Marc Polmans and Hikaru Shiraishi will play each other in the 2^nd round of the Sydney Challenger for the 2^nd 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.

As 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 2^nd 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

Ranked no. 218, Marc got to the 2^nd round after beating Edward Winter 6-2 6-2.

In the 1^st 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

Hikaru Shiraishi

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

In the 1^st 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.

H2H Performance in the tournament

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

Tennis Scores in Sydney Challenger

• Marc PolmansPolmans – Edward WinterWinter (6-2 6-2) – See score progression
• Omar JasikaJasika – Takuya KumasakaKumasaka (6-2 5-7 7-5) – See score progression
• Blake EllisEllis – James McCabeMcCabe (6-7² 7-5 6-3) – See score progression
• Philip SekulicSekulic – Pavle MarinkovMarinkov (6-2 5-7 6-1) – See score progression
• Tristan SchoolkateSchoolkate – Jake DelaneyDelaney (7-6⁴ 6-3) – See score progression
• Rinky HijikataHijikata – Ryuki MatsudaMatsuda (7-6⁵ 6-7⁵ 6-4) – See score progression
• Yuki MochizukiMochizuki – Aleksandre BakshiBakshi (6-4 6-2) – See score progression
• Masamichi ImamuraImamura – Hayden JonesJones (6-3 7-6³) – See score progression
• Yuta ShimizuShimizu – Jacob BradshawBradshaw (6-3 6-3) – See score progression
• Ajeet RaiRai – Alex BoltBolt (7-5 7-5) – See score progression
• Thanasi KokkinakisKokkinakis – Christian LangmoLangmo (6-3 6-4) – See score progression
• Blake MottMott – Seita WatanabeWatanabe (7-5 6-7⁵ 6-3) – See score progression
• Hikaru ShiraishiShiraishi – Moerani BouzigeBouzige (6-2 6-4) – See score progression
• Tibo ColsonColson – Shintaro ImaiImai (6-3 3-6 6-2) – See score progression
• Matthew DellavedovaDellavedova – Shintaro MochizukiMochizuki (6-1 6-2) – See score progression
• Ajeet RaiRai – Alex BoltBolt (7-5 7-5) – See score progression
• Yuki MochizukiMochizuki – Aleksandre BakshiBakshi (6-4 6-2) – See score progression
• Blake MottMott – Seita WatanabeWatanabe (7-5 6-7(5) 6-3) – See score progression
• Yuta ShimizuShimizu – Jacob BradshawBradshaw (6-3 6-3) – See score progression

Upcoming matches in the draw

• Blake MottMott – Yuta ShimizuShimizu (0-1) – H2H and prediction
• Marc PolmansPolmans – Hikaru ShiraishiShiraishi (1-0) – H2H and prediction
• Omar JasikaJasika – Blake EllisEllis (2-1) – H2H and prediction
• Ajeet RaiRai – Yuki MochizukiMochizuki (0-1) – H2H and prediction
• Rinky HijikataHijikata – Masamichi ImamuraImamura (1-0) – H2H and prediction
• Emile HuddHudd – Dane SweenySweeny (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Tibo ColsonColson – Tristan SchoolkateSchoolkate (0-0) – H2H and prediction