Kyle Edmund and Gerald Melzer will fight against each other in the qualifications of the Tallahassee Challenger for the 4th time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Monday at 12:30 pm on STADIUM. In the following lines you can find the head to head analysis and prediction.
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The pick for Tennis Tonic is Kyle Edmund who should win in 3 sets.
Kyle Edmund -> 1.65
Gerald Melzer -> 2.15
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Prediction and head to head Kyle Edmund vs. Gerald Melzer
This will be the 4th time that Kyle Edmund and Gerald Melzer clash against each other. The head to head is 2-1 for Edmund (see full H2H stats), 2-1 on clay.
The last time that they competed against each other, Edmund won 6-1 6-4 in the qualifications in the Sarasota Challenger back in April 2024.
Kyle Edmund
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 19-13 | 0-0 | 4-5 | 13-6 | 2-2 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 14-16 | 1-7 | 7-6 | 6-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 5-5 | 4-4 | 0-0 | 1-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 10-10 | 5-6 | 0-1 | 5-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 420, the Brit got to the qualifications after defeating Johannes Ingildsen 6-1 6-1.
In the qualifications, Edmund had a good straight sets win against Ingildsen (6-1 6-1). During the match, Edmund scored 60 points vs Ingildsen’s 33. Kyle was exceptionally aggressive to blast 23 winners.
Talking about the service games, Edmund struck 2 aces and he committed only 3 double faults. Kyle Edmund was very effective on serve to win 79% (23/29) of his 1st serve and 63% (10/16) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. Edmund broke Ingildsen 5 times after converting 71% of his break points (5/7).
Edmund has positive win-loss record in the last 10 years having won 59% of his matches (225-154). 2-1 on clay in 2024. In connection with his performance on the same surface of this tournament, Edmund has a compiled 59-37 match record in the last years on clay.
Edmund’s best result of the current season was getting to the final in M25 Loughborough and M25 Sunderland.
Kyle has an aggregate 15-7 win-loss record in 2024, 2-1 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Tallahassee Challenger
The Brit 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. 563, Gerald reached the qualifications after beating Alexander Frusina 6-2 6-4.
In the qualifications, Melzer had a good straight sets win against Frusina (6-2 6-4). During the match Melzer scored 76 points vs Frusina’s 59. Melzer was extremely aggressive to blast 25 winners.
About the serving games, Melzer scored just 1 ace during the entire match and he was pretty consistent in conceding no double faults for the entire match. Gerald Melzer lost the serve once and he saved 2 break points. Furthermore, Melzer put 56% of his first serves in, winning 86% (25/29) of the points behind his 1st serve and 48% (11/23) on the 2nd serve. Melzer broke Frusina 4 times after converting 25% of his break points (4/16).
Melzer has a compiled 6-4 win-loss record in 2024, 6-4 on clay (See FULL STATS).
H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Edmund | Melzer |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 1 | 1 |
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 |
| Tot Games | 14 | 18 |
| Pts | 60-33 | 76-59 |
| Total Points | 93 | 135 |
| Winners | 23 | 25 |
| %Winners | 38% | 33% |
Both Edmund and Melzer played 1 match. Also both players started their run from the qualifications.Both players have not conceded a single set in this event so far. Talking about their workload, Edmund and Melzer have played the same amount of sets 2. However, Edmund played 4 games less than Melzer. The Brit scored 23 winners (38% of the total points). On the other side, Melzer recorded 25 winners (33%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Edmund | Melzer |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 2 | 1 |
| Avg per match | 2 | 1 |
| 1st in | 29/45 | 29/52 |
| %1st in | 64% | 56% |
| 1st pts | 23/29 | 25/29 |
| %1st pts | 79% | 86% |
| 2nd pts | 10/16 | 11/23 |
| %2nd pts | 63% | 48% |
Edmund blasted 2 aces . Melzer struck 1 ace . Edmund won 79% points behind his first serve. He was rock solid on his second serve to win 63% of the points. On the other side, Melzer won 86% of the points behind his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 48% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Edmund | Melzer |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 5 | 4 |
| Converted | 5/7 | 4/16 |
| % Converted | 71% | 25% |
| Conceded | 1 | 3 |
| Saved | 1 | 2 |
| % Saved | 100% | 67% |
| Times Broken | 0 | 1 |
Kyle broke his opponent 5 times with a 71% conversion rate. Kyle pretty solid on his serve as he has never conceded a single service game after saving 1 break points. The Austrian broke his opponent 4 times with a 25% conversion rate. The Austrian conceded his serve once and he saved 67% of the break points that he conceded.
| Edmund | |||
| Q1 Ingildsen | Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-1 6-1 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 14 | 14 | |
| pts | 60-33 | 60-33 | |
| Total points | 93 | 93 | |
| Winners | 23 | 23 | |
| %Winners | 38% | 38% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 2 | 2 | |
| Double Faults | 3 | 3 | |
| 1st in | 29/45 | 29/45 | |
| % 1st in | 64% | 64% | |
| 1st pts | 23/29 | 23/29 | |
| % 1st pts | 79% | 79% | |
| 2nd pts | 10/16 | 10/16 | |
| % 2nd pts | 63% | 63% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 5 | 5 | |
| Converted | 5/7 | 5/7 | |
| Converted % | 71% | 71% | |
| Conceded | 1 | 1 | |
| Saved | 1/1 | 1 | |
| Saved % | 100% | 100% | |
| Times Broken | 0 | 0 | |
| Melzer | |||
| Q1 Frusina | Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-2 6-4 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 18 | 18 | |
| pts | 76-59 | 76-59 | |
| Total points | 135 | 135 | |
| Winners | 25 | 25 | |
| %Winners | 33% | 33% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 1 | 1 | |
| Double Faults | 0 | 0 | |
| 1st in | 29/52 | 29/52 | |
| % 1st in | 56% | 56% | |
| 1st pts | 25/29 | 25/29 | |
| % 1st pts | 86% | 86% | |
| 2nd pts | 11/23 | 11/23 | |
| % 2nd pts | 48% | 48% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 4 | 4 | |
| Converted | 4/16 | 4/16 | |
| Converted % | 25% | 25% | |
| Conceded | 3 | 3 | |
| Saved | 2/3 | 2 | |
| Saved % | 67% | 67% | |
| Times Broken | 1 | 1 | |
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