Kyle Edmund and Gerald Melzer will clash against each other in the 1st round of the Tallahassee Challenger for the 5th time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Tuesday at 6:30 pm on COURT 1. In the following paragraphs, you can find the head to head analysis and prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Kyle Edmund who should win in 3 sets.
As per the initial odds, Kyle Edmund is the pick to win this match.
Kyle Edmund -> 1.55
Gerald Melzer -> 2.35
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Prediction and head to head Kyle Edmund vs. Gerald Melzer
This will be the 5th time that Kyle Edmund and Gerald Melzer fight against each other. The head to head is 2-2 for Edmund and Melzer (see full H2H stats),but they are 2-2 on clay.
The last time that they fought against each other, Melzer won 2-6 6-0 6-3 in the qualifications in the Tallahassee Challenger back in April 2024.
Kyle Edmund
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 39-25 | 8-7 | 4-5 | 25-11 | 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, Kyle reached the 1st round after defeating Johannes Ingildsen 6-1 6-1.
Edmund has positive match record in the last 10 years having won 59% of his matches (225-155). 2-2 on clay in 2024. In connection with his performance on the same surface of this event, Edmund has an aggregate 59-38 win-loss record in the last years on clay.
The Brit’s best result of the year was reaching the final in M25 Loughborough and M25 Sunderland.
Kyle has an overall 15-8 win-loss record in 2024, 2-2 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Tallahassee Challenger
Kyle 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. 563, Melzer got to the 1st round after defeating Alexander Frusina 6-2 6-4 and Kyle Edmund 2-6 6-0 6-3.
In the qualifications against Edmund, Gerald recovered from a 1-set down deficit before winning (2-6 6-0 6-3). During the match Melzer scored 96 points vs Edmund’s 82. Gerald was quite aggressive to blast 32 winners.
Talking about serving, Melzer made 5 aces and he committed only 2 double faults. Gerald Melzer lost the serve 3 times and he saved 13 break points. Furthermore, Melzer put 57% of his first serves in, winning 59% (32/54) of the points behind his 1st serve and 54% (22/41) on the 2nd serve. Melzer broke Edmund 6 times after converting 55% of his break points (6/11).
Overall Performance in this tournament
The Austrian started his run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, he has conceded 1 set in the tournament to win 55% of the points he played.
The Austrian has a compiled 7-4 win-loss record in 2024, 7-4 on clay (See FULL STATS).
H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Edmund | Melzer |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 1 | 2 |
| Tot Set | 2 | 5 |
| Tot Games | 14 | 41 |
| Pts | 60-33 | 172-141 |
| Total Points | 93 | 313 |
| Winners | 23 | 57 |
| %Winners | 38% | 33% |
Edmund played 1 match while Melzer competed in 2 matches. At the moment, Gerald Melzer surrendered 1 set while Kyle Edmund hasn’t lost a set so far. Edmund has played 3 set(s) less than Melzer (2 vs 5). Therefore, Edmund played 27 games less than Melzer. Edmund scored 23 winners (38% of the total points). On the other side, The Austrian struck 57 winners (33%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Edmund | Melzer |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 2 | 6 |
| Avg per match | 2 | 3 |
| 1st in | 29/45 | 83/147 |
| %1st in | 64% | 56% |
| 1st pts | 23/29 | 57/83 |
| %1st pts | 79% | 69% |
| 2nd pts | 10/16 | 33/64 |
| %2nd pts | 63% | 52% |
Edmund fired 2 aces . Melzer managed to score 6 aces (3 per match). Edmund won 79% points behind his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 63% of the points. On the other side, Melzer won 69% of the points on his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 52% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Edmund | Melzer |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 5 | 10 |
| Converted | 5/7 | 10/27 |
| % Converted | 71% | 37% |
| Conceded | 1 | 19 |
| Saved | 1 | 15 |
| % Saved | 100% | 79% |
| Times Broken | 0 | 4 |
Edmund broke his opponent 5 times with a 71% conversion rate. Kyle quite strong on his serve as he has never dropped a single service game after saving 1 break points. Gerald broke his opponents 10 times with a 37% conversion rate. The Austrian conceded his serve 4 times and he saved 79% of the break points that he conceded.
| Edmund | ||||
| Q1 Ingildsen |
Q3 Melzer |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-1 6-1 | 2-6 6-0 6-3 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 3 | 5 | |
| Tot Games | 14 | 23 | 37 | |
| pts | 60-33 | – | 60-33 | |
| Total points | 93 | 0 | 93 | |
| Winners | 23 | 23 | ||
| %Winners | 38% | 0% | 38% | |
| SERVE | ||||
| Aces | 2 | 0 | 2 | |
| Double Faults | 3 | 3 | ||
| 1st in | 29/45 | / | 29/45 | |
| % 1st in | 64% | 0% | 64% | |
| 1st pts | 23/29 | / | 23/29 | |
| % 1st pts | 79% | 0% | 79% | |
| 2nd pts | 10/16 | / | 10/16 | |
| % 2nd pts | 63% | 0% | 63% | |
| Breaks | ||||
| Won | 5 | 5 | ||
| Converted | 5/7 | / | 5/7 | |
| Converted % | 71% | 0% | 71% | |
| Conceded | 1 | 1 | ||
| Saved | 1/1 | 0/ | 1 | |
| Saved % | 100% | – | 50% | |
| Times Broken | 0 | 0 | ||
| Melzer | ||||
| Q1 Frusina |
Q3 Edmund |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-2 6-4 | 2-6 6-0 6-3 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 3 | 5 | |
| Tot Games | 18 | 23 | 41 | |
| pts | 76-59 | 96-82 | 172-141 | |
| Total points | 135 | 178 | 313 | |
| Winners | 25 | 32 | 57 | |
| %Winners | 33% | 33% | 33% | |
| SERVE | ||||
| Aces | 1 | 5 | 6 | |
| Double Faults | 0 | 2 | 2 | |
| 1st in | 29/52 | 54/95 | 83/147 | |
| % 1st in | 56% | 57% | 56% | |
| 1st pts | 25/29 | 32/54 | 57/83 | |
| % 1st pts | 86% | 59% | 69% | |
| 2nd pts | 11/23 | 22/41 | 33/64 | |
| % 2nd pts | 48% | 54% | 52% | |
| Breaks | ||||
| Won | 4 | 6 | 10 | |
| Converted | 4/16 | 6/11 | 10/27 | |
| Converted % | 25% | 55% | 37% | |
| Conceded | 3 | 16 | 19 | |
| Saved | 2/3 | 13/16 | 15 | |
| Saved % | 67% | 81% | 74% | |
| Times Broken | 1 | 3 | 4 | |
Head 2 Head
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