Jozef Kovalik and Gerald Melzer will play each other in the qualifications of the U.S. Open for the 2^nd time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Wednesday at 11:00 am on Court 16. In this post, we analyze their head to head performance and prediction.

Prediction, odds and live streaming

The pick for Tennis Tonic is Jozef Kovalik who should win in 5 sets.

As per the initial odds, Jozef Kovalik is the pick to win this match.
Jozef Kovalik -> 1.53
Gerald Melzer -> 2.44

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Prediction and head to head Jozef Kovalik vs. Gerald Melzer

This will be the 2^nd time that Jozef Kovalik and Gerald Melzer face off. The head to head is 1-0 for Melzer (see full H2H stats), but they have never played each other on hard.

The last time that they squared off, Melzer won 7-5 7-6(4) in the final in the Lima Challenger back in 2017.

Jozef Kovalik

Ranked no. 187, Kovalik will start his run at the U.S. Open after he played his last match in the Zug Challenger where he lost 5-7 6-2 6-4 to Stephan in the 1^st round on the 26^th of July.

Jozef has an overall 22-18 win-loss record in 2022, 2-4 on hard (See FULL STATS).

Jozef’s best result of the current season was getting to the semifinal in the Oeiras 2 Challenger and the Luedenscheid Challenger.

Talking about his overall career, Jozef has an overall 431-306 record. He has a positive 85-66 record on hard.

Previously at the U.S. Open

Previously, his best result was reaching the 1^st round in 2016, 2019 and 2020. See his history.

Gerald Melzer

Ranked no. 193, Melzer will start his run at the New York after he played his last match in the Santo Domingo Challenger where he lost 6-4 6-1 to Cachin in the 1^st round on the 16^th of August.

Gerald has a composed 12-13 win-loss record in 2022, 0-0 on hard (See FULL STATS).

This will be the first match of the year on hard.

Gerald’s best result of the year was getting to the final in the Bogota Challenger.

In terms of his career, Melzer has an overall 370-241 record. He has a positive 30-25 record on hard.

Tennis Scores – U.S. Open

• Dimitar KuzmanovKuzmanov – Luca NardiNardi (4-6 7-6⁵ 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Mats MoraingMoraing – Juan Pablo FicovichPablo Ficovich (6-3 6-1) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Brandon HoltHolt – Alexandre MullerMuller (3-6 6-4 7-6⁵) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Riccardo BonadioBonadio – Jonas ForejtekForejtek (6-4 4-6 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Alexander RitschardRitschard – Evan FurnessFurness (6-1 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Carlos TabernerTaberner – Thiago Agustin TiranteAgustin Tirante (6-4 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Stefano TravagliaTravaglia – Michael GeertsGeerts (6-3 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Norbert GombosGombos – Jay ClarkeClarke (6-4 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Gregoire BarrereBarrere – Juan Pablo VarillasPablo Varillas (6-2 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Yibing WuWu – Ricardas BerankisBerankis (6-4 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Liam BroadyBroady – Murphy CassoneCassone (3-6 7-6³ 6-1) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Christopher EubanksEubanks – Santiago Fa Rodriguez TavernaFa Rodriguez Taverna (6-4 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Altug CelikbilekCelikbilek – Camilo Ugo CarabelliUgo Carabelli (7-5 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Zachary SvajdaSvajda – Aleksandar VukicVukic (7-5 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Maximilian MartererMarterer – Daniel Dutra Da SilvaDutra Da Silva (7-5 6-7⁴ 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Ethan QuinnQuinn – Ernesto EscobedoEscobedo (5-7 6-4 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Francesco PassaroPassaro – Marc PolmansPolmans (6-4 7-6²) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Raul BrancaccioBrancaccio – Dominik KoepferKoepfer (7-6⁴ 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Borna GojoGojo – Dominic Stephan StrickerStephan Stricker (6-7³ 7-6³ 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Dalibor SvrcinaSvrcina – Laurent LokoliLokoli (1-6 6-4 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Jesper De Jong
  De Jong – Antoine EscoffierEscoffier (7-6⁴ 6-1) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Bjorn FratangeloFratangelo – Juan Bautista TorresBautista Torres (7-6⁴ 3-6 7-6⁴) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Nicolas JarryJarry – Facundo Diaz AcostaDiaz Acosta (3-6 6-3 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Hugo GrenierGrenier – Giulio ZeppieriZeppieri (1-6 6-3 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Franco AgamenoneAgamenone – Francisco ComesanaComesana (4-6 6-3 6-1) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Corentin MoutetMoutet – Nino SerdarusicSerdarusic (6-4 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Emilio GomezGomez – Mitchell KruegerKrueger (7-6⁶ 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Roberto MarcoraMarcora – Genaro Alberto OlivieriAlberto Olivieri (6-4 6-1) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Dmitry PopkoPopko – Andrea PellegrinoPellegrino (4-6 7-6³ 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Federico DelbonisDelbonis – Zsombor PirosPiros (7-6¹⁰ 6-0) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Filip MisolicMisolic – Martin DammDamm (6-7³ 7-6⁶ 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Dennis NovakNovak – Aleksandar KovacevicKovacevic (7-6⁶ 6-1) – Stats, scores, rankings

Upcoming matches in the draw

• Andreas SeppiSeppi – Filip HoranskyHoransky (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Radu AlbotAlbot – Yuki BhambriBhambri (1-1) – H2H and prediction
• Emilio GomezGomez – Brandon HoltHolt (1-1) – H2H and prediction
• Bradley KlahnKlahn – Jan-Lennard StruffStruff (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Facundo BagnisBagnis – Tung-Lin WuWu (0-1) – H2H and prediction
• Stefano TravagliaTravaglia – Yibing WuWu (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Henri LaaksonenLaaksonen – Pedro SousaSousa (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Marco TrungellitiTrungelliti – Zhizhen ZhangZhang (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Gerald MelzerMelzer – Jozef KovalikKovalik (1-0) – H2H and prediction
• Dimitar KuzmanovKuzmanov – Liam BroadyBroady (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Norbert GombosGombos – Dmitry PopkoPopko (1-0) – H2H and prediction
• Franco AgamenoneAgamenone – Roberto MarcoraMarcora (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Riccardo BonadioBonadio – Borna GojoGojo (1-0) – H2H and prediction
• Nicolas KickerKicker – Mikhail KukushkinKukushkin (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Constant LestienneLestienne – Andrea VavassoriVavassori (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Gianluca MagerMager – Fernando VerdascoVerdasco (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Gregoire BarrereBarrere – Christopher EubanksEubanks (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Alexander RitschardRitschard – (1-0) – H2H and prediction
• Kaichi UchidaUchida – Dudi SelaSela (1-0) – H2H and prediction
• Ramkumar RamanathanRamanathan – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Enzo CouacaudCouacaud – Matheus Pucinelle De AlmeidaPucinelle De Almeida (0-1) – H2H and prediction
• Daniel MasurMasur – Elias YmerYmer (2-1) – H2H and prediction
• Altug CelikbilekCelikbilek – Jesper De JongDe Jong (2-0) – H2H and prediction
• Daniel Elahi GalanElahi Galan – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Sumit NagalNagal – Vasek PospisilPospisil (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Michael MmohMmoh – Gilles SimonSimon (0-1) – H2H and prediction
• Nicolas JarryJarry – Bjorn FratangeloFratangelo (1-0) – H2H and prediction
• Sebastian OfnerOfner – Yannick HanfmannHanfmann (2-2) – H2H and prediction
• Max PurcellPurcell – Nikola MilojevicMilojevic (1-1) – H2H and prediction
• Roman SafiullinSafiullin – Flavio CobolliCobolli (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Gian Marco MoroniMarco Moroni – Andrea CollariniCollarini (0-1) – H2H and prediction
• Carlos TabernerTaberner – Maximilian MartererMarterer (0-3) – H2H and prediction
• Zdenek KolarKolar – Tomas MachacMachac (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Nuno BorgesBorges – Alex RybakovRybakov (1-0) – H2H and prediction
• Gijs BrouwerBrouwer – Gastao EliasElias (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Raul BrancaccioBrancaccio – Mats MoraingMoraing (0-1) – H2H and prediction
• Geoffrey BlancaneauxBlancaneaux – Oliver CrawfordCrawford (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Corentin MoutetMoutet – Filip MisolicMisolic (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Zizou BergsBergs – Renzo OlivoOlivo (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Pavel KotovKotov – Felipe Meligeni Rodrigues AlvesMeligeni Rodrigues Alves (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Govind NandaNanda – Andrea ArnaboldiArnaboldi (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Paul JubbJubb – Antoine BellierBellier (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Francesco PassaroPassaro – Hugo GrenierGrenier (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Dalibor SvrcinaSvrcina – Dennis NovakNovak (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Francesco MaestrelliMaestrelli – Manuel GuinardGuinard (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Alexander ShevchenkoShevchenko – Facundo MenaMena (0-0) – H2H and prediction