Rudolf Molleker and Gerald Melzer will play each other in the qualifications of the Antalya Challenger for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Monday at 12:30 pm on COURT 2. In the following lines you can find the head to head analysis and prediction.
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The pick for Tennis Tonic is Gerald Melzer who should win in 3 sets.
As per the initial odds, Gerald Melzer is the pick to win this match.
Gerald Melzer -> 1.52
Rudolf Molleker -> 2.41
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Prediction and head to head Rudolf Molleker vs. Gerald Melzer
There is no head to head record between Rudolf Molleker and Gerald Melzer since this will be the first time that they will face off in the main tour.
Rudolf Molleker
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 16-13 | 4-4 | 5-5 | 7-4 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 53-35 | 2-3 | 42-25 | 6-5 | 0-1 | 3-1 |
| 2022 | 47-28 | 2-1 | 45-24 | 0-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 8-23 | 0-1 | 6-16 | 2-4 | 0-2 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 0-7 | 0-1 | 0-4 | 0-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 322, Rudolf reached the qualifications after beating Koray Kirci 6-4 7-5.
In the qualifications, Molleker had a good straight sets win against Kirci (6-4 7-5). During the match, Molleker scored 73 points vs Kirci’s 63. Molleker was extremely aggressive to blast 36 winners.
Talking about the service games, Molleker scored just 1 ace for the entire match and he committed only 2 double faults. Rudolf Molleker lost the serve twice and he saved 8 break points. Furthermore, Molleker put 69% of his first serves in, winning 73% (36/49) of the points behind his 1st serve and 41% (9/22) on the 2nd serve. The German broke Kirci 4 times after converting 80% of his break points (4/5).
Molleker has a winning win-loss record in the last 7 years having won 53% of his matches (159-143). 1-1 on clay in 2023. In connection with his performance on the same surface of this competition, Molleker has an aggregate114-82 record in the last 7 years on clay.
The German’s best result of the year was getting to the final in M15 Oberhaching.
Molleker has a composed 9-6 win-loss record in 2023, 1-1 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Antalya Challenger
Gerald Melzer
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 13-7 | 0-0 | 13-7 | 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. 378, Gerald reached the qualifications after beating Bogdan Bobrov 6-3 6-1.
In the qualifications, Melzer had a good straight sets win against Bobrov (6-3 6-1). During the match Melzer scored 59 points vs Bobrov’s 42. The Austrian was quite aggressive to blast 21 winners.
About the serving games, Melzer scored just 1 ace during the entire match and he committed only 3 double faults. Gerald Melzer lost the serve once and he saved 1 break points. Furthermore, Melzer put 54% of his first serves in, winning 81% (21/26) of the points behind his 1st serve and 45% (10/22) on the 2nd serve. Melzer broke Bobrov 5 times after converting 56% of his break points (5/9).
The Austrian has an overall 1-0 win-loss record in 2023, 1-0 on clay (See FULL STATS).
H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Molleker | Melzer |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 1 | 1 |
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 |
| Tot Games | 22 | 16 |
| Pts | 73-63 | 59-42 |
| Total Points | 136 | 101 |
| Winners | 36 | 21 |
| %Winners | 49% | 36% |
Both Molleker and Melzer played 1 match. Also both players started their run from the qualifications.Both players have not dropped a single set in this event so far. Talking about their workload, Molleker and Melzer have played the same amount of sets 2. However, Molleker played 6 games more than Melzer. The German scored 36 winners (49% of the total points). On the other side, Melzer recorded 21 winners (36%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Molleker | Melzer |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 1 | 1 |
| Avg per match | 1 | 1 |
| 1st in | 49/71 | 26/48 |
| %1st in | 69% | 54% |
| 1st pts | 36/49 | 21/26 |
| %1st pts | 73% | 81% |
| 2nd pts | 9/22 | 10/22 |
| %2nd pts | 41% | 45% |
Molleker fired 1 ace . Melzer also managed to score 1 ace . Molleker won 73% points on his first serve. He was rock solid on his second serve to win 41% of the points. On the other side, Melzer won 81% of the points behind his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 45% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Molleker | Melzer |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 4 | 5 |
| Converted | 4/5 | 5/9 |
| % Converted | 80% | 56% |
| Conceded | 10 | 2 |
| Saved | 8 | 1 |
| % Saved | 80% | 50% |
| Times Broken | 2 | 1 |
Molleker broke his opponent 4 times with a 80% conversion rate. Rudolf surrendered his serve twice and he saved 80% of the break points that he conceded. The Austrian broke his opponent 5 times with a 56% conversion rate. The Austrian conceded his serve once and he saved 50% of the break points that he conceded.
| Molleker | |||
| Q1 Kirci |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-4 7-5 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 22 | 22 | |
| pts | 73-63 | 73-63 | |
| Total points | 136 | 136 | |
| Winners | 36 | 36 | |
| %Winners | 49% | 49% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 1 | 1 | |
| Double Faults | 2 | 2 | |
| 1st in | 49/71 | 49/71 | |
| % 1st in | 69% | 69% | |
| 1st pts | 36/49 | 36/49 | |
| % 1st pts | 73% | 73% | |
| 2nd pts | 9/22 | 9/22 | |
| % 2nd pts | 41% | 41% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 4 | 4 | |
| Converted | 4/5 | 4/5 | |
| Converted % | 80% | 80% | |
| Conceded | 10 | 10 | |
| Saved | 8/10 | 8 | |
| Saved % | 80% | 80% | |
| Times Broken | 2 | 2 | |
| Melzer | |||
| Q1 Bobrov |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-3 6-1 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 16 | 16 | |
| pts | 59-42 | 59-42 | |
| Total points | 101 | 101 | |
| Winners | 21 | 21 | |
| %Winners | 36% | 36% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 1 | 1 | |
| Double Faults | 3 | 3 | |
| 1st in | 26/48 | 26/48 | |
| % 1st in | 54% | 54% | |
| 1st pts | 21/26 | 21/26 | |
| % 1st pts | 81% | 81% | |
| 2nd pts | 10/22 | 10/22 | |
| % 2nd pts | 45% | 45% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 5 | 5 | |
| Converted | 5/9 | 5/9 | |
| Converted % | 56% | 56% | |
| Conceded | 2 | 2 | |
| Saved | 1/2 | 1 | |
| Saved % | 50% | 50% | |
| Times Broken | 1 | 1 | |
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