Dennis Novak and Gerald Melzer will fight against each other in the 2nd round of the Mauthausen Challenger for the 3rd time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Thursday at 5:30 pm on CENTRE COURT. In this post, we analyze their head to head performance and prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Gerald Melzer who should win in 3 sets.
Gerald Melzer -> 1.9
Dennis Novak -> 1.9
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Prediction and head to head Dennis Novak vs. Gerald Melzer
This will be the 3rd time that Dennis Novak and Gerald Melzer square off. The head to head is 2-0 for Novak (see full H2H stats), 2-0 on clay.
The last time that they fought against each other, Novak won 7-6(4) 6-4 in the 1st round in the Casablanca Challenger back in 2016.
Dennis Novak
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 27-22 | 5-5 | 14-12 | 8-5 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 28-26 | 5-6 | 18-15 | 5-4 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 38-23 | 12-3 | 12-10 | 10-8 | 4-2 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 33-27 | 2-2 | 21-14 | 6-9 | 4-1 | 0-1 |
| 2021 | 26-29 | 1-3 | 9-12 | 14-11 | 2-3 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 148, the Austrian got to the 2nd round after defeating Daniel Masur 6-3 6-4.
In the 1st round, The Austrian had a good straight sets win against Masur (6-3 6-4). During the match, Novak scored 59 points vs Masur’s 47. Dennis was exceptionally aggressive to blast 20 winners.
Regarding the service games, Novak fired 4 aces and he committed only 1 double fault. Overall, Dennis Novak was extremely effective on serve to win 74% (20/27) of his 1st serve and 60% (15/25) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve once. Dennis was clinical in his return game without wasting any break point and break Masur 4 times.
Novak has a solid win-loss record in the last 10 years having won 64% of his matches (396-221). 6-3 on clay in 2022. Talking about his performance on the same surface of this event, Novak has a composed 215-114 record in the last years on clay.
Dennis’s best result of the season was getting to the semifinal in the Quimper Challenger and the Murcia Challenger.
The Austrian has a composed 11-10 win-loss record in 2022, 6-3 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Mauthausen Challenger
The Austrian has never competed in this tournament before.
Gerald Melzer
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 16-12 | 0-0 | 16-12 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 20-13 | 0-0 | 20-13 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 13-18 | 0-1 | 13-16 | 0-0 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 24-14 | 0-0 | 24-13 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 249, the Austrian got to the 2nd round after defeating Borna Gojo 6-4 6-3.
In the 1st round, Melzer had a good straight sets win against Gojo (6-4 6-3). During the match Melzer scored 64 points vs Gojo’s 52. Melzer was quite aggressive to blast 29 winners.
Talking about serving, Melzer struck 2 aces and he committed only 2 double faults. Gerald Melzer conceded no breaks for the entire match to save 1 break points. Furthermore, Melzer put 61% of his first serves in, winning 83% (29/35) of the points behind his 1st serve and 50% (11/22) on the 2nd serve. Melzer broke Gojo 3 times after converting 60% of his break points (3/5).
The Austrian has a composed 3-6 win-loss record in 2022, 3-6 on clay (See FULL STATS).
H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Novak | Melzer |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 1 | 1 |
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 |
| Tot Games | 19 | 19 |
| Pts | 59-47 | 64-52 |
| Total Points | 106 | 116 |
| Winners | 20 | 29 |
| %Winners | 34% | 45% |
Both Novak and Melzer played 1 match. Both players have not dropped a single set in this event so far. Talking about their workload, Novak and Melzer have played the same amount of sets 2. They also played the same amount of games (19). The Austrian scored 20 winners (34% of the total points). On the other side, The Austrian struck 29 winners (45%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Novak | Melzer |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 4 | 2 |
| Avg per match | 4 | 2 |
| 1st in | 27/52 | 35/57 |
| %1st in | 52% | 61% |
| 1st pts | 20/27 | 29/35 |
| %1st pts | 74% | 83% |
| 2nd pts | 15/25 | 11/22 |
| %2nd pts | 60% | 50% |
Novak managed to score 4 aces . Melzer made 2 aces . Novak won 74% points on his first serve. He pretty solid on his second serve to win 60% of the points. On the other side, Melzer won 83% of the points behind his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 50% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Novak | Melzer |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 4 | 3 |
| Converted | 4/4 | 3/5 |
| % Converted | 100% | 60% |
| Conceded | 1 | 1 |
| Saved | 0 | 1 |
| % Saved | 0% | 100% |
| Times Broken | 1 | 0 |
Dennis broke his opponent 4 times with a 100% conversion rate. The Austrian conceded his serve once and he saved 0% of the break points that he conceded. Melzer broke his opponent 3 times with a 60% conversion rate. The Austrian was rock solid on his serve as he has never conceded a single service game after saving 1 break points.
| Novak | |||
| R1 Masur | Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-3 6-4 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 19 | 19 | |
| pts | 59-47 | 59-47 | |
| Total points | 106 | 106 | |
| Winners | 20 | 20 | |
| %Winners | 34% | 34% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 4 | 4 | |
| Double Faults | 1 | 1 | |
| 1st in | 27/52 | 27/52 | |
| % 1st in | 52% | 52% | |
| 1st pts | 20/27 | 20/27 | |
| % 1st pts | 74% | 74% | |
| 2nd pts | 15/25 | 15/25 | |
| % 2nd pts | 60% | 60% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 4 | 4 | |
| Converted | 4/4 | 4/4 | |
| Converted % | 100% | 100% | |
| Conceded | 1 | 1 | |
| Saved | 0/1 | 0 | |
| Saved % | 0% | 0% | |
| Times Broken | 1 | 1 | |
| Melzer | |||
| R1 Gojo | Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-4 6-3 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 19 | 19 | |
| pts | 64-52 | 64-52 | |
| Total points | 116 | 116 | |
| Winners | 29 | 29 | |
| %Winners | 45% | 45% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 2 | 2 | |
| Double Faults | 2 | 2 | |
| 1st in | 35/57 | 35/57 | |
| % 1st in | 61% | 61% | |
| 1st pts | 29/35 | 29/35 | |
| % 1st pts | 83% | 83% | |
| 2nd pts | 11/22 | 11/22 | |
| % 2nd pts | 50% | 50% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 3 | 3 | |
| Converted | 3/5 | 3/5 | |
| Converted % | 60% | 60% | |
| Conceded | 1 | 1 | |
| Saved | 1/1 | 1 | |
| Saved % | 100% | 100% | |
| Times Broken | 0 | 0 | |
Tennis Scores in Mauthausen Challenger
- Jiri LeheckaLehecka – Filip MisolicMisolic (6-4 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Attila BalazsBalazs – Altug CelikbilekCelikbilek (7-60 3-0 ret.) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Jurij RodionovRodionov – Daniel Elahi GalanElahi Galan (7-5 6-1) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Radu AlbotAlbot – Alexander ShevchenkoShevchenko (2-6 6-3 7-69) – Stats, scores, rankings
Upcoming matches in the draw
- John MillmanMillman – Enzo CouacaudCouacaud (2-0) – H2H and prediction
- Radu AlbotAlbot – Jiri LeheckaLehecka (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Dennis NovakNovak – Gerald MelzerMelzer (2-0) – H2H and prediction
- Nino SerdarusicSerdarusic – Lucas MiedlerMiedler (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Mate ValkuszValkusz – Zdenek KolarKolar (1-1) – H2H and prediction
- Jurij RodionovRodionov – Attila BalazsBalazs (0-0) – H2H and prediction