Filip Cristian Jianu and Daniel Michalski will clash against each other in the 1st round of the Kigali 2 Challenger for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Tuesday at 2:30 pm on COURT 2. In the following paragraphs, you can find the head to head analysis and prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Daniel Michalski who should win in 3 sets.
Daniel Michalski -> 1.61
Filip Cristian Jianu -> 2.2
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Prediction and head to head Filip Cristian Jianu vs. Daniel Michalski
There is no head to head record between Filip Cristian Jianu and Daniel Michalski since this will be the first time that they will play each other in the main tour.
Filip Cristian Jianu
4 - 9win/loss
289
210
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 39-39 | 2-5 | 37-30 | 0-3 | 0-1 | 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. 222, the Romanian will start his run in the Kigali 2 Challenger after he played his last match in the Kigali 1 Challenger where he lost 6-7(4) 7-6(4) 7-6(3) to Royer in the quarter on the 27th of February.
Filip has a composed 4-9 win-loss record in 2025, 2-1 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Talking about his overall career, Filip has an overall 288-204 record. He has a positive 243-147 record on clay.
Previously in the Kigali 2 Challenger
Cristian Jianu has never competed in this tournament before.
Daniel Michalski
13 - 5win/loss
256
243
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 51-29 | 5-3 | 46-26 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 39-26 | 1-6 | 36-19 | 2-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 40-25 | 4-6 | 36-18 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 51-24 | 0-0 | 51-24 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 47-25 | 0-3 | 47-20 | 0-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 334, Michalski reached the 1st round after beating Sebastian Prechtel 6-2 6-2 and Facundo Juarez 5-7 6-4 6-1.
In the qualifications against Juarez, The Pole recovered from a 1-set down deficit before winning (5-7 6-4 6-1). During the match Michalski scored 100 points vs Juarez’s 85. Daniel was extremely aggressive to blast 38 winners.
About the serving games, Michalski fired 7 aces and he committed only 3 double faults. Overall, Daniel Michalski was extremely efficient on serve to win 73% (38/52) of his 1st serve and 56% (19/34) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve twice. The Pole broke Juarez 5 times after converting 38% of his break points (5/13).
Overall Performance in this tournament
Daniel started his run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, he has conceded 1 set in the tournament to win 56% of the points he played.
Michalski’s best result of the current season was reaching the final in M25 Antalya.
Michalski has an overall 13-5 win-loss record in 2025, 11-3 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Tennis Scores in Kigali 2 Challenger
- Alex Marti PujolrasMarti Pujolras – Jesper De JongDe Jong (7-5 3-2 ret.) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Max HoukesHoukes – Carlos Sanchez JoverSanchez Jover (6-3 6-1) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Guy Den OudenDen Ouden – Filip MisolicMisolic (6-2 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
Upcoming matches in the draw
- Bernard TomicTomic – Nicholas David IonelDavid Ionel (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Maxime ChazalChazal – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Maximilian NeuchristNeuchrist – Clement TaburTabur (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Franco AgamenoneAgamenone – Andrej MartinMartin (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Marco CecchinatoCecchinato – Ivan GakhovGakhov (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Mathys ErhardErhard – Maxime JanvierJanvier (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Alex Marti PujolrasMarti Pujolras – Max HoukesHoukes (1-1) – H2H and prediction
- Luka PavlovicPavlovic – Carlos TabernerTaberner (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Filip Cristian JianuCristian Jianu – Daniel MichalskiMichalski (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Yanki ErelErel – Calvin HemeryHemery (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Valentin RoyerRoyer – Oriol Roca BatallaRoca Batalla (0-2) – H2H and prediction
- Andrea PicchionePicchione – Geoffrey BlancaneauxBlancaneaux (0-0) – H2H and prediction