Filip Cristian Jianu vs Johan NiklesPrediction, Head-to-Head Results, and Stats
Upcoming match
- Tournament
- Como Challenger
- Level
- ATP Challenger Tour
- Round
- 2nd Round
- Surface
- Clay
- Date & time
- September 3 · 6:30 AM ET
Book odds
Set spread
Game spread
Record at prices like this
Priced around 3.41 or longer, Johan Nikles has won 1 of 21 matches, 5% against a fair-price expectation of 22%.
Priced around 1.30 or shorter, Filip Cristian Jianu has won 17 of 22 matches, 77% against a fair-price expectation of 78%.
Book prices only, with the bookmaker margin removed, across every priced match we hold for each player. Sample sizes below ten are not shown.
Filip Cristian Jianu meets Johan Nikles in the 2nd Round of the Como Challenger on September 3, 2026. Both players compete on clay with identical recent records of 11-9, though Jianu holds the higher ranking at 269 to Nikles' 424.
Jianu has won four of his last five matches after playing four times in fourteen days and sits on a one-match winning streak. Nikles has taken three straight wins and played as recently as one day before this fixture, also competing in four matches over the same span. The two have never met. Jianu's form over ten matches stands at 0.4; Nikles is at 0.5 across the same sample.
Jianu and Nikles share a similar baseline-heavy approach that demands patience and point construction rather than immediate aggression. Jianu has shown momentum in his last five outings while carrying mixed results in the longer picture. Nikles maintains steadier form across ten matches and rides three consecutive victories. The match will test whether Jianu's recent surge sustains through a second-round format, while Nikles must maintain his winning rhythm against a player who has found form at a critical moment.
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Spread & Straight-Sets Form
Completed best-of-3 matches · Last 12 months
| Indicator | Cristian Jianu | Nikles | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Indicator | Filip Cristian Jianu | Johan Nikles | ||
| Wins in straight sets | 78% | 43/55 | 70% | 38/54 |
| Wins a set when losing | 35% | 9/26 | 29% | 7/24 |
| Goes to a deciding set | 26% | 21/81 | 29% | 23/78 |
| Covers −1.5 sets as favorite | 50% | 14/28 | 65% | 26/40 |
| Covers +1.5 sets as underdog | 73% | 8/11 | 53% | 16/30 |
| Tiebreak sets won | 43% | 6/14 | 50% | 7/14 |
| Wins after taking set 1 | 93% | 50/54 | 92% | 49/53 |
| Wins 2-0 after taking set 1 | 80% | 43/54 | 72% | 38/53 |
Colored rows are higher-is-better: green above 50%, red below. Favorite/underdog set by book odds; cover rows count only matches with odds on record.
Style Matchup
Playing styles and historical archetype record
Jianu
⚔️ The Gladiator
Nikles
⚔️ The Gladiator
Matchup analysis
Both Filip Cristian Jianu and Johan Nikles are ⚔️ The Gladiator types. Mirror matchups usually come down to execution, fitness, and surface fit, across 1,648 matches in our dataset the historical split is about even.
Previous meetings
First career meeting
Jianu and Nikles have never faced each other on tour.
Prop Research
Hit rates on common betting markets · Last 90 days
| Outcome | Jianu | Nikles | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Outcome | Filip Cristian Jianu | Johan Nikles | ||
| 1 or more | 63% | 5/8 | 56% | 10/18 |
| 3 or more | 13% | 1/8 | 11% | 2/18 |
| 5 or more | 13% | 1/8 | 0% | 0/18 |
| 10 or more | 13% | 1/8 | 0% | 0/18 |
| 15 or more | 0% | 0/8 | 0% | 0/18 |
| 20 or more | 0% | 0/8 | 0% | 0/18 |
Player ROI
Hypothetical if you put 1u on each player to win every one of their matches · Last 90 days
| Metric | Jianu | Nikles |
|---|---|---|
| W-L | 3–3 | 11–7 |
| Avg odds | 2.70 | 1.80 |
| ROI % | -20.3% | -11.2% |
| Units P/L | -1.22u | -2.01u |
Small sample: ROI stabilizes with more matches; fewer than 10 in the window is noisy.
Travel
Last 30 days
| Metric | Jianu | Nikles |
|---|---|---|
| Countries | 3 | 2 |
| Events | 3 | 2 |
| Matches | 6 | 4 |
| Distance | — | 88 mi · 141 km |
| Route | GER → CZE → ROU | SUI → ITA |
Host country from the tournament each match was played in, over the last 30 days. Route is the order of countries visited; consecutive stops in the same country are shown once. Distance is the great-circle total between host cities, shown only when every stop in the window is geocoded. A rough fatigue signal, not a headline stat.
Common opponents
Results vs. opponents both players faced · Last 12 months
Across 3 shared opponents, both Jianu and Nikles posted a 67% win rate.
| Opponent | Jianu | Nikles |
|---|---|---|
| Junzhang Fu | W 60 60 | L 67 26 |
| Ioannis Kountourakis | W 62 46 62 | W 61 67 76 |
| Dragos Nicolae Madaras | L 63 36 57 | W 76 32 |
Recent Form
Last five matches per player
Vladislav Melnic
M15 Bucharest · 1st Round
Aug 26
Jan Kumstat
Prague Challenger · Semifinals
Aug 21
Max Hans Rehberg
Prague Challenger · Quarterfinals
Aug 20
Rudolf Molleker
Prague Challenger · 2nd Round
Aug 19
Andrej Martin
Prague Challenger · 1st Round
Aug 18
Raul Brancaccio
Hamburg Challenger · 1st Round
Aug 10
Darwin Blanch
Wimbledon · 1st Round Qualifying
Jun 29
Lorenzo Sonego
Terra Wortmann Open · 1st Round Qualifying
Jun 13
Olle Wallin
Como Challenger · 1st Round
Sep 1
Lorenzo Rottoli
Como Challenger · 3rd Round Qualifying
Aug 31
Kasra Rahmani
Como Challenger · 1st Round Qualifying
Aug 30
Florent Lagarrigue
M25 Lausanne · 1st Round
Aug 26
Henry Bernet
Sion Challenger · 1st Round
Aug 18
Alex Barrena
Bonn Challenger · 1st Round
Jul 28
Yannik Kelm
M25 Metzingen · Quarterfinals
Jul 24
Niels Ratiu
M25 Metzingen · 2nd Round
Jul 23
Win rate
Matches, sets and games won · Last 12 months · 78–81 matches
| Metric | Jianu | Nikles |
|---|---|---|
| Matches won | 68% | 69% |
| Sets won | 65% | 64% |
| Games won | 59% | 55% |