Christoph Negritu and Stefanos Sakellaridis will face off in the 2^nd round of the Hersonissos 2 Challenger for the 1^st time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Wednesday at 10:30 am 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 Christoph Negritu who should win in 3 sets.

As per the initial odds, Christoph Negritu is the pick to win this match.
Christoph Negritu -> 1.61
Stefanos Sakellaridis -> 2.2

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Prediction and head to head Christoph Negritu vs. Stefanos Sakellaridis

There is no head to head record between Christoph Negritu and Stefanos Sakellaridis since this will be the first time that they will square off in the main tour.

Christoph Negritu

Ranked no. 320 (career-high), the German reached the 2^nd round after defeating Lorenzo Giustino 4-6 6-4 6-2.

In the 1^st round against Giustino, Negritu recovered from a 1-set down deficit before winning (4-6 6-4 6-2). During the match, Negritu scored 93 points vs Giustino’s 85. Negritu was quite aggressive to blast 39 winners.

Talking about the service games, Negritu recorded 6 aces and he was quite solid in conceding no double faults. Christoph Negritu lost the serve 3 times and he saved 5 break points. Furthermore, Negritu put 58% of his first serves in, winning 78% (39/50) of the points behind his 1st serve and 47% (17/36) on the 2nd serve. Negritu broke Giustino 5 times after converting 42% of his break points (5/12).

Negritu has good record in the last 10 years having won 59% of his matches (229-162). 5-3 on hard in 2025. In connection with his performance on the same surface of this event, Negritu has a compiled 109-71 win-loss record in the last years on hard.

Negritu has a composed 11-7 win-loss record in 2025, 5-3 on hard (See FULL STATS).

Previously in the Hersonissos 2 Challenger

Stefanos Sakellaridis

Ranked no. 452, Sakellaridis got to the 2^nd round after beating Nikolas Sanchez-Izquierdo 7-5 6-3.

In the 1^st round, Sakellaridis had a good straight sets win against Sanchez-Izquierdo (7-5 6-3). During the match Sakellaridis scored 69 points vs Sanchez-Izquierdo’s 52. The Greek was extremely aggressive to blast 27 winners.

Talking about serving, Sakellaridis recorded 5 aces and he committed only 2 double faults. Overall, Stefanos Sakellaridis was exceptionally efficient on serve to win 87% (27/31) of his 1st serve and 57% (16/28) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve once. Sakellaridis broke Sanchez-Izquierdo 3 times after converting 25% of his break points (3/12).

Sakellaridis’s best result of the season was reaching the final in M15 Monastir.

Sakellaridis has a composed 13-5 win-loss record in 2025, 11-5 on hard (See FULL STATS).

H2H Performance in the tournament

Matches, sets, games and points

Points	Negritu	Sakellaridis
Match played	1	1
Tot Set	3	2
Tot Games	28	21
Pts	93-85	69-52
Total Points	178	121
Winners	39	27
%Winners	42%	39%

Both Negritu and Sakellaridis played 1 match. At the moment, Christoph Negritu surrendered 1 set while Stefanos Sakellaridis hasn’t dropped a set so far. Negritu has played 1 set more than Sakellaridis (3 vs 2). Therefore, Negritu played 7 games more than Sakellaridis. Christoph scored 39 winners (42% of the total points). On the other side, The Greek recorded 27 winners (39%).

Serve Performance

Serve	Negritu	Sakellaridis
Aces	6	5
Avg per match	6	5
1st in	50/86	31/59
%1st in	58%	53%
1st pts	39/50	27/31
%1st pts	78%	87%
2nd pts	17/36	16/28
%2nd pts	47%	57%

Negritu struck 6 aces . Sakellaridis scored 5 aces . Negritu won 78% points behind his first serve. He pretty solid on his second serve to win 47% of the points. On the other side, Sakellaridis won 87% of the points behind his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 57% of the points.

How they played the important points

Breaks	Negritu	Sakellaridis
Won	5	3
Converted	5/12	3/12
% Converted	42%	25%
Conceded	8	2
Saved	5	1
% Saved	63%	50%
Times Broken	3	1

Christoph broke his opponent 5 times with a 42% conversion rate. Negritu lost his serve 3 times and he saved 63% of the break points that he conceded. Stefanos broke his opponent 3 times with a 25% conversion rate. Stefanos conceded his serve once and he saved 50% of the break points that he conceded.

Negritu
	R1 Giustino	Total
Score	4-6 6-4 6-2
Tot Set	3	3
Tot Games	28	28
pts	93-85	93-85
Total points	178	178
Winners	39	39
%Winners	42%	42%
SERVE
Aces	6	6
Double Faults	0	0
1st in	50/86	50/86
% 1st in	58%	58%
1st pts	39/50	39/50
% 1st pts	78%	78%
2nd pts	17/36	17/36
% 2nd pts	47%	47%
Breaks
Won	5	5
Converted	5/12	5/12
Converted %	42%	42%
Conceded	8	8
Saved	5/8	5
Saved %	63%	63%
Times Broken	3	3

Sakellaridis
	R1 Sanchez-Izquierdo	Total
Score	7-5 6-3
Tot Set	2	2
Tot Games	21	21
pts	69-52	69-52
Total points	121	121
Winners	27	27
%Winners	39%	39%
SERVE
Aces	5	5
Double Faults	2	2
1st in	31/59	31/59
% 1st in	53%	53%
1st pts	27/31	27/31
% 1st pts	87%	87%
2nd pts	16/28	16/28
% 2nd pts	57%	57%
Breaks
Won	3	3
Converted	3/12	3/12
Converted %	25%	25%
Conceded	2	2
Saved	1/2	1
Saved %	50%	50%
Times Broken	1	1

Tennis Scores in Hersonissos 2 Challenger

• Kasidit SamrejSamrej – Oleksii KrutykhKrutykh (6-3 6-1) – See score progression
• Ergi KirkinKirkin – Andre IlaganIlagan (7-6⁹ 7-5) – See score progression
• Tung-Lin WuWu – Stuart ParkerParker (4-6 6-2 6-4) – See score progression
• Adria Soriano BarreraSoriano Barrera – Pavlos TsitsipasTsitsipas (6-1 6-2) – See score progression
• Ryan PenistonPeniston – Martin KlizanKlizan (6-4 6-2) – See score progression
• Federico CinaCina – Matthew DellavedovaDellavedova (7-5 7-6⁵) – See score progression
• Khumoun SultanovSultanov – Ricardas BerankisBerankis (6-2 6-2) – See score progression
• Marek GengelGengel – Mats RosenkranzRosenkranz (7-6⁴ 6-7³ 6-4) – See score progression
• Timofey SkatovSkatov – Keegan SmithSmith (7-6² 6-3) – See score progression
• Aslan KaratsevKaratsev – Marko TopoTopo (6-3 6-4) – See score progression
• Giovanni FonioFonio – Rudolf MollekerMolleker (6-4 4-0 ret.) – See score progression
• Stefanos SakellaridisSakellaridis – Nikolas Sanchez-IzquierdoSanchez-Izquierdo (7-5 6-3) – See score progression
• Christoph NegrituNegritu – Lorenzo GiustinoGiustino (4-6 6-4 6-2) – See score progression
• Dennis NovakNovak – Juan Carlos Prado AngeloCarlos Prado Angelo (6-1 6-1) – See score progression
• Dimitar KuzmanovKuzmanov – Arthur GeaGea (6-3 6-3) – See score progression
• Timofey SkatovSkatov – Keegan SmithSmith (7-6(2) 6-3) – See score progression
• Ryan PenistonPeniston – Martin KlizanKlizan (6-4 6-2) – See score progression
• Giovanni FonioFonio – Rudolf MollekerMolleker (6-4 4-0 ret.) – See score progression
• Tung-Lin WuWu – Stuart ParkerParker (4-6 6-2 6-4) – See score progression
• Marek GengelGengel – Mats RosenkranzRosenkranz (7-6(4) 6-7(3) 6-4) – See score progression
• Ergi KirkinKirkin – Andre IlaganIlagan (7-6(9) 7-5) – See score progression
• Federico CinaCina – Matthew DellavedovaDellavedova (7-5 7-6(5)) – See score progression
• Khumoun SultanovSultanov – Ricardas BerankisBerankis (6-2 6-2) – See score progression
• Chris RodeschRodesch – Marcello SerafiniSerafini (7-5 6-4) – See score progression
• Kasidit SamrejSamrej – Oleksii KrutykhKrutykh (6-3 6-1) – See score progression
• Adria Soriano BarreraSoriano Barrera – Pavlos TsitsipasTsitsipas (6-1 6-2) – See score progression
• Aslan KaratsevKaratsev – Marko TopoTopo (6-3 6-4) – See score progression

Upcoming matches in the draw

• Dimitar KuzmanovKuzmanov – Giovanni FonioFonio (0-1) – H2H and prediction
• Tung-Lin WuWu – Dennis NovakNovak (0-1) – H2H and prediction
• Adria Soriano BarreraSoriano Barrera – Aslan KaratsevKaratsev (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Marek GengelGengel – Ergi KirkinKirkin (0-1) – H2H and prediction
• Chris RodeschRodesch – Kasidit SamrejSamrej (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Timofey SkatovSkatov – Ryan PenistonPeniston (1-0) – H2H and prediction