Mika Brunold and Christoph Negritu will play each other in the 2nd round of the Koblenz Challenger for the 2nd time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Thursday at 5:00 pm on CENTRE COURT. In this post, we analyze their head to head performance and prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Mika Brunold who should win in 3 sets.
As per the initial odds, Mika Brunold is the pick to win this match.
Mika Brunold -> 1.63
Christoph Negritu -> 2.17
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Prediction and head to head Mika Brunold vs. Christoph Negritu
This will be the 2nd time that Mika Brunold and Christoph Negritu play each other. The head to head is 1-0 for Brunold (see full H2H stats), but they have never competed against each other on indoor hard courts.
The last time that they squared off, Brunold won 6-4 6-3 in the quarter in M25 Muttenz back in 2024.
Mika Brunold
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 10-6 | 0-0 | 0-1 | 10-5 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 43-25 | 3-4 | 34-16 | 4-4 | 0-0 | 2-1 |
| 2023 | 23-21 | 2-3 | 10-9 | 10-8 | 0-0 | 1-1 |
| 2022 | 11-9 | 2-2 | 5-4 | 4-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 3-4 | 0-0 | 0-2 | 1-1 | 0-0 | 2-1 |
Ranked no. 334 (career-high), the Swiss reached the 2nd round after beating Tristan Lamasine 6-4 7-6(3), Jakub Nicod 6-1 7-5 and Justin Engel 6-2 6-2.
In the 1st round, Mika had a good straight sets win against Engel (6-2 6-2). During the match, Brunold scored 60 points vs Engel’s 40. Mika was extremely aggressive to blast 25 winners.
Talking about the service games, Brunold managed to score 2 aces and he committed only 4 double faults. Mika Brunold was quite effective on serve to win 83% (25/30) of his 1st serve and 58% (11/19) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. Brunold broke Engel 4 times after converting 36% of his break points (4/11).
Brunold has a winning match record in the last 6 years having won 59% of his matches (89-62). 8-2 on indoor hard courts in 2025. In connection with his performance on the same surface of this tournament, Brunold has a composed27-18 match record in the last 6 years on indoor hard courts.
The Swiss’s best result of the current season was reaching the semifinal in the Nottingham Challenger.
Mika has an aggregate 8-2 win-loss record in 2025, 8-2 on indoor hard courts (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Koblenz Challenger
Brunold has never competed in this tournament before.
Christoph Negritu
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 13-9 | 7-4 | 0-1 | 6-4 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 45-26 | 20-14 | 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 |
Ranked no. 343, Christoph reached the 2nd round after defeating Stijn Slump 7-6(6) 6-4, Jakub Paul 7-6(5) 6-2 and Ryan Nijboer 4-6 6-2 7-5.
In the 1st round against Nijboer, Christoph recovered from a 1-set down deficit before winning (4-6 6-2 7-5). During the match Negritu scored 95 points vs Nijboer’s 89. Negritu was pretty aggressive to blast 39 winners.
Talking about serving, Negritu scored 5 aces and he committed only 2 double faults. Overall, Christoph Negritu was exceptionally efficient on serve to win 71% (39/55) of his 1st serve and 56% (19/34) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve twice. The German broke Nijboer 4 times after converting 36% of his break points (4/11).
Negritu has an aggregate 4-2 win-loss record in 2025, 4-2 on indoor hard courts (See FULL STATS).
H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Brunold | Negritu |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 3 | 3 |
| Tot Set | 6 | 7 |
| Tot Games | 58 | 74 |
| Pts | 204-151 | 240-211 |
| Total Points | 355 | 451 |
| Winners | 87 | 117 |
| %Winners | 43% | 49% |
Both Brunold and Negritu played 3 matches. Also both players started their run from the qualifications.At the moment, Christoph Negritu lost 1 set while Mika Brunold hasn’t surrendered a set so far. Brunold has played 1 set(s) less than Negritu (6 vs 7). Therefore, Brunold played 16 games less than Negritu. Brunold scored 87 winners (43% of the total points). On the other side, The German blasted 117 winners (49%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Brunold | Negritu |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 10 | 19 |
| Avg per match | 3.3 | 6.3 |
| 1st in | 105/166 | 147/228 |
| %1st in | 63% | 64% |
| 1st pts | 87/105 | 117/147 |
| %1st pts | 83% | 80% |
| 2nd pts | 37/61 | 42/81 |
| %2nd pts | 61% | 52% |
Brunold managed to score 10 aces (3.3 per match). Negritu struck 19 aces (6.3 per match). Brunold won 83% points on his first serve. He pretty solid on his second serve to win 61% of the points. On the other side, Negritu won 80% 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 | Brunold | Negritu |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 11 | 8 |
| Converted | 11/23 | 8/16 |
| % Converted | 48% | 50% |
| Conceded | 7 | 15 |
| Saved | 5 | 12 |
| % Saved | 71% | 80% |
| Times Broken | 2 | 3 |
Mika broke his opponents 11 times with a 48% conversion rate. Brunold dropped his serve twice and he saved 71% of the break points that he conceded. Negritu broke his opponents 8 times with a 50% conversion rate. Christoph conceded his serve 3 times and he saved 80% of the break points that he conceded.
| Brunold | |||||
| Q1 Lamasine |
Q3 Nicod |
R1 Engel |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-4 7-63 | 6-1 7-5 | 6-2 6-2 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | 2 | 6 | |
| Tot Games | 23 | 19 | 16 | 58 | |
| pts | 76-62 | 68-49 | 60-40 | 204-151 | |
| Total points | 138 | 117 | 100 | 355 | |
| Winners | 36 | 26 | 25 | 87 | |
| %Winners | 47% | 38% | 42% | 43% | |
| SERVE | |||||
| Aces | 7 | 1 | 2 | 10 | |
| Double Faults | 2 | 0 | 4 | 6 | |
| 1st in | 47/68 | 28/49 | 30/49 | 105/166 | |
| % 1st in | 69% | 57% | 61% | 63% | |
| 1st pts | 36/47 | 26/28 | 25/30 | 87/105 | |
| % 1st pts | 77% | 93% | 83% | 83% | |
| 2nd pts | 14/21 | 12/21 | 11/19 | 37/61 | |
| % 2nd pts | 67% | 57% | 58% | 61% | |
| Breaks | |||||
| Won | 3 | 4 | 4 | 11 | |
| Converted | 3/4 | 4/8 | 4/11 | 11/23 | |
| Converted % | 75% | 50% | 36% | 48% | |
| Conceded | 4 | 0 | 3 | 7 | |
| Saved | 2/4 | 0/0 | 3/3 | 5 | |
| Saved % | 50% | – | 100% | 50% | |
| Times Broken | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | |
| Negritu | |||||
| Q1 Slump |
Q3 Paul |
R1 Nijboer |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 7-66 6-4 | 7-65 6-2 | 4-6 6-2 7-5 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | 3 | 7 | |
| Tot Games | 23 | 21 | 30 | 74 | |
| pts | 72-60 | 73-62 | 95-89 | 240-211 | |
| Total points | 132 | 135 | 184 | 451 | |
| Winners | 36 | 42 | 39 | 117 | |
| %Winners | 50% | 58% | 41% | 49% | |
| SERVE | |||||
| Aces | 6 | 8 | 5 | 19 | |
| Double Faults | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | |
| 1st in | 41/63 | 51/76 | 55/89 | 147/228 | |
| % 1st in | 65% | 67% | 62% | 64% | |
| 1st pts | 36/41 | 42/51 | 39/55 | 117/147 | |
| % 1st pts | 88% | 82% | 71% | 80% | |
| 2nd pts | 14/22 | 9/25 | 19/34 | 42/81 | |
| % 2nd pts | 64% | 36% | 56% | 52% | |
| Breaks | |||||
| Won | 1 | 3 | 4 | 8 | |
| Converted | 1/1 | 3/4 | 4/11 | 8/16 | |
| Converted % | 100% | 75% | 36% | 50% | |
| Conceded | 0 | 9 | 6 | 15 | |
| Saved | 0/0 | 8/9 | 4/6 | 12 | |
| Saved % | – | 89% | 67% | 52% | |
| Times Broken | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | |
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