Pavel Kotov dispatches Li Tu 7-6(4) 6-3 in the 1st round in Mallorca on Monday. Kotov will engage against Alejandro Davidovich Fokina in the 2nd round. The match lasted 1 hour and 40 minutes.
Kotov added to his prize money € 6,250 after winning this match. He has already won € 16,070 after this win. If he wins the next match, Kotov will add € 11,610 to his earnings to get in total € 27,680 in total.
Stats: aces, double faults, breaks, winners
At the end of the match, Pavel scored 68 points vs. Li’s 62.
Kotov
Pavel served extremely well to win 92% of the points (33/36) behind his first serve, and he won 53% points (18/34) on his second serve. The Russian was absolutely great in converting the only break point that he conquered.
Tu
On the other side, the Australian wasn’t able to conquer any break point (0/2). That was one of the key issues for his defeat.
After this contest, the head to head between Kotov and Tu is 1-1.
Draw and next match H2H: Pavel Kotov vs. Alejandro Davidovich Fokina – stats
Kotov will square off with Davidovich Fokina in the 2nd round.
This will be the 2nd time that Pavel Kotov and Alejandro Davidovich Fokina face off. The head to head is 1-0 for Kotov (see full H2H stats), but they have never played each other on grass.
Live score progression and stats
Kotov won the set after he broke Li .
Neither player conceded a single break point during this set. On the other side, Li was unable to convert any of his 2 break points. He had 2 break points opportunities in the 6th (3-2 30-40) and the 12th game (6-5 30-40).
They contested 82 points. This set was so close that, Kotov won this set even if he scored the same amount of points as his opponent. Pavel dropped 17 points on serve (36-17). In addition, on the other side, Li conceded 5 points on serve (24-5).
There was not much difference between the 2 players in this set with the exception of 1 break that Pavel clinched in the 4th game (3-1) just before finally winning the set (6-3).
The Russian was clinical in converting the only break point that he conquered in the 4th game (2-1 30-40). On the other side, Pavel didn’t concede a single break point during this set.
They contested 48 points. Pavel was the winner of the set after clinching 4 points more than Tu (26-22). Kotov conceded 6 points on serve (16-6). Regarding the other side of the net, the Australian conceded 10 points on serve (16-10).
Tennis Scores in Mallorca
- Pavel KotovKotov – Li TuTu (7-64 6-3) – Stats and score progression
- Christopher EubanksEubanks – Alex MichelsenMichelsen (6-3 6-76 7-5) – Stats and score progression
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- Roberto Carballes BaenaCarballes Baena – Ilya IvashkaIvashka (6-4 1-6 6-3) – Stats and score progression
- Jordan ThompsonThompson – Richard GasquetGasquet (6-3 6-4) – Stats and score progression
- Roman SafiullinSafiullin – Abedallah ShelbayhShelbayh (6-1 6-4) – Stats and score progression
- Yannick HanfmannHanfmann – Pedro CachinCachin (6-2 6-1) – Stats and score progression
- Guido PellaPella – Marcos GironGiron (3-6 6-2 7-63) – Stats and score progression
- Corentin MoutetMoutet – Christopher O ConnellO Connell (7-5 6-4) – Stats and score progression
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