Filip Cristian Jianu and Nicholas David Ionel will clash against each other in the 1st round of the Kigali 1 Challenger for the 5th time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Tuesday at 12:30 pm on COURT 1. Here the head to head stats and relative prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Filip Cristian Jianu who should win in 3 sets.
Filip Cristian Jianu -> 1.58
Nicholas David Ionel -> 2.26
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Prediction and head to head Filip Cristian Jianu vs. Nicholas David Ionel
This will be the 5th time that Filip Cristian Jianu and Nicholas David Ionel square off. The head to head is 3-1 for David Ionel (see full H2H stats), 2-1 on clay.
The last time that they locked horns, Cristian Jianu won 6-1 7-6(4) in the semifinal in M15 Antalya back in 2024.
Filip Cristian Jianu
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 10-14 | 2-5 | 8-6 | 0-3 | 0-0 | 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. 229, Cristian Jianu will start his run in the Kigali 1 Challenger after he played his last match in the Manama Challenger where he lost 6-1 2-6 7-5 to Ajdukovic in the 2nd round on the 12th of February.
Filip has a compiled 2-8 win-loss record in 2025, 0-0 on clay (See FULL STATS).
This will be the first match of the year on clay.
Talking about his overall career, Filip has an overall 286-203 record. He has a positive 241-146 record on clay.
Previously in the Kigali 1 Challenger
Filip has never competed in this tournament before.
Nicholas David Ionel
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 16-7 | 0-0 | 16-7 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 74-34 | 0-2 | 74-31 | 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 |
Ranked no. 369, David Ionel will start his run in the Kigali 1 Challenger after he played his last match in M25 Antalya where he lost 6-3 3-6 6-3
to Handel in the 2nd round on the 30th of January.Nicholas has an aggregate 4-3 win-loss record in 2025, 4-3 on clay (See FULL STATS).
In terms of his career, The Romanian has an overall 291-167 record. He has a positive 236-129 record on clay.
Previously in the Kigali 1 Challenger
Previously, his best result was reaching the quarter in 2024. See his history.
Tennis Scores in Kigali 1 Challenger
- Valentin RoyerRoyer – Maxime ChazalChazal (6-3 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Lukas NeumayerNeumayer – Gabriele PennafortiPennaforti (4-6 6-2 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Carlos TabernerTaberner – Andrea PicchionePicchione (6-2 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Carlos Sanchez JoverSanchez Jover – Corentin DenollyDenolly (6-3 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Max HoukesHoukes – Maxime JanvierJanvier (6-3 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
Upcoming matches in the draw
- Calvin HemeryHemery – Maximilian NeuchristNeuchrist (1-1) – H2H and prediction
- Manuel GuinardGuinard – Neil OberleitnerOberleitner (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Zdenek KolarKolar – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Geoffrey BlancaneauxBlancaneaux – Marco CecchinatoCecchinato (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Clement TaburTabur – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Alex Marti PujolrasMarti Pujolras – Dominik KellovskyKellovsky (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Luka PavlovicPavlovic – Oriol Roca BatallaRoca Batalla (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Filip Cristian JianuCristian Jianu – Nicholas David IonelDavid Ionel (1-3) – H2H and prediction
- Jesper De JongDe Jong – Andrej MartinMartin (1-1) – H2H and prediction