Filip Cristian Jianu and Goncalo Oliveira will square off in the final of the Brazzaville Challenger for the 1^st time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Sunday at 1:30 pm on CENTRAL 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 -> 1.74
Goncalo Oliveira -> 2

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Prediction and head to head Filip Cristian Jianu vs. Goncalo Oliveira

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

Filip Cristian Jianu

Ranked no. 214, Filip reached the final after defeating Aziz Ouakaa 6-4 6-2, Julien De Cuyper 6-1 6-3, Karan Singh 6-4 6-2 and Eliakim Coulibaly 6-3 6-2.

In the semifinal, The Romanian had a good straight sets win against Coulibaly (6-3 6-2). During the match, Cristian Jianu scored 55 points vs Coulibaly’s 35. Cristian Jianu was exceptionally aggressive to blast 20 winners.

Regarding the service games, Cristian Jianu made 3 aces and he committed only 2 double faults. Filip Cristian Jianu was very effective on serve to win 80% (20/25) of his 1st serve and 80% (12/15) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. Cristian Jianu was clinical in his return game without wasting any break point and break Coulibaly 4 times.

Overall Performance in this tournament

The Romanian hasn’t surrendered yet a set in this competition to win 59% of the points he played.

Cristian Jianu has a winning record in the last 8 years having won 59% of his matches (280-191). 66-29 on clay in 2024. Talking about his performance on the same surface of this event, Cristian Jianu has an overall237-142 match record in the last 8 years on clay.

Cristian Jianu’s best result of the season was getting to the final in M15 Antalya,M25 Hammamet,M15 Kish Island,the Milan Challenger and M25 Satu Mare.

Cristian Jianu has an aggregate 66-30 win-loss record in 2024, 66-29 on clay (See FULL STATS).

Previously in the Brazzaville Challenger

Filip has never competed in this tournament before.

Goncalo Oliveira

Ranked no. 269, Goncalo got to the final after beating Lawrence Bataljin 6-0 6-1, Preston Brown 6-2 6-3, Dev Javia 6-4 6-3 and Santiago Rodriguez Taverna 7-6(3) 6-1.

In the semifinal, Goncalo had a good straight sets win against Rodriguez Taverna (7-6³

6-1). During the match Oliveira scored 84 points vs Rodriguez Taverna’s 63. Oliveira was exceptionally aggressive to blast 35 winners.

About the serving games, Oliveira struck 9 aces and he committed only 4 double faults. Goncalo Oliveira was extremely effective on serve to win 90% (35/39) of his 1st serve and 52% (11/21) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. The Portuguese broke Rodriguez Taverna 3 times after converting 20% of his break points (3/15).

Overall Performance in this tournament

Goncalo hasn’t dropped yet a set in the tournament to win 60% of the points he played.

Goncalo’s best result of the current season was reaching the final in M25 Brazzaville and M25 Sapporo.

The Portuguese has a compiled 39-29 win-loss record in 2024, 18-10 on clay (See FULL STATS).

H2H Performance in the tournament (main draw)

Matches, sets, games and points

Points	Cristian Jianu	Oliveira
Match played	4	4
Tot Set	8	8
Tot Games	69	69
Pts	236-164	267-179
Total Points	400	446
Winners	108	108
%Winners	46%	40%

Both Cristian Jianu and Oliveira played 4 matches. Both players have not surrendered a single set in this event so far. Talking about their workload, Cristian Jianu and Oliveira have played the same amount of sets 8. They also played the same amount of games (69). Cristian Jianu scored 108 winners (46% of the total points). On the other side, Goncalo managed to score 108 winners (40%).

Serve Performance

Serve	Cristian Jianu	Oliveira
Aces	7	23
Avg per match	1.8	5.8
1st in	140/187	129/198
%1st in	75%	65%
1st pts	108/140	108/129
%1st pts	77%	84%
2nd pts	31/47	38/69
%2nd pts	66%	55%

Cristian Jianu fired 7 aces (1.8 per match). Oliveira made 23 aces (5.8 per match). Cristian Jianu won 77% points behind his first serve. He quite strong on his second serve to win 66% of the points. On the other side, Oliveira won 84% of the points behind his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 55% of the points.

How they played the important points

Breaks	Cristian Jianu	Oliveira
Won	16	16
Converted	16/32	16/44
% Converted	50%	36%
Conceded	12	10
Saved	10	9
% Saved	83%	90%
Times Broken	2	1

Filip broke his opponents 16 times with a 50% conversion rate. Cristian Jianu conceded his serve twice and he saved 83% of the break points that he conceded. Oliveira broke his opponents 16 times with a 36% conversion rate. Oliveira conceded his serve once and he saved 90% of the break points that he conceded.

Cristian Jianu
	R1 Ouakaa	R2 De Cuyper	1/4 Singh	1/2 Coulibaly	Total
Score	6-4 6-2	6-1 6-3	6-4 6-2	6-3 6-2
Tot Set	2	2	2	2	8
Tot Games	18	16	18	17	69
pts	63-50	58-31	60-48	55-35	236-164
Total points	113	89	108	90	400
Winners	34	28	26	20	108
%Winners	54%	48%	43%	36%	46%
SERVE
Aces	1	1	2	3	7
Double Faults	0	0	1	2	3
1st in	46/56	36/42	33/49	25/40	140/187
% 1st in	82%	86%	67%	63%	75%
1st pts	34/46	28/36	26/33	20/25	108/140
% 1st pts	74%	78%	79%	80%	77%
2nd pts	6/10	4/6	9/16	12/15	31/47
% 2nd pts	60%	67%	56%	80%	66%
Breaks
Won	3	5	4	4	16
Converted	3/7	5/7	4/14	4/4	16/32
Converted %	43%	71%	29%	100%	50%
Conceded	3	2	7	0	12
Saved	3/3	1/2	6/7	0/0	10
Saved %	100%	50%	86%	–	59%
Times Broken	0	1	1	0	2

Oliveira
	R1 Bataljin	R2 Brown	1/4 Javia	1/2 Rodriguez	Total
Score	6-0 6-1	6-2 6-3	6-4 6-3	7-63 6-1
Tot Set	2	2	2	2	8
Tot Games	13	17	19	20	69
pts	58-26	61-41	64-49	84-63	267-179
Total points	84	102	113	147	446
Winners	18	22	33	35	108
%Winners	31%	36%	52%	42%	40%
SERVE
Aces	3	5	6	9	23
Double Faults	2	0	4	4	10
1st in	21/33	27/42	42/63	39/60	129/198
% 1st in	64%	64%	67%	65%	65%
1st pts	18/21	22/27	33/42	35/39	108/129
% 1st pts	86%	81%	79%	90%	84%
2nd pts	7/12	11/15	9/21	11/21	38/69
% 2nd pts	58%	73%	43%	52%	55%
Breaks
Won	6	4	3	3	16
Converted	6/15	4/10	3/4	3/15	16/44
Converted %	40%	40%	75%	20%	36%
Conceded	1	2	4	3	10
Saved	1/1	2/2	3/4	3/3	9
Saved %	100%	100%	75%	100%	94%
Times Broken	0	0	1	0	1

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