Louis Wessels and Gerald Melzer will clash against each other in the qualifications of the Mauthausen Challenger for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Monday at 12:30 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 Gerald Melzer who should win in 2 sets.
Gerald Melzer -> 1.25
Louis Wessels -> 3.68
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Prediction and head to head Louis Wessels vs. Gerald Melzer
There is no head to head record between Louis Wessels and Gerald Melzer since this will be the first time that they will fight against each other in the main tour.
Louis Wessels
11 - 12win/loss
433
267
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 12-16 | 3-1 | 7-11 | 1-2 | 0-1 | 1-1 |
| 2023 | 37-36 | 4-4 | 26-18 | 3-10 | 2-2 | 2-2 |
| 2022 | 46-34 | 7-4 | 39-27 | 0-2 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 40-23 | 0-1 | 32-19 | 6-2 | 0-0 | 2-1 |
| 2020 | 3-5 | 1-1 | 0-2 | 2-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 385, the German reached the qualifications after defeating Manuel Lazic 6-3 6-2.
In the qualifications, The German had a good straight sets win against Lazic (6-3 6-2). During the match, Wessels scored 63 points vs Lazic’s 41. The German was exceptionally aggressive to blast 23 winners.
Talking about the service games, Wessels managed to score 3 aces and he committed only 4 double faults. Overall, Louis Wessels was pretty efficient on serve to win 79% (23/29) of his 1st serve and 65% (13/20) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve once. Wessels broke Lazic 4 times after converting 67% of his break points (4/6).
Wessels has positive match record in the last 10 years having won 56% of his matches (253-197). 6-8 on clay in 2024. Regarding his performance on the same surface of this competition, Wessels has an overall 192-128 match record in the last years on clay.
Louis’s best result of the year was reaching the semifinal in M25 Feira de Santana.
Louis has a composed 11-12 win-loss record in 2024, 6-8 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Mauthausen Challenger
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. 494, the Austrian reached the qualifications after beating Neil Oberleitner 7-5 7-5.
In the qualifications, Gerald had a good straight sets win against Oberleitner (7-5 7-5). During the match Melzer scored 75 points vs Oberleitner’s 70. The Austrian was pretty aggressive to blast 35 winners.
About the serving games, Melzer blasted 6 aces and he committed only 1 double fault for the entire match. Gerald Melzer lost the serve twice and he saved 8 break points. Furthermore, Melzer put 65% of his first serves in, winning 66% (35/53) of the points behind his 1st serve and 54% (15/28) on the 2nd serve. The Austrian broke Oberleitner 4 times after converting 67% of his break points (4/6).
The Austrian has an aggregate 10-6 win-loss record in 2024, 10-6 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Mauthausen Challenger
Previously, his best result was reaching the 2nd round in 2022 and 2023. See his history.
H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Wessels | Melzer |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 1 | 1 |
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 |
| Tot Games | 17 | 24 |
| Pts | 63-41 | 75-70 |
| Total Points | 104 | 145 |
| Winners | 23 | 35 |
| %Winners | 37% | 47% |
Both Wessels 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, Wessels and Melzer have played the same amount of sets 2. However, Wessels played 7 games less than Melzer. Louis scored 23 winners (37% of the total points). On the other side, The Austrian recorded 35 winners (47%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Wessels | Melzer |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 3 | 6 |
| Avg per match | 3 | 6 |
| 1st in | 29/49 | 53/81 |
| %1st in | 59% | 65% |
| 1st pts | 23/29 | 35/53 |
| %1st pts | 79% | 66% |
| 2nd pts | 13/20 | 15/28 |
| %2nd pts | 65% | 54% |
Wessels recorded 3 aces . Melzer made 6 aces . Wessels won 79% points behind his first serve. He pretty effective on his second serve to win 65% of the points. On the other side, Melzer won 66% of the points behind his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 54% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Wessels | Melzer |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 4 | 4 |
| Converted | 4/6 | 4/6 |
| % Converted | 67% | 67% |
| Conceded | 5 | 10 |
| Saved | 4 | 8 |
| % Saved | 80% | 80% |
| Times Broken | 1 | 2 |
Wessels broke his opponent 4 times with a 67% conversion rate. The German conceded his serve once and he saved 80% of the break points that he conceded. Gerald broke his opponent 4 times with a 67% conversion rate. Melzer conceded his serve twice and he saved 80% of the break points that he conceded.
| Wessels | |||
| Q1 Lazic | Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-3 6-2 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 17 | 17 | |
| pts | 63-41 | 63-41 | |
| Total points | 104 | 104 | |
| Winners | 23 | 23 | |
| %Winners | 37% | 37% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 3 | 3 | |
| Double Faults | 4 | 4 | |
| 1st in | 29/49 | 29/49 | |
| % 1st in | 59% | 59% | |
| 1st pts | 23/29 | 23/29 | |
| % 1st pts | 79% | 79% | |
| 2nd pts | 13/20 | 13/20 | |
| % 2nd pts | 65% | 65% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 4 | 4 | |
| Converted | 4/6 | 4/6 | |
| Converted % | 67% | 67% | |
| Conceded | 5 | 5 | |
| Saved | 4/5 | 4 | |
| Saved % | 80% | 80% | |
| Times Broken | 1 | 1 | |
| Melzer | |||
| Q1 Oberleitner | Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 7-5 7-5 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 24 | 24 | |
| pts | 75-70 | 75-70 | |
| Total points | 145 | 145 | |
| Winners | 35 | 35 | |
| %Winners | 47% | 47% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 6 | 6 | |
| Double Faults | 1 | 1 | |
| 1st in | 53/81 | 53/81 | |
| % 1st in | 65% | 65% | |
| 1st pts | 35/53 | 35/53 | |
| % 1st pts | 66% | 66% | |
| 2nd pts | 15/28 | 15/28 | |
| % 2nd pts | 54% | 54% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 4 | 4 | |
| Converted | 4/6 | 4/6 | |
| Converted % | 67% | 67% | |
| Conceded | 10 | 10 | |
| Saved | 8/10 | 8 | |
| Saved % | 80% | 80% | |
| Times Broken | 2 | 2 | |
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