Botic Van De Zandschulp and Pavel Kotov will clash against each other in the 1st round of the French Open for the 2nd time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Sunday at 1:00 pm on Court 12. In this post, we analyze their head to head performance and prediction.

Prediction, odds and live streaming

The pick for Tennis Tonic is Botic Van De Zandschulp who should win in 4 sets.

As per the initial odds, Botic Van De Zandschulp is the pick to win this match.
Botic Van De Zandschulp -> 1.31
Pavel Kotov -> 3.58

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Prediction and head to head Botic Van De Zandschulp vs. Pavel Kotov

This will be the 2nd time that Botic Van De Zandschulp and Pavel Kotov face off. The head to head is 1-0 for Van De Zandschulp (see full H2H stats), but they have never played each other on clay.

The last time that they squared off, Van De Zandschulp won 7-6(1) 7-6(7) in the 2nd round in Kazakhstan F2 (Aktobe) back in 2017.

Botic Van De Zandschulp

Botic Van De Zandschulp

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Rank
77
High
22
LLWLWLWLWL
Year Total Hard Clay I.hard Grass Carpet
2025 29-32 13-11 11-10 4-9 1-2 0-0
2024 33-33 9-11 16-12 7-8 1-2 0-0
2023 27-25 10-9 4-6 12-7 1-3 0-0
2022 38-29 14-11 11-7 7-7 6-4 0-0
2021 53-23 17-5 24-10 9-5 3-3 0-0

Ranked no. 29 (career-high), the Dutch will start his run at the French Open after he played his last match in Rome where he lost 6-7(4) 6-2 6-4 to Ruud in the 2nd round on the 10th of May.

Botic has an aggregate 17-12 win-loss record in 2022, 9-5 on clay (See FULL STATS)

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Botic’s best result of the year was reaching the final in Munich.

Talking about his overall career, Van De Zandschulp has an overall 265-132 record. He has a positive 138-74 record on clay.

Previously at the French Open

Previously, his best result was reaching the 2nd round in 2021. See his history.

French Open
Van De Zandschulp's Record

Pavel Kotov

Pavel Kotov

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Rank
454
High
50
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Year Total Hard Clay I.hard Grass Carpet
2025 11-22 9-14 2-7 0-0 0-1 0-0
2024 20-25 9-11 11-9 0-4 0-1 0-0
2023 45-32 13-14 20-12 9-2 3-4 0-0
2022 37-20 5-3 20-9 12-8 0-0 0-0
2021 29-25 5-5 7-11 17-9 0-0 0-0

Ranked no. 143 (career-high), the Russian reached the 1st round after beating Hugo Grenier 6-3 6-4, Jurij Rodionov 7-67 6-4 and Pedro Cachin 6-3 6-2.

In the qualifications, Kotov had a good straight sets win against Cachin (6-3 6-2). During the match Kotov scored 73 points vs Cachin’s 57. Pavel was exceptionally aggressive to blast 25 winners.

Talking about serving, Kotov scored just 1 ace during the entire match and he was quite solid in conceding no double faults for the entire match. Pavel Kotov lost the serve twice and he saved 4 break points. Furthermore, Kotov put 73% of his first serves in, winning 63% (25/40) of the points behind his 1st serve and 47% (7/15) on the 2nd serve. The Russian broke Cachin 6 times after converting 38% of his break points (6/16).

Overall Performance in this tournament

Pavel started his run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, he hasn’t surrendered yet a set in this tournament to conquer 54% of the points he played.

Kotov’s best result of the year was reaching the final in the Forli 3 Challenger.

Kotov has an aggregate 22-9 win-loss record in 2022, 13-4 on clay (See FULL STATS).

Previously at the French Open

Pavel has never competed in this tournament before.

French Open
Kotov's Record

Tennis Scores – French Open

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