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Jurgen Melzer vs Marat Safin Head to Head Tennis Stats and Match Analysis

Jurgen Melzer seasons:20182017201620152014
Marat Safin seasons:20092008200720062005
🇦🇹 Jurgen Melzer
🇷🇺 Marat Safin
Age: 44y 357d (1981-05-22)
Hand: L
Backhand: 2H
(1980-01-27) Age: 46y 107d
Hand: R
Backhand: 2H
4 - 1
Wins: 80.0% - 20.0%
Hard 3–0Clay 1–0Grass 0–0
Masters 1000 2–1250 1–0Slam 1–0
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🇦🇹Jurgen Melzer and 🇷🇺Marat Safin have met 5 times. Jurgen Melzer currently holds the upper hand, leading the series 4–1.

Looking at their individual career profiles, 🇦🇹Jurgen Melzer has compiled an overall career record of 350–334 across 684 matches, translating to a win rate of 51.17%. On hard courts his record stands at 180–173 (50.99%), while on clay he holds a 123–114 (51.90%) mark. On grass the numbers read 39–35 (52.70%) , and on carpet 8–12 (40.00%). Throughout his career he has won 5 titles (4 hard, 1 clay). Against Top 10 opponents his record reads 13–60 (17.81%).

🇷🇺Marat Safin, on the other hand, enters this matchup with a career mark of 422–267 from 689 matches (61.25% win rate). His hard-court record is 215–140 (60.56%), on clay he stands at 121–82 (59.61%), and on grass he has gone 26–19 (57.78%) , with a carpet record of 60–26 (69.77%). He has accumulated 15 titles in total (10 hard, 2 clay, 3 carpet). Against Top 10 opponents his record stands at 49–50 (49.49%).

When it comes to their head-to-head meetings, the surface breakdown reveals this contrast. On hard courts they have met 3 times, with Jurgen Melzer leading 3–0 (100.00%). The clay record between them sits at 1–0 (100.00% for Jurgen Melzer) across 1 matches.

Dateâ–¼
Tourney
Surface
Round
Wrk
Winner
Lrk
Loser
Score
BoF
Min
WA
WDF
W1stIn
W1st%
W2nd%
BPSvd
2009-08-31US OpenHardR12838🇦🇹Jurgen Melzer58🇷🇺Marat Safin1-6 6-4 6-3 6-451337655.2%84.5%46.8%4/6
2008-03-13Indian Wells MastersHardR12885🇦🇹Jurgen Melzer88🇷🇺Marat Safin7-6(5) 2-6 6-231145359.5%76.0%50.0%1/4
2006-10-02MetzHardR1648🇦🇹Jurgen Melzer63🇷🇺Marat Safin4-6 6-2 7-6(5)31244364.2%72.9%56.4%10/11
2004-11-01Paris MastersCarpetR167🇷🇺Marat Safin (6)43🇦🇹Jurgen Melzer6-2 7-53808058.8%90.0%71.4%3/3
2004-05-10Hamburg MastersClayR1668🇦🇹Jurgen Melzer21🇷🇺Marat Safin6-4 6-43941152.3%82.4%41.9%1/3

Wins

Jurgen Melzer
Marat Safin
4–1Overall
1–0Grand Slam
2–1Masters 1000
1–0ATP 250
3–0Hard
1–0Clay
0–1Indoor Hard

Sets Format

75.0%3
25.0%1
Bo3
100.0%1
0.0%0
Bo5
50.0%1
50.0%1
2 Sets
100.0%2
0.0%0
3 Sets
100.0%1
0.0%0
4 Sets
0.0%0
0.0%0
5 Sets
Jurgen Melzer
Marat Safin

Deciding

100.0%2
0.0%0
Decider Set
100.0%2
0.0%0
Tiebreak Wins
0.0%0
0.0%0
After 3 hours
Jurgen Melzer
Marat Safin

Sets

64.3%9
35.7%5
All
75.0%3
25.0%1
Grand Slam
57.1%4
42.9%3
Masters 1000
70.0%7
30.0%3
Hard
0.0%0
0.0%0
Grass
100.0%2
0.0%0
Clay
0.0%0
100.0%2
Carpet
Jurgen Melzer
Marat Safin

Games

51.5%70
48.5%66
All
52.8%19
47.2%17
Grand Slam
49.3%34
50.7%35
Masters 1000
53.1%51
46.9%45
Hard
0.0%0
0.0%0
Grass
60.0%12
40.0%8
Clay
35.0%7
65.0%13
Carpet
Jurgen Melzer
Marat Safin

Overview

By Surface

Jurgen Melzer
Marat Safin

By Tournament Level

Jurgen Melzer
Marat Safin

By Round

Jurgen Melzer
Marat Safin

By Opponent Ranking

Jurgen MelzerMarat Safin
50%1-1
vs Top 1
28.6%4-10
16.7%5-25
vs Top 5
42.3%22-30
17.8%13-60
vs Top 10
49.5%49-50
26.6%38-105
vs Top 20
49.7%87-88
46.9%246-279
vs Top 100
58%330-239
65.4%104-55
vs +100
76.5%91-28
36.8%112-192
vs Higher
46.5%93-107
62.6%238-142
vs Lower
67.2%328-160

Opponent Breakdown

Jurgen MelzerMarat Safin
48.9%222-232
Vs Younger
55.4%150-121
55.7%128-102
Vs Older
65.1%272-146
50.3%299-296
Vs Right-Handed
61.8%375-232
56.8%50-38
Vs Left-Handed
57.3%47-35
47.2%202-226
Vs 2H Backhand
57.5%176-130
57.1%108-81
Vs 1H Backhand
59.5%135-92
53.6%90-78
Vs Shorter
61.2%373-236
50.6%201-196
Vs Taller
70%28-12

Pressure Situations