Christoph Negritu and Rei Sakamoto will play each other in the final of the Yokkaichi Challenger for the 1^st time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Sunday at 11:00 am on CENTRE COURT. 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 Rei Sakamoto who should win in 3 sets.

As per the initial odds, Rei Sakamoto is the pick to win this match.
Rei Sakamoto -> 1.86
Christoph Negritu -> 1.86

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Prediction and head to head Christoph Negritu vs. Rei Sakamoto

There is no head to head record between Christoph Negritu and Rei Sakamoto since this will be the first time that they will play each other in the main tour.

Christoph Negritu

Ranked no. 409, Negritu reached the final after defeating Shinji Hazawa 7-5 6-3, Ryuki Matsuda 6-3 4-6 6-4, Mattia Bellucci 6-7(1) 6-2 7-5, Federico Cina 7-5 6-2, Benjamin Hassan 4-1 ret. and Philip Sekulic 6-0 6-7(6) 6-6 ret..

In the semifinal against Sekulic, Negritu had a free pass after Sekulic retired on a 6-0 6-7⁶ 6-6 . scoreline.

Negritu has a winning match record in the last 9 years having won 59% of his matches (218-154). 20-13 on hard in 2024. Regarding his performance on the same surface of this tournament, Negritu has a composed104-67 record in the last 9 years on hard.

Christoph’s best result of the current season was reaching the final in M15 Monastir and M25 Sion.

Negritu has a composed 45-25 win-loss record in 2024, 20-13 on hard (See FULL STATS).

Previously in the Yokkaichi Challenger

Negritu has never competed in this tournament before.

Rei Sakamoto

Ranked no. 682 (career-high), the Japanese reached the final after beating Philip Henning 6-4 6-3, Naoki Nakagawa 7-6(9) 6-3, Kaichi Uchida 6-4 7-6(3) and Shintaro Mochizuki 6-2 4-6 6-4.

In the semifinal, Rei defeated Mochizuki (6-2 4-6 6-4). During the match Sakamoto scored 80 points vs Mochizuki’s 75. Rei was exceptionally aggressive to blast 40 winners.

About the serving games, Sakamoto couldn’t to score even 1 ace for the entire match and he was exceptionally steady in conceding no double faults for the entire match. Rei Sakamoto lost the serve twice and he saved 4 break points. Furthermore, Sakamoto put 60% of his first serves in, winning 82% (40/49) of the points behind his 1st serve and 42% (14/33) on the 2nd serve. Rei broke Mochizuki 4 times after converting 67% of his break points (4/6).

Overall Performance in this tournament

Rei has conceded 1 set in the tournament to win 53% of the points he played.

Sakamoto’s best result of the season was reaching the semifinal in M15 Cervia,M25 La Nucia and the Yokkaichi Challenger.

Rei has an overall 19-16 win-loss record in 2024, 11-11 on hard (See FULL STATS)

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Previously in the Yokkaichi Challenger

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

H2H Performance in the tournament (main draw)

Matches, sets, games and points

Points	Negritu	Sakamoto
Match played	6	4
Tot Set	16	9
Tot Games	139	92
Pts	476-399	286-255
Total Points	875	541
Winners	181	128
%Winners	38%	45%

Negritu played 6 matches while Sakamoto competed in 4 matches. Negritu started his run from the qualifications while Sakamoto had a direct access to the main draw. Both players lost a set in the event. Christoph Negritu surrendered 3 sets, while Rei Sakamoto lost 1 set. Negritu has played 7 sets more than Sakamoto (16 vs 9). Therefore, Negritu played 47 games more than Sakamoto. The German scored 181 winners (38% of the total points). On the other side, The Japanese struck 128 winners (45%).

Serve Performance

Serve	Negritu	Sakamoto
Aces	32	21
Avg per match	5.3	5.3
1st in	251/439	164/289
%1st in	57%	57%
1st pts	181/251	128/164
%1st pts	72%	78%
2nd pts	107/188	72/125
%2nd pts	57%	58%

Negritu fired 32 aces (5.3 per match). Sakamoto scored 21 aces (5.3 per match). Negritu won 72% points behind his first serve. He pretty effective on his second serve to win 57% of the points. On the other side, Sakamoto won 78% of the points on his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 58% of the points.

How they played the important points

Breaks	Negritu	Sakamoto
Won	24	11
Converted	24/52	11/21
% Converted	46%	52%
Conceded	39	18
Saved	28	14
% Saved	72%	78%
Times Broken	11	4

Christoph broke his opponents 24 times with a 46% conversion rate. The German surrendered his serve 11 times and he saved 72% of the break points that he conceded. Rei broke his opponents 11 times with a 52% conversion rate. Sakamoto conceded his serve 4 times and he saved 78% of the break points that he conceded.

Negritu
	Q1 Hazawa	Q1 Hazawa	Q3 Matsuda	Q3 Matsuda	R1 Bellucci	R1 Bellucci	R2 Cina	R2 Cina	1/4 Hassan	1/4 Hassan	Total
Score	7-5 6-3	7-5 6-3	6-3 4-6 6-4	6-3 4-6 6-4	6-71 6-2 7-5	6-71 6-2 7-5	7-5 6-2	7-5 6-2	4-1 ret.	4-1 ret.
Tot Set	2	2	3	3	3	3	2	2	1	1	22
Tot Games	21	21	29	29	33	33	20	20	5	5	216
pts	79-62	79-62	94-87	94-87	110-93	110-93	66-49	66-49	24-14	24-14	746-610
Total points	141	141	181	181	203	203	115	115	38	38	1356
Winners	25	25	30	30	49	49	28	28	9	9	282
%Winners	32%	32%	32%	32%	45%	45%	42%	42%	38%	38%	38%
SERVE
Aces	5	5	9	9	8	8	3	3	1	1	52
Double Faults	1	1	2	2	1	1	1	1	1	1	12
1st in	39/68	39/68	47/97	47/97	60/97	60/97	35/57	35/57	12/21	12/21	386/680
% 1st in	57%	57%	48%	48%	62%	62%	61%	61%	57%	57%	57%
1st pts	25/39	25/39	30/47	30/47	49/60	49/60	28/35	28/35	9/12	9/12	282/386
% 1st pts	64%	64%	64%	64%	82%	82%	80%	80%	75%	75%	73%
2nd pts	19/29	19/29	23/50	23/50	22/37	22/37	13/22	13/22	6/9	6/9	166/294
% 2nd pts	66%	66%	46%	46%	59%	59%	59%	59%	67%	67%	56%
Breaks
Won	4	4	7	7	3	3	4	4	1	1	38
Converted	4/9	4/9	7/14	7/14	3/6	3/6	4/12	4/12	1/1	1/1	38/84
Converted %	44%	44%	50%	50%	50%	50%	33%	33%	100%	100%	45%
Conceded	5	5	13	13	4	4	3	3	4	4	58
Saved	3/5	3/5	7/13	7/13	4/4	4/4	2/3	2/3	4/4	4/4	40
Saved %	60%	60%	54%	54%	100%	100%	67%	67%	100%	100%	76%
Times Broken	2	2	6	6	0	0	1	1	0	0	18

Sakamoto
	R1 Henning	R2 Nakagawa	1/4 Uchida	1/2 Mochizuki	Total
Score	6-4 6-3	7-69 6-3	6-4 7-63	6-2 4-6 6-4
Tot Set	2	2	2	3	9
Tot Games	19	22	23	28	92
pts	58-46	73-64	75-70	80-75	286-255
Total points	104	137	145	155	541
Winners	18	36	34	40	128
%Winners	31%	49%	45%	50%	45%
SERVE
Aces	3	12	6	0	21
Double Faults	0	1	1	0	2
1st in	27/53	45/77	43/77	49/82	164/289
% 1st in	51%	58%	56%	60%	57%
1st pts	18/27	36/45	34/43	40/49	128/164
% 1st pts	67%	80%	79%	82%	78%
2nd pts	18/26	19/32	21/34	14/33	72/125
% 2nd pts	69%	59%	62%	42%	58%
Breaks
Won	4	2	1	4	11
Converted	4/5	2/4	1/6	4/6	11/21
Converted %	80%	50%	17%	67%	52%
Conceded	3	4	5	6	18
Saved	2/3	3/4	5/5	4/6	14
Saved %	67%	75%	100%	67%	31%
Times Broken	1	1	0	2	4

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