Filip Cristian Jianu and Jacopo Berrettini will play each other in the quarter of the Barletta Challenger for the 2^nd time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Friday at 1:30 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 Filip Cristian Jianu who should win in 3 sets.

As per the initial odds, Filip Cristian Jianu is the pick to win this match.
Filip Cristian Jianu -> 1.41
Jacopo Berrettini -> 2.72

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Prediction and head to head Filip Cristian Jianu vs. Jacopo Berrettini

This will be the 2^nd time that Filip Cristian Jianu and Jacopo Berrettini clash against each other. The head to head is 1-0 for Cristian Jianu (see full H2H stats), 1-0 on clay.

The last time that they fought against each other, Cristian Jianu won 6-2 6-4 in the 2^nd round in M15 Antalya back in 2021.

Filip Cristian Jianu

Ranked no. 293, the Romanian got to the quarter after defeating Stefano Travaglia 3-6 6-3 6-0

and Zdenek Kolar 6-2 3-6 6-3.

In the 2^nd round, Filip defeated Kolar (6-2 3-6 6-3). During the match, Cristian Jianu scored 93 points vs Kolar’s 85. Filip was exceptionally aggressive to blast 46 winners.

Regarding the service games, Cristian Jianu couldn’t to score even 1 ace throughout the encounter and he committed only 1 double fault. Filip Cristian Jianu lost the serve 4 times and he saved 11 break points. Furthermore, Cristian Jianu put 79% of his first serves in, winning 58% (46/79) of the points behind his 1st serve and 52% (11/21) on the 2nd serve. Filip broke Kolar 6 times after converting 60% of his break points (6/10).

Overall Performance in this tournament

The Romanian has dropped 2 set in this event to conquer 53% of the points he played.

Cristian Jianu has a solid record in the last 8 years having won 60% of his matches (248-166). 34-5 on clay in 2024. Talking about his performance on the same surface of this event, Cristian Jianu has a compiled205-118 match record in the last 8 years on clay.

Filip’s best result of the year was reaching the final in M15 Antalya,M25 Hammamet and M15 Kish Island.

Filip has a compiled 34-5 win-loss record in 2024, 34-5 on clay (See FULL STATS).

Previously in the Barletta Challenger

Jacopo Berrettini

Ranked no. 878, Berrettini got to the quarter after beating Chun Hsin Tseng 7-6⁶ 7-5 and Benjamin Bonzi 3-6 6-3 6-4.

In the 2^nd round against Bonzi, Berrettini recovered from a 1-set down deficit before winning (3-6 6-3 6-4). During the match Berrettini and Bonzi scored the same amount of points (82). However, the world no. 293 was stronger during the important points and that was the most significant difference in the match. Berrettini was very aggressive to blast 41 winners.

About the serving games, Berrettini scored just 1 ace during the entire match and he committed only 1 double fault for the entire match. Jacopo Berrettini lost the serve 3 times and he saved 2 break points. Furthermore, Berrettini put 68% of his first serves in, winning 65% (41/63) of the points behind his 1st serve and 55% (16/29) on the 2nd serve. Jacopo broke Bonzi 4 times after converting 67% of his break points (4/6).

Overall Performance in this tournament

Jacopo has conceded 1 set in the tournament to win 51% of the points he played.

Berrettini’s best result of the year was reaching the semifinal in M15 Rovinj.

Jacopo has an aggregate 6-7 win-loss record in 2024, 5-2 on clay (See FULL STATS).

Previously in the Barletta Challenger

Previously, his best result was reaching the quarter in 2019. See his history.

H2H Performance in the tournament (main draw)

Matches, sets, games and points

Points	Cristian Jianu	Berrettini
Match played	2	2
Tot Set	6	5
Tot Games	50	53
Pts	175-158	175-169
Total Points	333	344
Winners	92	79
%Winners	53%	45%

Both Cristian Jianu and Berrettini played 2 matches. Both players lost a set in the event. Filip Cristian Jianu conceded 2 sets, while Jacopo Berrettini dropped 1 set. Cristian Jianu has played 1 set more than Berrettini (6 vs 5). However, it’s interesting to notice that Cristian Jianu played 3 games less than Berrettini. Cristian Jianu scored 92 winners (53% of the total points). On the other side, Berrettini bagged 79 winners (45%).

Serve Performance

Serve	Cristian Jianu	Berrettini
Aces	0	1
Avg per match	0	0.5
1st in	151/187	125/191
%1st in	81%	65%
1st pts	92/151	79/125
%1st pts	61%	63%
2nd pts	18/36	32/66
%2nd pts	50%	48%

Cristian Jianu didn’t manage to fire a single ace to far. Berrettini blasted 1 ace (0.5 per match). Cristian Jianu won 61% points behind his first serve. He very solid his second serve to win 50% of the points. On the other side, Berrettini won 63% of the points on his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 48% of the points.

How they played the important points

Breaks	Cristian Jianu	Berrettini
Won	11	9
Converted	11/19	9/17
% Converted	58%	53%
Conceded	23	17
Saved	17	10
% Saved	74%	59%
Times Broken	6	7

Filip broke his opponents 11 times with a 58% conversion rate. Filip surrendered his serve 6 times and he saved 74% of the break points that he conceded. The Italian broke his opponents 9 times with a 53% conversion rate. Jacopo conceded his serve 7 times and he saved 59% of the break points that he conceded.

Cristian Jianu
	R1 Travaglia	R2 Kolar	Total
Score	3-6 6-3 6-0	6-2 3-6 6-3
Tot Set	3	3	6
Tot Games	24	26	50
pts	82-73	93-85	175-158
Total points	155	178	333
Winners	46	46	92
%Winners	56%	49%	53%
SERVE
Aces	0	0	0
Double Faults	0	1	1
1st in	72/87	79/100	151/187
% 1st in	83%	79%	81%
1st pts	46/72	46/79	92/151
% 1st pts	64%	58%	61%
2nd pts	7/15	11/21	18/36
% 2nd pts	47%	52%	50%
Breaks
Won	5	6	11
Converted	5/9	6/10	11/19
Converted %	56%	60%	58%
Conceded	8	15	23
Saved	6/8	11/15	17
Saved %	75%	73%	74%
Times Broken	2	4	6

Berrettini
	R1 Hsin	R2 Bonzi	Total
Score	7-66 7-5	3-6 6-3 6-4
Tot Set	2	3	5
Tot Games	25	28	53
pts	93-87	82-82	175-169
Total points	180	164	344
Winners	38	41	79
%Winners	41%	50%	45%
SERVE
Aces	0	1	1
Double Faults	3	1	4
1st in	62/99	63/92	125/191
% 1st in	63%	68%	65%
1st pts	38/62	41/63	79/125
% 1st pts	61%	65%	63%
2nd pts	16/37	16/29	32/66
% 2nd pts	43%	55%	48%
Breaks
Won	5	4	9
Converted	5/11	4/6	9/17
Converted %	45%	67%	53%
Conceded	12	5	17
Saved	8/12	2/5	10
Saved %	67%	40%	54%
Times Broken	4	3	7

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