Filip Cristian Jianu and Sumit Nagal will square off in the 2nd round of the Tulln Challenger for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Wednesday at 4:30 pm on CENTRE COURT. 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 Sumit Nagal who should win in 2 sets.

As per the initial odds, Sumit Nagal is the pick to win this match.
Sumit Nagal -> 1.34
Filip Cristian Jianu -> 3.04

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Prediction and head to head Filip Cristian Jianu vs. Sumit Nagal

There is no head to head record between Filip Cristian Jianu and Sumit Nagal since this will be the first time that they will clash against each other in the main tour.

Filip Cristian Jianu

Filip Cristian Jianu

24 - 32win/loss

Hard
2-5
I Hard
0-3
Clay
22-23
Grass
0-1
Rank
289
High
210
LWWWWWLWWL
Year Total Hard Clay I.hard Grass Carpet
2025 39-39 2-5 37-30 0-3 0-1 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. 267, Filip got to the 2nd round after defeating Alex Barrena 6-4 6-2.

In the 1st round, Cristian Jianu had a good straight sets win against Barrena (6-4 6-2). During the match, Cristian Jianu scored 63 points vs Barrena’s 50. The Romanian was extremely aggressive to blast 29 winners.

Regarding the service games, Cristian Jianu fired 5 aces and he was quite steady in conceding no double faults. Filip Cristian Jianu lost the serve twice and he saved 7 break points. Furthermore, Cristian Jianu put 74% of his first serves in, winning 64% (29/45) of the points behind his 1st serve and 44% (7/16) on the 2nd serve. Filip broke Barrena 5 times after converting 56% of his break points (5/9).

Cristian Jianu has a winning match record in the last 9 years having won 58% of his matches (308-227). 22-23 on clay in 2025. Regarding his performance on the same surface of this event, Cristian Jianu has a composed263-169 win-loss record in the last 9 years on clay.

The Romanian has an aggregate 24-32 win-loss record in 2025, 22-23 on clay (See FULL STATS).

Previously in the Tulln Challenger

Tulln Challenger
Cristian Jianu's Record

Sumit Nagal

Sumit Nagal

22 - 23win/loss

Hard
2-3
I Hard
0-0
Clay
20-19
Grass
0-1
Rank
273
High
68
LWWWWLWWWW
Year Total Hard Clay I.hard Grass Carpet
2025 34-27 2-3 30-23 2-0 0-1 0-0
2024 32-29 15-13 16-11 1-4 0-1 0-0
2023 46-29 9-8 32-17 5-4 0-0 0-0
2022 17-18 0-1 16-17 1-0 0-0 0-0
2021 23-26 1-4 22-22 0-0 0-0 0-0

Ranked no. 293, the Indian got to the 2nd round after beating Mili Poljicak 6-4 6-2.

In the 1st round, Nagal had a good straight sets win against Poljicak (6-4 6-2). During the match Nagal scored 62 points vs Poljicak’s 48. Sumit was pretty aggressive to blast 33 winners.

About the serving games, Nagal couldn’t to score even 1 ace for the entire match and he committed only 1 double fault for the entire match. Sumit Nagal conceded no breaks for the entire match to save 2 break points. Furthermore, Nagal put 75% of his first serves in, winning 80% (33/41) of the points behind his 1st serve and 50% (7/14) on the 2nd serve. The Indian broke Poljicak 3 times after converting 43% of his break points (3/7).

Sumit’s best result of the current season was reaching the semifinal in the Trieste Challenger and the Tampere Challenger.

The Indian has a composed 22-23 win-loss record in 2025, 20-19 on clay (See FULL STATS).

Previously in the Tulln Challenger

Previously, his best result was reaching the final in 2023. See his history.

Tulln Challenger
Nagal's Record

H2H Performance in the tournament

F.Cristian Jianu
S.Nagal
1h:28
1h:28
Time on court​
1h:21
1h:21
1h:28
1h:28
Last match​
1h:21
1h:21
1
1
Match played
1
1
18
18
Games Played​
18
18
2
2
Set played​​
2
2
63
63
Total points​
62
62
63
63
Avg point​
62
62
29
29
Winners
33
33
29
29
Avg Winners​
33
33
46%
46%
Ratio winners
53%
53%
-- Serve --
5
5
Aces
0
0
5
5
Avg Aces
0
0
0
0
Double Faults
1
1
0
0
Avg Double Faults
1
1
29/45
29/45
1st won total​
33/41
33/41
64%
64%
1st won %
!
80%
80%
7/16
7/16
2nd won total​
7/14
7/14
44%
44%
2nd won %
50%
50%
-- Break Points --
5/9
5/9
BP won
3/7
3/7
5/9
5/9
Avg BP won
3/7
3/7
!
56%
56%
Won
43%
43%
9
9
Conceded
2
2
9
9
Avg Conceded
2
2
2
2
Broken
0
0
2
2
Avg Broken
!
0
0
7
7
Saved
2
2

Matches, sets, games and points

Points Cristian Jianu Nagal
Match played 1 1
Tot Set 2 2
Tot Games 18 18
Pts 63-50 62-48
Total Points 113 110
Winners 29 33
%Winners 46% 53%

Both Cristian Jianu and Nagal played 1 match. Both players have not surrendered a single set in this event so far. Talking about their workload, Cristian Jianu and Nagal have played the same amount of sets 2. They also played the same amount of games (18). Cristian Jianu scored 29 winners (46% of the total points). On the other side, Sumit fired 33 winners (53%).

Serve Performance

Serve Cristian Jianu Nagal
Aces 5 0
Avg per match 5 0
1st in 45/61 41/55
%1st in 74% 75%
1st pts 29/45 33/41
%1st pts 64% 80%
2nd pts 7/16 7/14
%2nd pts 44% 50%

Cristian Jianu bagged 5 aces . Nagal didn’t manage to fire a single ace to far. Cristian Jianu won 64% points on his first serve. He pretty solid on his second serve to win 44% of the points. On the other side, Nagal won 80% 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 Cristian Jianu Nagal
Won 5 3
Converted 5/9 3/7
% Converted 56% 43%
Conceded 9 2
Saved 7 2
% Saved 78% 100%
Times Broken 2 0

Cristian Jianu broke his opponent 5 times with a 56% conversion rate. Filip conceded his serve twice and he saved 78% of the break points that he conceded. Nagal broke his opponent 3 times with a 43% conversion rate. Nagal was rock solid on his serve as he has never conceded a single service game after saving 2 break points.

Cristian Jianu
R1
Barrena
Total
Score 6-4 6-2
Tot Set 2 2
Tot Games 18 18
pts 63-50 63-50
Total points 113 113
Winners 29 29
%Winners 46% 46%
SERVE
Aces 5 5
Double Faults 0 0
1st in 45/61 45/61
% 1st in 74% 74%
1st pts 29/45 29/45
% 1st pts 64% 64%
2nd pts 7/16 7/16
% 2nd pts 44% 44%
Breaks
Won 5 5
Converted 5/9 5/9
Converted % 56% 56%
Conceded 9 9
Saved 7/9 7
Saved % 78% 78%
Times Broken 2 2
Nagal
R1
Poljicak
Total
Score 6-4 6-2
Tot Set 2 2
Tot Games 18 18
pts 62-48 62-48
Total points 110 110
Winners 33 33
%Winners 53% 53%
SERVE
Aces 0 0
Double Faults 1 1
1st in 41/55 41/55
% 1st in 75% 75%
1st pts 33/41 33/41
% 1st pts 80% 80%
2nd pts 7/14 7/14
% 2nd pts 50% 50%
Breaks
Won 3 3
Converted 3/7 3/7
Converted % 43% 43%
Conceded 2 2
Saved 2/2 2
Saved % 100% 100%
Times Broken 0 0

Tennis Scores in Tulln Challenger

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