Marc Polmans and Zura Tkemaladze will fight against each other in the 1st round of the Playford Challenger for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Tuesday at 10:00 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 Marc Polmans who should win in 2 sets.
Marc Polmans -> 1.119
Zura Tkemaladze -> 5.5
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Prediction and head to head Marc Polmans vs. Zura Tkemaladze
There is no head to head record between Marc Polmans and Zura Tkemaladze since this will be the first time that they will face off in the main tour.
Marc Polmans
20 - 25win/loss
321
116
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. 231, the Australian will start his run in the Playford Challenger after he played his last match in M25 Cairns where he lost 6-3 6-4 to Jasika in the final on the 13th of October.
Marc has a composed 20-25 win-loss record in 2024, 14-16 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Polmans’s best result of the year was getting to the final in M25 Cairns.
Talking about his overall career, The Australian has an overall 336-269 record. He has a positive 198-156 record on hard.
Previously in the Playford Challenger
Previously, his best result was reaching the semifinal in 2019. See his history
.Zura Tkemaladze
25 - 25win/loss
713
633
Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
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2024 | 26-30 | 21-21 | 5-6 | 0-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
2023 | 37-33 | 31-24 | 6-8 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
2022 | 42-27 | 29-19 | 9-6 | 4-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
2021 | 8-13 | 5-8 | 3-5 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
2020 | 1-4 | 0-1 | 1-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 706, the Georgean reached the 1st round after defeating Jayden Court 6-4 6-3 and Yuki Mochizuki 7-6(2) 7-6(2).
In the qualifications, The Georgean had a good straight sets win against Mochizuki (7-62 7-62). During the match Tkemaladze scored 80 points vs Mochizuki’s 73. The Georgean was quite aggressive to blast 43 winners.
Talking about serving, Tkemaladze recorded 2 aces and he committed only 4 double faults. Zura Tkemaladze lost the serve twice and he saved 6 break points. Furthermore, Tkemaladze put 69% of his first serves in, winning 78% (43/55) of the points behind his 1st serve and 44% (11/25) on the 2nd serve. Tkemaladze was clinical in his return game without wasting any break point and break Mochizuki twice.
Overall Performance in this tournament
Zura started his run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, he hasn’t surrendered yet a set in this competition to win 54% of the points he played.
Zura’s best result of the current year was reaching the final in M15 Tashkent.
The Georgean has a compiled 25-25 win-loss record in 2024, 20-16 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Playford Challenger
The Georgean has never competed in this tournament before.
Tennis Scores in Playford Challenger
- Dane SweenySweeny – Blake EllisEllis (6-2 7-5) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Tristan SchoolkateSchoolkate – Jake DelaneyDelaney (6-4 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Moerani BouzigeBouzige – Jacob BradshawBradshaw (4-6 7-5 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Shintaro MochizukiMochizuki – Aleksandre BakshiBakshi (7-5 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
Upcoming matches in the draw
- Li TuTu – Saba PurtseladzePurtseladze (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Blake MottMott – Yuta ShimizuShimizu (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Marc PolmansPolmans – Zura TkemaladzeTkemaladze (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Christian LangmoLangmo – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Masamichi ImamuraImamura – Colin SinclairSinclair (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Hikaru ShiraishiShiraishi – Thanasi KokkinakisKokkinakis (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Rinky HijikataHijikata – Emile HuddHudd (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Takuya KumasakaKumasaka – Omar JasikaJasika (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Taisei IchikawaIchikawa – Shintaro ImaiImai (0-2) – H2H and prediction
- Tristan SchoolkateSchoolkate – Moerani BouzigeBouzige (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Ryuki MatsudaMatsuda – Ajeet RaiRai (0-0) – H2H and prediction