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.
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
| 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.
Maximus Jones
| 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).
Tennis Scores in Abidjan 1 Challenger
- Tibo ColsonColson – Abdoulaziz BationoBationo (6-3 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Aleksandre BakshiBakshi – Kirill KivattsevKivattsev (1-6 6-3 7-5) – Stats, scores, rankings
Upcoming matches in the draw
- Richard BerankisBerankis – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Benoit PairePaire – Daniil GlinkaGlinka (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Lucas PoullainPoullain – Philip HenningHenning (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Aziz DougazDougaz – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Vadym UrsuUrsu – Moez EcharguiEchargui (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Ergi KirkinKirkin – Aziz OuakaaOuakaa (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Adil KalyanpurKalyanpur – Michael GeertsGeerts (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Taha BaadiBaadi – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Florent BaxBax – (1-2) – H2H and prediction
- Luca PotenzaPotenza – Yanki ErelErel (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Tommaso CompagnucciCompagnucci – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Clement ChidekhChidekh – (0-0) – H2H and prediction