Pavel Kotov and Henri Laaksonen will square off in the qualifications of the Australian Open for the 2nd time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Wednesday at 2:00 pm on Court 6. In the following paragraphs, you can find the head to head analysis and prediction.
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The pick for Tennis Tonic is Pavel Kotov who should win in 3 sets.
As per the initial odds, Pavel Kotov is the pick to win this match.
Pavel Kotov -> 1.63
Henri Laaksonen -> 2.21
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Prediction and head to head Pavel Kotov vs. Henri Laaksonen
This will be the 2nd time that Pavel Kotov and Henri Laaksonen square off. The head to head is 1-0 for Kotov (see full H2H stats), but they have never competed against each other on hard.
The last time that they played each other, Kotov won 6-1 7-5 in the qualifications in Bastad back in 2022.
Pavel Kotov
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 20-19 | 9-9 | 11-9 | 0-0 | 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 |
| 2020 | 12-10 | 0-0 | 0-1 | 12-8 | 0-0 | 0-1 |
Ranked no. 118, Pavel got to the qualifications after defeating Genaro Alberto Olivieri 7-65 6-2.
In the qualifications, Pavel had a good straight sets win against Alberto Olivieri (7-65 6-2). During the match, Kotov scored 70 points vs Alberto Olivieri’s 60. Kotov was extremely aggressive to blast 37 winners.
Regarding the service games, Kotov made 4 aces and he committed only 2 double faults. Pavel Kotov was pretty efficient on serve to win 79% (37/47) of his 1st serve and 56% (10/18) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. Pavel broke Alberto Olivieri twice after converting 50% of his break points (2/4).
Kotov has a solid match record in the last 8 years having won 62% of his matches (208-129). 1-1 on hard in 2023. In connection with his performance on the same surface of this event, Kotov has an aggregate37-21 record in the last 8 years on hard.
Pavel has an aggregate 1-1 win-loss record in 2023, 1-1 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously at the Australian Open
Kotov has never competed in this tournament before.
Henri Laaksonen
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 5-5 | 0-0 | 5-5 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 11-23 | 1-2 | 9-16 | 1-4 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 22-35 | 5-12 | 5-11 | 12-9 | 0-3 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 44-25 | 8-5 | 19-10 | 17-9 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 16-15 | 1-3 | 9-6 | 5-5 | 0-0 | 1-1 |
Ranked no. 187, the Swiss reached the qualifications after defeating Riccardo Bonadio 6-4 6-4.
In the qualifications, The Swiss had a good straight sets win against Bonadio (6-4 6-4). During the match Laaksonen scored 62 points vs Bonadio’s 50. Laaksonen was quite aggressive to blast 22 winners.
About the serving games, Laaksonen scored 4 aces and he committed only 2 double faults. Overall, Henri Laaksonen was very efficient on serve to win 85% (22/26) of his 1st serve and 63% (15/24) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve once. Laaksonen broke Bonadio 3 times after converting 75% of his break points (3/4).
Laaksonen has an overall 1-1 win-loss record in 2023, 1-1 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously at the Australian Open
Previously, his best result was reaching the 2nd round in 2019. See his history.
H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Kotov | Laaksonen |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 1 | 1 |
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 |
| Tot Games | 21 | 20 |
| Pts | 70-60 | 62-50 |
| Total Points | 130 | 112 |
| Winners | 37 | 22 |
| %Winners | 53% | 35% |
Both Kotov and Laaksonen played 1 match. Also both players started their run from the qualifications.Both players have not lost a single set in this event so far. Talking about their workload, Kotov and Laaksonen have played the same amount of sets 2. However, Kotov played 1 game more than Laaksonen. The Russian scored 37 winners (53% of the total points). On the other side, Henri recorded 22 winners (35%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Kotov | Laaksonen |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 4 | 4 |
| Avg per match | 4 | 4 |
| 1st in | 47/65 | 26/50 |
| %1st in | 72% | 52% |
| 1st pts | 37/47 | 22/26 |
| %1st pts | 79% | 85% |
| 2nd pts | 10/18 | 15/24 |
| %2nd pts | 56% | 63% |
Kotov blasted 4 aces . Laaksonen fired 4 aces . Kotov won 79% points on his first serve. He very solid his second serve to win 56% of the points. On the other side, Laaksonen won 85% of the points on his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 63% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Kotov | Laaksonen |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 2 | 3 |
| Converted | 2/4 | 3/4 |
| % Converted | 50% | 75% |
| Conceded | 3 | 2 |
| Saved | 3 | 1 |
| % Saved | 100% | 50% |
| Times Broken | 0 | 1 |
The Russian broke his opponent twice with a 50% conversion rate. The Russian pretty solid on his serve as he has never lost a single service game after saving 3 break points. The Swiss broke his opponent 3 times with a 75% conversion rate. Laaksonen conceded his serve once and he saved 50% of the break points that he conceded.
| Kotov | |||
| Q1 Alberto |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 7-65 6-2 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 21 | 21 | |
| pts | 70-60 | 70-60 | |
| Total points | 130 | 130 | |
| Winners | 37 | 37 | |
| %Winners | 53% | 53% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 4 | 4 | |
| Double Faults | 2 | 2 | |
| 1st in | 47/65 | 47/65 | |
| % 1st in | 72% | 72% | |
| 1st pts | 37/47 | 37/47 | |
| % 1st pts | 79% | 79% | |
| 2nd pts | 10/18 | 10/18 | |
| % 2nd pts | 56% | 56% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 2 | 2 | |
| Converted | 2/4 | 2/4 | |
| Converted % | 50% | 50% | |
| Conceded | 3 | 3 | |
| Saved | 3/3 | 3 | |
| Saved % | 100% | 100% | |
| Times Broken | 0 | 0 | |
| Laaksonen | |||
| Q1 Bonadio |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-4 6-4 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 20 | 20 | |
| pts | 62-50 | 62-50 | |
| Total points | 112 | 112 | |
| Winners | 22 | 22 | |
| %Winners | 35% | 35% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 4 | 4 | |
| Double Faults | 2 | 2 | |
| 1st in | 26/50 | 26/50 | |
| % 1st in | 52% | 52% | |
| 1st pts | 22/26 | 22/26 | |
| % 1st pts | 85% | 85% | |
| 2nd pts | 15/24 | 15/24 | |
| % 2nd pts | 63% | 63% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 3 | 3 | |
| Converted | 3/4 | 3/4 | |
| Converted % | 75% | 75% | |
| Conceded | 2 | 2 | |
| Saved | 1/2 | 1 | |
| Saved % | 50% | 50% | |
| Times Broken | 1 | 1 | |
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