Rinky Hijikata and Dalibor Svrcina will fight against each other in the 1st round of the Hangzhou Open for the 3rd time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Thursday at 3:30 pm on Court 2. 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 Dalibor Svrcina who should win in 3 sets.
As per the initial odds, Dalibor Svrcina is the pick to win this match.
Dalibor Svrcina -> 1.72
Rinky Hijikata -> 2.11
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Prediction and head to head Rinky Hijikata vs. Dalibor Svrcina
This will be the 3rd time that Rinky Hijikata and Dalibor Svrcina clash against each other. The head to head is 2-0 for Hijikata (see full H2H stats), 2-0 on hard.
The last time that they played, Hijikata won 6-4 6-3 in the qualifications in Delray beach back in February 2026.
Rinky Hijikata
32 - 26win/loss
85
62
LLWLWLLWWL | Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 34-29 | 21-17 | 6-8 | 0-0 | 7-4 | 0-0 |
| 2025 | 34-33 | 20-17 | 4-7 | 6-5 | 4-4 | 0-0 |
| 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 |
Ranked no. 82, the Australian will start his run in Hangzhou after he played his last match at the Us Open where he lost 7-5 4-6 6-3 7-5 to Auger-Aliassime in the 1st round on the 31st of August.
Rinky has a composed 32-26 win-loss record in 2026, 19-14 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Talking about his overall career, The Australian has an overall 267-190 record. He has a positive 189-114 record on hard.
Previously in Hangzhou
Previously, his best result was reaching the quarter in 2024. See his history.
Dalibor Svrcina
30 - 23win/loss
126
86
WWWLLWWLWW | Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 33-25 | 17-14 | 15-10 | 1-0 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
| 2025 | 47-29 | 28-14 | 18-12 | 0-2 | 1-1 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 40-27 | 29-13 | 9-12 | 2-1 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 31-31 | 7-10 | 24-20 | 0-0 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 28-24 | 8-9 | 18-14 | 1-0 | 1-1 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 128, Dalibor got to the 1st round after beating Philip Sekulic 6-3 6-2 and Rio Noguchi 6-4 6-1.
In the qualifications, The Czech had a good straight sets win against Noguchi (6-4 6-1). During the match Svrcina scored 66 points vs Noguchi’s 44. Dalibor was exceptionally aggressive to blast 19 winners.
About the serving games, Svrcina scored 4 aces and he committed only 2 double faults. Dalibor Svrcina lost the serve 3 times and he saved 6 break points. Furthermore, Svrcina put 48% of his first serves in, winning 70% (19/27) of the points behind his 1st serve and 41% (12/29) on the 2nd serve. The Czech broke Noguchi 7 times after converting 64% of his break points (7/11).
Overall Performance in this tournament
Dalibor started his run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, he hasn’t conceded yet a set in this tournament to conquer 61% of the points he played.
ATP Hangzhou - Dalibor Svrcina's projected path
Svrcina’s best result of the year was reaching the semifinal in the Rome Challenger.
The Czech has an overall 30-23 win-loss record in 2026, 14-12 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in Hangzhou
Previously, his best result was reaching the quarter in 2025. See his history.
Head 2 Head
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- Kyrian JacquetJacquet – Aleksandar VukicVukic (7-65 3-6 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
Upcoming matches in the draw
- Daniil MedvedevMedvedev – Valentin RoyerRoyer (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Zhizhen ZhangZhang – (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Fajing SunSun – Roman SafiullinSafiullin (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Sho ShimabukuroShimabukuro – Hugo GastonGaston (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Jie CuiCui – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Fabian MarozsanMarozsan – Alex BoltBolt (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Dane SweenySweeny – Taro DanielDaniel (2-1) – H2H and prediction
- Rinky HijikataHijikata – Dalibor SvrcinaSvrcina (2-0) – H2H and prediction
- Bu YunchaoketeYunchaokete – (1-1) – H2H and prediction
- Kyrian JacquetJacquet – Tomas Martin EtcheverryMartin Etcheverry (0-0) – H2H and prediction
