H2H, prediction of Marc Polmans vs Hikaru Shiraishi in Sydney Challenger with odds, preview, pick | 30th October 2024

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Prediction and head to head Marc Polmans vs. Hikaru Shiraishi

Marc Polmans and Hikaru Shiraishi will play each other in the 2nd round of the Sydney Challenger for the 2nd time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Wednesday at 12:30 pm on COURT 4. 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.

See updated oddsAs per the initial odds, Marc Polmans is the pick to win this match.
Marc Polmans -> 1.26
Hikaru Shiraishi -> 3.55

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Prediction and head to head Marc Polmans vs. Hikaru Shiraishi

This will be the 2nd time that Marc Polmans and Hikaru Shiraishi play each other. The head to head is 1-0 for Polmans (see full H2H stats), but they have never competed against each other on hard.

The last time that they played each other, Polmans won 7-5 4-6 6-0 in the qualifications in the Kobe Challenger back in 2022.

Marc Polmans

Marc Polmans
Marc Polmans

24 - 26win/loss

Hard
18-17
I Hard
0-0
Clay
4-4
Grass
2-5
Rank
321
High
116
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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. 218, Marc got to the 2nd round after beating Edward Winter 6-2 6-2.

In the 1st round, The Australian had a good straight sets win against Winter (6-2 6-2). During the match, Polmans scored 62 points vs Winter’s 36. The Australian was quite aggressive to blast 26 winners.

Talking about the service games, Polmans struck 5 aces and he was extremely solid in conceding no double faults. Marc Polmans was quite efficient on serve to win 81% (26/32) of his 1st serve and 80% (8/10) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. The Australian broke Winter 4 times after converting 36% of his break points (4/11).

Polmans has good win-loss record in the last 10 years having won 56% of his matches (322-250). 18-17 on hard in 2024. In connection with his performance on the same surface of this competition, Polmans has an overall 190-143 record in the last years on hard.

The Australian’s best result of the season was reaching the final in M25 Cairns.

Polmans has a compiled 24-26 win-loss record in 2024, 18-17 on hard (See FULL STATS).

Previously in the Sydney Challenger

Polmans
Sydney Challenger
Polmans's Record

Hikaru Shiraishi

Hikaru Shiraishi
Hikaru Shiraishi

21 - 13win/loss

Hard
19-10
I Hard
1-2
Clay
1-1
Rank
521
High
463
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Year Total Hard Clay I.hard Grass Carpet
2024 23-18 21-14 1-1 1-3 0-0 0-0
2023 52-22 50-21 2-1 0-0 0-0 0-0
2022 18-6 18-5 0-0 0-1 0-0 0-0
2021 0-0 0-0 0-0 0-0 0-0 0-0
2020 0-0 0-0 0-0 0-0 0-0 0-0

Ranked no. 518, Hikaru got to the 2nd round after beating Moerani Bouzige 6-2 6-4.

In the 1st round, Shiraishi had a good straight sets win against Bouzige (6-2 6-4). During the match Shiraishi scored 70 points vs Bouzige’s 49. The Japanese was very aggressive to blast 22 winners.

Talking about serving, Shiraishi made 4 aces and he committed only 1 double fault for the entire match. Overall, Hikaru Shiraishi was exceptionally efficient on serve to win 79% (22/28) of his 1st serve and 61% (14/23) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve once. Hikaru broke Bouzige 4 times after converting 50% of his break points (4/8).

The Japanese’s best result of the current season was reaching the final in Tokyo and M15 Tsukuba.

Hikaru has a compiled 21-13 win-loss record in 2024, 19-10 on hard (See FULL STATS).

Previously in the Sydney Challenger

Shiraishi has never competed in this tournament before.

Shiraishi
Sydney Challenger
Shiraishi's Record
Bonus
Soccer Tonic Predictions

H2H Performance in the tournament

M.Polmans
H.Shiraishi
1h:14
1h:14
Time on court​
1h:27
1h:27
1h:14
1h:14
Last match​
1h:27
1h:27
1
1
Match played
1
1
16
16
Games Played​
18
18
2
2
Set played​​
2
2
62
62
Total points​
70
70
62
62
Avg point​
70
70
26
26
Winners
22
22
26
26
Avg Winners​
22
22
42%
42%
Ratio winners
31%
31%
-- Serve --
5
5
Aces
4
4
5
5
Avg Aces
4
4
0
0
Double Faults
1
1
0
0
Avg Double Faults
1
1
26/32
26/32
1st won total​
22/28
22/28
!
81%
81%
1st won %
!
79%
79%
8/10
8/10
2nd won total​
14/23
14/23
!
80%
80%
2nd won %
!
61%
61%
-- Break Points --
4/11
4/11
BP won
4/8
4/8
4/11
4/11
Avg BP won
4/8
4/8
36%
36%
Won
50%
50%
0
0
Conceded
3
3
0
0
Avg Conceded
3
3
0
0
Broken
1
1
!
0
0
Avg Broken
1
1
0
0
Saved
2
2

Matches, sets, games and points

Points Polmans Shiraishi
Match played 1 1
Tot Set 2 2
Tot Games 16 18
Pts 62-36 70-49
Total Points 98 119
Winners 26 22
%Winners 42% 31%

Both Polmans and Shiraishi played 1 match. Both players have not surrendered a single set in this event so far. Talking about their workload, Polmans and Shiraishi have played the same amount of sets 2. However, Polmans played 2 games less than Shiraishi. The Australian scored 26 winners (42% of the total points). On the other side, Shiraishi made 22 winners (31%).

Serve Performance

Serve Polmans Shiraishi
Aces 5 4
Avg per match 5 4
1st in 32/42 28/51
%1st in 76% 55%
1st pts 26/32 22/28
%1st pts 81% 79%
2nd pts 8/10 14/23
%2nd pts 80% 61%

Polmans managed to score 5 aces . Shiraishi scored 4 aces . Polmans won 81% points on his first serve. He pretty effective on his second serve to win 80% of the points. On the other side, Shiraishi won 79% of the points behind his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 61% of the points.

How they played the important points

Breaks Polmans Shiraishi
Won 4 4
Converted 4/11 4/8
% Converted 36% 50%
Conceded 0 3
Saved 0 2
% Saved 0% 67%
Times Broken 0 1

The Australian broke his opponent 4 times with a 36% conversion rate. Marc had a solid display on his serve as he has never dropped a single service game after saving 0 break points. Hikaru broke his opponent 4 times with a 50% conversion rate. Hikaru conceded his serve once and he saved 67% of the break points that he conceded.

Polmans
R1
Winter
Total
Score 6-2 6-2
Tot Set 2 2
Tot Games 16 16
pts 62-36 62-36
Total points 98 98
Winners 26 26
%Winners 42% 42%
SERVE
Aces 5 5
Double Faults 0 0
1st in 32/42 32/42
% 1st in 76% 76%
1st pts 26/32 26/32
% 1st pts 81% 81%
2nd pts 8/10 8/10
% 2nd pts 80% 80%
Breaks
Won 4 4
Converted 4/11 4/11
Converted % 36% 36%
Conceded 0 0
Saved 0/0 0
Saved % 0%
Times Broken 0 0
Shiraishi
R1
Bouzige
Total
Score 6-2 6-4
Tot Set 2 2
Tot Games 18 18
pts 70-49 70-49
Total points 119 119
Winners 22 22
%Winners 31% 31%
SERVE
Aces 4 4
Double Faults 1 1
1st in 28/51 28/51
% 1st in 55% 55%
1st pts 22/28 22/28
% 1st pts 79% 79%
2nd pts 14/23 14/23
% 2nd pts 61% 61%
Breaks
Won 4 4
Converted 4/8 4/8
Converted % 50% 50%
Conceded 3 3
Saved 2/3 2
Saved % 67% 67%
Times Broken 1 1

Head 2 Head

Win Loss
Polmans
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Shiraishi
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2024 2023 2022
24 - 28
23 - 18
18-18
Hard
21-14
0-1
I Hard
1-3
4-4
Clay
1-1
2-5
Grass
0-0

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