Marc Polmans and Norbert Gombos will clash against each other in the 2nd round of the Shanghai Challenger for the 2nd time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Thursday at 11:00 am on CENTRE COURT. Here the head to head stats and relative prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Norbert Gombos who should win in 3 sets.
As per the initial odds, Norbert Gombos is the pick to win this match.
Norbert Gombos -> 1.75
Marc Polmans -> 2
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Prediction and head to head Marc Polmans vs. Norbert Gombos
This will be the 2nd time that Marc Polmans and Norbert Gombos square off. The head to head is 1-0 for Gombos (see full H2H stats), but they have never competed against each other on hard.
The last time that they fought against each other, Gombos won 6-2 6-4 in the semifinal in the Split Challenger back in 2023.
Marc Polmans
14 - 21win/loss
321
116
LLWLWWWLWW | Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 24-28 | 18-18 | 4-4 | 0-1 | 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, Marc got to the 2nd round after defeating Bu Yunchaokete 6-3 3-6 6-3.
In the 1st round, The Australian defeated Yunchaokete (6-3 3-6 6-3). During the match, Polmans scored 90 points vs Yunchaokete’s 76. Polmans was quite aggressive to blast 49 winners.
Regarding the service games, Polmans fired 11 aces and he committed only 3 double faults. Marc Polmans lost the serve once and he saved 1 break points. Furthermore, Polmans put 73% of his first serves in, winning 83% (49/59) of the points behind his 1st serve and 45% (10/22) on the 2nd serve. Polmans broke Yunchaokete twice after converting 20% of his break points (2/10).
Polmans has positive match record in the last 10 years having won 56% of his matches (312-245). 8-12 on hard in 2024. Regarding his performance on the same surface of this competition, Polmans has a composed 180-138 match record in the last years on hard.
The Australian’s best result of the current season was reaching the semifinal in the Sarasota Challenger.
Marc has a composed 14-21 win-loss record in 2024, 8-12 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Shanghai Challenger
Norbert Gombos
21 - 17win/loss
431
80
LLLLLLWWWW | Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 23-23 | 13-3 | 10-13 | 0-7 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 18-23 | 2-4 | 11-10 | 4-7 | 1-2 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 41-28 | 7-3 | 28-17 | 6-8 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 26-30 | 0-9 | 13-10 | 12-8 | 1-3 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 18-11 | 6-4 | 2-1 | 10-6 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 584, the Slovakian got to the 2nd round after beating Philip Henning 3-6 6-1 7-5, Federico Agustin Gomez 6-2 6-4 and Paul Jubb 6-4 6-2.
In the 1st round, Gombos had a good straight sets win against Jubb (6-4 6-2). During the match Gombos scored 67 points vs Jubb’s 50. Gombos was pretty aggressive to blast 32 winners.
Talking about serving, Gombos recorded 3 aces and he committed only 1 double fault for the entire match. Norbert Gombos was pretty efficient on serve to win 78% (32/41) of his 1st serve and 54% (13/24) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. Gombos broke Jubb 3 times after converting 43% of his break points (3/7).
Gombos’s best result of the year was getting to the semifinal in the Zhangjiagang Challenger.
The Slovakian has a compiled 21-17 win-loss record in 2024, 11-2 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Shanghai Challenger
Previously, his best result was reaching the 1st round in 2012 and 2016. See his history.
H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Polmans | Gombos |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 1 | 3 |
| Tot Set | 3 | 7 |
| Tot Games | 27 | 64 |
| Pts | 90-76 | 213-170 |
| Total Points | 166 | 383 |
| Winners | 49 | 95 |
| %Winners | 54% | 45% |
Polmans played 1 match while Gombos competed in 3 matches. Gombos started his run from the qualifications while Polmans had a direct access to the main draw. Both players lost a set in the event. Marc Polmans lost 1 set, while Norbert Gombos dropped 1 set. Polmans has played 4 set(s) less than Gombos (3 vs 7). Therefore, Polmans played 37 games less than Gombos. Polmans scored 49 winners (54% of the total points). On the other side, Norbert scored 95 winners (45%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Polmans | Gombos |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 11 | 18 |
| Avg per match | 11 | 6 |
| 1st in | 59/81 | 124/197 |
| %1st in | 73% | 63% |
| 1st pts | 49/59 | 95/124 |
| %1st pts | 83% | 77% |
| 2nd pts | 10/22 | 45/73 |
| %2nd pts | 45% | 62% |
Polmans blasted 11 aces . Gombos fired 18 aces (6 per match). Polmans won 83% points on his first serve. He extremely effective on his second serve to win 45% of the points. On the other side, Gombos won 77% of the points on his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 62% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Polmans | Gombos |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 2 | 10 |
| Converted | 2/10 | 10/22 |
| % Converted | 20% | 45% |
| Conceded | 2 | 9 |
| Saved | 1 | 7 |
| % Saved | 50% | 78% |
| Times Broken | 1 | 2 |
The Australian broke his opponent twice with a 20% conversion rate. Marc conceded his serve once and he saved 50% of the break points that he conceded. Gombos broke his opponents 10 times with a 45% conversion rate. The Slovakian conceded his serve twice and he saved 78% of the break points that he conceded.
| Polmans | |||
| R1 Yunchaokete |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-3 3-6 6-3 | ||
| Tot Set | 3 | 3 | |
| Tot Games | 27 | 27 | |
| pts | 90-76 | 90-76 | |
| Total points | 166 | 166 | |
| Winners | 49 | 49 | |
| %Winners | 54% | 54% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 11 | 11 | |
| Double Faults | 3 | 3 | |
| 1st in | 59/81 | 59/81 | |
| % 1st in | 73% | 73% | |
| 1st pts | 49/59 | 49/59 | |
| % 1st pts | 83% | 83% | |
| 2nd pts | 10/22 | 10/22 | |
| % 2nd pts | 45% | 45% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 2 | 2 | |
| Converted | 2/10 | 2/10 | |
| Converted % | 20% | 20% | |
| Conceded | 2 | 2 | |
| Saved | 1/2 | 1 | |
| Saved % | 50% | 50% | |
| Times Broken | 1 | 1 | |
| Gombos | |||||
| Q1 Henning |
Q3 Agustin |
R1 Jubb |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 3-6 6-1 7-5 | 6-2 6-4 | 6-4 6-2 | ||
| Tot Set | 3 | 2 | 2 | 7 | |
| Tot Games | 28 | 18 | 18 | 64 | |
| pts | 84-67 | 62-53 | 67-50 | 213-170 | |
| Total points | 151 | 115 | 117 | 383 | |
| Winners | 36 | 27 | 32 | 95 | |
| %Winners | 43% | 44% | 48% | 45% | |
| SERVE | |||||
| Aces | 8 | 7 | 3 | 18 | |
| Double Faults | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
| 1st in | 44/70 | 39/62 | 41/65 | 124/197 | |
| % 1st in | 63% | 63% | 63% | 63% | |
| 1st pts | 36/44 | 27/39 | 32/41 | 95/124 | |
| % 1st pts | 82% | 69% | 78% | 77% | |
| 2nd pts | 17/26 | 15/23 | 13/24 | 45/73 | |
| % 2nd pts | 65% | 65% | 54% | 62% | |
| Breaks | |||||
| Won | 4 | 3 | 3 | 10 | |
| Converted | 4/11 | 3/4 | 3/7 | 10/22 | |
| Converted % | 36% | 75% | 43% | 45% | |
| Conceded | 3 | 2 | 4 | 9 | |
| Saved | 1/3 | 2/2 | 4/4 | 7 | |
| Saved % | 33% | 100% | 100% | 233% | |
| Times Broken | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | |
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