Head to head
4
Hard
1
1
Clay
0
0
Grass
1
Jiri Novak's wins on the left · Xavier Malisse's on the right · bar lengths share one scale
Momentum
Running lead across all meetings, oldest to newest (walkovers excluded).
All meetings (7)
| 2006 | US Open | Hard | R32 | Jiri Novak | 6-7(6) 6-3 6-4 6-4 |
| 2005 | Delray Beach | Hard | F | Xavier Malisse | 7-6(6) 6-2 |
| 2004 | Wimbledon | Grass | R128 | Xavier Malisse | 6-3 6-4 6-4 |
| 2004 | Auckland | Hard | R32 | Jiri Novak | 7-6(7) 6-7(4) 6-3 |
| 2002 | Canada Masters | Hard | R64 | Jiri Novak | 6-3 6-3 |
| 1998 | Mexico City | Clay | F | Jiri Novak | 6-3 6-3 |
| 1998 | Indianapolis | Hard | R64 | Jiri Novak | 6-3 7-5 |
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.