Florent Bax and Maximus Jones will fight against each other in the semifinal of the Abidjan 1 Challenger for the 1^st time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Saturday at 6:00 pm on CENTRAL KAYDAN. 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 -> 1.86
Florent Bax -> 1.86

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Prediction and head to head Florent Bax vs. Maximus Jones

There is no head to head record between Florent Bax and Maximus Jones since this will be the first time that they will clash against each other in the main tour.

Florent Bax

Ranked no. 460, Bax reached the semifinal after defeating Tanguy Genier 7-6(6) 6-3, Nicolas Jadoun 6-3 6-2, Karan Singh 6-4 6-4, Aziz Dougaz 6-4 6-4 and Giles Hussey 7-6(5) 6-4.

In the quarter, Bax had a good straight sets win against Hussey (7-6⁵ 6-4). During the match, Bax scored 72 points vs Hussey’s 71. The French player was exceptionally aggressive to blast 31 winners.

Regarding the service games, Bax bagged 6 aces and he committed only 5 double faults. Florent Bax was quite efficient on serve to win 84% (31/37) of his 1st serve and 56% (22/39) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. Florent broke Hussey once after converting 20% of his break points (1/5).

Overall Performance in this tournament

Florent started his run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, he hasn’t surrendered yet a set in this tournament to conquer 54% of the points he played.

Bax has a solid record in the last 9 years having won 61% of his matches (206-132). 13-2 on hard in 2025. Regarding his performance on the same surface of this event, Bax has a composed69-39 win-loss record in the last 9 years on hard.

Bax’s best result of the year was getting to the final in M15 Monastir.

Florent has a composed 14-8 win-loss record in 2025, 13-2 on hard (See FULL STATS).

Previously in the Abidjan 1 Challenger

The French player has never competed in this tournament before.

Maximus Jones

Ranked no. 618, Maximus reached the semifinal after beating Kwami Stanislas Dussey 6-1 6-0, S D Prajwal Dev 7-6(3) 7-6(6), Kris Van Wyk 7-5 2-6 7-6(4), Clement Chidekh 6-3 6-2 and Daniil Glinka 6-4 6-2.

In the quarter, Maximus had a good straight sets win against Glinka (6-4 6-2). During the match Jones scored 58 points vs Glinka’s 38. Maximus was quite aggressive to blast 19 winners.

Talking about serving, Jones struck 4 aces and he committed only 2 double faults. Maximus Jones was quite efficient on serve to win 86% (19/22) of his 1st serve and 77% (17/22) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. Maximus broke Glinka 3 times after converting 60% of his break points (3/5).

Overall Performance in this tournament

Maximus 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.

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

The Thai has an aggregate 17-9 win-loss record in 2025, 11-5 on hard (See FULL STATS).

H2H Performance in the tournament

Matches, sets, games and points

Points	Bax	Jones
Match played	5	5
Tot Set	10	11
Tot Games	102	107
Pts	354-303	361-285
Total Points	657	646
Winners	150	159
%Winners	42%	44%

Both Bax and Jones played 5 matches. Also both players started their run from the qualifications.At the moment, Maximus Jones dropped 1 set while Florent Bax hasn’t lost a set so far. Bax has played 1 set(s) less than Jones (10 vs 11). Therefore, Bax played 5 games less than Jones. Bax scored 150 winners (42% of the total points). On the other side, Jones blasted 159 winners (44%).

Serve Performance

Serve	Bax	Jones
Aces	28	30
Avg per match	5.6	6
1st in	182/341	203/325
%1st in	53%	62%
1st pts	150/182	159/203
%1st pts	82%	78%
2nd pts	88/159	74/122
%2nd pts	55%	61%

Bax recorded 28 aces (5.6 per match). Jones struck 30 aces (6 per match). Bax won 82% points on his first serve. He very solid his second serve to win 55% of the points. On the other side, Jones won 78% of the points on his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 61% of the points.

How they played the important points

Breaks	Bax	Jones
Won	10	14
Converted	10/27	14/26
% Converted	37%	54%
Conceded	15	17
Saved	14	13
% Saved	93%	76%
Times Broken	1	4

The French player broke his opponents 10 times with a 37% conversion rate. Bax surrendered his serve once and he saved 93% of the break points that he conceded. Jones broke his opponents 14 times with a 54% conversion rate. Maximus conceded his serve 4 times and he saved 76% of the break points that he conceded.

Bax
	Q1 Genier	Q3 Jadoun	R1 Singh	R2 Dougaz	1/4 Hussey	Total
Score	7-66 6-3	6-3 6-2	6-4 6-4	6-4 6-4	7-65 6-4
Tot Set	2	2	2	2	2	10
Tot Games	22	17	20	20	23	102
pts	86-73	60-42	76-66	60-51	72-71	354-303
Total points	159	102	142	111	143	657
Winners	41	25	27	26	31	150
%Winners	48%	42%	36%	43%	43%	42%
SERVE
Aces	5	6	4	7	6	28
Double Faults	2	3	4	1	5	15
1st in	49/81	30/58	36/69	30/57	37/76	182/341
% 1st in	60%	52%	52%	53%	49%	53%
1st pts	41/49	25/30	27/36	26/30	31/37	150/182
% 1st pts	84%	83%	75%	87%	84%	82%
2nd pts	14/32	16/28	21/33	15/27	22/39	88/159
% 2nd pts	44%	57%	64%	56%	56%	55%
Breaks
Won	2	3	2	2	1	10
Converted	2/4	3/4	2/9	2/5	1/5	10/27
Converted %	50%	75%	22%	40%	20%	37%
Conceded	8	3	4	0	0	15
Saved	7/8	3/3	4/4	0/0	0/0	14
Saved %	88%	100%	100%	–	–	58%
Times Broken	1	0	0	0	0	1

Jones
	Q1 Stanislas	Q3 D Prajwal Dev	R1 Van	R2 Chidekh	1/4 Glinka	Total
Score	6-1 6-0	7-63 7-66	7-5 2-6 7-64	6-3 6-2	6-4 6-2
Tot Set	2	2	3	2	2	11
Tot Games	13	26	33	17	18	107
pts	55-20	84-78	103-108	61-41	58-38	361-285
Total points	75	162	211	102	96	646
Winners	18	43	51	28	19	159
%Winners	33%	51%	50%	46%	33%	44%
SERVE
Aces	2	13	1	10	4	30
Double Faults	1	5	2	1	2	11
1st in	22/37	52/85	72/107	35/52	22/44	203/325
% 1st in	59%	61%	67%	67%	50%	62%
1st pts	18/22	43/52	51/72	28/35	19/22	159/203
% 1st pts	82%	83%	71%	80%	86%	78%
2nd pts	11/15	18/33	18/35	10/17	17/22	74/122
% 2nd pts	73%	55%	51%	59%	77%	61%
Breaks
Won	5	1	2	3	3	14
Converted	5/8	1/3	2/6	3/4	3/5	14/26
Converted %	63%	33%	33%	75%	60%	54%
Conceded	2	4	10	1	0	17
Saved	2/2	3/4	7/10	1/1	0/0	13
Saved %	100%	75%	70%	100%	–	69%
Times Broken	0	1	3	0	0	4

Tennis Scores in Abidjan 1 Challenger

• Clement Chidekh/Jody MaginleyChidekh/Jody Maginley – Anthony Genov/Tom HandsGenov/Tom Hands (7-6⁵ 6-7⁴ 12-10) – Stats, scores, rankings

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