Marc Polmans and Yusuke Takahashi will face off in the 1st round of the Zhangjiagang Challenger for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Tuesday at 10:00 am on COURT 5. In the following lines 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 2 sets.
Marc Polmans -> 1.26
Yusuke Takahashi -> 3.6
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Prediction and head to head Marc Polmans vs. Yusuke Takahashi
There is no head to head record between Marc Polmans and Yusuke Takahashi since this will be the first time that they will square off in the main tour.
Marc Polmans
13 - 20win/loss
250
116
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 24-27 | 18-18 | 4-4 | 0-0 | 2-5 | 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. 203, the Australian will start his run in the Zhangjiagang Challenger after he played his last match at the Us Open where he lost 6-0 6-3 to Karatsev in the qualifications on the 21st of August.
The Australian has an overall 13-20 win-loss record in 2024, 7-11 on hard (See FULL STATS).
The Australian’s best result of the current year was reaching the semifinal in the Sarasota Challenger.
Talking about his overall career, The Australian has an overall 329-264 record. He has a positive 191-151 record on hard.
Previously in the Zhangjiagang Challenger
Previously, he won this tournament once in 2019. See his history.
Yusuke Takahashi
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 29-26 | 23-23 | 0-0 | 6-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 37-31 | 33-28 | 0-0 | 4-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 17-22 | 17-21 | 0-0 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 19-23 | 18-21 | 0-0 | 1-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 4-3 | 1-1 | 0-0 | 3-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 516, Yusuke got to the 1st round after beating Linang Xiao 6-3 6-2 and Alafia Ayeni 6-3 6-3.
In the qualifications, The Japanese had a good straight sets win against Ayeni (6-3 6-3). During the match Takahashi scored 60 points vs Ayeni’s 44. Takahashi was extremely aggressive to blast 24 winners.
About the serving games, Takahashi wasn’t able to score even 1 ace for the entire match and he committed only 2 double faults. Yusuke Takahashi conceded no breaks for the entire match to save 5 break points. Furthermore, Takahashi put 58% of his first serves in, winning 69% (24/35) of the points behind his 1st serve and 72% (18/25) on the 2nd serve. The Japanese broke Ayeni 3 times after converting 75% of his break points (3/4).
Overall Performance in this tournament
The Japanese started his run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, he hasn’t dropped yet a set in this tournament to conquer 60% of the points he played.
The Japanese has an aggregate 21-17 win-loss record in 2024, 17-15 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Zhangjiagang Challenger
Previously, his best result was reaching the quarter in 2017 and 2023. See his history.
Tennis Scores in Zhangjiagang Challenger
- Dalibor SvrcinaSvrcina – Tristan LamasineLamasine (6-2 7-62) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Mark LajalLajal – Philip HenningHenning (4-6 7-5 7-65) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Tung-Lin WuWu – Yi ZhouZhou (6-2 6-1) – Stats, scores, rankings
Upcoming matches in the draw
- Yan BaiBai – Blake MottMott (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Evgeny DonskoyDonskoy – Seong Chan HongChan Hong (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Norbert GombosGombos – Yibing WuWu (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Egor GerasimovGerasimov – Sheng TangTang (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Kaichi UchidaUchida – Fajing SunSun (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Yusuke TakahashiTakahashi – Marc PolmansPolmans (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Vadym UrsuUrsu – Ajeet RaiRai (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Kris Van WykVan Wyk – Ryan PenistonPeniston (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Yu Hsiou HsuHsiou Hsu – Jie CuiCui (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Yuta ShimizuShimizu – Yasutaka UchiyamaUchiyama (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Rio NoguchiNoguchi – Mikalai HaliakHaliak (2-0) – H2H and prediction
- Beibit ZhukayevZhukayev – (0-0) – H2H and prediction