Geoffrey Blancaneaux and Filip Cristian Jianu will play each other in the 2nd round of the Antalya 3 Challenger for the 2nd time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Wednesday at 10:00 am on COURT 11. In this post, we analyze their head to head performance and prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Geoffrey Blancaneaux who should win in 3 sets.
As per the initial odds, Geoffrey Blancaneaux is the pick to win this match.
Geoffrey Blancaneaux -> 1.61
Filip Cristian Jianu -> 2.32
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Prediction and head to head Geoffrey Blancaneaux vs. Filip Cristian Jianu
This will be the 2nd time that Geoffrey Blancaneaux and Filip Cristian Jianu play each other. The head to head is 1-0 for Blancaneaux (see full H2H stats), 1-0 on clay.
The last time that they fought against each other, Blancaneaux won 6-2 6-3 in the 1st round in the Losinj Challenger back in October 2021.
Geoffrey Blancaneaux
Ranked no. 281, the French player got to the 2nd round after defeating Miljan Zekic 7-62 6-3.
In the 1st round, Blancaneaux had a good straight sets win against Zekic (7-62 6-3). During the match, Blancaneaux scored 81 points vs Zekic’s 67. The French player was exceptionally aggressive to blast 33 winners.
Regarding the service games, Blancaneaux wasn’t able to score even 1 ace during the match and he committed only 3 double faults. Geoffrey Blancaneaux lost the serve 3 times and he saved 5 break points. Furthermore, Blancaneaux put 74% of his first serves in, winning 61% (33/54) of the points behind his 1st serve and 53% (10/19) on the 2nd serve. Geoffrey broke Zekic 5 times after converting 63% of his break points (5/8).
Blancaneaux has a winning match record in the last 6 years having won 59% of his matches (206-144). 13-18 on clay in 2021. Talking about his performance on the same surface of this tournament, Blancaneaux has an overall104-71 match record in the last 6 years on clay.
Geoffrey has an aggregate 22-30 win-loss record in 2021, 13-18 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Antalya 3 Challenger
The French player has never competed in this tournament before.
Filip Cristian Jianu
Ranked no. 327, Cristian reached the 2nd round after defeating Mick Veldheer 6-1 6-4.
In the 1st round, Cristian had a good straight sets win against Veldheer (6-1 6-4). During the match Cristian scored 65 points vs Veldheer’s 45. Cristian was pretty aggressive to blast 24 winners.
Talking about serving, Cristian wasn’t able to score even 1 ace for the entire match and he was quite steady in conceding no double faults for the entire match. Overall, Filip Cristian Jianu was exceptionally efficient on serve to win 75% (24/32) of his 1st serve and 64% (7/11) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve once. The Romanian broke Veldheer 5 times after converting 42% of his break points (5/12).
Cristian’s best result of the current year was reaching the final in M15 Cairo,M15 Antalya and M15 Heraklion.
Cristian has a composed 47-36 win-loss record in 2021, 38-25 on clay (See FULL STATS).
H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Blancaneaux | Cristian |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 1 | 1 |
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 |
| Tot Games | 22 | 17 |
| Pts | 81-67 | 65-45 |
| Total Points | 148 | 110 |
| Winners | 33 | 24 |
| %Winners | 41% | 37% |
Both Blancaneaux and Cristian played 1 match. Both players have not lost a single set in this event so far. Talking about their workload, Blancaneaux and Cristian have played the same amount of sets 2. However, Blancaneaux played 5 games more than Cristian. The French player scored 33 winners (41% of the total points). On the other side, The Romanian blasted 24 winners (37%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Blancaneaux | Cristian |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 0 | 0 |
| Avg per match | 0 | 0 |
| 1st in | 54/73 | 32/43 |
| %1st in | 74% | 74% |
| 1st pts | 33/54 | 24/32 |
| %1st pts | 61% | 75% |
| 2nd pts | 10/19 | 7/11 |
| %2nd pts | 53% | 64% |
Blancaneaux didn’t manage to fire a single ace to far. Cristian also didn’t manage to fire a single ace to far. Blancaneaux won 61% points behind his first serve. He was rock solid on his second serve to win 53% of the points. On the other side, Cristian won 75% of the points behind his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 64% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Blancaneaux | Cristian |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 5 | 5 |
| Converted | 5/8 | 5/12 |
| % Converted | 63% | 42% |
| Conceded | 8 | 4 |
| Saved | 5 | 3 |
| % Saved | 63% | 75% |
| Times Broken | 3 | 1 |
The French player broke his opponent 5 times with a 63% conversion rate. Geoffrey dropped his serve 3 times and he saved 63% of the break points that he conceded. Filip broke his opponent 5 times with a 42% conversion rate. Cristian conceded his serve once and he saved 75% of the break points that he conceded.
| Blancaneaux | |||
| R1 Zekic |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 7-62 6-3 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 22 | 22 | |
| pts | 81-67 | 81-67 | |
| Total points | 148 | 148 | |
| Winners | 33 | 33 | |
| %Winners | 41% | 41% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 0 | 0 | |
| Double Faults | 3 | 3 | |
| 1st in | 54/73 | 54/73 | |
| % 1st in | 74% | 74% | |
| 1st pts | 33/54 | 33/54 | |
| % 1st pts | 61% | 61% | |
| 2nd pts | 10/19 | 10/19 | |
| % 2nd pts | 53% | 53% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 5 | 5 | |
| Converted | 5/8 | 5/8 | |
| Converted % | 63% | 63% | |
| Conceded | 8 | 8 | |
| Saved | 5/8 | 5 | |
| Saved % | 63% | 63% | |
| Times Broken | 3 | 3 | |
| Cristian | |||
| R1 Veldheer |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-1 6-4 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 17 | 17 | |
| pts | 65-45 | 65-45 | |
| Total points | 110 | 110 | |
| Winners | 24 | 24 | |
| %Winners | 37% | 37% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 0 | 0 | |
| Double Faults | 0 | 0 | |
| 1st in | 32/43 | 32/43 | |
| % 1st in | 74% | 74% | |
| 1st pts | 24/32 | 24/32 | |
| % 1st pts | 75% | 75% | |
| 2nd pts | 7/11 | 7/11 | |
| % 2nd pts | 64% | 64% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 5 | 5 | |
| Converted | 5/12 | 5/12 | |
| Converted % | 42% | 42% | |
| Conceded | 4 | 4 | |
| Saved | 3/4 | 3 | |
| Saved % | 75% | 75% | |
| Times Broken | 1 | 1 | |
Head 2 Head
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LLLWWWWLWW Tennis Scores in Antalya 3 Challenger
- Filip Cristian JianuCristian Jianu – Mick VeldheerVeldheer (6-1 6-4) – See score progression
- Nuno BorgesBorges – Ergi KirkinKirkin (6-4 6-3) – See score progression
- Dalibor SvrcinaSvrcina – Goncalo OliveiraOliveira (6-4 0-0 ret.) – See score progression
- Yanki ErelErel – Evgeny TyurnevTyurnev (7-65 5-7 3-3 ret.) – See score progression
- Ryan PenistonPeniston – Nerman FaticFatic (2-6 6-1 6-3) – See score progression
- Filip MisolicMisolic – Chun Hsin TsengHsin Tseng (6-2 5-7 7-67) – See score progression
- Oliver CrawfordCrawford – Nikolas Sanchez-IzquierdoSanchez-Izquierdo (6-1 6-3) – See score progression
- Eduard Esteve LobatoEsteve Lobato – Duckhee LeeLee (6-2 6-3) – See score progression
- Tiago CacaoCacao – Aleksandre MetreveliMetreveli (6-3 6-2) – See score progression
- Geoffrey BlancaneauxBlancaneaux – Miljan ZekicZekic (7-62 6-3) – See score progression
- Joao DominguesDomingues – Riccardo BonadioBonadio (7-64 4-6 6-1) – See score progression
- Ramkumar RamanathanRamanathan – Louis WesselsWessels (6-2 6-3) – See score progression
- Nick HardtHardt – Aziz DougazDougaz (6-2 6-2) – See score progression
- Duje AjdukovicAjdukovic – Nick ChappellChappell (6-4 5-7 7-5) – See score progression
- Javier Barranco CosanoBarranco Cosano – Oriol Roca BatallaRoca Batalla (7-64 6-4) – See score progression
- Cem IlkelIlkel – Yu Hsiou HsuHsiou Hsu (6-3 6-4) – See score progression
Upcoming matches in the draw
- Cem IlkelIlkel – Javier Barranco CosanoBarranco Cosano (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Ryan PenistonPeniston – Dalibor SvrcinaSvrcina (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Nuno BorgesBorges – Yanki ErelErel (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Nick HardtHardt – Joao DominguesDomingues (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Duje AjdukovicAjdukovic – Tiago CacaoCacao (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Oliver CrawfordCrawford – Ramkumar RamanathanRamanathan (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Filip MisolicMisolic – Eduard Esteve LobatoEsteve Lobato (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Filip Cristian JianuCristian Jianu – Geoffrey BlancaneauxBlancaneaux (0-1) – H2H and prediction
