Kyle Edmund and Gerald Melzer will clash against each other in the 1^st round of the Tallahassee Challenger for the 5^th 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 5^th 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

Ranked no. 420, Kyle reached the 1^st 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

Ranked no. 563, Melzer got to the 1^st 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)

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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

Tennis Scores in Tallahassee Challenger

• Hady HabibHabib – Denis KudlaKudla (7-6⁶ 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Calvin HemeryHemery – Patrick KypsonKypson (7-6² 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Joel SchwaerzlerSchwaerzler – Giovanni FonioFonio (6-2 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Stefan KozlovKozlov – Gerard Campana LeeCampana Lee (4-6 6-3 6-0) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Henry SearleSearle – Jeff WolfWolf (7-5 7-6⁶) – Stats, scores, rankings

Upcoming matches in the draw

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• Mitchell KruegerKrueger – (0-1) – H2H and prediction
• Alexander RitschardRitschard – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Thai KwiatkowskiKwiatkowski – Tristan BoyerBoyer (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Duarte ValeVale – Corentin DenollyDenolly (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Andres AndradeAndrade – Federico Agustin GomezAgustin Gomez (0-1) – H2H and prediction
• Clement TaburTabur – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Oliver CrawfordCrawford – Dmitry PopkoPopko (0-0) – H2H and prediction