Filip Cristian Jianu and Sebastian Fanselow will clash against each other in the 1st round of the Shymkent 1 Challenger for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Tuesday at 12:00 pm on COURT 8. In the following lines you can find the head to head analysis and prediction.

Prediction, odds and live streaming

The pick for Tennis Tonic is Filip Cristian Jianu who should win in 2 sets.

As per the initial odds, Filip Cristian Jianu is the pick to win this match.
Filip Cristian Jianu -> 1.42
Sebastian Fanselow -> 2.78

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Prediction and head to head Filip Cristian Jianu vs. Sebastian Fanselow

There is no head to head record between Filip Cristian Jianu and Sebastian Fanselow since this will be the first time that they will fight against each other in the main tour.

Filip Cristian Jianu

Filip Cristian Jianu

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Rank
289
High
210
LWWWWWLWWL
Year Total Hard Clay I.hard Grass Carpet
2025 39-39 2-5 37-30 0-3 0-1 0-0
2024 70-34 0-0 70-33 0-1 0-0 0-0
2023 52-35 2-2 44-29 6-4 0-0 0-0
2022 32-38 3-9 22-20 7-9 0-0 0-0
2021 50-39 7-5 41-28 2-4 0-1 0-1

Ranked no. 295, Cristian Jianu will start his run in the Shymkent 1 Challenger after he played his last match in the Morelos Challenger where he lost 6-4 6-3 to Mejia in the 1st round on the 26th of April.

Filip has an overall 9-13 win-loss record in 2022, 3-5 on clay (See FULL STATS).

Filip’s best result of the year was getting to the semifinal in the Aguascalientes Challenger.

Talking about his overall career, The Romanian has an overall 139-101 record. He has a positive 108-69 record on clay.

Previously in the Shymkent 1 Challenger

The Romanian has never competed in this tournament before.

Shymkent 1 Challenger
Cristian Jianu's Record

Sebastian Fanselow

Sebastian Fanselow

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Rank
864
High
273
LWWWWLWWLW
Year Total Hard Clay I.hard Grass Carpet
2025 18-18 11-10 3-5 3-2 0-0 1-1
2024 29-34 7-9 14-18 8-6 0-1 0-0
2023 56-31 24-9 20-15 12-7 0-0 0-0
2022 27-31 5-11 17-13 5-7 0-0 0-0
2021 35-28 17-13 13-11 5-4 0-0 0-0

Ranked no. 397, Fanselow reached the 1st round after defeating Dostanbek Tashbulatov 7-64 4-6 6-4 and Bogdan Ionut Apostol 6-3 2-1 ret..

In the qualifications, The German had a good straight sets win against Ionut Apostol (6-3 2-1 ret.). During the match Fanselow scored 46 points vs Ionut Apostol’s 32. The German was exceptionally aggressive to blast 13 winners.

Talking about serving, Fanselow scored just 1 ace during the entire match and he committed only 4 double faults. Sebastian Fanselow was very effective on serve to win 93% (13/14) of his 1st serve and 67% (12/18) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. Sebastian broke Ionut Apostol twice after converting 40% of his break points (2/5).

Fanselow has an aggregate 12-12 win-loss record in 2022, 3-4 on clay (See FULL STATS)

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Shymkent 1 Challenger
Fanselow's Record

Tennis Scores in Shymkent 1 Challenger

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