Filip Cristian Jianu and Mirza Basic will clash against each other in the 1^st round of the Zadar Challenger for the 1^st time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Tuesday at 12:30 pm on COURT 3. In the following lines you can find the head to head analysis 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 -> 1.64
Mirza Basic -> 2.15

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Prediction and head to head Filip Cristian Jianu vs. Mirza Basic

There is no head to head record between Filip Cristian Jianu and Mirza Basic since this will be the first time that they will square off in the main tour.

Filip Cristian Jianu

Ranked no. 241, the Romanian will start his run in the Zadar Challenger after he played his last match in the Kigali 2 Challenger where he lost 6-2 3-6 6-2 to Michalski in the 1^st round on the 4^th of March.

The Romanian has an overall 4-10 win-loss record in 2025, 2-2 on clay (See FULL STATS).

Talking about his overall career, Cristian Jianu has an overall 288-205 record. He has a positive 243-148 record on clay.

Previously in the Zadar Challenger

Previously, his best result was reaching the 1^st round in 2023. See his history.

Mirza Basic

Ranked no. 518, the Bosnian got to the 1^st

round after beating Martin Klizan 3-6 6-3 3-0 ret. and Michael Vrbensky 6-3 6-1.

In the qualifications, Basic had a good straight sets win against Vrbensky (6-3 6-1). During the match Basic scored 58 points vs Vrbensky’s 40. Mirza was extremely aggressive to blast 19 winners.

About the serving games, Basic fired 4 aces and he was exceptionally solid in conceding no double faults for the entire match. Mirza Basic lost the serve once and he saved 1 break points. Furthermore, Basic put 57% of his first serves in, winning 63% (19/30) of the points behind his 1st serve and 65% (15/23) on the 2nd serve. Mirza broke Vrbensky 5 times after converting 50% of his break points (5/10).

Mirza’s best result of the year was getting to the final in M15 Antalya.

Mirza has a composed 13-5 win-loss record in 2025, 13-4 on clay (See FULL STATS)

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Previously in the Zadar Challenger

Previously, his best result was reaching the 1^st round in 2023. See his history.

Tennis Scores in Zadar Challenger

• Zsombor PirosPiros – Filip MisolicMisolic (7-5 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Jozef KovalikKovalik – Matej DodigDodig (7-5 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Carlos Sanchez JoverSanchez Jover – Vit KoprivaKopriva (6-2 2-6 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Enrico Dalla ValleDalla Valle – Max Hans RehbergHans Rehberg (3-6 6-3 6-1) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Dino PrizmicPrizmic – Elias YmerYmer (6-1 6-1) – Stats, scores, rankings

Upcoming matches in the draw

• Andrej MartinMartin – Dalibor SvrcinaSvrcina (0-2) – H2H and prediction
• Mirza BasicBasic – Filip Cristian JianuCristian Jianu (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Damir DzumhurDzumhur – Zdenek KolarKolar (2-1) – H2H and prediction
• Dimitar KuzmanovKuzmanov – Henri SquireSquire (0-1) – H2H and prediction
• Nerman FaticFatic – Timofey SkatovSkatov (1-1) – H2H and prediction
• Borna CoricCoric – Pedro CachinCachin (1-0) – H2H and prediction
• Geoffrey BlancaneauxBlancaneaux – Luka PavlovicPavlovic (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Zsombor PirosPiros – Jozef KovalikKovalik (1-3) – H2H and prediction
• Duje AjdukovicAjdukovic – Francesco MaestrelliMaestrelli (1-0) – H2H and prediction
• Valentin RoyerRoyer – Adrian AndreevAndreev (2-1) – H2H and prediction