Andrea Picchione and Gerald Melzer will face off in the qualifications of the Bad Waltersdorf Challenger for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Monday at 10:00 am on CENTER COURT. Here the head to head stats and relative prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
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 -> 1.42
Andrea Picchione -> 2.71
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Prediction and head to head Andrea Picchione vs. Gerald Melzer
There is no head to head record between Andrea Picchione and Gerald Melzer since this will be the first time that they will square off in the main tour.
Andrea Picchione
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 30-16 | 0-0 | 28-12 | 2-4 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 47-31 | 16-9 | 30-19 | 1-2 | 0-0 | 0-1 |
| 2022 | 42-31 | 10-5 | 32-26 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 36-21 | 6-4 | 28-16 | 0-0 | 2-1 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 3-3 | 3-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 513 (career-high), Picchione got to the qualifications after defeating Jan Kobierski 6-3 6-3.
In the qualifications, Picchione had a good straight sets win against Kobierski (6-3 6-3). During the match, Picchione scored 68 points vs Kobierski’s 51. Picchione was quite aggressive to blast 28 winners.
Talking about the service games, Picchione was unable to score even 1 ace during the encounter and he was quite consistent in conceding no double faults. Andrea Picchione was extremely effective on serve to win 85% (28/33) of his 1st serve and 56% (9/16) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. The Italian broke Kobierski 3 times after converting 38% of his break points (3/8).
Picchione has a solid match record in the last 6 years having won 62% of his matches (164-101). 28-16 on clay in 2023. Talking about his performance on the same surface of this competition, Picchione has an aggregate128-77 win-loss record in the last 6 years on clay.
The Italian’s best result of the current season was getting to the final in M15 Kursumlijska Banja,M15 Perugia and M15 Caslano.
Andrea has a compiled 39-23 win-loss record in 2023, 28-16 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Bad Waltersdorf Challenger
The Italian has never competed in this tournament before.
Gerald Melzer
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 14-9 | 0-0 | 14-9 | 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. 529, the Austrian reached the qualifications after defeating Oriol Roca Batalla 7-63 6-3.
In the qualifications, Gerald had a good straight sets win against Roca Batalla (7-63 6-3). During the match Melzer scored 74 points vs Roca Batalla’s 62. Gerald was extremely aggressive to blast 32 winners.
Talking about serving, Melzer scored 5 aces and he committed only 1 double fault for the entire match. Gerald Melzer was exceptionally effective on serve to win 86% (32/37) of his 1st serve and 64% (23/36) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. Gerald broke Roca Batalla once after converting 25% of his break points (1/4).
Melzer’s best result of the current year was getting to the semifinal in M15 Vienna.
The Austrian has an overall 20-12 win-loss record in 2023, 20-12 on clay (See FULL STATS).
H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Picchione | Melzer |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 1 | 1 |
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 |
| Tot Games | 18 | 22 |
| Pts | 68-51 | 74-62 |
| Total Points | 119 | 136 |
| Winners | 28 | 32 |
| %Winners | 41% | 43% |
Both Picchione 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, Picchione and Melzer have played the same amount of sets 2. However, Picchione played 4 games less than Melzer. The Italian scored 28 winners (41% of the total points). On the other side, The Austrian blasted 32 winners (43%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Picchione | Melzer |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 0 | 5 |
| Avg per match | 0 | 5 |
| 1st in | 33/49 | 37/73 |
| %1st in | 67% | 51% |
| 1st pts | 28/33 | 32/37 |
| %1st pts | 85% | 86% |
| 2nd pts | 9/16 | 23/36 |
| %2nd pts | 56% | 64% |
Picchione didn’t manage to fire a single ace to far. Melzer fired 5 aces . Picchione won 85% points behind his first serve. He was rock solid on his second serve to win 56% of the points. On the other side, Melzer won 86% of the points on his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 64% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Picchione | Melzer |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 3 | 1 |
| Converted | 3/8 | 1/4 |
| % Converted | 38% | 25% |
| Conceded | 0 | 4 |
| Saved | 0 | 4 |
| % Saved | 0% | 100% |
| Times Broken | 0 | 0 |
Andrea broke his opponent 3 times with a 38% conversion rate. Picchione pretty effective on his serve as he has never surrendered a single service game after saving 0 break points. Gerald broke his opponent once with a 25% conversion rate. The Austrian was rock solid on his serve as he has never conceded a single service game after saving 4 break points.
| Picchione | |||
| Q1 Kobierski |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-3 6-3 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 18 | 18 | |
| pts | 68-51 | 68-51 | |
| Total points | 119 | 119 | |
| Winners | 28 | 28 | |
| %Winners | 41% | 41% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 0 | 0 | |
| Double Faults | 0 | 0 | |
| 1st in | 33/49 | 33/49 | |
| % 1st in | 67% | 67% | |
| 1st pts | 28/33 | 28/33 | |
| % 1st pts | 85% | 85% | |
| 2nd pts | 9/16 | 9/16 | |
| % 2nd pts | 56% | 56% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 3 | 3 | |
| Converted | 3/8 | 3/8 | |
| Converted % | 38% | 38% | |
| Conceded | 0 | 0 | |
| Saved | 0/0 | 0 | |
| Saved % | – | 0% | |
| Times Broken | 0 | 0 | |
| Melzer | |||
| Q1 Roca Batalla |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 7-63 6-3 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 22 | 22 | |
| pts | 74-62 | 74-62 | |
| Total points | 136 | 136 | |
| Winners | 32 | 32 | |
| %Winners | 43% | 43% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 5 | 5 | |
| Double Faults | 1 | 1 | |
| 1st in | 37/73 | 37/73 | |
| % 1st in | 51% | 51% | |
| 1st pts | 32/37 | 32/37 | |
| % 1st pts | 86% | 86% | |
| 2nd pts | 23/36 | 23/36 | |
| % 2nd pts | 64% | 64% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 1 | 1 | |
| Converted | 1/4 | 1/4 | |
| Converted % | 25% | 25% | |
| Conceded | 4 | 4 | |
| Saved | 4/4 | 4 | |
| Saved % | 100% | 100% | |
| Times Broken | 0 | 0 | |
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