Nicholas David Ionel and Filip Cristian Jianu will fight against each other in the 2nd round of the Sibiu Challenger for the 2nd time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Thursday at 1:00 pm on CENTRE COURT. Here the head to head stats and relative prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Nicholas David Ionel who should win in 3 sets.
As per the initial odds, Nicholas David Ionel is the pick to win this match.
Nicholas David Ionel -> 1.727
Filip Cristian Jianu -> 2.06
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Prediction and head to head Nicholas David Ionel vs. Filip Cristian Jianu
This will be the 2nd time that Nicholas David Ionel and Filip Cristian Jianu face off. The head to head is 1-0 for David Ionel (see full H2H stats), but they have never played each other on clay.
The last time that they played each other, David Ionel won 6-4 6-1 in the quarter in M15 Heraklion back in 2020.
Nicholas David Ionel
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 31-21 | 0-2 | 31-18 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 50-38 | 7-7 | 43-30 | 0-0 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 66-33 | 17-9 | 48-20 | 1-4 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 47-33 | 14-4 | 33-29 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 19-14 | 16-8 | 3-5 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 283, David Ionel reached the 2nd round after defeating Kimmer Coppejans 6-3 6-1.
In the 1st round, David Ionel had a good straight sets win against Coppejans (6-3 6-1). During the match, David Ionel scored 64 points vs Coppejans’s 40. David Ionel was extremely aggressive to blast 19 winners.
Regarding the service games, David Ionel scored just 1 ace during the match and he committed only 2 double faults. Nicholas David Ionel lost the serve twice. Furthermore, David Ionel put 64% of his first serves in, winning 63% (19/30) of the points behind his 1st serve and 53% (9/17) on the 2nd serve. The Romanian broke Coppejans 6 times after converting 60% of his break points (6/10).
David Ionel has a solid record in the last 5 years having won 64% of his matches (148-82). 41-17 on clay in 2022. Talking about his performance on the same surface of this competition, David Ionel has an aggregate108-62 record in the last 5 years on clay.
Nicholas’s best result of the year was reaching the final in M15 Sharm ElSheikh,M15 Marrakech,M25 Pitesti and M15 Craiova.
The Romanian has a compiled 51-23 win-loss record in 2022, 41-17 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Sibiu Challenger
Filip Cristian Jianu
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 53-17 | 0-0 | 53-17 | 0-0 | 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 |
| 2020 | 19-15 | 9-5 | 10-8 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0-1 |
Ranked no. 314, Cristian Jianu got to the 2nd round after beating Georgii Kravchenko 2-6 6-1 7-63.
In the 1st round against Kravchenko, Cristian Jianu recovered from a 1-set down deficit before winning (2-6 6-1 7-63). During the match Cristian Jianu scored 97 points vs Kravchenko’s 85. The Romanian was exceptionally aggressive to blast 34 winners.
Talking about serving, Cristian Jianu blasted 5 aces and he committed only 3 double faults. Overall, Filip Cristian Jianu was pretty efficient on serve to win 71% (34/48) of his 1st serve and 63% (22/35) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve 3 times. Filip broke Kravchenko 3 times after converting 25% of his break points (3/12).
Filip’s best result of the year was reaching the semifinal in the Aguascalientes Challenger and the San Marino Challenger.
The Romanian has an aggregate 21-27 win-loss record in 2022, 15-18 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Sibiu Challenger
Previously, his best result was reaching the 3rd round in 2019. See his history.
H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | David Ionel | Cristian Jianu |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 1 | 1 |
| Tot Set | 2 | 3 |
| Tot Games | 16 | 28 |
| Pts | 64-40 | 97-85 |
| Total Points | 104 | 182 |
| Winners | 19 | 34 |
| %Winners | 30% | 35% |
Both David Ionel and Cristian Jianu played 1 match. At the moment, Filip Cristian Jianu lost 1 set while Nicholas David Ionel hasn’t surrendered a set so far. David Ionel has played 1 set(s) less than Cristian Jianu (2 vs 3). Therefore, David Ionel played 12 games less than Cristian Jianu. The Romanian scored 19 winners (30% of the total points). On the other side, Filip made 34 winners (35%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | David Ionel | Cristian Jianu |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 1 | 5 |
| Avg per match | 1 | 5 |
| 1st in | 30/47 | 48/83 |
| %1st in | 64% | 58% |
| 1st pts | 19/30 | 34/48 |
| %1st pts | 63% | 71% |
| 2nd pts | 9/17 | 22/35 |
| %2nd pts | 53% | 63% |
David Ionel struck 1 ace . Cristian Jianu also managed to score 5 aces . David Ionel won 63% points on his first serve. He was rock solid on his second serve to win 53% of the points. On the other side, Cristian Jianu won 71% of the points on his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 63% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | David Ionel | Cristian Jianu |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 6 | 3 |
| Converted | 6/10 | 3/12 |
| % Converted | 60% | 25% |
| Conceded | 2 | 3 |
| Saved | 0 | 0 |
| % Saved | 0% | 0% |
| Times Broken | 2 | 3 |
The Romanian broke his opponent 6 times with a 60% conversion rate. The Romanian lost his serve twice and he saved 0% of the break points that he conceded. Filip broke his opponent 3 times with a 25% conversion rate. The Romanian conceded his serve 3 times and he saved 0% of the break points that he conceded.
| David Ionel | |||
| R1 Coppejans |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-3 6-1 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 16 | 16 | |
| pts | 64-40 | 64-40 | |
| Total points | 104 | 104 | |
| Winners | 19 | 19 | |
| %Winners | 30% | 30% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 1 | 1 | |
| Double Faults | 2 | 2 | |
| 1st in | 30/47 | 30/47 | |
| % 1st in | 64% | 64% | |
| 1st pts | 19/30 | 19/30 | |
| % 1st pts | 63% | 63% | |
| 2nd pts | 9/17 | 9/17 | |
| % 2nd pts | 53% | 53% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 6 | 6 | |
| Converted | 6/10 | 6/10 | |
| Converted % | 60% | 60% | |
| Conceded | 2 | 2 | |
| Saved | 0/2 | 0 | |
| Saved % | 0% | 0% | |
| Times Broken | 2 | 2 | |
| Cristian Jianu | |||
| R1 Kravchenko |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 2-6 6-1 7-63 | ||
| Tot Set | 3 | 3 | |
| Tot Games | 28 | 28 | |
| pts | 97-85 | 97-85 | |
| Total points | 182 | 182 | |
| Winners | 34 | 34 | |
| %Winners | 35% | 35% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 5 | 5 | |
| Double Faults | 3 | 3 | |
| 1st in | 48/83 | 48/83 | |
| % 1st in | 58% | 58% | |
| 1st pts | 34/48 | 34/48 | |
| % 1st pts | 71% | 71% | |
| 2nd pts | 22/35 | 22/35 | |
| % 2nd pts | 63% | 63% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 3 | 3 | |
| Converted | 3/12 | 3/12 | |
| Converted % | 25% | 25% | |
| Conceded | 3 | 3 | |
| Saved | 0/3 | 0 | |
| Saved % | 0% | 0% | |
| Times Broken | 3 | 3 | |
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