Marc Polmans

Marc Polmans

Polmans at the 2023 US Open
Country (sports)	Australia
Residence	Brighton East, Australia
Born	(1997-05-02) 2 May 1997 (age 26) Amanzimtoti, South Africa
Height	1.88 m (6 ft 2 in)
Turned pro	2015
Plays	Right-handed (two-handed backhand)
Coach	Marcel du Coudray
Prize money	US $1,542,480
Singles
Career record	6–16 (27.3%)
Career titles	0
Highest ranking	No. 116 (12 October 2020)
Current ranking	No. 166 (12 February 2024)
Grand Slam singles results
Australian Open	2R (2020)
French Open	2R (2020)
Wimbledon	2R (2021)
US Open	1R (2020)
Doubles
Career record	15–19
Career titles	0
Highest ranking	No. 68 (16 October 2017)
Current ranking	No. 237 (15 January 2024)
Grand Slam doubles results
Australian Open	SF (2017)
Wimbledon	1R (2017)
US Open	1R (2017, 2021)
Grand Slam mixed doubles results
Australian Open	SF (2021, 2023, 2024)
Last updated on: 19 February 2024.

Marc David Polmans (born 2 May 1997) is a South African-born Australian professional tennis player. Polmans has a career high ATP singles ranking of World No. 116 achieved on 12 October 2020. He also has a career high ATP doubles ranking of World No. 68 achieved on 16 October 2017. He won the 2015 Australian Open boys' doubles title with fellow Australian Jake Delaney, defeating Hubert Hurkacz and Alex Molčan in the final. He reached the semifinal of the 2017 Australian Open doubles with Andrew Whittington.

Personal life

He supports Collingwood in the Australian Football League.^[1]

Career

2012–2015: Career beginnings

Polmans turned pro in 2012 and ended the year with a ranking of 1813. Over the next three years, Polmans played predominantly in the ITF Futures tour. Polmans won his first title with Steven de Waard at the Australia F9 Futures in 2014. The pair won five more future titles in 2015.

Polmans reached the second round of qualifying in the 2015 Australian Open where he defeated Jordi Samper-Montaña in the first round before losing to Tim Smyczek.

2016–2017: Ranking increase

Polmans commenced 2016 with a singles ranking of 841. He lost in the first round of qualifying for the 2016 Australian Open. In June 2016, Polmans won his first singles title in Mozambique F1. This was followed by another title the following week. Over the next 3 months, Polmans reached a further 6 finals, winning 2 including one in Alice Springs.^[2] In November, Polmans reached his first ATP Challenger Tour final in Canberra. He lost to compatriot James Duckworth in straight sets. He ended 2016 with a ranking of No. 226.

Polmans commenced 2017 at the Happy Valley Challenger where he lost in round 1. Polmans lost in round 1 of 2017 Australian Open – Men's singles qualifying. In the doubles, Polmans paired with Andrew Whittington where they reached the semi-final. Polmans made the 2nd round of the 2017 French Open – Men's singles qualifying. Polmans received a wildcard entry to the 2017 Croatia Open, marking his first singles main draw appearance on the ATP World Tour. He faced Alessandro Giannessi but lost in round 1. In July, Polmans made the main draw of the Citi Open in Washington as a lucky loser, losing to Jared Donaldson.^[3] Polmans ended the year on the Challenger circuit with his best result being a semi-final appearance at Canberra. Polmans ended 2017 with a singles ranking of No. 323 and doubles ranking of No. 70.

2018: First challenger title

In February, Polmans won his maiden challenger title at the 2018 Launceston Tennis International.^[4] In April he lost to Noah Rubin of the US in the finals of the 2018 Tallahassee Tennis Challenger in Florida.^[5] In May and June, Polmans lost in the first round of French Open qualifying and Wimbledon qualifying. He continued to play across the Challenger tour of Europe. In August, Polmans lost in the final round of qualifying for the US Open. In October, Polmans partnered Jeremy Beale to win his first doubles challenger title at Traralgon.

2019: Major debut at Australian Open, Challenger title, first ATP win

Polmans was awarded a wildcard into the 2019 Australian Open. He lost in the first round to USA's Denis Kudla in five sets 5–7, 1–6, 6–2, 6–3, 6–2.

In March, Polmans won his second ATP Challenger title when defeating Italy's Lorenzo Giustino 6–4, 4–6, 7–6⁽⁴⁾.^[6]

In July, Polman qualified for the main draw of the Washington Open. Polmans defeated Malek Jaziri for his first main draw win on the ATP Tour.^[7] In August, Polmans lost in the first round of 2019 US Open – Men's singles qualifying.

2020: First two Major wins, US and French Open debut

In January participating again as a wildcard, Polman won his first main draw singles match at the Australian Open over Mikhail Kukushkin.^[8] Polmans also won his first French Open match as a lucky loser against Ugo Humbert.

Having reached a career-high singles ranking of World No. 116 on 12 October 2020, Polmans ended 2020 with a singles ranking of World No. 124 and a doubles ranking of World No. 130.

2021: Australian Open semifinal mixed doubles, Wimbledon singles debut

For the third year in a row being awarded a wildcard, he lost in the first round of the Australian Open to Marton Fucsovics but he made the semifinals of the 2021 Australian Open – Mixed doubles with Storm Sanders.

He qualified for the first time in his career into the main singles draw of the 2021 Wimbledon Championships. Polmans defeated former quarterfinalist Yen-Hsun Lu in the first round.^[9] Polmans lost to 19th seed Cristian Garín in round two.

In July, Polmans reached the quarterfinal at the Kitzbühel Open in doubles partnering Pedro Martinez.^[10] Polmans ended 2021 with a singles ranking of World No. 196 and a doubles ranking of World No. 103.

2022–2024: Hiatus, substantial rankings drop, back to Challenger tour

Polmans lost in the second round of qualifying at the 2022 Australian Open.^[11] He also lost in the first round of qualifying at the 2022 US Open.^[12] He won his seventh doubles Challenger title in Korea with Max Purcell and returned to the top 300 in doubles jumping up 345 places to world No. 297 on 24 October 2022.^[13]

He was disqualified in the last round of qualifications at the 2023 Rolex Shanghai Masters for hitting a ball at the empire in frustration and subsequently lost all the rankings points and prize money.^[14]

He made back to back semifinals at the 2023 Australian Open – Mixed doubles and the 2024 Australian Open with Olivia Gadecki as a wildcard pair.^[15] In singles, at the same tournament, ranked No. 154 he also received another wildcard for the main draw and his forth overall but lost in straight sets to compatriot Alexei Popyrin.

Coaching

Since July 2019, Polmans has been coached by Marcel du Coudray, former coach of world number 3 Nikolay Davydenko. Polmans was coached by former Top 100 player, Peter Luczak, at the Tennis Australia National Academy in Melbourne.^[16]

Performance timelines

Singles

Current through the 2024 BNP Paribas Open.

Challenger and Futures finals

Singles: 27 (13–14)

Result	W–L	Date	Tournament	Tier	Surface	Opponent	Score
Win	1–0	Jun 2016	Mozambique F1, Maputo	Futures	Hard	Lloyd Harris	4–6, 6–2, 7–5
Win	2–0	Jun 2016	Mozambique F2, Maputo	Futures	Hard	Jeremy Beale	6–1, 6–1
Loss	2–1	Jun 2016	Zimbabwe F1, Harare	Futures	Hard	Benjamin Lock	7–5, 6–7(5–7), 5–7
Win	3–1	Jul 2016	Zimbabwe F2, Harare	Futures	Clay	Lloyd Harris	6–2, 6–2
Loss	3–2	Jul 2016	USA F25, Edwardsville	Futures	Hard	Tennys Sandgren	6–7(4–7), 6–1, 3–6
Loss	3–3	Aug 2016	USA F26, Decatur	Futures	Clay	Roberto Quiroz	0–6, 6–3, 6–7(6–8)
Win	4–3	Sep 2016	Australia F5, Alice Springs	Futures	Hard	Jarmere Jenkins	6–1, 6–7(3–7), 7–6(7–4)
Loss	4–4	Oct 2016	Australia F6, Brisbane	Futures	Hard	Jarmere Jenkins	1–6, 5–7
Loss	4–5	Nov 2016	Canberra, Australia	Challenger	Hard	James Duckworth	5–7, 3–6
Win	5–5	Mar 2017	Australia F2, Canberra	Futures	Clay	Blake Mott	7–6(7–2), 3–6, 6–4
Win	6–5	Mar 2017	Australia F3, Canberra	Futures	Clay	Maverick Banes	6–7(5–7), 7–6(7–1), 6–4
Loss	6–6	May 2017	Italy F11, Santa Margherita di Pula	Futures	Clay	Adrian Bodmer	3–6, 2–6
Win	7–6	Feb 2018	Launceston, Australia	Challenger	Hard	Bradley Mousley	6–2, 6–2
Win	8–6	Mar 2018	Australia F1, Renmark	Futures	Grass	Luke Saville	6–1, 6–4
Win	9–6	Mar 2018	Australia F2, Mildura	Futures	Grass	Thomas Fancutt	7–6(7–4), 6–3
Win	10–6	Mar 2018	Australia F3, Mornington	Futures	Clay	Max Purcell	7–6(7–5), 6–2
Loss	10–7	Apr 2018	Australia F4, Mornington	Futures	Clay	Max Purcell	5–7, 4–6
Loss	10–8	Apr 2018	Tallahassee, USA	Challenger	Clay	Noah Rubin	2–6, 6–3, 4–6
Loss	10–9	Oct 2018	Stockton, USA	Challenger	Hard	Lloyd Harris	2–6, 2–6
Win	11–9	Mar 2019	Zhangjiagang, China, P.R.	Challenger	Hard	Lorenzo Giustino	6–4, 4–6, 7–6(7–4)
Loss	11–10	Sep 2019	Kaohsiung, Taiwan	Challenger	Hard	John Millman	4–6, 2–6
Win	12–10	Oct 2019	Traralgon, Australia	Challenger	Hard	Andrew Harris	7–5, 6–3
Loss	12–11	Oct 2022	Sydney, Australia	Challenger	Hard	Hsu Yu-hsiou	4–6, 6–7(5–7)
Win	13–11	Mar 2023	M25 Canberra, Australia	World Tennis Tour	Clay	Tatsuma Ito	6–0, 4–6, 6–4
Loss	13–12	Mar 2023	M25 Canberra, Australia	World Tennis Tour	Clay	Dane Sweeny	7–6(7–1), 6–7(5–7), 4–6
Loss	13–13	Sep 2023	Guangzhou, China	Challenger	Hard	Térence Atmane	6–4, 6–7(7–9), 4–6
Loss	13–14	Oct 2023	Sydney, Australia	Challenger	Hard	Taro Daniel	2–6, 4–6
Note: W-L column is cumulative.

Doubles: 28 (20–8)

Result	W–L	Date	Tournament	Tier	Surface	Partner	Opponents	Score
Win	1–0	Nov 2014	Australia F9, Wollongong	Futures	Hard	Steven de Waard	Mitchell Krueger Andrew Whittington	7–6(7–2), 7–6(7–2)
Loss	1–1	Mar 2015	Australia F4, Melbourne	Futures	Clay	Steven de Waard	Jordan Thompson Andrew Whittington	2–6, 6–7(5–7)
Win	2–1	Apr 2015	Australia F5, Mornington	Futures	Clay	Steven de Waard	Matthew Barton Peter Torebko	7–6(8–6), 6–1
Win	3–1	May 2015	Italy F11, Lecco	Futures	Clay	Peter Luczak	David Pel Maxime Tabatruong	6–4, 6–2
Win	4–1	Jul 2015	Belgium F6, Knokke	Futures	Clay	Steven de Waard	Maverick Banes Jacob Grills	5–7, 7–6(7–2), [10–5]
Win	5–1	Oct 2015	Australia F8, Toowoomba	Futures	Hard	Steven de Waard	Jake Delaney Max Purcell	6–4, 6–3
Win	6–1	Oct 2015	Australia F9, Brisbane	Futures	Hard	Steven de Waard	Thomas Fancutt Darren Polkinghorne	6–0, 6–1
Loss	6–2	Nov 2015	Australia F10, Wollongong	Futures	Hard	Steven de Waard	Maverick Banes Finn Tearney	7–6(8–6), 5–7, [6–10]
Win	7–2	Nov 2015	Australia F11, Wollongong	Futures	Hard	Steven de Waard	Ashley Fisher Dayne Kelly	6–2, 4–6, [10–7]
Loss	7–3	Feb 2016	Australia F1, Port Pirie	Futures	Hard	Jose Statham	Alex Bolt Andrew Whittington	6–7(1–7), 3–6
Win	8–3	Mar 2016	Australia F2, Mildura	Futures	Grass	Steven de Waard	Alex Bolt Andrew Whittington	6–3, 6–7(9–11), [10–6]
Win	9–3	Mar 2016	Australia F4, Mornington	Futures	Hard	Steven de Waard	Bradley Mousley Gavin van Peperzeel	6–2, 6–3
Loss	9–4	Apr 2016	Tallahassee, USA	Challenger	Clay	Peter Luczak	Dennis Novikov Julio Peralta	6–3, 4–6, [10–12]
Loss	9–5	Jul 2016	USA F25, Edwardsville	Futures	Hard	Luke Bambridge	Conor Smith Jackson Withrow	3–6, 2–6
Win	10–5	Sep 2016	Australia F5, Alice Springs	Futures	Hard	Luke Saville	Thomas Fancutt Calum Puttergill	6–1, 6–2
Win	11–5	Oct 2016	Australia F8, Cairns	Futures	Hard	Luke Saville	Nathan Pasha Darren Polkinghorne	4–6, 6–3, [10–7]
Loss	11–6	Jan 2017	Happy Valley, Australia	Challenger	Hard	Steven de Waard	Max Schnur Hans Podlipnik Castillo	6–7(5–7), 6–4, [6–10]
Win	12–6	Mar 2017	Australia F3, Canberra	Futures	Clay	Bradley Mousley	Steven de Waard Scott Puodziunas	6–4, 7–6(7–4)
Loss	12–7	Aug 2018	Lexington, USA	Challenger	Hard	Joris De Loore	Robert Galloway Roberto Maytín	3–6, 1–6
Loss	12–8	Aug 2018	Vancouver, Canada	Challenger	Hard	Max Purcell	Luke Bambridge Neal Skupski	6–4, 3–6, [6–10]
Win	13–8	Oct 2018	Traralgon, Australia	Challenger	Hard	Jeremy Beale	Max Purcell Luke Saville	6–2, 6–4
Win	14–8	Jul 2019	Gatineau, Canada	Challenger	Hard	Alex Lawson	Dennis Novikov Hans Hach Verdugo	6–4, 3–6, [10–7]
Win	15–8	Oct 2019	Ningbo, China	Challenger	Hard	Andrew Harris	Alex Bolt Matt Reid	6–0, 6–1
Win	16–8	May 2021	Ostrava, Czech Republic	Challenger	Clay	Sergiy Stakhovsky	Andrew Paulson Patrik Rikl	7–6(7–4), 3–6, [10–7]
Win	17–8	May 2021	Prague, Czech Republic	Challenger	Clay	Sergiy Stakhovsky	Ivan Sabanov Matej Sabanov	6-3, 6-4
Win	18–8	June 2021	Nottingham, UK	Challenger	Grass	Matt Reid	Benjamin Bonzi Antoine Hoang	6–4, 4–6, [10–8]
Win	19–8	Oct 2022	Busan, South Korea	Challenger	Hard	Max Purcell	Nam Ji-sung Song Min-kyu	6–7(5–7), 6–2, [12–10]
Win	20–8	Feb 2023	Burnie, Australia	Challenger	Hard	Max Purcell	Luke Saville Tristan Schoolkate	7–6(7–4), 6–4

Junior Grand Slam finals

Doubles: 1 (1 title)

Result	Year	Tournament	Surface	Partner	Opponent	Score
Win	2015	Australian Open	Hard	Jake Delaney	Hubert Hurkacz Alex Molčan	0–6, 6–2, [10–8]

References

External links

• Official website
• Marc Polmans at the Association of Tennis Professionals
• Marc Polmans at the International Tennis Federation
• Marc Polmans at Tennis Australia

This page was last edited on 5 March 2024, at 00:25