Tiago Pereira and Cezar Cretu will clash against each other in the qualifications of the Valencia Challenger for the 1^st time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Monday at 11:00 am on PISTA 1. Here the head to head stats and relative prediction.

Prediction, odds and live streaming

The pick for Tennis Tonic is Tiago Pereira who should win in 3 sets.

As per the initial odds, Tiago Pereira is the pick to win this match.
Tiago Pereira -> 1.87
Cezar Cretu -> 1.87

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Prediction and head to head Tiago Pereira vs. Cezar Cretu

There is no head to head record between Tiago Pereira and Cezar Cretu since this will be the first time that they will face off in the main tour.

Tiago Pereira

Ranked no. 281 (career-high), Tiago got to the qualifications after defeating Alex Marti Pujolras 6-3 1-6 7-5.

In the qualifications, Pereira defeated Marti Pujolras (6-3 1-6 7-5). During the match, Pereira scored 93 points vs Marti Pujolras’s 90. Tiago was exceptionally aggressive to blast 45 winners.

Talking about the service games, Pereira scored just 1 ace in the course of the match and he committed only 1 double fault. Tiago Pereira lost the serve 4 times and he saved 12 break points. Furthermore, Pereira put 73% of his first serves in, winning 63% (45/72) of the points behind his 1st serve and 54% (14/26) on the 2nd serve. The Portuguese broke Marti Pujolras 4 times after converting 57% of his break points (4/7).

Pereira has a winning match record in the last 4 years having won 58% of his matches (169-124). 20-19 on clay in 2025. In connection with his performance on the same surface of this tournament, Pereira has a compiled27-31 record in the last 4 years on clay.

Pereira’s best result of the current season was getting to the final in M25 Faro,M25 Vale do Lobo,M25 Bol,M25 Monastir and M25 Figueira da Foz.

The Portuguese has an overall 47-32 win-loss record in 2025, 20-19 on clay (See FULL STATS).

Previously in the Valencia Challenger

Tiago has never competed in this tournament before.

Cezar Cretu

Ranked no. 427, Cezar reached the qualifications after defeating Andrej Nedic 6-3 6-1.

In the qualifications, Cretu had a good straight sets win against Nedic (6-3 6-1). During the match Cretu scored 63 points vs Nedic’s 37. Cretu was extremely aggressive to blast 19 winners.

Talking about serving, Cretu scored 5 aces and he committed only 1 double fault for the entire match. Overall, Cezar Cretu was extremely efficient on serve to win 73% (19/26) of his 1st serve and 65% (13/20) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve once. Cezar broke Nedic 5 times after converting 63% of his break points (5/8).

Cezar’s best result of the current year was getting to the final in M15 Bistrita,M15 Targu Jiu,M15 Arad and M15 Bucharest.

Cezar has an aggregate 41-20 win-loss record in 2025, 35-16 on clay (See FULL STATS).

H2H Performance in the tournament

Matches, sets, games and points

Points	Pereira	Cretu
Match played	1	1
Tot Set	3	2
Tot Games	28	16
Pts	93-90	63-37
Total Points	183	100
Winners	45	19
%Winners	48%	30%

Both Pereira and Cretu played 1 match. Also both players started their run from the qualifications.At the moment, Tiago Pereira conceded 1 set while Cezar Cretu hasn’t conceded a set so far. Pereira has played 1 set more than Cretu (3 vs 2). Therefore, Pereira played 12 games more than Cretu. The Portuguese scored 45 winners (48% of the total points). On the other side, The Romanian made 19 winners (30%).

Serve Performance

Serve	Pereira	Cretu
Aces	1	5
Avg per match	1	5
1st in	72/98	26/46
%1st in	73%	57%
1st pts	45/72	19/26
%1st pts	63%	73%
2nd pts	14/26	13/20
%2nd pts	54%	65%

Pereira struck 1 ace . Cretu also struck 5 aces . Pereira won 63% points on his first serve. He pretty solid on his second serve to win 54% of the points. On the other side, Cretu won 73% of the points on his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 65% of the points.

How they played the important points

Breaks	Pereira	Cretu
Won	4	5
Converted	4/7	5/8
% Converted	57%	63%
Conceded	16	2
Saved	12	1
% Saved	75%	50%
Times Broken	4	1

The Portuguese broke his opponent 4 times with a 57% conversion rate. Tiago conceded his serve 4 times and he saved 75% of the break points that he conceded. Cezar broke his opponent 5 times with a 63% conversion rate. The Romanian conceded his serve once and he saved 50% of the break points that he conceded.

Pereira
	Q1 Marti	Total
Score	6-3 1-6 7-5
Tot Set	3	3
Tot Games	28	28
pts	93-90	93-90
Total points	183	183
Winners	45	45
%Winners	48%	48%
SERVE
Aces	1	1
Double Faults	1	1
1st in	72/98	72/98
% 1st in	73%	73%
1st pts	45/72	45/72
% 1st pts	63%	63%
2nd pts	14/26	14/26
% 2nd pts	54%	54%
Breaks
Won	4	4
Converted	4/7	4/7
Converted %	57%	57%
Conceded	16	16
Saved	12/16	12
Saved %	75%	75%
Times Broken	4	4

Cretu
	Q1 Nedic	Total
Score	6-3 6-1
Tot Set	2	2
Tot Games	16	16
pts	63-37	63-37
Total points	100	100
Winners	19	19
%Winners	30%	30%
SERVE
Aces	5	5
Double Faults	1	1
1st in	26/46	26/46
% 1st in	57%	57%
1st pts	19/26	19/26
% 1st pts	73%	73%
2nd pts	13/20	13/20
% 2nd pts	65%	65%
Breaks
Won	5	5
Converted	5/8	5/8
Converted %	63%	63%
Conceded	2	2
Saved	1/2	1
Saved %	50%	50%
Times Broken	1	1

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