Blaz Rola and Gerald Melzer will square off in the qualifications of the Tulln Challenger for the 6th time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Monday at 12:30 pm on CENTRE COURT. Here the head to head stats and relative prediction.
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The pick for Tennis Tonic is Blaz Rola who should win in 3 sets.
As per the initial odds, Blaz Rola is the pick to win this match.
Blaz Rola -> 1.68
Gerald Melzer -> 2.09
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Prediction and head to head Blaz Rola vs. Gerald Melzer
This will be the 6th time that Blaz Rola and Gerald Melzer face off. The head to head is 4-1 for Melzer (see full H2H stats), 4-1 on clay.
The last time that they locked horns, Melzer won 6-4 0-1 ret. in the qualifications in Kitzbuhel back in 2018.
Blaz Rola
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 15-11 | 0-0 | 13-9 | 2-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 25-11 | 9-1 | 16-10 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 1-5 | 0-2 | 1-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 23-27 | 5-5 | 15-13 | 3-8 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 10-12 | 4-5 | 5-6 | 1-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 468, Rola got to the qualifications after defeating Oleg Prihodko 6-3 6-2.
In the qualifications, The Slovenian had a good straight sets win against Prihodko (6-3 6-2). During the match, Rola scored 60 points vs Prihodko’s 42. Blaz was pretty aggressive to blast 26 winners.
Talking about the service games, Rola blasted 4 aces and he committed only 2 double faults. Blaz Rola was exceptionally efficient on serve to win 81% (26/32) of his 1st serve and 63% (12/19) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. The Slovenian broke Prihodko 3 times after converting 50% of his break points (3/6).
Rola has good match record in the last 10 years having won 56% of his matches (280-220). 13-8 on clay in 2023. Regarding his performance on the same surface of this event, Rola has a composed 158-111 win-loss record in the last years on clay.
Blaz’s best result of the current season was getting to the final in M15 Monastir.
The Slovenian has a composed 22-9 win-loss record in 2023, 13-8 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Tulln Challenger
Blaz 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. 616, Gerald reached the qualifications after defeating Tommaso Compagnucci 7-64 3-6 6-3.
In the qualifications, Gerald defeated Compagnucci (7-64 3-6 6-3). During the match Melzer scored 103 points vs Compagnucci’s 101. The Austrian was quite aggressive to blast 40 winners.
Talking about serving, Melzer struck 3 aces and he committed only 2 double faults. Gerald Melzer lost the serve 3 times and he saved 5 break points. Furthermore, Melzer put 59% of his first serves in, winning 68% (40/59) of the points behind his 1st serve and 56% (23/41) on the 2nd serve. Melzer broke Compagnucci 3 times after converting 27% of his break points (3/11).
The Austrian’s best result of the season was getting to the semifinal in M15 Vienna.
Gerald has a composed 17-11 win-loss record in 2023, 17-11 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Tulln Challenger
Previously, his best result was reaching the 1st round in 2021 and 2022. See his history.
H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Rola | Melzer |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 1 | 1 |
| Tot Set | 2 | 3 |
| Tot Games | 17 | 31 |
| Pts | 60-42 | 103-101 |
| Total Points | 102 | 204 |
| Winners | 26 | 40 |
| %Winners | 43% | 39% |
Both Rola and Melzer played 1 match. Also both players started their run from the qualifications.At the moment, Gerald Melzer conceded 1 set while Blaz Rola hasn’t surrendered a set so far. Rola has played 1 set(s) less than Melzer (2 vs 3). Therefore, Rola played 14 games less than Melzer. Blaz scored 26 winners (43% of the total points). On the other side, Gerald blasted 40 winners (39%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Rola | Melzer |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 4 | 3 |
| Avg per match | 4 | 3 |
| 1st in | 32/51 | 59/100 |
| %1st in | 63% | 59% |
| 1st pts | 26/32 | 40/59 |
| %1st pts | 81% | 68% |
| 2nd pts | 12/19 | 23/41 |
| %2nd pts | 63% | 56% |
Rola recorded 4 aces . Melzer scored 3 aces . Rola won 81% points behind his first serve. He quite strong on his second serve to win 63% of the points. On the other side, Melzer won 68% of the points behind his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 56% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Rola | Melzer |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 3 | 3 |
| Converted | 3/6 | 3/11 |
| % Converted | 50% | 27% |
| Conceded | 2 | 8 |
| Saved | 2 | 5 |
| % Saved | 100% | 63% |
| Times Broken | 0 | 3 |
The Slovenian broke his opponent 3 times with a 50% conversion rate. Rola was rock solid on his serve as he has never conceded a single service game after saving 2 break points. The Austrian broke his opponent 3 times with a 27% conversion rate. Melzer conceded his serve 3 times and he saved 63% of the break points that he conceded.
| Rola | |||
| Q1 Prihodko |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-3 6-2 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 17 | 17 | |
| pts | 60-42 | 60-42 | |
| Total points | 102 | 102 | |
| Winners | 26 | 26 | |
| %Winners | 43% | 43% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 4 | 4 | |
| Double Faults | 2 | 2 | |
| 1st in | 32/51 | 32/51 | |
| % 1st in | 63% | 63% | |
| 1st pts | 26/32 | 26/32 | |
| % 1st pts | 81% | 81% | |
| 2nd pts | 12/19 | 12/19 | |
| % 2nd pts | 63% | 63% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 3 | 3 | |
| Converted | 3/6 | 3/6 | |
| Converted % | 50% | 50% | |
| Conceded | 2 | 2 | |
| Saved | 2/2 | 2 | |
| Saved % | 100% | 100% | |
| Times Broken | 0 | 0 | |
| Melzer | |||
| Q1 Compagnucci |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 7-64 3-6 6-3 | ||
| Tot Set | 3 | 3 | |
| Tot Games | 31 | 31 | |
| pts | 103-101 | 103-101 | |
| Total points | 204 | 204 | |
| Winners | 40 | 40 | |
| %Winners | 39% | 39% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 3 | 3 | |
| Double Faults | 2 | 2 | |
| 1st in | 59/100 | 59/100 | |
| % 1st in | 59% | 59% | |
| 1st pts | 40/59 | 40/59 | |
| % 1st pts | 68% | 68% | |
| 2nd pts | 23/41 | 23/41 | |
| % 2nd pts | 56% | 56% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 3 | 3 | |
| Converted | 3/11 | 3/11 | |
| Converted % | 27% | 27% | |
| Conceded | 8 | 8 | |
| Saved | 5/8 | 5 | |
| Saved % | 63% | 63% | |
| Times Broken | 3 | 3 | |
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