Jaime Faria and Filip Cristian Jianu will fight against each other in the 1^st round of the Maia Challenger for the 1^st time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Wednesday at 3:30 pm on CENTER. In this post, we analyze their head to head performance and prediction.

Prediction, odds and live streaming

The pick for Tennis Tonic is Jaime Faria who should win in 3 sets.

As per the initial odds, Jaime Faria is the pick to win this match.
Jaime Faria -> 1.55
Filip Cristian Jianu -> 2.26

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Prediction and head to head Jaime Faria vs. Filip Cristian Jianu

There is no head to head record between Jaime Faria and Filip Cristian Jianu since this will be the first time that they will play each other in the main tour.

Jaime Faria

Ranked no. 152, Faria will start his run in the Maia Challenger after he played his last match in Athens where he lost 6-3 6-2 to Kopriva in the qualifications on the 1^st of November.

Faria has an overall 25-28 win-loss record in 2025, 9-15 on clay (See FULL STATS).

Faria’s best result of the current year was getting to the semifinal in the Sumter Challenger.

Talking about his overall career, The Portuguese has an overall 182-119 record. He has a positive 80-57 record on clay.

Previously in the Maia Challenger

Previously, his best result was reaching the 2^nd round in 2023. See his history.

Filip Cristian Jianu

Ranked no. 286, Filip reached the 1^st round after defeating Jaime Faria 7-5 6-3.

In the 1^st round, The Romanian had a good straight sets win against Faria (7-5 6-3). During the match Cristian and Faria scored the same amount of points (). However, the world no. 152 was stronger during the important points and that was the most significant difference in the match. Filip was not very aggressive do strike just winners.

Talking about serving, Cristian wasn’t able to score even 1 ace for the entire match and he was exceptionally steady in conceding no double faults for the entire match. Filip Cristian Jianu conceded no breaks for the entire match to put 0% of his first serves in, win 0% (/) of the points behind his 1st serve and 0% (/) on the 2nd serve.

The Romanian’s best result of the current year was getting to the final in M15 Antalya.

Cristian has an aggregate 39-39 win-loss record in 2025, 37-30 on clay (See FULL STATS).

Tennis Scores in Maia Challenger

• Filip Cristian JianuCristian Jianu – Jaime FariaFaria (7-5 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Daniel Merida AguilarMerida Aguilar – Gianluca CadenassoCadenasso (6-4 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Andres Santamarta RoigSantamarta Roig – Francisco RochaRocha (6-4 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Miguel DamasDamas – Zdenek KolarKolar (6-7⁵ 6-3 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Frederico Ferreira SilvaFerreira Silva – Federico BondioliBondioli (3-6 6-3 7-5) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Daniel MichalskiMichalski – Tomas Curras AbasoloCurras Abasolo (3-6 6-4 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Alexey VatutinVatutin – Franco AgamenoneAgamenone (2-6 6-1 7-5) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Carlos Lopez MontagudLopez Montagud – Tiago PereiraPereira (6-3 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Carlos Sanchez JoverSanchez Jover – Nikolas Sanchez-IzquierdoSanchez-Izquierdo (6-4 6-1) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Andrej MartinMartin – Ivan GakhovGakhov (3-6 6-4 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Lorenzo GiustinoGiustino – Cezar CretuCretu (7-5 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Geoffrey BlancaneauxBlancaneaux – Stefano NapolitanoNapolitano (6-2 6-1) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Elmer MollerMoller – Pedro AraujoAraujo (6-4 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Lilian MarmousezMarmousez – Adrian AndreevAndreev (6-4 6-7⁰ 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Henrique RochaRocha – Gastao EliasElias (5-7 6-3 6-1) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Jan ChoinskiChoinski – Kilian FeldbauschFeldbausch (6-1 7-6⁵) – Stats, scores, rankings

Upcoming matches in the draw

• Lorenzo GiustinoGiustino – Andrej MartinMartin (3-1) – H2H and prediction
• Alexey VatutinVatutin – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Jan ChoinskiChoinski – Frederico Ferreira SilvaFerreira Silva (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Geoffrey BlancaneauxBlancaneaux – Carlos Lopez MontagudLopez Montagud (0-1) – H2H and prediction
• Miguel DamasDamas – Lilian MarmousezMarmousez (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Filip Cristian JianuCristian Jianu – (0-0) – H2H and prediction