Quentin Halys and Pavel Kotov will clash against each other in the qualifications of the Dubai Duty Free Tennis Championships for the 3rd time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Sunday at 1:30 pm on COURT 3. In this post, we analyze their head to head performance and prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Quentin Halys who should win in 3 sets.
As per the initial odds, Quentin Halys is the pick to win this match.
Quentin Halys -> 1.59
Pavel Kotov -> 2.24
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Prediction and head to head Quentin Halys vs. Pavel Kotov
This will be the 3rd time that Quentin Halys and Pavel Kotov square off. The head to head is 1-1 for Halys and Kotov (see full H2H stats), but they have never played each other on hard.
The last time that they played each other, Halys won 6-7(10) 6-2 7-6(3) in the semifinal in the Bordeaux Challenger back in 2022.
Quentin Halys
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 16-18 | 10-6 | 4-6 | 0-2 | 2-4 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 47-27 | 6-6 | 14-10 | 22-10 | 5-1 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 26-26 | 11-13 | 10-6 | 3-6 | 2-1 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 57-26 | 5-7 | 9-4 | 32-10 | 6-5 | 5-0 |
| 2021 | 35-27 | 14-8 | 10-9 | 8-8 | 0-1 | 3-1 |
Ranked no. 79, the French player reached the qualifications after beating Yasutaka Uchiyama 6-3 7-6(4).
In the qualifications, The French player had a good straight sets win against Uchiyama (6-3 7-64). During the match, Halys scored 77 points vs Uchiyama’s 60. Quentin was pretty aggressive to blast 32 winners.
Regarding the service games, Halys bagged 7 aces and he committed only 4 double faults. Overall, Quentin Halys was very efficient on serve to win 86% (32/37) of his 1st serve and 59% (17/29) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve once. Quentin broke Uchiyama twice after converting 33% of his break points (2/6).
Halys has winning match record in the last 10 years having won 56% of his matches (319-253). 4-3 on hard in 2025. Regarding his performance on the same surface of this competition, Halys has a composed 85-82 win-loss record in the last years on hard.
Quentin has an overall 4-5 win-loss record in 2025, 4-3 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in Dubai
Pavel Kotov
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 7-17 | 5-9 | 2-7 | 0-0 | 0-1 | 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. 102, the Russian got to the qualifications after defeating Yosuke Watanuki 6-3 6-3.
In the qualifications, Kotov had a good straight sets win against Watanuki (6-3 6-3). During the match Kotov scored 61 points vs Watanuki’s 44. Kotov was quite aggressive to blast 28 winners.
About the serving games, Kotov fired 6 aces and he committed only 1 double fault for the entire match. Pavel Kotov was very effective on serve to win 82% (28/34) of his 1st serve and 60% (9/15) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. The Russian was clinical in his return game without wasting any break point and break Watanuki 3 times.
Pavel has an overall 3-5 win-loss record in 2025, 3-5 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in Dubai
Previously, his best result was reaching the 2nd round in 2023. See his history.
H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Halys | Kotov |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 1 | 1 |
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 |
| Tot Games | 22 | 18 |
| Pts | 77-60 | 61-44 |
| Total Points | 137 | 105 |
| Winners | 32 | 28 |
| %Winners | 42% | 46% |
Both Halys and Kotov played 1 match. Also both players started their run from the qualifications.Both players have not lost a single set in this event so far. Talking about their workload, Halys and Kotov have played the same amount of sets 2. However, Halys played 4 games more than Kotov. The French player scored 32 winners (42% of the total points). On the other side, Kotov recorded 28 winners (46%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Halys | Kotov |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 7 | 6 |
| Avg per match | 7 | 6 |
| 1st in | 37/66 | 34/49 |
| %1st in | 56% | 69% |
| 1st pts | 32/37 | 28/34 |
| %1st pts | 86% | 82% |
| 2nd pts | 17/29 | 9/15 |
| %2nd pts | 59% | 60% |
Halys blasted 7 aces . Kotov fired 6 aces . Halys won 86% points on his first serve. He was rock solid on his second serve to win 59% of the points. On the other side, Kotov won 82% of the points behind his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 60% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Halys | Kotov |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 2 | 3 |
| Converted | 2/6 | 3/3 |
| % Converted | 33% | 100% |
| Conceded | 3 | 2 |
| Saved | 2 | 2 |
| % Saved | 67% | 100% |
| Times Broken | 1 | 0 |
Quentin broke his opponent twice with a 33% conversion rate. Halys dropped his serve once and he saved 67% of the break points that he conceded. The Russian broke his opponent 3 times with a 100% conversion rate. The Russian was rock solid on his serve as he has never conceded a single service game after saving 2 break points.
| Halys | |||
| Q1 Uchiyama |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-3 7-64 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 22 | 22 | |
| pts | 77-60 | 77-60 | |
| Total points | 137 | 137 | |
| Winners | 32 | 32 | |
| %Winners | 42% | 42% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 7 | 7 | |
| Double Faults | 4 | 4 | |
| 1st in | 37/66 | 37/66 | |
| % 1st in | 56% | 56% | |
| 1st pts | 32/37 | 32/37 | |
| % 1st pts | 86% | 86% | |
| 2nd pts | 17/29 | 17/29 | |
| % 2nd pts | 59% | 59% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 2 | 2 | |
| Converted | 2/6 | 2/6 | |
| Converted % | 33% | 33% | |
| Conceded | 3 | 3 | |
| Saved | 2/3 | 2 | |
| Saved % | 67% | 67% | |
| Times Broken | 1 | 1 | |
| Kotov | |||
| Q1 Watanuki |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-3 6-3 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 18 | 18 | |
| pts | 61-44 | 61-44 | |
| Total points | 105 | 105 | |
| Winners | 28 | 28 | |
| %Winners | 46% | 46% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 6 | 6 | |
| Double Faults | 1 | 1 | |
| 1st in | 34/49 | 34/49 | |
| % 1st in | 69% | 69% | |
| 1st pts | 28/34 | 28/34 | |
| % 1st pts | 82% | 82% | |
| 2nd pts | 9/15 | 9/15 | |
| % 2nd pts | 60% | 60% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 3 | 3 | |
| Converted | 3/3 | 3/3 | |
| Converted % | 100% | 100% | |
| Conceded | 2 | 2 | |
| Saved | 2/2 | 2 | |
| Saved % | 100% | 100% | |
| Times Broken | 0 | 0 | |
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