 0/0 | 0 | |
| Saved % | – | 0% | |
| Times Broken | 0 | 0 | |
| Shimizu | |||
| R1 Jung |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-4 7-5 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 22 | 22 | |
| pts | 76-57 | 76-57 | |
| Total points | 133 | 133 | |
| Winners | 32 | 32 | |
| %Winners | 42% | 42% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 5 | 5 | |
| Double Faults | 2 | 2 | |
| 1st in | 39/59 | 39/59 | |
| % 1st in | 66% | 66% | |
| 1st pts | 32/39 | 32/39 | |
| % 1st pts | 82% | 82% | |
| 2nd pts | 10/20 | 10/20 | |
| % 2nd pts | 50% | 50% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 4 | 4 | |
| Converted | 4/8 | 4/8 | |
| Converted % | 50% | 50% | |
| Conceded | 3 | 3 | |
| Saved | 1/3 | 1 | |
| Saved % | 33% | 33% | |
| Times Broken | 2 | 2 | |
Head 2 Head
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