Blaz Rola and Pavel Kotov will face off in the 1st round of the Nur-Sultan 1 Challenger for the 1st time in their career. 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 Blaz Rola who should win in 3 sets.
Blaz Rola -> 1.65
Pavel Kotov -> 2.18
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Prediction and head to head Blaz Rola vs. Pavel Kotov
There is no head to head record between Blaz Rola and Pavel Kotov since this will be the first time that they will clash against each other in the main tour.
Blaz Rola
Ranked no. 161, Rola will start his run in the Sultan 1 Challenger after he played his last match in the Biella 2 Challenger where he lost 7-6(5) 6-4 to Majchrzak in the 1st round on the 15th of February.
Rola has a 3-4 win-loss record in 2021, 2-3 on indoor hard courts (See FULL STATS).
Talking about his overall career, The Slovenian has an overall 392-257 record. He has a negative 25-26 record on indoor hard courts.
Previously in the Sultan 1 Challenger
Blaz has never competed in this tournament before.
Pavel Kotov
Ranked no. 273, the Russian reached the 1st round after beating Yan Bondarevskiy 7-62 7-63 and Alexey Zakharov 7-5 1-6 6-3.
In the qualifications, Pavel defeated Zakharov (7-5 1-6 6-3). During the match Kotov scored 85 points vs Zakharov’s 78. The Russian was pretty aggressive to blast 30 winners.
Talking about serving, Kotov scored 3 aces and he committed only 4 double faults. Pavel Kotov lost the serve 4 times and he saved 3 break points. Furthermore, Kotov put 57% of his first serves in, winning 70% (30/43) of the points behind his 1st serve and 59% (19/32) on the 2nd serve. Kotov broke Zakharov 4 times after converting 29% of his break points (4/14).
Overall Performance in this tournament
The Russian has conceded 1 set in the tournament to win 53% of the points he played.
Kotov has a 4-1 win-loss record in 2021, 2-0 on indoor hard courts (See FULL STATS)
.Tennis Scores in Sultan 1 Challenger
- Frederico Ferreira SilvaFerreira Silva – Sebastian OfnerOfner (6-3 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Martin KlizanKlizan – Timofey SkatovSkatov (6-4 4-6 7-65) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Tung-Lin WuWu – Hugo GrenierGrenier (6-4 7-5) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Mackenzie McdonaldMcdonald – Mikhail KukushkinKukushkin (7-5 7-5) – Stats, scores, rankings
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