Nuno Borges and Otto Virtanen will play each other in the 1st round of the Qatar ExxonMobil Open for the 3rd time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Tuesday at 2:30 pm on GRANDSTAND 3. In the following lines you can find the head to head analysis and prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Nuno Borges who should win in 2 sets.
As per the initial odds, Nuno Borges is the pick to win this match.
Nuno Borges -> 1.43
Otto Virtanen -> 2.83
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Prediction and head to head Nuno Borges vs. Otto Virtanen
This will be the 3rd time that Nuno Borges and Otto Virtanen play each other. The head to head is 2-0 for Virtanen (see full H2H stats), but they have never competed against each other on hard.
The last time that they locked horns, Virtanen won 6-2 6-1 in the Rubber 1 in 1 back in 2024.
Nuno Borges
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 33-33 | 17-14 | 9-11 | 3-4 | 4-4 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 33-26 | 20-12 | 13-7 | 0-4 | 0-3 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 37-26 | 20-11 | 8-7 | 6-4 | 3-4 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 49-26 | 7-5 | 28-13 | 11-5 | 3-3 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 52-21 | 6-4 | 46-17 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 39, the Portuguese will start his run in Doha after he played his last match in Marseille where he lost 6-2 6-7(5) 6-2 to Bergs in the 2nd round on the 13th of February.
Borges has an aggregate 8-5 win-loss record in 2025, 6-3 on hard (See FULL STATS).
The Portuguese’s best result of the current year was getting to the semifinal in Auckland.
Talking about his overall career, The Portuguese has an overall 291-138 record. He has a positive 142-55 record on hard.
Previously in Doha
Nuno has never competed in this tournament before.
Otto Virtanen
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 27-24 | 4-9 | 5-9 | 12-6 | 6-0 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 43-28 | 9-11 | 5-7 | 24-7 | 5-3 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 33-31 | 4-6 | 4-10 | 22-11 | 3-4 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 46-31 | 4-1 | 7-12 | 25-13 | 8-3 | 2-2 |
| 2021 | 40-21 | 2-2 | 16-11 | 19-6 | 0-0 | 3-2 |
Ranked no. 92, the Finn reached the 1st round after defeating Terence Atmane 6-4 7-5 and Botic Van De Zandschulp 6-1 6-4.
Otto has an aggregate 2-5 win-loss record in 2025, 1-2 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Head 2 Head
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LLWWWWLWWL Tennis Scores in Doha
- Christopher O ConnellO Connell – Hady HabibHabib (7-67 7-63) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Harri Heliovaara/Henry PattenHeliovaara/Henry Patten – Tallon Griekspoor/Adam PavlasekGriekspoor/Adam Pavlasek (7-64 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Carlos AlcarazAlcaraz – Marin CilicCilic (6-4 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Fabian MarozsanMarozsan – Aziz DougazDougaz (7-5 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Jack DraperDraper – Alexei PopyrinPopyrin (6-2 7-64) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Jiri LeheckaLehecka – Grigor DimitrovDimitrov (6-4 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
Upcoming matches in the draw
- Novak DjokovicDjokovic – Matteo BerrettiniBerrettini (4-0) – H2H and prediction
- Jan-Lennard StruffStruff – Tallon GriekspoorGriekspoor (0-2) – H2H and prediction
- Botic Van De ZandschulpVan De Zandschulp – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Christopher O ConnellO Connell – Jack DraperDraper (2-0) – H2H and prediction
- Quentin HalysHalys – Felix Auger AliassimeAuger Aliassime (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Karen KhachanovKhachanov – Daniil MedvedevMedvedev (2-5) – H2H and prediction
- Zhizhen ZhangZhang – (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Roman SafiullinSafiullin – Alex De MinaurDe Minaur (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Andrey RublevRublev – Alexander BublikBublik (4-3) – H2H and prediction
- Stefanos TsitsipasTsitsipas – (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Zizou BergsBergs – Roberto Bautista AgutBautista Agut (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Fabian MarozsanMarozsan – Jiri LeheckaLehecka (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Otto VirtanenVirtanen – Nuno BorgesBorges (2-0) – H2H and prediction
