Felipe Meligeni Alves and Gerald Melzer will face off in the 2nd round of the Lima 2 Challenger for the 3rd time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Thursday at 4:00 pm on CANCHA CENTRAL. Here the head to head stats and relative prediction.
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The pick for Tennis Tonic is Felipe Meligeni Alves who should win in 3 sets.
Felipe Meligeni Alves -> 1.52
Gerald Melzer -> 2.46
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Prediction and head to head Felipe Meligeni Alves vs. Gerald Melzer
This will be the 3rd time that Felipe Meligeni Alves and Gerald Melzer fight against each other. The head to head is 2-0 for Meligeni Alves (see full H2H stats), 2-0 on clay.
The last time that they played, Meligeni Alves won 6-3 5-7 7-5 in the quarter in the Santiago 3 Challenger back in 2021.
Felipe Meligeni Alves
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 36-28 | 4-8 | 29-17 | 0-1 | 3-2 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 36-29 | 8-6 | 26-22 | 0-0 | 2-1 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 33-29 | 0-3 | 33-25 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 34-28 | 1-2 | 33-25 | 0-0 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 19-10 | 0-2 | 19-8 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 169, the Brazilian reached the 2nd round after defeating Francisco Comesana 6-2 6-0.
In the 1st round, Felipe had a good straight sets win against Comesana (6-2 6-0). During the match, Meligeni Alves scored 69 points vs Comesana’s 45. The Brazilian was extremely aggressive to blast 25 winners.
Talking about the service games, Meligeni Alves was unable to score even 1 ace during the match and he was pretty steady in conceding no double faults. Felipe Meligeni Alves lost the serve twice and he saved 4 break points. Furthermore, Meligeni Alves put 74% of his first serves in, winning 64% (25/39) of the points behind his 1st serve and 43% (6/14) on the 2nd serve. The Brazilian broke Comesana 7 times after converting 41% of his break points (7/17).
Meligeni Alves has a solid record in the last 7 years having won 61% of his matches (234-148). 27-21 on clay in 2022. In connection with his performance on the same surface of this tournament, Meligeni Alves has an aggregate212-126 record in the last 7 years on clay.
Meligeni Alves’s best result of the season was getting to the final in the Iasi Challenger.
Meligeni Alves has an overall 27-25 win-loss record in 2022, 27-21 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Lima 2 Challenger
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. 371, the Austrian reached the 2nd round after beating Juan Pablo Varillas 6-3 6-4.
In the 1st round, Melzer had a good straight sets win against Pablo Patino-Samudio (6-3 6-4). During the match Melzer scored 59 points vs Pablo Patino-Samudio’s 43. The Austrian was pretty aggressive to blast 28 winners.
Talking about serving, Melzer made 5 aces and he committed only 4 double faults. Overall, Gerald Melzer was very efficient on serve to win 85% (28/33) of his 1st serve and 59% (10/17) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve once. The Austrian was clinical in his return game without wasting any break point and break Pablo Patino-Samudio 3 times.
The Austrian’s best result of the current year was reaching the final in the Bogota Challenger.
The Austrian has an aggregate 13-16 win-loss record in 2022, 13-14 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Lima 2 Challenger
Previously, he won this tournament once in 2017. See his history.
H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Meligeni Alves | Melzer |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 1 | 1 |
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 |
| Tot Games | 14 | 19 |
| Pts | 69-45 | 59-43 |
| Total Points | 114 | 102 |
| Winners | 25 | 28 |
| %Winners | 36% | 47% |
Both Meligeni Alves and Melzer played 1 match. Both players have not lost a single set in this event so far. Talking about their workload, Meligeni Alves and Melzer have played the same amount of sets 2. However, Meligeni Alves played 5 games less than Melzer. Felipe scored 25 winners (36% of the total points). On the other side, The Austrian blasted 28 winners (47%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Meligeni Alves | Melzer |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 0 | 5 |
| Avg per match | 0 | 5 |
| 1st in | 39/53 | 33/50 |
| %1st in | 74% | 66% |
| 1st pts | 25/39 | 28/33 |
| %1st pts | 64% | 85% |
| 2nd pts | 6/14 | 10/17 |
| %2nd pts | 43% | 59% |
Meligeni Alves didn’t manage to fire a single ace to far. Melzer recorded 5 aces . Meligeni Alves won 64% points behind his first serve. He extremely effective on his second serve to win 43% of the points. On the other side, Melzer won 85% of the points behind his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 59% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Meligeni Alves | Melzer |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 7 | 3 |
| Converted | 7/17 | 3/3 |
| % Converted | 41% | 100% |
| Conceded | 6 | 2 |
| Saved | 4 | 1 |
| % Saved | 67% | 50% |
| Times Broken | 2 | 1 |
Meligeni Alves broke his opponent 7 times with a 41% conversion rate. Meligeni Alves conceded his serve twice and he saved 67% of the break points that he conceded. Gerald broke his opponent 3 times with a 100% conversion rate. The Austrian conceded his serve once and he saved 50% of the break points that he conceded.
| Meligeni Alves | |||
| R1 Comesana | Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-2 6-0 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 14 | 14 | |
| pts | 69-45 | 69-45 | |
| Total points | 114 | 114 | |
| Winners | 25 | 25 | |
| %Winners | 36% | 36% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 0 | 0 | |
| Double Faults | 0 | 0 | |
| 1st in | 39/53 | 39/53 | |
| % 1st in | 74% | 74% | |
| 1st pts | 25/39 | 25/39 | |
| % 1st pts | 64% | 64% | |
| 2nd pts | 6/14 | 6/14 | |
| % 2nd pts | 43% | 43% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 7 | 7 | |
| Converted | 7/17 | 7/17 | |
| Converted % | 41% | 41% | |
| Conceded | 6 | 6 | |
| Saved | 4/6 | 4 | |
| Saved % | 67% | 67% | |
| Times Broken | 2 | 2 | |
| Melzer | |||
| R1 Pablo Patino-Samudio | Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-3 6-4 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 19 | 19 | |
| pts | 59-43 | 59-43 | |
| Total points | 102 | 102 | |
| Winners | 28 | 28 | |
| %Winners | 47% | 47% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 5 | 5 | |
| Double Faults | 4 | 4 | |
| 1st in | 33/50 | 33/50 | |
| % 1st in | 66% | 66% | |
| 1st pts | 28/33 | 28/33 | |
| % 1st pts | 85% | 85% | |
| 2nd pts | 10/17 | 10/17 | |
| % 2nd pts | 59% | 59% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 3 | 3 | |
| Converted | 3/3 | 3/3 | |
| Converted % | 100% | 100% | |
| Conceded | 2 | 2 | |
| Saved | 1/2 | 1 | |
| Saved % | 50% | 50% | |
| Times Broken | 1 | 1 | |
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- Roman Andres BurruchagaAndres Burruchaga – Thiago Agustin TiranteAgustin Tirante (3-6 6-2 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
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