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Jiri Novak vs Patrick Rafter Head to Head Tennis Stats and Match Analysis

Jiri Novak seasons:20062005200420032002
Patrick Rafter seasons:20012000199919981997
🇨🇿 Jiri Novak
🇦🇺 Patrick Rafter
Age: 50y 362d (1975-03-22)
Hand: R
Backhand: 2H
(1972-12-28) Age: 53y 81d
Hand: R
Backhand: 1H
2 - 2
Wins: 50.0% - 50.0%
Hard 2–1Clay 0–0Grass 0–0
250 11Masters 1000 11
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🇨🇿Jiri Novak and 🇦🇺Patrick Rafter have met 4 times. The series is tied 22.

Looking at their individual career profiles, 🇨🇿Jiri Novak has compiled an overall career record of 337260 across 597 matches, translating to a win rate of 56.45%. On hard courts his record stands at 155112 (58.05%), while on clay he holds a 12899 (56.39%) mark. On grass the numbers read 1717 (50.00%) , and on carpet 3732 (53.62%). Throughout his career he has won 7 titles (2 hard, 4 clay, 1 carpet). Against Top 10 opponents his record reads 2148 (30.43%).

🇦🇺Patrick Rafter, on the other hand, enters this matchup with a career mark of 358191 from 549 matches (65.21% win rate). His hard-court record is 212105 (66.88%), on clay he stands at 3634 (51.43%), and on grass he has gone 7425 (74.75%) , with a carpet record of 3627 (57.14%). He has accumulated 11 titles in total (7 hard, 4 grass). Against Top 10 opponents his record stands at 3549 (41.67%).

When it comes to their head-to-head meetings, the surface breakdown reveals this contrast. On hard courts they have met 3 times, with Jiri Novak leading 21 (66.67%).

Date
Tourney
Surface
Round
Wrk
Winner
Lrk
Loser
Score
BoF
Min
WA
WDF
W1stIn
W1st%
W2nd%
BPSvd
2000-07-31Canada MastersHardQF55🇨🇿Jiri Novak15🇦🇺Patrick Rafter (14)3-6 7-6(1) 6-231084172.7%70.3%62.5%9/11
1999-08-02Canada MastersHardR162🇦🇺Patrick Rafter (1)41🇨🇿Jiri Novak6-3 6-43724459.4%70.7%50.0%5/6
1996-01-01AdelaideHardR3253🇨🇿Jiri Novak66🇦🇺Patrick Rafter6-4 6-43761273.0%69.6%64.7%3/4
1995-10-09OstravaCarpetR1657🇦🇺Patrick Rafter82🇨🇿Jiri Novak6-3 6-23599554.7%82.8%62.5%3/3

Wins

Jiri Novak
Patrick Rafter
22Overall
11Masters 1000
11ATP 250
21Hard
01Indoor Hard

Sets Format

50.0%2
50.0%2
Bo3
0.0%0
0.0%0
Bo5
33.3%1
66.7%2
2 Sets
100.0%1
0.0%0
3 Sets
0.0%0
0.0%0
4 Sets
0.0%0
0.0%0
5 Sets
Jiri Novak
Patrick Rafter

Deciding

100.0%1
0.0%0
Decider Set
100.0%1
0.0%0
Tiebreak Wins
0.0%0
0.0%0
After 3 hours
Jiri Novak
Patrick Rafter

Sets

44.4%4
55.6%5
All
0.0%0
0.0%0
Grand Slam
40.0%2
60.0%3
Masters 1000
57.1%4
42.9%3
Hard
0.0%0
0.0%0
Grass
0.0%0
0.0%0
Clay
0.0%0
100.0%2
Carpet
Jiri Novak
Patrick Rafter

Games

46.5%40
53.5%46
All
0.0%0
0.0%0
Grand Slam
46.9%23
53.1%26
Masters 1000
50.7%35
49.3%34
Hard
0.0%0
0.0%0
Grass
0.0%0
0.0%0
Clay
29.4%5
70.6%12
Carpet
Jiri Novak
Patrick Rafter

Overview

By Surface

Jiri Novak
Patrick Rafter

By Tournament Level

Jiri Novak
Patrick Rafter

By Round

Jiri Novak
Patrick Rafter

By Opponent Ranking

Jiri NovakPatrick Rafter
12.5%1-7
vs Top 1
26.7%4-11
31.4%11-24
vs Top 5
40.4%21-31
30.4%21-48
vs Top 10
41.7%35-49
33.3%40-80
vs Top 20
45.8%70-83
52.7%252-226
vs Top 100
60.6%255-166
70.9%83-34
vs +100
80%100-25
42%92-127
vs Higher
40.4%63-93
64.6%243-133
vs Lower
74.9%292-98

Opponent Breakdown

Jiri NovakPatrick Rafter
55.1%188-153
Vs Younger
72.5%153-58
58.2%149-107
Vs Older
60.7%205-133
55.4%284-229
Vs Right-Handed
64.6%296-162
62.7%52-31
Vs Left-Handed
67.8%61-29
51.4%114-108
Vs 2H Backhand
60.2%100-66
57.2%95-71
Vs 1H Backhand
55.8%58-46
56.8%268-204
Vs Shorter
64%142-80
55%33-27
Vs Taller
64.7%143-78

Pressure Situations