Filip Cristian Jianu and Cezar Cretu will clash against each other in the 1st round of the Valencia Challenger for the 2nd time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Tuesday at 3:30 pm on PISTA 2. In this post, we analyze their head to head performance and prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Filip Cristian Jianu who should win in 3 sets.
As per the initial odds, Filip Cristian Jianu is the pick to win this match.
Filip Cristian Jianu -> 1.69
Cezar Cretu -> 2.08
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Prediction and head to head Filip Cristian Jianu vs. Cezar Cretu
This will be the 2nd time that Filip Cristian Jianu and Cezar Cretu play each other. The head to head is 1-0 for Cristian Jianu (see full H2H stats), 1-0 on clay.
The last time that they played each other, Cristian Jianu won 6-2 7-6(3) in the semifinal in M15 Antalya back in 2024.
Filip Cristian Jianu
31 - 36win/loss
279
210
LWWLWWWWWL | Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 41-40 | 2-5 | 39-31 | 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. 280, the Romanian will start his run in the Valencia Challenger after he played his last match in M15 Otopeni where he lost 6-4 6-3 to Palosi in the semifinal on the 27th of September.
Filip has an overall 31-36 win-loss record in 2025, 29-27 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Cristian Jianu’s best result of the current season was reaching the semifinal in the Targu Mures 1 Challenger and M15 Otopeni.
Talking about his overall career, Cristian Jianu has an overall 315-231 record. He has a positive 270-173 record on clay.
Previously in the Valencia Challenger
Previously, his best result was reaching the 1st round in 2024. See his history.
Cezar Cretu
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42 - 20win/loss
388
288
LLWLWWWLWW | Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 52-26 | 5-2 | 46-22 | 1-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 52-26 | 4-5 | 46-21 | 2-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 55-22 | 13-9 | 42-13 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 60-26 | 0-0 | 60-26 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 41-19 | 0-3 | 41-16 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 427, the Romanian got to the 1st round after beating Andrej Nedic 6-3 6-1 and Tiago Pereira 6-1 6-3.
In the qualifications, The Romanian had a good straight sets win against Pereira (6-1 6-3). During the match Cretu scored 60 points vs Pereira’s 39. Cretu was very aggressive to blast 27 winners.
Talking about serving, Cretu scored 2 aces and he was extremely solid in conceding no double faults for the entire match. Cezar Cretu conceded no breaks for the entire match to save 2 break points. Furthermore, Cretu put 68% of his first serves in, winning 90% (27/30) of the points behind his 1st serve and 50% (7/14) on the 2nd serve. The Romanian broke Pereira 4 times after converting 40% of his break points (4/10).
Overall Performance in this tournament
Cretu started his run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, he hasn’t dropped yet a set in this tournament to win 62% of the points he played.
Cezar’s best result of the current season was reaching the final in M15 Bistrita,M15 Targu Jiu,M15 Arad and M15 Bucharest.
The Romanian has a compiled 42-20 win-loss record in 2025, 36-16 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Valencia Challenger
The Romanian has never competed in this tournament before.
Head 2 Head
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LLWLWWWLWW Tennis Scores in Valencia Challenger
- Pol Martin TiffonMartin Tiffon – Stefano TravagliaTravaglia (7-5 1-6 7-6(5)) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Pablo Llamas RuizLlamas Ruiz – Ignacio BuseBuse (6-4 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Carlos Lopez MontagudLopez Montagud – Elmer MollerMoller (6-4 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
Upcoming matches in the draw
- Stefano TravagliaTravaglia – Pol Martin TiffonMartin Tiffon (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Marco TrungellitiTrungelliti – Nerman FaticFatic (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Christoph NegrituNegritu – Vit KoprivaKopriva (0-2) – H2H and prediction
- Jan ChoinskiChoinski – Miguel DamasDamas (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Ivan GakhovGakhov – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Sumit NagalNagal – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Pedro Martinez PorteroMartinez Portero – Albert Ramos-VinolasRamos-Vinolas (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Bernabe Zapata MirallesZapata Miralles – Luka PavlovicPavlovic (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Zdenek KolarKolar – Carlos Sanchez JoverSanchez Jover (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Henri SquireSquire – (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Filip Cristian JianuCristian Jianu – Cezar Cretu (ROU)Cretu (ROU) (1-0) – H2H and prediction
