Marc Polmans

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Marc Polmans Tennis player
Marc Polmans
Polmans at the 2019 French Open
Nation: AustraliaAustralia Australia
Birthday: May 2, 1997
Size: 188 cm
Weight: 78 kg
1st professional season: 2015
Playing hand: Right, two-handed backhand
Trainer: Marcel Du Coudray
Prize money: $ 558,142
singles
Career record: 1: 4
Highest ranking: 137 (October 29, 2018)
Current placement: 137
Grand Slam record
Double
Career record: 5: 8
Highest ranking: 68 (October 16, 2017)
Current placement: 197
Grand Slam record
Mixed
Grand Slam record
Last update of the infobox:
October 28, 2019
Sources: official player profiles at the ATP / WTA and ITF (see web links )

Marc Polmans (born May 2, 1997 in Amanzimtoti , South Africa ) is an Australian tennis player .

Career

On the Junior Tour, on which Polmans played until mid-2015, he was already successful. He won the Australian Open 2015 in the doubles competition with his partner Jake Delaney . In the junior world rankings , 28th place at the beginning of 2015 was also his highest position.

Since 2012 the Australian has also played tournaments with the professionals. However, it wasn't until 2015 before he won more than two games in a row. In 2016, he finally won four futures tournaments in a short time, so that he was able to participate in Challenger tournaments for the first time at the end of the year . Here he also reached a final in Canberra , which he lost to James Duckworth . In total, he has won 6 futures in singles and 12 in doubles so far. In 2016 he also made his first appearance on the ATP level in Melbourne at the Australian Open in mixed competition alongside Jessica Moore through a wildcard . They lost the opening game against the two seeded Bethanie Mattek-Sands and Bob Bryan with 2: 6, 1: 6. With another wildcard he was able to advance to the semifinals at the following Australian Open together with Andrew Whittington . He also played in the qualification of all Grand Slam tournaments in 2017 , but was never able to qualify. He was twice in an ATP main field and once he reached a Challenger semifinals, so that in June he reached his previous best place with rank 175, but could not hold it until the end of the year. It slipped to 318th place. In doubles he was 68th in the top 100 through the semi-finals in Melbourne and ended the year in 70th place.

In February 2018, Polmans achieved his first tournament victory in a Challenger. In Launceston he defeated his compatriot Bradley Mousley .

successes

Legend (number of victories)
Grand Slam
ATP World Tour Finals
ATP World Tour Masters 1000
ATP World Tour 500
ATP World Tour 250
ATP Challenger Tour (6)

singles

Tournament victories

No. date competition Topping Final opponent Result
1. February 11, 2018 AustraliaAustralia Launceston Hard court AustraliaAustralia Bradley Mousley 6: 2, 6: 2
2. March 24, 2019 China People's RepublicPeople's Republic of China Zhangjiagang Hard court ItalyItaly Lorenzo Giustino 6: 4, 4: 6, 7: 6 4
3. October 27, 2019 AustraliaAustralia Traralgon Hard court AustraliaAustralia Andrew Harris 7: 5, 6: 3

Double

Tournament victories

No. date competition Topping partner Final opponent Result
1. October 27, 2018 AustraliaAustralia Traralgon Hard court AustraliaAustralia Jeremy Beale AustraliaAustralia Max Purcell Luke Saville
AustraliaAustralia 
6: 2, 6: 4
2. 20th July 2019 CanadaCanada Gatineau Hard court United StatesUnited States Alex Lawson MexicoMexico Hans Hach Verdugo Dennis Novikov
United StatesUnited States 
6: 4, 3: 6, [10: 7]
3. 20th October 2019 China People's RepublicPeople's Republic of China Ningbo Hard court AustraliaAustralia Andrew Harris AustraliaAustralia Alex Bolt Matt Reid
AustraliaAustralia 
6-0, 6-1

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