Pavel Kotov and Viktor Durasovic will square off in the 1st round of the San Marino Challenger for the 2nd time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Tuesday at 7:00 pm on COURT 2. In this post, we analyze their head to head performance and prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Pavel Kotov who should win in 2 sets.
As per the initial odds, Pavel Kotov is the pick to win this match.
Pavel Kotov -> 1.18
Viktor Durasovic -> 4.50
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Prediction and head to head Pavel Kotov vs. Viktor Durasovic
This will be the 2nd time that Pavel Kotov and Viktor Durasovic square off. The head to head is 1-0 for Kotov (see full H2H stats), 1-0 on clay.
The last time that they locked horns, Kotov won 0-6 6-2 6-3 in the 2nd round in the Manerbio Challenger back in 2019.
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. 130, Kotov will start his run in the San Marino Challenger after he played his last match in the Cordenons Challenger where he lost 6-2 6-4 to Zhang in the 1st round on the 2nd of August.
Pavel has a composed 24-14 win-loss record in 2022, 15-9 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Pavel’s best result of the season was getting to the final in the Forli 3 Challenger.
Talking about his overall career, Kotov has an overall 194-122 record. He has a positive 85-59 record on clay.
Previously in the San Marino Challenger
Previously, his best result was reaching the quarter in 2021. See his history.
Viktor Durasovic
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 33-33 | 8-10 | 5-9 | 20-13 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 48-33 | 19-10 | 15-15 | 14-8 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 25-37 | 5-8 | 17-18 | 2-9 | 0-1 | 1-1 |
| 2022 | 28-36 | 2-7 | 15-18 | 11-11 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 31-24 | 2-4 | 13-12 | 16-8 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 317, Durasovic reached the 1st round after defeating Christian Langmo 6-4 7-67 and Elmar Ejupovic 6-4 6-3.
In the qualifications, Viktor had a good straight sets win against Ejupovic (6-4 6-3). During the match Durasovic scored 65 points vs Ejupovic’s 49. The Norwegian was quite aggressive to blast 21 winners.
About the serving games, Durasovic struck 4 aces and he committed only 2 double faults. Overall, Viktor Durasovic was pretty effective on serve to win 81% (21/26) of his 1st serve and 63% (20/32) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve once. Viktor broke Ejupovic 3 times after converting 33% of his break points (3/9).
Overall Performance in this tournament
Viktor started his run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, he hasn’t dropped yet a set in this tournament to conquer 55% of the points he played.
The Norwegian has a composed 16-24 win-loss record in 2022, 11-13 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the San Marino Challenger
The Norwegian has never competed in this tournament before.
Head 2 Head
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Upcoming matches in the draw
- Robin HaaseHaase – Otto VirtanenVirtanen (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Marco CecchinatoCecchinato – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Jelle SelsSels – (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Nerman FaticFatic – Francesco FortiForti (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Ivan GakhovGakhov – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Viktor DurasovicDurasovic – Pavel KotovKotov (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Maxime JanvierJanvier – Oleg PrihodkoPrihodko (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Carlos TabernerTaberner – Oriol Roca BatallaRoca Batalla (0-3) – H2H and prediction
- Valentin VacherotVacherot – Giulio ZeppieriZeppieri (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Nikolas Sanchez-IzquierdoSanchez-Izquierdo – Alexandre MullerMuller (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Timofey SkatovSkatov – Alexander WeisWeis (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Jesper De JongDe Jong – Marco TrungellitiTrungelliti (0-0) – H2H and prediction
