Evgeny Donskoy and Pavel Kotov will fight against each other in the qualifications of the Astana Open for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Monday at 2:30 pm on COURT 1. In the following paragraphs, you can find the head to head analysis and prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Evgeny Donskoy who should win in 3 sets.
Evgeny Donskoy -> 1.533
Pavel Kotov -> 2.5
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Prediction and head to head Evgeny Donskoy vs. Pavel Kotov
There is no head to head record between Evgeny Donskoy and Pavel Kotov since this will be the first time that they will clash against each other in the main tour.
Evgeny Donskoy
Ranked no. 153, Donskoy reached the qualifications after defeating Andrea Vavassori 7-64 6-2.
In the qualifications, Evgeny had a good straight sets win against Vavassori (7-64 6-2). During the match, Donskoy scored 78 points vs Vavassori’s 71. Evgeny was pretty aggressive to blast 35 winners.
Talking about the service games, Donskoy fired 2 aces and he committed only 3 double faults. Evgeny Donskoy was exceptionally efficient on serve to win 73% (35/48) of his 1st serve and 58% (18/31) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. The Russian broke Vavassori twice after converting 22% of his break points (2/9).
Donskoy has a favorable win-loss record in the last 10 years having won 54% of his matches (327-284). 4-4 on indoor hard courts in 2021. In connection with his performance on the same surface of this tournament, Donskoy has an aggregate 75-68 win-loss record in the last years on indoor hard courts.
Donskoy’s best result of the current year was getting to the semifinal in the Biella 2 Challenger.
The Russian has a compiled 15-22 win-loss record in 2021, 4-4 on indoor hard courts (See FULL STATS).
Previously in Nur-Sultan
Previously, his best result was reaching the qualifications in 2020. See his history.
Pavel Kotov
Ranked no. 270, the Russian reached the qualifications after beating Kacper Zuk 6-2 6-3.
In the qualifications, Pavel had a good straight sets win against Zuk (6-2 6-3). During the match Kotov scored 61 points vs Zuk’s 40. Pavel was exceptionally aggressive to blast 25 winners.
Talking about serving, Kotov scored 4 aces and he committed only 1 double fault for the entire match. Overall, Pavel Kotov was exceptionally effective on serve to win 83% (25/30) of his 1st serve and 56% (10/18) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve once. Kotov broke Zuk 4 times after converting 40% of his break points (4/10).
The Russian’s best result of the season was getting to the semifinal in the Sultan 4 Challenger.
The Russian has an aggregate 18-18 win-loss record in 2021, 6-3 on indoor hard courts (See FULL STATS).
Previously in Nur-Sultan
The Russian has never competed in this tournament before.
H2H Performance in the tournament (main draw)
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Donskoy | Kotov |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 1 | 1 |
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 |
| Tot Games | 21 | 17 |
| Pts | 78-71 | 61-40 |
| Total Points | 149 | 101 |
| Winners | 35 | 25 |
| %Winners | 45% | 41% |
Both Donskoy and Kotov played 1 match. Also both players started their run from the qualifications.Both players have not conceded a single set in this event so far. Talking about their workload, Donskoy and Kotov have played the same amount of sets 2. However, Donskoy played 4 games more than Kotov. Donskoy scored 35 winners (45% of the total points). On the other side, Pavel recorded 25 winners (41%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Donskoy | Kotov |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 2 | 4 |
| Avg per match | 2 | 4 |
| 1st in | 48/79 | 30/48 |
| %1st in | 61% | 63% |
| 1st pts | 35/48 | 25/30 |
| %1st pts | 73% | 83% |
| 2nd pts | 18/31 | 10/18 |
| %2nd pts | 58% | 56% |
Donskoy made 2 aces . Kotov recorded 4 aces . Donskoy won 73% points behind his first serve. He quite strong on his second serve to win 58% of the points. On the other side, Kotov won 83% of the points on his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 56% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Donskoy | Kotov |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 2 | 4 |
| Converted | 2/9 | 4/10 |
| % Converted | 22% | 40% |
| Conceded | 13 | 2 |
| Saved | 13 | 1 |
| % Saved | 100% | 50% |
| Times Broken | 0 | 1 |
The Russian broke his opponent twice with a 22% conversion rate. Donskoy very solid his serve as he has never dropped a single service game after saving 13 break points. Pavel broke his opponent 4 times with a 40% conversion rate. Pavel conceded his serve once and he saved 50% of the break points that he conceded.
| Donskoy | |||
| Q1 Vavassori | Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 7-64 6-2 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 21 | 21 | |
| pts | 78-71 | 78-71 | |
| Total points | 149 | 149 | |
| Winners | 35 | 35 | |
| %Winners | 45% | 45% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 2 | 2 | |
| Double Faults | 3 | 3 | |
| 1st in | 48/79 | 48/79 | |
| % 1st in | 61% | 61% | |
| 1st pts | 35/48 | 35/48 | |
| % 1st pts | 73% | 73% | |
| 2nd pts | 18/31 | 18/31 | |
| % 2nd pts | 58% | 58% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 2 | 2 | |
| Converted | 2/9 | 2/9 | |
| Converted % | 22% | 22% | |
| Conceded | 13 | 13 | |
| Saved | 13/13 | 13 | |
| Saved % | 100% | 100% | |
| Times Broken | 0 | 0 | |
| Kotov | |||
| Q1 Zuk | Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-2 6-3 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 17 | 17 | |
| pts | 61-40 | 61-40 | |
| Total points | 101 | 101 | |
| Winners | 25 | 25 | |
| %Winners | 41% | 41% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 4 | 4 | |
| Double Faults | 1 | 1 | |
| 1st in | 30/48 | 30/48 | |
| % 1st in | 63% | 63% | |
| 1st pts | 25/30 | 25/30 | |
| % 1st pts | 83% | 83% | |
| 2nd pts | 10/18 | 10/18 | |
| % 2nd pts | 56% | 56% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 4 | 4 | |
| Converted | 4/10 | 4/10 | |
| Converted % | 40% | 40% | |
| Conceded | 2 | 2 | |
| Saved | 1/2 | 1 | |
| Saved % | 50% | 50% | |
| Times Broken | 1 | 1 | |
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