Kris Van Wyk and Maximus Jones will fight against each other in the 1st round of the Abidjan 1 Challenger for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Tuesday at 3:00 pm on COURT COFINA NEEMBA. 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 Maximus Jones who should win in 3 sets.

As per the initial odds, Maximus Jones is the pick to win this match.
Maximus Jones -> 1.727
Kris Van Wyk -> 2.02

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Prediction and head to head Kris Van Wyk vs. Maximus Jones

There is no head to head record between Kris Van Wyk and Maximus Jones since this will be the first time that they will fight against each other in the main tour.

Kris Van Wyk

Kris Van Wyk

6 - 7win/loss

Hard
6-5
I Hard
0-2
Rank
655
High
352
LLLWLLLWLW
Year Total Hard Clay I.hard Grass Carpet
2025 22-27 22-25 0-0 0-2 0-0 0-0
2024 65-39 64-38 0-0 1-1 0-0 0-0
2023 55-32 54-30 1-2 0-0 0-0 0-0
2022 52-17 52-17 0-0 0-0 0-0 0-0

Ranked no. 381, Van Wyk will start his run in the Abidjan 1 Challenger after he played his last match in M15 Sharm ElSheikh where he lost 7-5 6-3 to Zakaryia in the quarter on the 11th of April.

Van Wyk has a composed 6-7 win-loss record in 2025, 6-5 on hard (See FULL STATS).

Kris’s best result of the current year was getting to the semifinal in M15 Sharm ElSheikh.

Talking about his overall career, The South African has an overall 178-95 record. He has a positive 176-90 record on hard.

Previously in the Abidjan 1 Challenger

Van Wyk has never competed in this tournament before.

Abidjan 1 Challenger
Van Wyk's Record

Maximus Jones

Maximus Jones

14 - 9win/loss

Hard
8-5
I Hard
0-0
Clay
6-4
Rank
353
High
353
LLWLLWLWLW
Year Total Hard Clay I.hard Grass Carpet
2025 36-28 23-16 11-10 2-2 0-0 0-0
2024 21-26 21-22 0-4 0-0 0-0 0-0
2023 28-20 27-19 0-0 1-1 0-0 0-0
2022 43-46 35-36 8-10 0-0 0-0 0-0
2021 3-5 0-0 3-5 0-0 0-0 0-0

Ranked no. 618, Jones got to the 1st round after beating Kwami Stanislas Dussey 6-1 6-0 and S D Prajwal Dev 7-6(3) 7-6(6).

In the qualifications, The Thai had a good straight sets win against D Prajwal Dev (7-63 7-66). During the match Jones scored 84 points vs D Prajwal Dev’s 78. Jones was very aggressive to blast 43 winners.

Talking about serving, Jones made 13 aces and he committed only 5 double faults. Overall, Maximus Jones was very effective on serve to win 83% (43/52) of his 1st serve and 55% (18/33) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve once. Maximus broke D Prajwal Dev once after converting 33% of his break points (1/3).

Overall Performance in this tournament

The Thai started his run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, he hasn’t lost yet a set in this competition to win 59% of the points he played.

Maximus’s best result of the current season was reaching the semifinal in the Brazzaville Challenger.

The Thai has a compiled 14-9 win-loss record in 2025, 8-5 on hard (See FULL STATS).

Abidjan 1 Challenger
Jones's Record

Tennis Scores in Abidjan 1 Challenger

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