Head to head
2
Hard
3
1
Carpet
1
Jiri Novak's wins on the left · Nicolas Kiefer's on the right · bar lengths share one scale
Momentum
Running lead across all meetings, oldest to newest (walkovers excluded).
All meetings (7)
| 2002 | Australian Open | Hard | R128 | Jiri Novak | 6-1 6-0 6-4 |
| 2001 | Rotterdam | Hard | R32 | Nicolas Kiefer | 6-2 6-4 |
| 2000 | Canada Masters | Hard | R32 | Jiri Novak | 6-2 7-5 |
| 2000 | Rotterdam | Hard | R16 | Nicolas Kiefer | 5-7 6-2 7-6(3) |
| 1999 | Basel | Carpet | R16 | Nicolas Kiefer | 6-3 6-7(2) 6-1 |
| 1998 | Ostrava | Carpet | R32 | Jiri Novak | 7-6(5) 0-6 7-6(2) |
| 1998 | Dubai | Hard | R32 | Nicolas Kiefer | 6-1 1-6 6-3 |
Methodology
Head-to-head totals and surface splits exclude walkovers (no match was played), which follows ATP convention — walkover meetings still appear in the match list. The momentum chart plots the running lead across all counted meetings, oldest to newest.