Christoph Negritu and Dennis Novak will square off in the quarter of the Hersonissos 2 Challenger for the 2nd time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Friday 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 Dennis Novak who should win in 3 sets.
As per the initial odds, Dennis Novak is the pick to win this match.
Dennis Novak -> 1.86
Christoph Negritu -> 1.86
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Prediction and head to head Christoph Negritu vs. Dennis Novak
This will be the 2nd time that Christoph Negritu and Dennis Novak play each other. The head to head is 1-0 for Novak (see full H2H stats), but they have never competed against each other on hard.
The last time that they fought against each other, Novak won 6-0 6-2 in the quarter in Austria F6 (Innsbruck) back in 2017.
Christoph Negritu
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 22-17 | 7-4 | 9-9 | 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. 320 (career-high), Negritu got to the quarter after defeating Lorenzo Giustino 4-6 6-4 6-2 and Stefanos Sakellaridis 7-5 6-4.
In the 2nd round, Christoph had a good straight sets win against Sakellaridis (7-5 6-4). During the match, Negritu scored 75 points vs Sakellaridis’s 65. Negritu was quite aggressive to blast 31 winners.
Talking about the service games, Negritu scored 5 aces and he committed only 2 double faults. Overall, Christoph Negritu was extremely effective on serve to win 78% (31/40) 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 Sakellaridis 3 times after converting 30% of his break points (3/10).
Overall Performance in this tournament
Negritu has lost 1 set in this event to win 53% of the points he played.
Negritu has positive match record in the last 10 years having won 59% of his matches (230-162). 6-3 on hard in 2025. Talking about his performance on the same surface of this tournament, Negritu has a compiled 110-71 win-loss record in the last years on hard.
Negritu has a composed 12-7 win-loss record in 2025, 6-3 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Hersonissos 2 Challenger
Dennis Novak
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 13-12 | 4-3 | 1-4 | 8-5 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 28-26 | 5-6 | 18-15 | 5-4 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 38-23 | 12-3 | 12-10 | 10-8 | 4-2 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 33-27 | 2-2 | 21-14 | 6-9 | 4-1 | 0-1 |
| 2021 | 26-29 | 1-3 | 9-12 | 14-11 | 2-3 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 366, Dennis reached the quarter after beating Juan Carlos Prado Angelo 6-1 6-1 and Tung-Lin Wu 7-5 6-4.
In the 2nd round, The Austrian had a good straight sets win against Wu (7-5 6-4). During the match Novak scored 73 points vs Wu’s 65. Novak was very aggressive to blast 39 winners.
About the serving games, Novak struck 2 aces and he committed only 2 double faults. Dennis Novak lost the serve once and he saved 2 break points. Furthermore, Novak put 73% of his first serves in, winning 72% (39/54) of the points behind his 1st serve and 45% (9/20) on the 2nd serve. Novak broke Wu 3 times after converting 75% of his break points (3/4).
Overall Performance in this tournament
Novak hasn’t dropped yet a set in the tournament to win 57% of the points he played.
Dennis’s best result of the season was getting to the semifinal in M25 Sunderland.
Dennis has an overall 12-6 win-loss record in 2025, 4-1 on hard (See FULL STATS).
H2H Performance in the tournament (main draw)
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Negritu | Novak |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 2 | 2 |
| Tot Set | 5 | 4 |
| Tot Games | 50 | 36 |
| Pts | 168-150 | 131-97 |
| Total Points | 318 | 228 |
| Winners | 70 | 62 |
| %Winners | 42% | 47% |
Both Negritu and Novak played 2 matches. At the moment, Christoph Negritu surrendered 1 set while Dennis Novak hasn’t lost a set so far. Negritu has played 1 set more than Novak (5 vs 4). Therefore, Negritu played 14 games more than Novak. Christoph scored 70 winners (42% of the total points). On the other side, Dennis managed to score 62 winners (47%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Negritu | Novak |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 11 | 9 |
| Avg per match | 5.5 | 4.5 |
| 1st in | 90/151 | 82/119 |
| %1st in | 60% | 69% |
| 1st pts | 70/90 | 62/82 |
| %1st pts | 78% | 76% |
| 2nd pts | 30/61 | 15/37 |
| %2nd pts | 49% | 41% |
Negritu scored 11 aces (5.5 per match). Novak blasted 9 aces (4.5 per match). Negritu won 78% points behind his first serve. He extremely effective on his second serve to win 49% of the points. On the other side, Novak won 76% of the points on his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 41% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Negritu | Novak |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 8 | 9 |
| Converted | 8/22 | 9/11 |
| % Converted | 36% | 82% |
| Conceded | 10 | 7 |
| Saved | 6 | 5 |
| % Saved | 60% | 71% |
| Times Broken | 4 | 2 |
Negritu broke his opponents 8 times with a 36% conversion rate. The German surrendered his serve 4 times and he saved 60% of the break points that he conceded. The Austrian broke his opponents 9 times with a 82% conversion rate. Novak conceded his serve twice and he saved 71% of the break points that he conceded.
| Negritu | ||||
| R1 Giustino |
R2 Sakellaridis |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 4-6 6-4 6-2 | 7-5 6-4 | ||
| Tot Set | 3 | 2 | 5 | |
| Tot Games | 28 | 22 | 50 | |
| pts | 93-85 | 75-65 | 168-150 | |
| Total points | 178 | 140 | 318 | |
| Winners | 39 | 31 | 70 | |
| %Winners | 42% | 41% | 42% | |
| SERVE | ||||
| Aces | 6 | 5 | 11 | |
| Double Faults | 0 | 2 | 2 | |
| 1st in | 50/86 | 40/65 | 90/151 | |
| % 1st in | 58% | 62% | 60% | |
| 1st pts | 39/50 | 31/40 | 70/90 | |
| % 1st pts | 78% | 78% | 78% | |
| 2nd pts | 17/36 | 13/25 | 30/61 | |
| % 2nd pts | 47% | 52% | 49% | |
| Breaks | ||||
| Won | 5 | 3 | 8 | |
| Converted | 5/12 | 3/10 | 8/22 | |
| Converted % | 42% | 30% | 36% | |
| Conceded | 8 | 2 | 10 | |
| Saved | 5/8 | 1/2 | 6 | |
| Saved % | 63% | 50% | 57% | |
| Times Broken | 3 | 1 | 4 | |
| Novak | ||||
| R1 Carlos Prado Angelo |
R2 Wu |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-1 6-1 | 7-5 6-4 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | 4 | |
| Tot Games | 14 | 22 | 36 | |
| pts | 58-32 | 73-65 | 131-97 | |
| Total points | 90 | 138 | 228 | |
| Winners | 23 | 39 | 62 | |
| %Winners | 40% | 53% | 47% | |
| SERVE | ||||
| Aces | 7 | 2 | 9 | |
| Double Faults | 3 | 2 | 5 | |
| 1st in | 28/45 | 54/74 | 82/119 | |
| % 1st in | 62% | 73% | 69% | |
| 1st pts | 23/28 | 39/54 | 62/82 | |
| % 1st pts | 82% | 72% | 76% | |
| 2nd pts | 6/17 | 9/20 | 15/37 | |
| % 2nd pts | 35% | 45% | 41% | |
| Breaks | ||||
| Won | 6 | 3 | 9 | |
| Converted | 6/7 | 3/4 | 9/11 | |
| Converted % | 86% | 75% | 82% | |
| Conceded | 4 | 3 | 7 | |
| Saved | 3/4 | 2/3 | 5 | |
| Saved % | 75% | 67% | 71% | |
| Times Broken | 1 | 1 | 2 | |
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