Pavel Kotov gets by Zachary Svajda 3-6 6-3 6-4 in the 3rd round in Salem Open on Wednesday. Kotov will fight against Lorenzo Sonego in the quarter. The battle lasted 2 hours and 8 minutes. This will be his best achievement in this competition. In the past, the best he could do was reaching the 1st round in 2023. Here you can see his history at this event.
Pavel added to his prize money $ 8,735 after winning this match. He has already won $ 20,375 after this win. If he wins the next match, Kotov will add $ 14,905 to his earnings to get in total $ 35,280 in total.
Stats: aces, double faults, breaks, winners
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At the end of the match, the Russian scored 91 points vs. Svajda’s 88.
Kotov
Kotov served pretty well to win 80% of the points (45/56) behind his first serve. Anyhow he won only 45% points (18/40) on his second serve. The Russian won this match even if he was not so effective in converting his break points after he converted only 43% (3/7) of the procured opportunities.
Svajda
On the other side, the American was not so effective in converting his break points (only 29% – 2/7). That was one of the key issues for his defeat.
After this match, the head to head between Kotov and Svajda is 1-0 for Pavel.
Draw and next match H2H: Pavel Kotov vs. Lorenzo Sonego – stats
Kotov will fight against Sonego in the quarter.
This will be the 3rd time that Pavel Kotov and Lorenzo Sonego fight against each other. The head to head is 2-0 for Kotov (see full H2H stats), 1-0 on hard.
The last time that they played, Kotov won 6-2 7-5 in the 1st round in Doha back in February 2024.
Live score progression and stats
Kotov didn’t want to give any chance to the opposition at the beginning of the set after breaking Zachary Svajda in the 1st game (1-0). Anyhow, the American refused to bow to find the way to come back to break Kotov in the 2nd (1-1) and in the 8th (5-3) game before winning the set (6-3).
The Russian was not able to offer any resistance in the last 4 games of the set when the score went from 3-3 to 6-3.
Svajda was on the money in converting all his break points in the 2nd (1-1 40-A, 40-A and 40-A), the 8th (4-3 30-40) and the 10th game (6-2 30-40). Furthermore, on the other side, the Russian was unerring in converting all his break points in the 1st game (0-0 30-40, 40-A and 40-A).
They played 73 points. Zachary conquered the set after winning 9 points more than the Russian (41-32). The American conceded 9 points on serve (21-9). On the losing side, Pavel conceded 20 points on serve (23-20).
The set was even with both players refusing to concede anything to the opposition. Eventually, the only discrepancy was one break that the Russian conquered in the 6th game (4-2) prior to eventually winning the set (6-3).
Pavel was perfect in converting all his break points in the 5th (3-2 30-40) and the 10th game (6-2 30-40). On the other side, Svajda wasn’t able to convert 1 break point in the 3rd game (1-1 30-40).
They contested 48 points. The Russian was the winner of the set after clinching 8 points more than Zachary (28-20). The Russian was extremely solid on serve to concede just 4 points (17-4). On the losing side, the American conceded 11 points on serve (16-11).
Kotov got off on the right foot in the set after breaking Zachary Svajda in the 2nd game (2-0). Kotov managed to boost his lead after breaking Zachary before winning the set (6-4).
The Russian was unable to convert any of the 2 conquered break points. He had 2 break points opportunities in the 9th game (5-3 15-40 and 30-40). On the other side, Svajda wasn’t able to convert 1 break point in the 10th game (4-5 30-40).
They played 58 points. The Russian conquered the set after winning 4 points more than the American (31-27). The Russian lost 9 points on serve (23-9). In addition, on the other side, Zachary conceded 8 points on serve (18-8).
Tennis Scores in Salem Open
- Pavel KotovKotov – Zachary SvajdaSvajda (3-6 6-3 6-4)
- Learner TienTien – Thiago Seyboth WildSeyboth Wild (6-4 6-3)
- Alex MichelsenMichelsen – Zizou BergsBergs (6-1 6-2)
- Christopher EubanksEubanks – Roman SafiullinSafiullin (6-3 1-6 7-68)
- Rinky HijikataHijikata – Borna CoricCoric (3-6 6-3 7-5)
- Pablo Carreno-BustaCarreno-Busta – Aleksandar VukicVukic (6-3 4-6 6-3)
- David GoffinGoffin – Arthur RinderknechRinderknech (6-3 6-3)
- Lorenzo SonegoSonego – Juncheng ShangShang (w/o)
Upcoming matches
- Pavel KotovKotov – Lorenzo SonegoSonego (2-0) – H2H details and stats
- Rinky HijikataHijikata – David GoffinGoffin (0-0) – H2H details and stats
