Gerald Melzer

Gerald Melzer
Melzer 2019 in Paris
Nation:	Austria
Birthday:	July 13, 1990
Size:	188 cm
Weight:	80 kg
1st professional season:	2007
Playing hand:	Left, two-handed backhand
Trainer:	Werner Eschauer
Prize money:	$ 871,161
singles
Career record:	20:34
Highest ranking:	68 (November 8, 2016)
Current placement:	288
Grand Slam record
Double
Career record:	4:10
Highest ranking:	197 (April 28, 2014)
Current placement:	480
Grand Slam record
Last update of the infobox: March 25, 2019
Sources: official player profiles at the ATP / WTA and ITF (see web links )

Gerald Melzer (born July 13, 1990 in Vienna ) is an Austrian tennis player .

biography

Gerald Melzer's father, Kommerzialrat Rudolf Melzer ( SPÖ ), was mayor of Deutsch-Wagram from 1998 to 2001 ; his mother Michaela Melzer is an employee. His older brother Jürgen Melzer is one of the most successful Austrian tennis players.

Career

2008 to 2010

Melzer's greatest success in 2008 was surviving the qualification and reaching the 2nd round of the ATP Challenger tournament in Graz . He also won the double title at the same tournament together with his brother Jürgen.

In July 2010 Gerald Melzer survived the qualification of the ATP tournament in Umag and was thus in the main competition of an ATP World Tour tournament for the first time . There he failed already in the first round against the Czech Jan Hájek with 4: 6, 3: 6. In September of the same year he won his first three futures tournaments in Burundi, Rwanda and Uganda.

Since 2011

After a mediocre start to the season with some first and second round defeats, Melzer won his fourth future in the United States in May 2011 and moved into the finals of the doubles competition at the same tournament. In November Melzer successfully defended his title in the futures in Burundi and Rwanda. In October Melzer took part for the second time in the main competition of the ATP double tournament in Vienna , but failed, as in the previous year, in the first round.

Melzer won further futures in 2012 as well as his second tournament in the Challenger category.

In April 2013 Melzer survived the qualification in Houston and was in the main draw of an ATP tournament for the second time in his career. However, he clearly failed in the first round with 6: 2 and 6: 2 against the Italian Paolo Lorenzi .

In 2014 he made his debut for the Austrian Davis Cup team in Europe-Africa Zone I against Slovakia. However, in the last game, which was of no importance for Slovakia when the score was 3: 1.

2015 he won the Davis Cup in early March in the Euro-African Zone I against Sweden in the last match of the decisive third point for Austria after his Davis Cup experienced brother and Jürgen both their opening single, the double at the side of Alexander Peya lost had, but Andreas Haider-Maurer had won his two singles.

Gerald (right) with his brother Jürgen

Parts of this article seem out of date as of 2015 .
Please help to research and insert the missing information .

successes

Legend (number of victories)

Grand Slam

Tennis Masters Cup

ATP Masters Series ATP World Tour Masters 1000

ATP International Series Gold ATP World Tour 500

ATP International Series ATP World Tour 250

ATP Challenger Tour (11)

singles

Tournament victories

No.	date	competition	Topping	Final opponent	Result
1.	February 22, 2014	Morelos (1)	Hard court	Victor Estrella	6: 1, 6: 4
2.	January 10, 2016	Mendoza	sand	Axel Michon	4: 6, 6: 4, 6: 0
3.	January 31, 2016	Bucaramanga	sand	Paolo Lorenzi	6: 3, 6: 1
4th	20th February 2016	Morelos (2)	Hard court	Alejandro González	7: 6 4 , 6: 3
5.	October 8, 2016	Mohammedia	sand	Stefanos Tsitsipas	3: 6, 6: 3, 6: 2
6th	October 29, 2017	Lima	sand	Jozef Kovalík	7: 5, 7: 6 4
7th	4th November 2017	Guayaquil	sand	Facundo Bagnis	6: 3, 6: 1

Double

Tournament victories

No.	date	competition	Topping	partner	Final opponent	Result
1.	August 2, 2008	Graz	sand	Jürgen Melzer	Julien Jeanpierre Nicolas Renavand	1: 6, 7: 6 8 , [10: 4]
2.	July 29, 2012	Tampere	sand	Michael Linzer	Niels Desein André Ghem	6: 1, 7: 6 3
3.	February 22, 2014	Morelos	Hard court	Andrei Martin	Alejandro Moreno Figueroa Miguel Ángel Reyes-Varela	6: 2, 6: 4
4th	29th July 2017	Cortina d'Ampezzo	sand	Guido Andreozzi	Steven De Waard Ben McLachlan	6: 2, 7: 6 4

Web links

Commons : Gerald Melzer  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• ATP profile of Gerald Melzer (English)
• ITF profile of Gerald Melzer (English)
• Davis Cup stats by Gerald Melzer (English)
• Official website

Individual evidence

1. ^ The other Melzer as a match winner for Austria. In: derstandard.at. March 8, 2015, accessed July 13, 2015 .