Pavel Kotov and Jaime Faria will play each other in the 1^st round of the Australian Open for the 1^st time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Monday at 3:00 pm on Court 14. In this post, we analyze their head to head performance and prediction.

Prediction, odds and live streaming

The pick for Tennis Tonic is Pavel Kotov who should win in 5 sets.

As per the initial odds, Pavel Kotov is the pick to win this match.
Pavel Kotov -> 1.6
Jaime Faria -> 2.34

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Prediction and head to head Pavel Kotov vs. Jaime Faria

There is no head to head record between Pavel Kotov and Jaime Faria since this will be the first time that they will clash against each other in the main tour.

Pavel Kotov

Ranked no. 99, the Russian will start his run at the Australian Open after he played his last match in Adelaide where he lost 7-6(3) 6-7(7) 7-6(5) to Duckworth in the qualifications on the 5^th of January.

Pavel has a composed 1-2 win-loss record in 2025, 1-2 on hard (See FULL STATS).

Talking about his overall career, The Russian has an overall 273-187 record. He has a positive 59-47 record on hard.

Previously at the Australian Open

Previously, his best result was reaching the 2^nd round in 2024. See his history.

Jaime Faria

Ranked no. 124, the Portuguese reached the 1^st round after beating Gijs Brouwer 6-4 6-3, Dane Sweeny 6-2 6-2 and Mark Lajal 6-4 2-6 6-4.

In the qualifications, Jaime defeated Lajal (6-4 2-6 6-4).During the match Faria scored less points (2) than Lajal. In fact, the world no. 99 won 89 points vs Lajal’s. That means that Faria was more focused during the important points. Faria was extremely aggressive to blast 45 winners.

Talking about serving, Faria managed to score 15 aces and he committed only 9 double faults. Jaime Faria lost the serve twice and he saved 3 break points. Furthermore, Faria put 59% of his first serves in, winning 83% (45/54) of the points behind his 1st serve and 34% (13/38) on the 2nd serve. Jaime broke Lajal twice after converting 40% of his break points (2/5).

Overall Performance in this tournament

The Portuguese started his run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, he has conceded 1 set in the tournament to win 54% of the points he played.

Faria has a compiled 3-1 win-loss record in 2025, 3-1 on hard (See FULL STATS).

Previously at the Australian Open

Jaime has never competed in this tournament before.

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