Rinky Hijikata and Emile Hudd will face off in the 1st round of the Playford Challenger for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Tuesday at 12:30 pm 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 Rinky Hijikata who should win in 2 sets.
As per the initial odds, Rinky Hijikata is the pick to win this match.
Rinky Hijikata -> 1.06
Emile Hudd -> 7.6
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Prediction and head to head Rinky Hijikata vs. Emile Hudd
There is no head to head record between Rinky Hijikata and Emile Hudd since this will be the first time that they will square off in the main tour.
Rinky Hijikata
27 - 32win/loss
74
62
LWWWWWWWWW | Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 36-33 | 29-21 | 1-6 | 1-1 | 5-5 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 46-34 | 37-23 | 0-3 | 0-2 | 9-6 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 53-29 | 37-19 | 2-2 | 10-6 | 4-2 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 41-13 | 31-9 | 9-3 | 1-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 1-2 | 1-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 83, the Australian will start his run in the Playford Challenger after he played his last match in the Hangzhou Challenger where he lost 6-2 6-1 to Mcdonald in the quarter on the 11th of October.
Hijikata has a compiled 27-32 win-loss record in 2024, 20-20 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Talking about his overall career, Hijikata has an overall 192-130 record. He has a positive 141-82 record on hard.
Previously in the Playford Challenger
Previously, he won this tournament once in 2022. See his history.
Emile Hudd
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 34-22 | 25-17 | 6-3 | 3-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 31-17 | 21-12 | 2-1 | 2-2 | 6-2 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 8-4 | 3-2 | 1-1 | 4-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 3-1 | 3-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 595, Hudd got to the 1st round after defeating Hayato Matsuoka 3-6 6-4 6-2 and Cruz Hewitt 7-6(5) 7-5.
In the qualifications, Hudd had a good straight sets win against Hewitt (7-65 7-5). During the match Hudd scored 84 points vs Hewitt’s 81. The Brit was very aggressive to blast 31 winners.
About the serving games, Hudd blasted 5 aces and he committed only 6 double faults. Emile Hudd lost the serve twice and he saved 3 break points. Furthermore, Hudd put 53% of his first serves in, winning 67% (31/46) of the points behind his 1st serve and 59% (24/41) on the 2nd serve. Emile broke Hewitt 3 times after converting 43% of his break points (3/7).
Overall Performance in this tournament
Emile started his run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, he has conceded 1 set in the tournament to win 51% of the points he played.
The Brit’s best result of the season was reaching the semifinal in M15 Sharm ElSheikh,Rideau,M25 Nottingham and M15 Celje.
Emile has an aggregate 31-19 win-loss record in 2024, 22-14 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Playford Challenger
The Brit has never competed in this tournament before.
Head 2 Head
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- Tristan SchoolkateSchoolkate – Jake DelaneyDelaney (6-4 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Moerani BouzigeBouzige – Jacob BradshawBradshaw (4-6 7-5 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
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- Hikaru ShiraishiShiraishi – Thanasi KokkinakisKokkinakis (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Rinky HijikataHijikata – Emile HuddHudd (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Takuya KumasakaKumasaka – Omar JasikaJasika (0-0) – H2H and prediction
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- Ryuki MatsudaMatsuda – Ajeet RaiRai (0-0) – H2H and prediction
