Filip Jianu (23 years old, 229th ATP) has won today in three sets, in the first round of qualifications at Roland Garros, the second Grand Slam tournament of the year. He defeated Slovak Jozef Kovalik (32 years, 212 ATP), score 2-6, 7-6 (4), 6-4.
Filip Jianu loves to play on the slag
If in the first set he did not issue claims, in the second set, the Romanian led with a break in front, 3-1. Then the opponent took over the management by 4-3 and had 40-0 against the service.
Jianu saved all three consecutive break balls and then took the match in Tie-break. In the decisive set, Kovalik had 4-3 and the service, but Jianu returned with three games in a row.
In the second round of qualifications, the German Henri Squire (24 years, 260 ATP) comes out in the path of Philip, who had the Brazilian Felipe Meligeni Alves (27, 133 ATP), score 3-6, 6-1, 6-4.
Hero in advertising
Caled in Challenger and Futures tournaments, Filip Jianu won the first victory in the ATP circuit only at the end of March 2025, at the ATP tournament hosted by Ion Țiriac.
Former student of the “Emil Racoviță” High School, Filip Jianu left beautiful words and behind, at School no. 11 “Ion Heliade Rădulescu”. “Had 10 on the line at school”, Said the tennis teacher. Before school, the kid had a meeting with the celebrity. The first money won it from a TV advertisement.
At 4 and a half, he appeared in an advertising spot that remained famous by the reply “Fly, chicken, fly!”. At the casting, a group of older age children was selected, but the director – a Dutch – immediately at the little girl with blond hair and blue eyes, who was accidentally.
Jianu formed as a tennis player at IMG Academy, the “factory” of Nick Bollettieri champions, from the gates of which the Russian Maria Serapova or the Japanese Kei Nisikori came out. The Romanian received a scholarship to the elite group, and in winter he was staying in the US, to check the tournaments on the hard.
There are three girls
On the first day of competition in Paris, the player Ana Bogdan was eliminated, and today Mihaela Buzărnescu, Patricia Țig and Miriam Bulgaru are to enter the competition. In Paris he arrived, according to his posts on Instagram, the player Marius Copil. But not to play any official match. Although he did not withdraw from the circuit, but at the end of his career, at the end of 34, he assumed the role of sparring-parter for Russian Diana Shnaider, 10th WTA.
