Pavel Kotov and Tim Van Rijthoven will fight against each other in the 1st round of the St. Petersburg 2 Challenger for the 2nd time of their career. They are scheduled to compete on Tuesday at 2:00 pm on COURT 2. 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 Pavel Kotov who should win in 3 sets.
As per the initial odds, Pavel Kotov is the pick to win this match.
Pavel Kotov -> 1.76
Tim Van Rijthoven -> 2.02
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Prediction and head to head Pavel Kotov vs. Tim Van Rijthoven
This will be the 2nd time that Pavel Kotov and Tim Van Rijthoven fight against each other. The head to head is 1-0 for Kotov (see full H2H stats), but they have never played each other on indoor hard courts.
The last time that they competed against each other, Kotov won 6-4 6-7(3) 6-1 in the qualifications in the Liberec Challenger back in 2018.
Pavel Kotov
Ranked no. 265, the Russian will start his run in the St. Petersburg 2 Challenger after he played his last match in the St. Petersburg 1 Challenger where he lost 6-0 7-5 to Bergs in the 2nd round on the 4th of March.
The Russian has a 6-3 win-loss record in 2021, 4-2 on indoor hard courts (See FULL STATS).
Talking about his overall career, The Russian has an overall 147-86 record. He has a positive 53-28 record on indoor hard courts.
Previously in the St. Petersburg 2 Challenger
Previously, his best result was reaching the 2nd round in 2021. See his history.
Tim Van Rijthoven
Ranked no. 335, the Dutch reached the 1st round after defeating Konstantin Kravchuk 6-4 6-4 and Khumoun Sultanov 6-2 6-1.
In the qualifications, The Dutch had a good straight sets win against Sultanov (6-2 6-1). During the match Van Rijthoven scored 54 points vs Sultanov’s 32. The Dutch was exceptionally aggressive to blast 20 winners.
Talking about serving, Van Rijthoven recorded 4 aces and he was extremely consistent in conceding no double faults for the entire match. Tim Van Rijthoven lost the serve once and he saved 2 break points. Furthermore, Van Rijthoven put 63% of his first serves in, winning 77% (20/26) of the points behind his 1st serve and 47% (7/15) on the 2nd serve. Tim broke Sultanov 6 times after converting 60% of his break points (6/10).
Overall Performance in this tournament
The Dutch started his run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, he hasn’t lost yet a set in this competition to conquer 59% of the points he played.
The Dutch has a 6-3 win-loss record in 2021, 5-2 on indoor hard courts (See FULL STATS).
Head 2 Head
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LL Tennis Scores in St. Petersburg 2 Challenger
- Rudolf MollekerMolleker – Evgeny KarlovskiyKarlovskiy (6-3 7-5) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Duje AjdukovicAjdukovic – Shuichi SekiguchiSekiguchi (7-5 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Alexey VatutinVatutin – Duckhee LeeLee (0-6 6-1 6-1) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Dmitry PopkoPopko – Nino SerdarusicSerdarusic (6-4 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Christopher EubanksEubanks – Jesper De JongDe Jong (7-5 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
Upcoming matches in the draw
- Marius CopilCopil – Michael VrbenskyVrbensky (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Roberto Ortega-OlmedoOrtega-Olmedo – Roberto QuirozQuiroz (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Denis YevseyevYevseyev – Vaja UzakovUzakov (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Jack SockSock – Cem IlkelIlkel (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Altug CelikbilekCelikbilek – Teimuraz GabashviliGabashvili (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Roman SafiullinSafiullin – Mirza BasicBasic (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Zizou BergsBergs – Pedja KrstinKrstin (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Vit KoprivaKopriva – Evgeny TyurnevTyurnev (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Pavel KotovKotov – Tim Van RijthovenVan Rijthoven (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Kacper ZukZuk – Igor SijslingSijsling (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Duje AjdukovicAjdukovic – Christopher EubanksEubanks (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Jiri LeheckaLehecka – Matija PecoticPecotic (0-0) – H2H and prediction
