Roberto Bautista Agut and Pavel Kotov will face off in the 2nd round of the Astana Open for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Wednesday at 5:30 pm on COURT 1. Here the head to head stats and relative prediction.

Prediction, odds and live streaming

The pick for Tennis Tonic is Roberto Bautista Agut who should win in 2 sets.

As per the initial odds, Roberto Bautista Agut is the pick to win this match.
Roberto Bautista Agut -> 1.25
Pavel Kotov -> 3.95

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Prediction and head to head Roberto Bautista Agut vs. Pavel Kotov

There is no head to head record between Roberto Bautista Agut and Pavel Kotov since this will be the first time that they will clash against each other in the main tour.

Roberto Bautista Agut

Roberto Bautista Agut

0 - 0win/loss

Rank
92
High
9
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Year Total Hard Clay I.hard Grass Carpet
2025 15-22 4-9 6-8 0-1 5-4 0-0
2024 37-28 11-13 10-7 9-4 7-4 0-0
2023 22-23 9-7 8-8 2-6 3-2 0-0
2022 39-20 17-9 7-3 9-6 6-2 0-0
2021 29-25 14-10 7-7 4-5 4-3 0-0

Ranked no. 21, the Spaniard reached the 2nd round after defeating Felix Auger-Aliassime 6-4 7-66.

In the 1st round, Bautista-Agut had a good straight sets win against Auger-Aliassime (6-4 7-66). During the match, Bautista-Agut scored 73 points vs Auger-Aliassime’s 65. The Spaniard was pretty aggressive to blast 30 winners.

Talking about the service games, Bautista-Agut made 2 aces and he committed only 3 double faults. Overall, Roberto Bautista Agut was extremely effective on serve to win 77% (30/39) of his 1st serve and 69% (20/29) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve once. The Spaniard broke Auger-Aliassime twice after converting 40% of his break points (2/5).

Bautista-Agut has a solid record in the last 10 years having won 64% of his matches (373-210). 5-1 on indoor hard courts in 2022. Talking about his performance on the same surface of this competition, Bautista-Agut has an overall 70-42 win-loss record in the last years on indoor hard courts.

His best result of the current season was winning the title in Doha where he overcame Nikoloz Basilashvili in the final 6-3 6-4 and in Kitzbuhel where he beat Filip Misolic in the final 6-2 6-2.

The Spaniard has a compiled 35-14 win-loss record in 2022, 5-1 on indoor hard courts (See FULL STATS).

Previously in Astana

Bautista-Agut has never competed in this tournament before.

Astana
Bautista-Agut's Record

Pavel Kotov

Pavel Kotov

0 - 0win/loss

Rank
460
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. 103 (career-high), the Russian got to the 2nd round after beating Arslanbek Aitkulov 6-0 6-0 and Alejandro Davidovich Fokina 6-4 6-4.

In the 1st round, Pavel had a good straight sets win against Davidovich Fokina (6-4 6-4). During the match Kotov scored 72 points vs Davidovich Fokina’s 60. Pavel was pretty aggressive to blast 28 winners.

Talking about serving, Kotov was unable to score even 1 ace for the entire match and he was exceptionally solid in conceding no double faults for the entire match. Pavel Kotov lost the serve twice and he saved 3 break points. Furthermore, Kotov put 60% of his first serves in, winning 76% (28/37) of the points behind his 1st serve and 48% (12/25) on the 2nd serve. Kotov broke Davidovich Fokina 4 times after converting 40% of his break points (4/10).

Pavel’s best result of the current season was reaching the final in the Forli 3 Challenger and the San Marino Challenger.

Pavel has a compiled 34-16 win-loss record in 2022, 9-4 on indoor hard courts (See FULL STATS).

Previously in Astana

Previously, his best result was reaching the qualifications in 2021. See his history.

Astana
Kotov's Record

H2H Performance in the tournament

R.Bautista Agut
P.Kotov
1h:54
1h:54
Time on court​
!
4h:45
4h:45
1h:54
1h:54
Last match​
1h:39
1h:39
1
1
Match played
!
3
3
23
23
Games Played​
54
54
2
2
Set played​​
6
6
73
73
Total points​
210
210
73
73
Avg point​
70
70
30
30
Winners
68
68
30
30
Avg Winners​
22.7
22.7
41%
41%
Ratio winners
32%
32%
-- Serve --
2
2
Aces
3
3
2
2
Avg Aces
1
1
3
3
Double Faults
5
5
3
3
Avg Double Faults
1.7
1.7
30/39
30/39
1st won total​
68/102
68/102
!
77%
77%
1st won %
67%
67%
20/29
20/29
2nd won total​
42/83
42/83
!
69%
69%
2nd won %
51%
51%
-- Break Points --
2/5
2/5
BP won
13/31
13/31
2/5
2/5
Avg BP won
4.3/10.3
4.3/10.3
40%
40%
Won
42%
42%
1
1
Conceded
20
20
1
1
Avg Conceded
6.7
6.7
1
1
Broken
6
6
1
1
Avg Broken
2
2
0
0
Saved
14
14

Matches, sets, games and points

Points Bautista-Agut Kotov
Match played 1 2
Tot Set 2 4
Tot Games 23 32
Pts 73-65 125-81
Total Points 138 206
Winners 30 39
%Winners 41% 31%

Bautista-Agut played 1 match while Kotov competed in 2 matches. Kotov started his run from the qualifications while Bautista-Agut had a direct access to the main draw. Both players have not surrendered a single set in this event so far. Bautista-Agut has played 2 set(s) less than Kotov (2 vs 4). Therefore, Bautista-Agut played 9 games less than Kotov. Roberto scored 30 winners (41% of the total points). On the other side, The Russian blasted 39 winners (31%).

Serve Performance

Serve Bautista-Agut Kotov
Aces 2 0
Avg per match 2 0
1st in 39/68 51/94
%1st in 57% 54%
1st pts 30/39 39/51
%1st pts 77% 76%
2nd pts 20/29 25/43
%2nd pts 69% 58%

Bautista-Agut recorded 2 aces . Kotov didn’t manage to fire a single ace to far. Bautista-Agut won 77% points on his first serve. He was rock solid on his second serve to win 69% of the points. On the other side, Kotov won 76% of the points behind his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 58% of the points.

How they played the important points

Breaks Bautista-Agut Kotov
Won 2 10
Converted 2/5 10/20
% Converted 40% 50%
Conceded 1 5
Saved 0 3
% Saved 0% 60%
Times Broken 1 2

Roberto broke his opponent twice with a 40% conversion rate. The Spaniard conceded his serve once and he saved 0% of the break points that he conceded. Pavel broke his opponents 10 times with a 50% conversion rate. Pavel conceded his serve twice and he saved 60% of the break points that he conceded.

Bautista-Agut
R1
Auger-Aliassime
Total
Score 6-4 7-66
Tot Set 2 2
Tot Games 23 23
pts 73-65 73-65
Total points 138 138
Winners 30 30
%Winners 41% 41%
SERVE
Aces 2 2
Double Faults 3 3
1st in 39/68 39/68
% 1st in 57% 57%
1st pts 30/39 30/39
% 1st pts 77% 77%
2nd pts 20/29 20/29
% 2nd pts 69% 69%
Breaks
Won 2 2
Converted 2/5 2/5
Converted % 40% 40%
Conceded 1 1
Saved 0/1 0
Saved % 0% 0%
Times Broken 1 1
Kotov
Q1
Aitkulov
Q3
Shevchenko
R1
Davidovich Fokina
Total
Score 6-0 6-0 7-611 6-3 6-4 6-4
Tot Set 2 2 2 6
Tot Games 12 22 20 54
pts 53-21 72-60 125-81
Total points 74 0 132 206
Winners 11 28 39
%Winners 21% 0% 39% 31%
SERVE
Aces 0 0 0 0
Double Faults 2 0 2
1st in 14/32 / 37/62 51/94
% 1st in 44% 0% 60% 54%
1st pts 11/14 / 28/37 39/51
% 1st pts 79% 0% 76% 76%
2nd pts 13/18 / 12/25 25/43
% 2nd pts 72% 0% 48% 58%
Breaks
Won 6 4 10
Converted 6/10 / 4/10 10/20
Converted % 60% 0% 40% 50%
Conceded 0 5 5
Saved 0/0 0/ 3/5 3
Saved % 60% 60%
Times Broken 0 2 2

Tennis Scores in Astana

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