Jerome Kym and Gerald Melzer will play each other in the 1^st round of the Mauthausen Challenger for the 1^st time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Tuesday at 5:30 pm on CENTRE COURT. Here the head to head stats and relative prediction.

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The pick for Tennis Tonic is Jerome Kym who should win in 3 sets.

As per the initial odds, Jerome Kym is the pick to win this match.
Jerome Kym -> 1.71
Gerald Melzer -> 2.06

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Prediction and head to head Jerome Kym vs. Gerald Melzer

There is no head to head record between Jerome Kym and Gerald Melzer since this will be the first time that they will square off in the main tour.

Jerome Kym

Ranked no. 478, Kym reached the 1^st round after defeating Lukas Pokorny 7-6³ 4-6 6-2 and Matej Dodig 6-3 7-5.

In the qualifications, Jerome had a good straight sets win against Dodig (6-3 7-5). During the match, Kym scored 76 points vs Dodig’s 51. Kym was quite aggressive to blast 34 winners.

Regarding the service games, Kym fired 10 aces and he committed only 2 double faults. Jerome Kym was pretty effective on serve to win 89% (34/38) of his 1st serve and 73% (11/15) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. Kym broke Dodig twice after converting 29% of his break points (2/7).

Overall Performance in this tournament

Jerome started his run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, he has lost 1 set in this tournament to win 56% of the points he played.

Kym has a solid win-loss record in the last 6 years having won 66% of his matches (90-46). 10-2 on clay in 2024. Talking about his performance on the same surface of this event, Kym has an aggregate44-25 record in the last 6 years on clay.

Jerome’s best result of the season was getting to the final in M15 Manacor and M15 Antalya.

Kym has a composed 18-5 win-loss record in 2024, 10-2 on clay (See FULL STATS).

Previously in the Mauthausen Challenger

Gerald Melzer

Ranked no. 497, the Austrian reached the 1^st round after beating Neil Oberleitner 7-5 7-5 and Louis Wessels 6-4 6-3.

In the qualifications, Gerald had a good straight sets win against Wessels (6-4 6-3). During the match Melzer scored 66 points vs Wessels’s 48. The Austrian was exceptionally aggressive to blast 23 winners.

About the serving games, Melzer made 2 aces and he committed only 1 double fault for the entire match. Overall, Gerald Melzer was quite efficient on serve to win 82% (23/28) of his 1st serve and 58% (14/24) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve once. The Austrian broke Wessels 4 times after converting 57% of his break points (4/7).

Overall Performance in this tournament

Gerald started his run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, he hasn’t conceded yet a set in this event to win 54% of the points he played.

The Austrian has an overall 11-6 win-loss record in 2024, 11-6 on clay (See FULL STATS).

Previously in the Mauthausen Challenger

Previously, his best result was reaching the 2^nd round in 2022 and 2023. See his history.

H2H Performance in the tournament

Matches, sets, games and points

Points	Kym	Melzer
Match played	2	2
Tot Set	5	4
Tot Games	52	43
Pts	188-149	141-118
Total Points	337	259
Winners	76	58
%Winners	40%	41%

Both Kym and Melzer played 2 matches. Also both players started their run from the qualifications.At the moment, Jerome Kym conceded 1 set while Gerald Melzer hasn’t conceded a set so far. Kym has played 1 set more than Melzer (5 vs 4). Therefore, Kym played 9 games more than Melzer. The Swiss scored 76 winners (40% of the total points). On the other side, Gerald blasted 58 winners (41%).

Serve Performance

Serve	Kym	Melzer
Aces	18	8
Avg per match	9	4
1st in	93/139	81/133
%1st in	67%	61%
1st pts	76/93	58/81
%1st pts	82%	72%
2nd pts	30/46	29/52
%2nd pts	65%	56%

Kym fired 18 aces (9 per match). Melzer fired 8 aces (4 per match). Kym won 82% points behind his first serve. He quite strong on his second serve to win 65% of the points. On the other side, Melzer won 72% of the points on his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 56% of the points.

How they played the important points

Breaks	Kym	Melzer
Won	5	8
Converted	5/22	8/13
% Converted	23%	62%
Conceded	5	13
Saved	3	10
% Saved	60%	77%
Times Broken	2	3

Jerome broke his opponents 5 times with a 23% conversion rate. The Swiss conceded his serve twice and he saved 60% of the break points that he conceded. Melzer broke his opponents 8 times with a 62% conversion rate. Melzer conceded his serve 3 times and he saved 77% of the break points that he conceded.

Kym
	Q1 Pokorny	Q3 Dodig	Total
Score	7-63 4-6 6-2	6-3 7-5
Tot Set	3	2	5
Tot Games	31	21	52
pts	112-98	76-51	188-149
Total points	210	127	337
Winners	42	34	76
%Winners	38%	45%	40%
SERVE
Aces	8	10	18
Double Faults	2	2	4
1st in	55/86	38/53	93/139
% 1st in	64%	72%	67%
1st pts	42/55	34/38	76/93
% 1st pts	76%	89%	82%
2nd pts	19/31	11/15	30/46
% 2nd pts	61%	73%	65%
Breaks
Won	3	2	5
Converted	3/15	2/7	5/22
Converted %	20%	29%	23%
Conceded	3	2	5
Saved	1/3	2/2	3
Saved %	33%	100%	67%
Times Broken	2	0	2

Melzer
	Q1 Oberleitner	Q3 Wessels	Total
Score	7-5 7-5	6-4 6-3
Tot Set	2	2	4
Tot Games	24	19	43
pts	75-70	66-48	141-118
Total points	145	114	259
Winners	35	23	58
%Winners	47%	35%	41%
SERVE
Aces	6	2	8
Double Faults	1	1	2
1st in	53/81	28/52	81/133
% 1st in	65%	54%	61%
1st pts	35/53	23/28	58/81
% 1st pts	66%	82%	72%
2nd pts	15/28	14/24	29/52
% 2nd pts	54%	58%	56%
Breaks
Won	4	4	8
Converted	4/6	4/7	8/13
Converted %	67%	57%	62%
Conceded	10	3	13
Saved	8/10	2/3	10
Saved %	80%	67%	74%
Times Broken	2	1	3

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• Filip MisolicMisolic – Marc-Andrea HueslerHuesler (6-2 3-6 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Jan ChoinskiChoinski – Benjamin HassanHassan (6-2 2-0 ret.) – Stats, scores, rankings

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