Benoit Paire and Jozef Kovalik will play each other in the qualifications of the French Open for the 3rd time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Monday at 6:00 pm on Court 14. Here the head to head stats and relative prediction.

Prediction, odds and live streaming

The pick for Tennis Tonic is Jozef Kovalik who should win in 3 sets.

See updated oddsAs per the initial odds, Jozef Kovalik is the pick to win this match.
Jozef Kovalik -> 1.87
Benoit Paire -> 1.89

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Prediction and head to head Benoit Paire vs. Jozef Kovalik

This will be the 3rd time that Benoit Paire and Jozef Kovalik play each other. The head to head is 2-0 for Paire (see full H2H stats), 2-0 on clay.

The last time that they competed against each other, Paire won 6-3 7-6(2) in the 1st round in Gstaad back in 2021.

Highlights Benoit Paire vs Jozef Kovalik – Gstaad 19-July-2021

Benoit Paire

Benoit Paire

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Rank
506
High
18
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Year Total Hard Clay I.hard Grass Carpet
2025 7-13 3-5 3-5 1-3 0-0 0-0
2024 11-30 6-12 0-9 4-7 1-2 0-0
2023 45-38 13-12 27-17 5-8 0-1 0-0
2022 16-31 7-13 6-14 3-2 0-2 0-0
2021 14-32 6-12 7-13 1-5 0-2 0-0

Ranked no. 143, Benoit will start his run at the French Open after he played his last match in the Madrid Challenger where he lost 4-6 6-3 4-2 ret. to Roca Batalla in the 1st round on the 9th of April.

Benoit has an aggregate 6-13 win-loss record in 2024, 0-2 on clay (See FULL STATS).

Talking about his overall career, Benoit has an overall 564-488 record. He has a positive 264-200 record on clay.

Previously at the French Open

Previously, his best result was reaching the 4th round in 2019. See his history.

French Open
Paire's Record

Jozef Kovalik

Jozef Kovalik

0 - 0win/loss

Rank
383
High
80
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Year Total Hard Clay I.hard Grass Carpet
2025 6-17 2-4 3-9 0-3 1-1 0-0
2024 36-25 3-5 30-15 3-4 0-1 0-0
2023 23-34 1-3 21-28 1-2 0-1 0-0
2022 33-23 3-6 29-13 1-3 0-1 0-0
2021 31-27 0-1 26-20 5-5 0-1 0-0

Ranked no. 160, Kovalik will start his run at the Paris after he played his last match in the Mauthausen Challenger where he lost 6-3 6-3 to Pouille in the final on the 12th of May.

Jozef has a compiled 20-10 win-loss record in 2024, 17-6 on clay (See FULL STATS).

His best result of the year was conquering the title the Zadar Challenger where he defeated Adrian Andreev in the final 6-4 6-2 and the Split Challenger where he overcame Zsombor Piros in the final 6-4 5-7 7-5.

In terms of his career, Kovalik has an overall 485-355 record. He has a positive 370-227 record on clay.

Previously at the French Open

Previously, his best result was reaching the 1st round in 2017, 2018 and 2019. See his history.

French Open
Kovalik's Record

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