Career
120 in February 2016. He is the younger brother of top Austrian tennis player Jürgen Melzer and is the son of Rudolf Melzer, an Austrian businessman and mayor of Deutsch-Wagram, and Michaela, a saleswoman. He began playing on the tour in 2007, competing in tournaments in Austria as well as Futures tournaments in Africa.
Jürgen described it as the "worst tennis day of my life and I hope we will never play each other again.".