Borna Coric and Filip Cristian Jianu will play each other in the quarter of the Zadar Challenger for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Friday at 11:00 am 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 Borna Coric who should win in 2 sets.
As per the initial odds, Borna Coric is the pick to win this match.
Borna Coric -> 1.154
Filip Cristian Jianu -> 4.8
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Prediction and head to head Borna Coric vs. Filip Cristian Jianu
There is no head to head record between Borna Coric and Filip Cristian Jianu since this will be the first time that they will play each other in the main tour.
Borna Coric
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 16-4 | 1-2 | 5-0 | 10-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 23-27 | 8-13 | 3-7 | 11-6 | 1-1 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 22-19 | 10-10 | 9-5 | 3-1 | 0-3 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 27-17 | 10-5 | 10-9 | 7-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 6-3 | 3-2 | 0-0 | 3-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 112, Coric got to the quarter after defeating Pedro Cachin 7-5 6-1 and Luka Mikrut 6-2 6-3.
In the 2nd round, The Croatian had a good straight sets win against Mikrut (6-2 6-3). During the match, Coric scored 64 points vs Mikrut’s 43. Coric was very aggressive to blast 16 winners.
Regarding the service games, Coric scored just 1 ace during the encounter and he was very steady in conceding no double faults. Overall, Borna Coric was pretty efficient on serve to win 73% (16/22) of his 1st serve and 74% (14/19) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve once. The Croatian broke Mikrut 5 times after converting 50% of his break points (5/10).
Overall Performance in this tournament
Coric hasn’t surrendered yet a set in this tournament to win 60% of the points he played.
Coric has favorable win-loss record in the last 10 years having won 56% of his matches (225-178). 2-0 on clay in 2025. Regarding his performance on the same surface of this competition, Coric has a compiled 64-51 record in the last years on clay.
His best result of the current year was winning the title the Lugano Challenger where he beat Raphael Collignon in the final 6-3 6-1 and the Thionville Challenger where he overcame Arthur Bouquier in the final 6-4 6-4.
Coric has a compiled 13-4 win-loss record in 2025, 2-0 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Zadar Challenger
Coric has never competed in this tournament before.
Filip Cristian Jianu
6 - 10win/loss
241
211
WLWWLLWWLW | Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 7-11 | 2-5 | 5-3 | 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. 241, Cristian reached the quarter after defeating Mirza Basic 6-4 6-4 and Dalibor Svrcina 3-6 6-4 4-2 ret..
In the 2nd round against Svrcina, Filip had a free pass after Svrcina retired on a 3-6 6-4 4-2 . scoreline.
Filip has an overall 6-10 win-loss record in 2025, 4-2 on clay (See FULL STATS).
H2H Performance in the tournament (main draw)
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Coric | Cristian |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 2 | 2 |
| Tot Set | 4 | 6 |
| Tot Games | 36 | 45 |
| Pts | 140-92 | 157-146 |
| Total Points | 232 | 303 |
| Winners | 51 | 73 |
| %Winners | 36% | 46% |
Both Coric and Cristian played 2 matches. At the moment, Filip Cristian Jianu lost 1 set while Borna Coric hasn’t surrendered a set so far. Coric has played 2 set(s) less than Cristian (4 vs 6). Therefore, Coric played 9 games less than Cristian. Borna scored 51 winners (36% of the total points). On the other side, The Romanian blasted 73 winners (46%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Coric | Cristian |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 3 | 2 |
| Avg per match | 1.5 | 1 |
| 1st in | 62/102 | 117/141 |
| %1st in | 61% | 83% |
| 1st pts | 51/62 | 73/117 |
| %1st pts | 82% | 62% |
| 2nd pts | 23/40 | 12/24 |
| %2nd pts | 58% | 50% |
Coric made 3 aces (1.5 per match). Cristian recorded 2 aces (1 per match). Coric won 82% points on his first serve. He pretty solid on his second serve to win 58% of the points. On the other side, Cristian won 62% of the points behind his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 50% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Coric | Cristian |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 9 | 8 |
| Converted | 9/18 | 8/23 |
| % Converted | 50% | 35% |
| Conceded | 7 | 18 |
| Saved | 5 | 12 |
| % Saved | 71% | 67% |
| Times Broken | 2 | 6 |
Borna broke his opponents 9 times with a 50% conversion rate. Borna surrendered his serve twice and he saved 71% of the break points that he conceded. The Romanian broke his opponents 8 times with a 35% conversion rate. The Romanian conceded his serve 6 times and he saved 67% of the break points that he conceded.
| Coric | ||||
| R1 Cachin |
R2 Mikrut |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 7-5 6-1 | 6-2 6-3 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | 4 | |
| Tot Games | 19 | 17 | 36 | |
| pts | 76-49 | 64-43 | 140-92 | |
| Total points | 125 | 107 | 232 | |
| Winners | 35 | 16 | 51 | |
| %Winners | 46% | 25% | 36% | |
| SERVE | ||||
| Aces | 2 | 1 | 3 | |
| Double Faults | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| 1st in | 40/61 | 22/41 | 62/102 | |
| % 1st in | 66% | 54% | 61% | |
| 1st pts | 35/40 | 16/22 | 51/62 | |
| % 1st pts | 88% | 73% | 82% | |
| 2nd pts | 9/21 | 14/19 | 23/40 | |
| % 2nd pts | 43% | 74% | 58% | |
| Breaks | ||||
| Won | 4 | 5 | 9 | |
| Converted | 4/8 | 5/10 | 9/18 | |
| Converted % | 50% | 50% | 50% | |
| Conceded | 6 | 1 | 7 | |
| Saved | 5/6 | 0/1 | 5 | |
| Saved % | 83% | 0% | 42% | |
| Times Broken | 1 | 1 | 2 | |
| Cristian | ||||
| R1 Basic |
R2 Svrcina |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-4 6-4 | 3-6 6-4 4-2 ret. | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 3 | 5 | |
| Tot Games | 20 | 25 | 45 | |
| pts | 74-64 | 83-82 | 157-146 | |
| Total points | 138 | 165 | 303 | |
| Winners | 42 | 31 | 73 | |
| %Winners | 57% | 37% | 46% | |
| SERVE | ||||
| Aces | 2 | 0 | 2 | |
| Double Faults | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
| 1st in | 61/69 | 56/72 | 117/141 | |
| % 1st in | 88% | 78% | 83% | |
| 1st pts | 42/61 | 31/56 | 73/117 | |
| % 1st pts | 69% | 55% | 62% | |
| 2nd pts | 6/8 | 6/16 | 12/24 | |
| % 2nd pts | 75% | 38% | 50% | |
| Breaks | ||||
| Won | 2 | 6 | 8 | |
| Converted | 2/4 | 6/19 | 8/23 | |
| Converted % | 50% | 32% | 35% | |
| Conceded | 10 | 8 | 18 | |
| Saved | 10/10 | 2/8 | 12 | |
| Saved % | 100% | 25% | 63% | |
| Times Broken | 0 | 6 | 6 | |
Head 2 Head
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