Andrey Rublev and Rinky Hijikata will square off in the 2nd round of the Hangzhou Open for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Friday at 6:30 pm on Center Court. Here the head to head stats and relative prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Andrey Rublev who should win in 2 sets.
As per the initial odds, Andrey Rublev is the pick to win this match.
Andrey Rublev -> 1.4
Rinky Hijikata -> 2.92
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Prediction and head to head Andrey Rublev vs. Rinky Hijikata
There is no head to head record between Andrey Rublev and Rinky Hijikata since this will be the first time that they will fight against each other in the main tour.
Andrey Rublev
28 - 17win/loss
23
5
LLWWLWWWLW | Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 33-20 | 17-12 | 16-6 | 0-0 | 0-2 | 0-0 |
| 2025 | 34-25 | 16-13 | 8-6 | 6-4 | 4-2 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 43-26 | 26-11 | 11-6 | 6-7 | 0-2 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 56-26 | 23-12 | 19-5 | 6-7 | 8-2 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 51-20 | 19-7 | 14-6 | 18-6 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 25, Rublev will start his run in Hangzhou after he played his last match at the Us Open where he lost 6-7(3) 6-2 6-4 6-4 to Merida in the 2nd round on the 2nd of September.
Andrey has an aggregate 28-17 win-loss record in 2026, 12-9 on hard (See FULL STATS).
His best result of the season was winning the title in Bastad where he defeated Luciano Darderi in the final 6-4 6-3.
Talking about his overall career, Rublev has an overall 540-304 record. He has a positive 219-119 record on hard.
Previously in Hangzhou
Previously, his best result was reaching the 2nd round in 2025. See his history.
Rinky Hijikata
33 - 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, Rinky reached the 2nd round after beating Dalibor Svrcina 7-6(4) 6-4.
In the 1st round, Rinky had a good straight sets win against Svrcina (7-64 6-4). During the match Hijikata scored 86 points vs Svrcina’s 74. Hijikata was exceptionally aggressive to blast 25 winners.
Talking about serving, Hijikata bagged 6 aces and he committed only 2 double faults. Rinky Hijikata lost the serve 3 times and he saved 2 break points. Furthermore, Hijikata put 54% of his first serves in, winning 68% (25/37) of the points behind his 1st serve and 56% (18/32) on the 2nd serve. The Australian broke Svrcina 4 times after converting 40% of his break points (4/10).
Hijikata has an overall 33-26 win-loss record in 2026, 20-14 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in Hangzhou
Previously, his best result was reaching the quarter in 2024. See his history.
Head 2 Head
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WWWWWWWWWW Tennis Scores in Hangzhou
- Rinky HijikataHijikata – Dalibor SvrcinaSvrcina (7-64 6-4) – See score progression
- Fabian MarozsanMarozsan – Alex BoltBolt (6-4 6-2) – See score progression
- Kamil MajchrzakMajchrzak – Mattia BellucciBellucci (6-3 6-4) – See score progression
- Jaime FariaFaria – Terence AtmaneAtmane (3-6 7-69 6-4) – See score progression
- Bu YunchaoketeYunchaokete – Michael ZhengZheng (6-4 6-3) – See score progression
- Taro DanielDaniel – Dane SweenySweeny (7-66 6-2) – See score progression
- Hugo GastonGaston – Sho ShimabukuroShimabukuro (6-4 6-4) – See score progression
- Kyrian JacquetJacquet – Aleksandar VukicVukic (7-65 3-6 6-3) – See score progression
- Valentin RoyerRoyer – Adam WaltonWalton (6-3 6-4) – See score progression
- Bu YunchaoketeYunchaokete – Michael ZhengZheng (6-4 6-3) – See score progression
- Kamil MajchrzakMajchrzak – Mattia BellucciBellucci (6-3 6-4) – See score progression
- Fabian MarozsanMarozsan – Alex BoltBolt (6-4 6-2) – See score progression
- Taro DanielDaniel – Dane SweenySweeny (7-6(6) 6-2) – See score progression
- Jaime FariaFaria – Terence AtmaneAtmane (3-6 7-6(9) 6-4) – See score progression
- Hugo GastonGaston – Sho ShimabukuroShimabukuro (6-4 6-4) – See score progression
- Rinky HijikataHijikata – Dalibor SvrcinaSvrcina (7-6(4) 6-4) – See score progression
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- Zhizhen ZhangZhang – (0-1) – H2H and prediction
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- Bu YunchaoketeYunchaokete – Kamil MajchrzakMajchrzak (0-0) – H2H and prediction
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