Ugo Humbert and Pavel Kotov will square off in the 2nd round of the Qatar ExxonMobil Open for the 2nd time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Wednesday at 8:00 pm on GRANDSTAND 1. Here the head to head stats and relative prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Ugo Humbert who should win in 2 sets.
As per the initial odds, Ugo Humbert is the pick to win this match.
Ugo Humbert -> 1.31
Pavel Kotov -> 3.46
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Prediction and head to head Ugo Humbert vs. Pavel Kotov
This will be the 2nd time that Ugo Humbert and Pavel Kotov fight against each other. The head to head is 1-0 for Humbert (see full H2H stats), but they have never played each other on hard.
The last time that they played, Humbert won 4-6 6-2 6-3 in the 1st round in St petersburg back in 2020.
Ugo Humbert
Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
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2025 | 4-2 | 4-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
2024 | 39-24 | 18-9 | 5-7 | 11-4 | 5-4 | 0-0 |
2023 | 49-26 | 17-11 | 13-5 | 16-6 | 3-4 | 0-0 |
2022 | 33-29 | 16-11 | 3-7 | 11-6 | 3-5 | 0-0 |
2021 | 19-20 | 6-7 | 1-6 | 4-5 | 8-2 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 18 (career-high), Humbert will start his run in Doha after he played his last match in Rotterdam where he lost 7-6(5) 4-6 6-3 to Ruusuvuori in the 1st round on the 14th of February.
Humbert has an aggregate 7-2 win-loss record in 2024, 3-1 on hard (See FULL STATS).
His best result of the season was winning the title in Marseille where he overcame Grigor Dimitrov in the final 6-4 6-3.
Talking about his overall career, The French player has an overall 309-195 record. He has a positive 126-67 record on hard.
Previously in Doha
The French player has never competed in this tournament before.
Pavel Kotov
Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
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2025 | 1-3 | 1-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 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. 64, Pavel got to the 2nd round after beating Lorenzo Sonego 6-2 7-5.
In the 1st round, Kotov had a good straight sets win against Sonego (6-2 7-5). During the match Kotov scored 76 points vs Sonego’s 60. The Russian was very aggressive to blast 39 winners.
About the serving games, Kotov bagged 3 aces and he committed only 4 double faults. Pavel Kotov lost the serve once and he saved 6 break points. Furthermore, Kotov put 71% of his first serves in, winning 75% (39/52) of the points behind his 1st serve and 43% (9/21) on the 2nd serve. The Russian broke Sonego 4 times after converting 40% of his break points (4/10).
Pavel has a compiled 4-2 win-loss record in 2024, 4-2 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in Doha
Previously, his best result was reaching the qualifications in 2022 and 2023. See his history.
Head 2 Head
Tennis Scores in Doha
- Jakub MensikMensik – Alejandro Davidovich FokinaDavidovich Fokina (7-63 6-4) – See score progression
- Emil RuusuvuoriRuusuvuori – Giulio ZeppieriZeppieri (7-62 7-5) – See score progression
- Christopher O ConnellO Connell – Jan-Lennard StruffStruff (6-4 6-4) – See score progression
- Andy MurrayMurray – Alexandre MullerMuller (6-1 7-65) – See score progression
- Richard GasquetGasquet – Alexander ShevchenkoShevchenko (6-4 6-4) – See score progression
- Hugo GrenierGrenier – Maximilian MartererMarterer (7-65 7-5) – See score progression
- Alejandro Davidovich Fokina/Emil RuusuvuoriDavidovich Fokina/Emil Ruusuvuori – Marcelo Arevalo/Mate PavicArevalo/Mate Pavic (7-62 7-64) – See score progression
- Zhizhen ZhangZhang – Lorenzo MusettiMusetti (6-2 6-0) – See score progression
- Fabian MarozsanMarozsan – Vit KoprivaKopriva (7-5 7-66) – See score progression
- Alexei PopyrinPopyrin – Abedallah ShelbayhShelbayh (3-6 6-3 6-4) – See score progression
- Karen Khachanov/Andrey RublevKhachanov/Andrey Rublev – Sander Gille/Joran VliegenGille/Joran Vliegen (7-63 7-66) – See score progression
- Marton FucsovicsFucsovics – Roberto Bautista AgutBautista Agut (6-1 6-3) – See score progression
- Pavel KotovKotov – Lorenzo SonegoSonego (6-2 7-5) – See score progression
- Richard GasquetGasquet – Alexander ShevchenkoShevchenko (6-4 6-4) – See score progression
- Andy MurrayMurray – Alexandre MullerMuller (6-1 7-6(5)) – See score progression
- Jakub MensikMensik – Alejandro Davidovich FokinaDavidovich Fokina (7-6(3) 6-4) – See score progression
- Gael MonfilsMonfils – Botic Van De ZandschulpVan De Zandschulp (6-1 7-6(9)) – See score progression
- Hugo GrenierGrenier – Maximilian MartererMarterer (7-6(5) 7-5) – See score progression
- Christopher O’ConnellO’Connell – Jan-Lennard StruffStruff (6-4 6-4) – See score progression
- Emil RuusuvuoriRuusuvuori – Giulio ZeppieriZeppieri (7-6(2) 7-5) – See score progression
Upcoming matches in the draw
- Andy MurrayMurray – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Gael MonfilsMonfils – Zhizhen ZhangZhang (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Marton FucsovicsFucsovics – Alexander BublikBublik (1-4) – H2H and prediction
- Christopher O ConnellO Connell – Emil RuusuvuoriRuusuvuori (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Hugo GrenierGrenier – Alexei PopyrinPopyrin (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Andrey RublevRublev – Richard GasquetGasquet (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Ugo HumbertHumbert – Pavel KotovKotov (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Fabian MarozsanMarozsan – Karen KhachanovKhachanov (0-0) – H2H and prediction