Cem Ilkel and Christoph Negritu will fight against each other in the qualifications of the Dobrich Challenger for the 2nd time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Monday at 12:30 pm on COURT 1. In the following lines you can find the head to head analysis and prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Christoph Negritu who should win in 3 sets.
As per the initial odds, Christoph Negritu is the pick to win this match.
Christoph Negritu -> 1.49
Cem Ilkel -> 2.5
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Prediction and head to head Cem Ilkel vs. Christoph Negritu
This will be the 2nd time that Cem Ilkel and Christoph Negritu face off. The head to head is 1-0 for Ilkel (see full H2H stats), but they have never competed against each other on clay.
The last time that they competed against each other, Ilkel won 6-4 6-0 in the semifinal in Turkey F21 back in 2016.
Cem Ilkel
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 16-26 | 7-12 | 4-7 | 5-7 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 33-29 | 6-10 | 0-4 | 27-14 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 18-16 | 2-4 | 0-3 | 16-7 | 0-2 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 38-29 | 17-9 | 13-11 | 8-7 | 0-1 | 0-1 |
| 2020 | 13-15 | 2-3 | 1-7 | 10-5 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 493, Ilkel got to the qualifications after beating Dinko Dinev 6-4 6-1.
In the qualifications, Cem had a good straight sets win against Dinev (6-4 6-1). During the match, Ilkel scored 65 points vs Dinev’s 46. Cem was exceptionally aggressive to blast 27 winners.
Regarding the service games, Ilkel made 2 aces and he committed only 2 double faults. Cem Ilkel was extremely effective on serve to win 79% (27/34) of his 1st serve and 55% (16/29) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. The Turk broke Dinev 3 times after converting 38% of his break points (3/8).
Ilkel has favorable win-loss record in the last 10 years having won 56% of his matches (330-263). 1-2 on clay in 2024. In connection with his performance on the same surface of this event, Ilkel has an aggregate 47-59 match record in the last years on clay.
Ilkel has an overall 10-17 win-loss record in 2024, 1-2 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Dobrich Challenger
The Turk has never competed in this tournament before.
Christoph Negritu
21 - 15win/loss
406
401
LLLLWWLWLW | Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 38-24 | 13-12 | 25-11 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 38-27 | 29-17 | 8-9 | 1-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 27-19 | 18-13 | 9-6 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 23-19 | 19-14 | 4-5 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 10-3 | 0-0 | 1-1 | 9-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 572, Negritu reached the qualifications after beating Michael Zhu 7-5 6-3.
In the qualifications, Christoph had a good straight sets win against Zhu (7-5 6-3). During the match Negritu scored 75 points vs Zhu’s 60. The German was pretty aggressive to blast 26 winners.
Talking about serving, Negritu bagged 8 aces and he committed only 1 double fault for the entire match. Overall, Christoph Negritu was extremely efficient on serve to win 79% (26/33) of his 1st serve and 52% (13/25) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve once. Christoph broke Zhu 4 times after converting 29% of his break points (4/14).
The German’s best result of the year was reaching the final in M15 Monastir.
Christoph has an overall 20-15 win-loss record in 2024, 9-7 on clay (See FULL STATS).
H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Ilkel | Negritu |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 1 | 1 |
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 |
| Tot Games | 17 | 21 |
| Pts | 65-46 | 75-60 |
| Total Points | 111 | 135 |
| Winners | 27 | 26 |
| %Winners | 42% | 35% |
Both Ilkel and Negritu played 1 match. Also both players started their run from the qualifications.Both players have not conceded a single set in this event so far. Talking about their workload, Ilkel and Negritu have played the same amount of sets 2. However, Ilkel played 4 games less than Negritu. Cem scored 27 winners (42% of the total points). On the other side, Christoph managed to score 26 winners (35%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Ilkel | Negritu |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 2 | 8 |
| Avg per match | 2 | 8 |
| 1st in | 34/63 | 33/58 |
| %1st in | 54% | 57% |
| 1st pts | 27/34 | 26/33 |
| %1st pts | 79% | 79% |
| 2nd pts | 16/29 | 13/25 |
| %2nd pts | 55% | 52% |
Ilkel recorded 2 aces . Negritu scored 8 aces . Ilkel won 79% points on his first serve. He quite strong on his second serve to win 55% of the points. On the other side, Negritu won 79% of the points behind his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 52% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Ilkel | Negritu |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 3 | 4 |
| Converted | 3/8 | 4/14 |
| % Converted | 38% | 29% |
| Conceded | 3 | 3 |
| Saved | 3 | 2 |
| % Saved | 100% | 67% |
| Times Broken | 0 | 1 |
The Turk broke his opponent 3 times with a 38% conversion rate. Ilkel quite strong on his serve as he has never surrendered a single service game after saving 3 break points. Negritu broke his opponent 4 times with a 29% conversion rate. Christoph conceded his serve once and he saved 67% of the break points that he conceded.
| Ilkel | |||
| Q1 Dinev |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-4 6-1 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 17 | 17 | |
| pts | 65-46 | 65-46 | |
| Total points | 111 | 111 | |
| Winners | 27 | 27 | |
| %Winners | 42% | 42% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 2 | 2 | |
| Double Faults | 2 | 2 | |
| 1st in | 34/63 | 34/63 | |
| % 1st in | 54% | 54% | |
| 1st pts | 27/34 | 27/34 | |
| % 1st pts | 79% | 79% | |
| 2nd pts | 16/29 | 16/29 | |
| % 2nd pts | 55% | 55% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 3 | 3 | |
| Converted | 3/8 | 3/8 | |
| Converted % | 38% | 38% | |
| Conceded | 3 | 3 | |
| Saved | 3/3 | 3 | |
| Saved % | 100% | 100% | |
| Times Broken | 0 | 0 | |
| Negritu | |||
| Q1 Zhu |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 7-5 6-3 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 21 | 21 | |
| pts | 75-60 | 75-60 | |
| Total points | 135 | 135 | |
| Winners | 26 | 26 | |
| %Winners | 35% | 35% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 8 | 8 | |
| Double Faults | 1 | 1 | |
| 1st in | 33/58 | 33/58 | |
| % 1st in | 57% | 57% | |
| 1st pts | 26/33 | 26/33 | |
| % 1st pts | 79% | 79% | |
| 2nd pts | 13/25 | 13/25 | |
| % 2nd pts | 52% | 52% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 4 | 4 | |
| Converted | 4/14 | 4/14 | |
| Converted % | 29% | 29% | |
| Conceded | 3 | 3 | |
| Saved | 2/3 | 2 | |
| Saved % | 67% | 67% | |
| Times Broken | 1 | 1 | |
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