Santiago Rodriguez Taverna and Gerald Melzer will play each other in the 1^st round of the Szekesfehervar Challenger for the 1^st time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Tuesday at 10:00 am on COURT 2. In this post, we analyze their head to head performance and 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 -> 1.7
Santiago Rodriguez Taverna -> 2.07

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Prediction and head to head Santiago Rodriguez Taverna vs. Gerald Melzer

There is no head to head record between Santiago Rodriguez Taverna and Gerald Melzer since this will be the first time that they will fight against each other in the main tour.

Santiago Rodriguez Taverna

Ranked no. 196, the Argentine will start his run in the Szekesfehervar Challenger after he played his last match in the Tenerife 3 Challenger where he lost 6-2 7-6(4) to Marie in the 1^st round on the 26^th of February.

The Argentine has a compiled 6-7 win-loss record in 2024, 3-4 on clay (See FULL STATS).

Talking about his overall career, Rodriguez Taverna has an overall 263-179 record. He has a positive 192-132 record on clay.

Previously in the Szekesfehervar Challenger

Rodriguez Taverna has never competed in this tournament before.

Gerald Melzer

Ranked no. 541, Gerald got to the 1^st round after defeating Carlos Sanchez Jover 6-0 6-2 and Mathys Erhard 6-3 6-1.

In the qualifications, Gerald had a good straight sets win against Erhard (6-3 6-1). During the match Melzer scored 62 points vs Erhard’s 42. The Austrian was extremely aggressive to blast 20 winners.

About the serving games, Melzer scored just 1 ace during the entire match and he was very consistent in conceding no double faults for the entire match. Overall, Gerald Melzer was very effective on serve to win 83% (20/24) of his 1st serve and 56% (10/18) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve once. Melzer broke Erhard 5 times after converting 83% of his break points (5/6).

Overall Performance in this tournament

The Austrian started his run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, he hasn’t conceded yet a set in this event to conquer 62% of the points he played.

Melzer has an aggregate 5-2 win-loss record in 2024, 5-2 on clay (See FULL STATS)

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Previously in the Szekesfehervar Challenger

Previously, his best result was reaching the 1^st round in 2023. See his history.

Tennis Scores in Szekesfehervar Challenger

• Francesco MaestrelliMaestrelli – Attila BorosBoros (7-5 6-1) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Nerman FaticFatic – Pablo Llamas RuizLlamas Ruiz (6-4 6-7⁵ 6-0) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Zsombor PirosPiros – Giovanni FonioFonio (6-3 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Franco AgamenoneAgamenone – Abedallah ShelbayhShelbayh (7-6² 6-0) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Andrea PellegrinoPellegrino – Timofey SkatovSkatov (6-7² 6-2 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Alessandro GiannessiGiannessi – Mathias BourgueBourgue (6-4 1-6 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings

Upcoming matches in the draw

• Richard GasquetGasquet – Chun Hsin TsengHsin Tseng (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Gerald MelzerMelzer – Santiago Fa Rodriguez TavernaFa Rodriguez Taverna (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Franco AgamenoneAgamenone – Nerman FaticFatic (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Dominic ThiemThiem – Daniel MichalskiMichalski (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Mate ValkuszValkusz – Matteo MartineauMartineau (0-1) – H2H and prediction
• Matyas FueleFuele – Manuel GuinardGuinard (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Filip MisolicMisolic – Zdenek KolarKolar (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Cezar Cretu (ROU)Cretu (ROU) – Pol Martin TiffonMartin Tiffon (1-0) – H2H and prediction
• Titouan DroguetDroguet – Enrico Dalla ValleDalla Valle (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Francesco MaestrelliMaestrelli – Andrea PellegrinoPellegrino (0-2) – H2H and prediction