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.
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
| 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)
.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.
Pavel Kotov
| 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.
Tennis Scores – French Open
- Juan Pablo VarillasPablo Varillas – Nicolas JarryJarry (5-7 6-4 7-65) – See score progression
- Bjorn FratangeloFratangelo – Nino SerdarusicSerdarusic (7-5 6-4) – See score progression
- Pavel KotovKotov – Pedro CachinCachin (6-3 6-2) – See score progression
- Andrey KuznetsovKuznetsov – Marco TrungellitiTrungelliti (6-4 4-6 6-2) – See score progression
- Norbert GombosGombos – Tim Van RijthovenVan Rijthoven (7-66 7-65) – See score progression
- Geoffrey BlancaneauxBlancaneaux – Daniel MasurMasur (6-1 6-3) – See score progression
- Chun Hsin TsengHsin Tseng – Cedrik-Marcel StebeStebe (6-3 6-3) – See score progression
- Camilo Ugo CarabelliUgo Carabelli – Alexander RitschardRitschard (7-66 6-2) – See score progression
- Bernabe Zapata MirallesZapata Miralles – Luca NardiNardi (3-6 6-4 6-1) – See score progression
- Borna GojoGojo – Juan Ignacio LonderoIgnacio Londero (7-61 6-1) – See score progression
- Jason Murray KublerMurray Kubler – Pedro SousaSousa (7-5 6-2) – See score progression
- Nuno BorgesBorges – Zsombor PirosPiros (3-6 6-2 6-1) – See score progression
- Zdenek KolarKolar – Franco AgamenoneAgamenone (6-3 6-4) – See score progression
- Sebastian OfnerOfner – Alessandro GiannessiGiannessi (6-4 1-6 6-2) – See score progression
- Giulio ZeppieriZeppieri – Sean CueninCuenin (6-3 6-4) – See score progression
- Santiago Fa Rodriguez TavernaFa Rodriguez Taverna – Dimitar KuzmanovKuzmanov (6-4 3-6 6-3) – See score progression
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