Emilien Demanet and Dragos Nicolae Cazacu will face off in the qualifications of the Targu Mures 1 Challenger for the 1^st time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Monday at 1:30 pm on COURT 1. In this post, we analyze their head to head performance and prediction.

Prediction, odds and live streaming

The pick for Tennis Tonic is Emilien Demanet who should win in 3 sets.

As per the initial odds, Emilien Demanet is the pick to win this match.
Emilien Demanet -> 1.53
Dragos Nicolae Cazacu -> 2.375

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Prediction and head to head Emilien Demanet vs. Dragos Nicolae Cazacu

There is no head to head record between Emilien Demanet and Dragos Nicolae Cazacu since this will be the first time that they will clash against each other in the main tour.

Emilien Demanet

Ranked no. 521, the Belgian reached the qualifications after beating Daniel Uta 6-1 6-3.

In the qualifications, Demanet had a good straight sets win against Uta (6-1 6-3). During the match, Demanet scored 67 points vs Uta’s 40. Emilien was exceptionally aggressive to blast 21 winners.

Regarding the service games, Demanet scored 2 aces and he was pretty steady in conceding no double faults. Overall, Emilien Demanet was quite effective on serve to win 81% (21/26) of his 1st serve and 67% (8/12) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve once. The Belgian broke Uta 5 times after converting 38% of his break points (5/13).

Demanet has a winning record in the last 3 years having won 56% of his matches (65-51). 24-15 on clay in 2025. Regarding his performance on the same surface of this competition, Demanet has a compiled37-27 match record in the last 3 years on clay.

The Belgian’s best result of the season was getting to the final in M15 Nova Gorica and M15 Eupen.

Demanet has a composed 29-21 win-loss record in 2025, 24-15 on clay (See FULL STATS).

Previously in the Targu Mures 1 Challenger

Emilien has never competed in this tournament before.

Dragos Nicolae Cazacu

Ranked no. 787, the Romanian got to the qualifications after defeating Alexandru Cristian Dumitru 6-2 6-1.

In the qualifications, Nicolae had a good straight sets win against Cristian Dumitru (6-2 6-1). During the match Nicolae scored 54 points vs Cristian Dumitru’s 29. The Romanian was quite aggressive to blast 20 winners.

About the serving games, Nicolae recorded 2 aces and he was pretty steady in conceding no double faults for the entire match. Overall, Dragos Nicolae Cazacu was exceptionally efficient on serve to win 87% (20/23) of his 1st serve and 63% (10/16) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve once. Dragos broke Cristian Dumitru 5 times after converting 56% of his break points (5/9).

Nicolae has a compiled 17-25 win-loss record in 2025, 15-22 on clay (See FULL STATS).

H2H Performance in the tournament

Matches, sets, games and points

Points	Demanet	Nicolae
Match played	1	1
Tot Set	2	2
Tot Games	16	15
Pts	67-40	54-29
Total Points	107	83
Winners	21	20
%Winners	31%	37%

Both Demanet and Nicolae played 1 match. Also both players started their run from the qualifications.Both players have not dropped a single set in this event so far. Talking about their workload, Demanet and Nicolae have played the same amount of sets 2. However, Demanet played 1 game more than Nicolae. Emilien scored 21 winners (31% of the total points). On the other side, Dragos fired 20 winners (37%).

Serve Performance

Serve	Demanet	Nicolae
Aces	2	2
Avg per match	2	2
1st in	26/38	23/39
%1st in	68%	59%
1st pts	21/26	20/23
%1st pts	81%	87%
2nd pts	8/12	10/16
%2nd pts	67%	63%

Demanet managed to score 2 aces . Nicolae made 2 aces . Demanet won 81% points behind his first serve. He was rock solid on his second serve to win 67% of the points. On the other side, Nicolae won 87% of the points behind his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 63% of the points.

How they played the important points

Breaks	Demanet	Nicolae
Won	5	5
Converted	5/13	5/9
% Converted	38%	56%
Conceded	2	1
Saved	1	0
% Saved	50%	0%
Times Broken	1	1

The Belgian broke his opponent 5 times with a 38% conversion rate. Demanet surrendered his serve once and he saved 50% of the break points that he conceded. Dragos broke his opponent 5 times with a 56% conversion rate. Nicolae conceded his serve once and he saved 0% of the break points that he conceded.

Demanet
	Q1 Uta	Total
Score	6-1 6-3
Tot Set	2	2
Tot Games	16	16
pts	67-40	67-40
Total points	107	107
Winners	21	21
%Winners	31%	31%
SERVE
Aces	2	2
Double Faults	0	0
1st in	26/38	26/38
% 1st in	68%	68%
1st pts	21/26	21/26
% 1st pts	81%	81%
2nd pts	8/12	8/12
% 2nd pts	67%	67%
Breaks
Won	5	5
Converted	5/13	5/13
Converted %	38%	38%
Conceded	2	2
Saved	1/2	1
Saved %	50%	50%
Times Broken	1	1

Nicolae
	Q1 Cristian Dumitru	Total
Score	6-2 6-1
Tot Set	2	2
Tot Games	15	15
pts	54-29	54-29
Total points	83	83
Winners	20	20
%Winners	37%	37%
SERVE
Aces	2	2
Double Faults	0	0
1st in	23/39	23/39
% 1st in	59%	59%
1st pts	20/23	20/23
% 1st pts	87%	87%
2nd pts	10/16	10/16
% 2nd pts	63%	63%
Breaks
Won	5	5
Converted	5/9	5/9
Converted %	56%	56%
Conceded	1	1
Saved	0/1	0
Saved %	0%	0%
Times Broken	1	1

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