Christoph Negritu and Michele Ribecai will clash against each other in the qualifications of the Olbia Challenger for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Monday at 12:30 pm on COURT 2. In the following lines you can find the head to head analysis and prediction.
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The pick for Tennis Tonic is Christoph Negritu who should win in 3 sets.
Christoph Negritu -> 1.54
Michele Ribecai -> 2.36
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Prediction and head to head Christoph Negritu vs. Michele Ribecai
There is no head to head record between Christoph Negritu and Michele Ribecai since this will be the first time that they will clash against each other in the main tour.
Christoph Negritu
32 - 30win/loss
299
263
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 33-36 | 9-7 | 18-23 | 6-6 | 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. 318,he will start his run in the Olbia Challenger after he played his last match in the Olbia Challenger where he defeated 6-1 6-2 to Mazzucchelli in the qualifications on the 12th of October.
The German has an overall 31-30 win-loss record in 2025, 7-5 on hard (See FULL STATS).
The German’s best result of the season was getting to the semifinal in the Hersonissos 2 Challenger and M15 Oegstgeest.
Talking about his overall career, Christoph has an overall 249-185 record. He has a positive 111-73 record on hard.
Previously in the Olbia Challenger
Previously, his best result was reaching the qualifications in 2024. See his history.
Michele Ribecai
50 - 25win/loss
433
421
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 59-28 | 19-8 | 38-18 | 2-1 | 0-0 | 0-1 |
| 2024 | 40-24 | 6-7 | 29-15 | 3-1 | 0-0 | 2-1 |
| 2023 | 25-14 | 14-6 | 11-8 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 537 (career-high), the Italian reached the qualifications after defeating Michael Vrbensky 7-6(3) 6-1.
In the qualifications, The Italian had a good straight sets win against Vrbensky (7-63 6-1). During the match Ribecai scored 55 points vs Vrbensky’s 31. The Italian was very aggressive to blast 15 winners.
Talking about serving, Ribecai was unable to score even 1 ace for the entire match and he was quite consistent in conceding no double faults for the entire match. Michele Ribecai lost the serve 6 times. Furthermore, Ribecai put 100% of his first serves in, winning 37% (15/41) of the points behind his 1st serve and 0% (0/0) on the 2nd serve. Michele was clinical in his return game without wasting any break point and break Vrbensky 9 times.
The Italian’s best result of the current year was reaching the final in M15 Litija,M15 Wels and M25 Santa Margherita di Pula.
Ribecai has an aggregate 50-25 win-loss record in 2025, 12-6 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Olbia Challenger
The Italian has never competed in this tournament before.
H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Negritu | Ribecai |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 1 | 1 |
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 |
| Tot Games | 15 | 20 |
| Pts | 64-43 | 55-31 |
| Total Points | 107 | 86 |
| Winners | 20 | 15 |
| %Winners | 31% | 27% |
Both Negritu and Ribecai played 1 match. Also both players started their run from the qualifications.Both players have not lost a single set in this event so far. Talking about their workload, Negritu and Ribecai have played the same amount of sets 2. However, Negritu played 5 games less than Ribecai. Negritu scored 20 winners (31% of the total points). On the other side, Michele blasted 15 winners (27%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Negritu | Ribecai |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 5 | 0 |
| Avg per match | 5 | 0 |
| 1st in | 24/41 | 41/41 |
| %1st in | 59% | 100% |
| 1st pts | 20/24 | 15/41 |
| %1st pts | 83% | 37% |
| 2nd pts | 9/17 | 0/0 |
| %2nd pts | 53% | 0% |
Negritu scored 5 aces . Ribecai didn’t manage to fire a single ace to far. Negritu won 83% points behind his first serve. He pretty effective on his second serve to win 53% of the points. On the other side, Ribecai won 37% of the points on his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 0% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Negritu | Ribecai |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 5 | 9 |
| Converted | 5/11 | 9/9 |
| % Converted | 45% | 100% |
| Conceded | 2 | 6 |
| Saved | 2 | 0 |
| % Saved | 100% | 0% |
| Times Broken | 0 | 6 |
The German broke his opponent 5 times with a 45% conversion rate. Christoph extremely effective on his serve as he has never surrendered a single service game after saving 2 break points. Ribecai broke his opponent 9 times with a 100% conversion rate. Ribecai conceded his serve 6 times and he saved 0% of the break points that he conceded.
| Negritu | ||
| Total | ||
|---|---|---|
| Score | ||
| Tot Set | 0 | |
| Tot Games | 0 | |
| pts | 0-0 | |
| Total points | 0 | |
| Winners | 0 | |
| %Winners | 0% | |
| SERVE | ||
| Aces | 0 | |
| Double Faults | 0 | |
| 1st in | 0/0 | |
| % 1st in | 0% | |
| 1st pts | 0/0 | |
| % 1st pts | % | |
| 2nd pts | 0/0 | |
| % 2nd pts | 0% | |
| Breaks | ||
| Won | 0 | |
| Converted | 0/0 | |
| Converted % | 0% | |
| Conceded | 0 | |
| Saved | 0 | |
| Saved % | 0% | |
| Times Broken | 0 | |
| Ribecai | |||
| Q1 Vrbensky | Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 7-63 6-1 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 20 | 20 | |
| pts | 55-31 | 55-31 | |
| Total points | 86 | 86 | |
| Winners | 15 | 15 | |
| %Winners | 27% | 27% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 0 | 0 | |
| Double Faults | 0 | 0 | |
| 1st in | 41/41 | 41/41 | |
| % 1st in | 100% | 100% | |
| 1st pts | 15/41 | 15/41 | |
| % 1st pts | 37% | 37% | |
| 2nd pts | 0/0 | 0/0 | |
| % 2nd pts | 0% | 0% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 9 | 9 | |
| Converted | 9/9 | 9/9 | |
| Converted % | 100% | 100% | |
| Conceded | 6 | 6 | |
| Saved | 0/6 | 0 | |
| Saved % | 0% | 0% | |
| Times Broken | 6 | 6 | |
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