Marc Polmans and Shintaro Imai will fight against each other in the 2^nd round of the Playford Challenger for the 1^st time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Wednesday at 1:00 pm on CENTRE COURT. In this post, we analyze their head to head performance and prediction.

Prediction, odds and live streaming

The pick for Tennis Tonic is Marc Polmans who should win in 2 sets.

As per the initial odds, Marc Polmans is the pick to win this match.
Marc Polmans -> 1.23
Shintaro Imai -> 3.82

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Prediction and head to head Marc Polmans vs. Shintaro Imai

There is no head to head record between Marc Polmans and Shintaro Imai since this will be the first time that they will face off in the main tour.

Marc Polmans

Ranked no. 231, Polmans got to the 2^nd round after defeating Zura Tkemaladze 2-6 6-4 6-4.

In the 1^st round against Tkemaladze, Polmans recovered from a 1-set down deficit before winning (2-6 6-4 6-4).During the match, Polmans scored less points (2) than Tkemaladze. In fact, the world no. 231 won 94 points vs Tkemaladze’s. That means that Polmans was more focused during the important points. The Australian was extremely aggressive to blast 31 winners.

Talking about the service games, Polmans recorded 5 aces and he committed only 7 double faults. Marc Polmans lost the serve 6 times and he saved 6 break points. Furthermore, Polmans put 59% of his first serves in, winning 57% (31/54) of the points behind his 1st serve and 49% (18/37) on the 2nd serve. Polmans broke Tkemaladze 6 times after converting 43% of his break points (6/14).

Polmans has positive match record in the last 10 years having won 56% of his matches (319-249). 15-16 on hard in 2024. Regarding his performance on the same surface of this event, Polmans has an overall 187-142 win-loss record in the last years on hard.

Polmans’s best result of the season was getting to the final in M25 Cairns.

Marc has an aggregate 21-25 win-loss record in 2024, 15-16 on hard (See FULL STATS).

Previously in the Playford Challenger

Shintaro Imai

Ranked no. 433, the Japanese reached the 2^nd round after beating Taisei Ichikawa 6-1 6-4.

In the 1^st round, Shintaro had a good straight sets win against Ichikawa (6-1 6-4). During the match Imai scored 71 points vs Ichikawa’s 53. Imai was exceptionally aggressive to blast 33 winners.

Talking about serving, Imai fired 6 aces and he committed only 2 double faults. Shintaro Imai was pretty efficient on serve to win 77% (33/43) of his 1st serve and 52% (16/31) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. Shintaro broke Ichikawa 3 times after converting 60% of his break points (3/5).

Shintaro’s best result of the year was reaching the final in M15 Hong Kong and M15 Tokyo.

Imai has an overall 28-14 win-loss record in 2024, 20-11 on hard (See FULL STATS).

Previously in the Playford Challenger

The Japanese has never competed in this tournament before.

H2H Performance in the tournament

Matches, sets, games and points

Points	Polmans	Imai
Match played	1	1
Tot Set	3	2
Tot Games	28	17
Pts	94-96	71-53
Total Points	190	124
Winners	31	33
%Winners	33%	46%

Both Polmans and Imai played 1 match. At the moment, Marc Polmans surrendered 1 set while Shintaro Imai hasn’t surrendered a set so far. Polmans has played 1 set more than Imai (3 vs 2). Therefore, Polmans played 11 games more than Imai. The Australian scored 31 winners (33% of the total points). On the other side, Imai made 33 winners (46%).

Serve Performance

Serve	Polmans	Imai
Aces	5	6
Avg per match	5	6
1st in	54/91	43/74
%1st in	59%	58%
1st pts	31/54	33/43
%1st pts	57%	77%
2nd pts	18/37	16/31
%2nd pts	49%	52%

Polmans managed to score 5 aces . Imai blasted 6 aces . Polmans won 57% points on his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 49% of the points. On the other side, Imai won 77% of the points on his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 52% of the points.

How they played the important points

Breaks	Polmans	Imai
Won	6	3
Converted	6/14	3/5
% Converted	43%	60%
Conceded	12	5
Saved	6	5
% Saved	50%	100%
Times Broken	6	0

The Australian broke his opponent 6 times with a 43% conversion rate. The Australian dropped his serve 6 times and he saved 50% of the break points that he conceded. Imai broke his opponent 3 times with a 60% conversion rate. The Japanese was rock solid on his serve as he has never conceded a single service game after saving 5 break points.

Polmans
	R1 Tkemaladze	Total
Score	2-6 6-4 6-4
Tot Set	3	3
Tot Games	28	28
pts	94-96	94-96
Total points	190	190
Winners	31	31
%Winners	33%	33%
SERVE
Aces	5	5
Double Faults	7	7
1st in	54/91	54/91
% 1st in	59%	59%
1st pts	31/54	31/54
% 1st pts	57%	57%
2nd pts	18/37	18/37
% 2nd pts	49%	49%
Breaks
Won	6	6
Converted	6/14	6/14
Converted %	43%	43%
Conceded	12	12
Saved	6/12	6
Saved %	50%	50%
Times Broken	6	6

Imai
	R1 Ichikawa	Total
Score	6-1 6-4
Tot Set	2	2
Tot Games	17	17
pts	71-53	71-53
Total points	124	124
Winners	33	33
%Winners	46%	46%
SERVE
Aces	6	6
Double Faults	2	2
1st in	43/74	43/74
% 1st in	58%	58%
1st pts	33/43	33/43
% 1st pts	77%	77%
2nd pts	16/31	16/31
% 2nd pts	52%	52%
Breaks
Won	3	3
Converted	3/5	3/5
Converted %	60%	60%
Conceded	5	5
Saved	5/5	5
Saved %	100%	100%
Times Broken	0	0

Tennis Scores in Playford Challenger

• Christian LangmoLangmo – Pavle MarinkovMarinkov (6-3 4-6 6-3) – See score progression
• Masamichi ImamuraImamura – Colin SinclairSinclair (7-6⁴ 6-3) – See score progression
• Ryuki MatsudaMatsuda – Ajeet RaiRai (3-6 6-2 6-2) – See score progression
• Omar JasikaJasika – Takuya KumasakaKumasaka (7-5 6-2) – See score progression
• Thomas FancuttFancutt – Edward WinterWinter (7-5 7-6²) – See score progression
• Li TuTu – Saba PurtseladzePurtseladze (6-1 6-3) – See score progression
• Shintaro ImaiImai – Taisei IchikawaIchikawa (6-1 6-4) – See score progression
• Yuki MochizukiMochizuki – Hikaru ShiraishiShiraishi (6-4 6-4) – See score progression
• Marc PolmansPolmans – Zura TkemaladzeTkemaladze (2-6 6-4 6-4) – See score progression
• Rinky HijikataHijikata – Emile HuddHudd (7-6⁴ 7-6²) – See score progression
• Yuta ShimizuShimizu – Blake MottMott (6-3 7-5) – See score progression
• Philip SekulicSekulic – Tibo ColsonColson (6-3 6-2) – See score progression
• Dane SweenySweeny – Blake EllisEllis (6-2 7-5) – See score progression
• Tristan SchoolkateSchoolkate – Jake DelaneyDelaney (6-4 6-3) – See score progression
• Moerani BouzigeBouzige – Jacob BradshawBradshaw (4-6 7-5 6-3) – See score progression
• Shintaro MochizukiMochizuki – Aleksandre BakshiBakshi (7-5 6-3) – See score progression

Upcoming matches in the draw

• Li TuTu – (4-1) – H2H and prediction
• Marc PolmansPolmans – Shintaro ImaiImai (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Christian LangmoLangmo – Omar JasikaJasika (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Masamichi ImamuraImamura – Thomas FancuttFancutt (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Yuta ShimizuShimizu – Yuki MochizukiMochizuki (2-2) – H2H and prediction
• Rinky HijikataHijikata – Dane SweenySweeny (1-0) – H2H and prediction
• Tristan SchoolkateSchoolkate – Moerani BouzigeBouzige (1-0) – H2H and prediction
• Ryuki MatsudaMatsuda – (0-0) – H2H and prediction