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Gilles Simon vs Jurgen Melzer Head to Head Tennis Stats and Match Analysis

Gilles Simon seasons:20222021202020192018
Jurgen Melzer seasons:20182017201620152014
🇫🇷 Gilles Simon
🇦🇹 Jurgen Melzer
Age: 41y 83d (1984-12-27)
Hand: R
Backhand: 2H
(1981-05-22) Age: 44y 302d
Hand: L
Backhand: 2H
4 - 2
Wins: 66.7% - 33.3%
Hard 4–0Clay 0–2Grass 0–0
250 11Davis Cup 01Masters 1000 30
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🇫🇷Gilles Simon and 🇦🇹Jurgen Melzer have met 6 times. Gilles Simon currently holds the upper hand, leading the series 42.

Looking at their individual career profiles, 🇫🇷Gilles Simon has compiled an overall career record of 504394 across 898 matches, translating to a win rate of 56.12%. On hard courts his record stands at 301225 (57.22%), while on clay he holds a 147119 (55.26%) mark. On grass the numbers read 5243 (54.74%) , and on carpet 47 (36.36%). Throughout his career he has won 14 titles (9 hard, 5 clay). Against Top 10 opponents his record reads 3494 (26.56%).

🇦🇹Jurgen Melzer, on the other hand, enters this matchup with a career mark of 350334 from 684 matches (51.17% win rate). His hard-court record is 180173 (50.99%), on clay he stands at 123114 (51.90%), and on grass he has gone 3935 (52.70%) , with a carpet record of 812 (40.00%). He has accumulated 5 titles in total (4 hard, 1 clay). Against Top 10 opponents his record stands at 1360 (17.81%).

When it comes to their head-to-head meetings, the surface breakdown reveals this contrast. On hard courts they have met 4 times, with Gilles Simon leading 40 (100.00%). The clay record between them sits at 20 (100.00% for Jurgen Melzer) across 2 matches.

Date
Tourney
Surface
Round
Wrk
Winner
Lrk
Loser
Score
BoF
Min
WA
WDF
W1stIn
W1st%
W2nd%
BPSvd
2012-10-07Shanghai MastersHardR6418🇫🇷Gilles Simon (15)35🇦🇹Jurgen Melzer6-4 6-23822347.5%72.4%59.4%3/3
2012-03-21Miami MastersHardR3213🇫🇷Gilles Simon (13)22🇦🇹Jurgen Melzer (22)7-6(5) 6-43993050.8%73.3%79.3%0/1
2011-08-14Cincinnati MastersHardR6412🇫🇷Gilles Simon (10)18🇦🇹Jurgen Melzer6-7(3) 6-3 7-5314010444.3%79.5%67.3%0/1
2011-03-04Davis Cup WG R1: AUT vs FRAClayRR10🇦🇹Jurgen Melzer30🇫🇷Gilles Simon7-6(7) 3-6 1-6 6-4 6-05------0/0
2009-09-28BangkokHardSF10🇫🇷Gilles Simon (2)44🇦🇹Jurgen Melzer (6)6-4 7-6(3)31088155.9%76.3%66.7%3/4
2006-09-11BucharestClayR1667🇦🇹Jurgen Melzer46🇫🇷Gilles Simon (4)3-6 6-3 6-431335262.1%59.4%41.0%6/12

Wins

Gilles Simon
Jurgen Melzer
42Overall
30Masters 1000
11ATP 250
01Davis Cup
40Hard
02Clay

Sets Format

80.0%4
20.0%1
Bo3
0.0%0
100.0%1
Bo5
100.0%3
0.0%0
2 Sets
50.0%1
50.0%1
3 Sets
0.0%0
0.0%0
4 Sets
0.0%0
100.0%1
5 Sets
Gilles Simon
Jurgen Melzer

Deciding

33.3%1
66.7%2
Decider Set
75.0%3
25.0%1
Tiebreak Wins
0.0%0
0.0%0
After 3 hours
Gilles Simon
Jurgen Melzer

Sets

64.7%11
35.3%6
All
0.0%0
0.0%0
Grand Slam
85.7%6
14.3%1
Masters 1000
88.9%8
11.1%1
Hard
0.0%0
0.0%0
Grass
37.5%3
62.5%5
Clay
0.0%0
0.0%0
Carpet
Gilles Simon
Jurgen Melzer

Games

53.8%92
46.2%79
All
0.0%0
0.0%0
Grand Slam
58.7%44
41.3%31
Masters 1000
58.2%57
41.8%41
Hard
0.0%0
0.0%0
Grass
47.9%35
52.1%38
Clay
0.0%0
0.0%0
Carpet
Gilles Simon
Jurgen Melzer

Overview

By Surface

Gilles Simon
Jurgen Melzer

By Tournament Level

Gilles Simon
Jurgen Melzer

By Round

Gilles Simon
Jurgen Melzer

By Opponent Ranking

Gilles SimonJurgen Melzer
25%2-6
vs Top 1
50%1-1
18.2%12-54
vs Top 5
16.7%5-25
26.6%34-94
vs Top 10
17.8%13-60
32.4%66-138
vs Top 20
26.6%38-105
51.7%377-352
vs Top 100
46.9%246-279
75.1%127-42
vs +100
65.4%104-55
36.2%106-187
vs Higher
36.8%112-192
65.8%398-207
vs Lower
62.6%238-142

Opponent Breakdown

Gilles SimonJurgen Melzer
53.9%284-243
Vs Younger
48.9%222-232
59.3%220-151
Vs Older
55.7%128-102
56.5%451-347
Vs Right-Handed
50.3%299-296
53%53-47
Vs Left-Handed
56.8%50-38
56.7%358-273
Vs 2H Backhand
47.2%202-226
51.1%120-115
Vs 1H Backhand
57.1%108-81
61.1%110-70
Vs Shorter
53.6%90-78
54.4%312-262
Vs Taller
50.6%201-196

Pressure Situations