Joao Sousa and Filip Cristian Jianu will clash against each other in the 1st round of the Maia Challenger for the 2nd time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Tuesday at 3:30 pm on CENTER COURT. In this post, we analyze their head to head performance and prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Joao Sousa who should win in 2 sets.
As per the initial odds, Joao Sousa is the pick to win this match.
Joao Sousa -> 1.3
Filip Cristian Jianu -> 3.3
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Prediction and head to head Joao Sousa vs. Filip Cristian Jianu
This will be the 2nd time that Joao Sousa and Filip Cristian Jianu play each other. The head to head is 1-0 for Sousa (see full H2H stats), but they have never played each other on clay.
The last time that they played, Sousa won 6-3 7-5 in the Rubber 1 in 1 back in 2021.
Joao Sousa
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 6-5 | 0-0 | 2-2 | 4-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 23-33 | 6-8 | 10-20 | 5-4 | 0-0 | 2-1 |
| 2022 | 25-34 | 10-12 | 10-11 | 5-7 | 0-4 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 28-31 | 11-9 | 4-11 | 11-6 | 2-5 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 4-13 | 0-5 | 2-5 | 2-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 257, Joao will start his run in the Maia Challenger after he played his last match in the Drummondville Challenger where he lost 6-4 7-5 to Tu in the quarter on the 17th of November.
Sousa has a compiled 22-32 win-loss record in 2023, 9-19 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Joao’s best result of the year was getting to the final in the Porto Challenger.
Talking about his overall career, Joao has an overall 531-483 record. He has a positive 276-230 record on clay.
Previously in the Maia Challenger
Sousa has never competed in this tournament before.
Filip Cristian Jianu
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 52-17 | 0-0 | 52-17 | 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. 329, the Romanian will start his run in the Maia Challenger after he played his last match in M25 Antalya where he lost 6-3 3-0 ret. to Manda in the 1st round on the 15th of November.
The Romanian has an aggregate 50-33 win-loss record in 2023, 42-27 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Filip’s best result of the current season was reaching the final in the Oeiras 1 Challenger,Larnaca,M15 Pirot,M15 Telavi and M15 Antalya.
In terms of his career, Filip has an overall 212-159 record. He has a positive 169-111 record on clay.
Head 2 Head
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Upcoming matches in the draw
- Fabio FogniniFognini – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Alessandro GiannessiGiannessi – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Joao SousaSousa – Filip Cristian JianuCristian Jianu (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Jozef KovalikKovalik – Albert Ramos-VinolasRamos-Vinolas (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Sebastian FanselowFanselow – Karl FribergFriberg (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Denis YevseyevYevseyev – Alexander WeisWeis (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Alexey VatutinVatutin – Andrea VavassoriVavassori (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Elias YmerYmer – Marco TrungellitiTrungelliti (1-1) – H2H and prediction
- Nuno BorgesBorges – Mohamed SafwatSafwat (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Matteo MartineauMartineau – Louis WesselsWessels (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Andrea GuerrieriGuerrieri – Maxime JanvierJanvier (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Anton MatusevichMatusevich – Calvin HemeryHemery (0-0) – H2H and prediction
