Maxime Cressy and Rinky Hijikata will square off in the 1^st round of the Melbourne Summer Set for the 1^st time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Wednesday at 3:00 pm on Court 13. In this post, we analyze their head to head performance and prediction.

Prediction, odds and live streaming

The pick for Tennis Tonic is Maxime Cressy who should win in 2 sets.

As per the initial odds, Maxime Cressy is the pick to win this match.
Maxime Cressy -> 1.363
Rinky Hijikata -> 3.24

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Prediction and head to head Maxime Cressy vs. Rinky Hijikata

There is no head to head record between Maxime Cressy and Rinky Hijikata since this will be the first time that they will clash against each other in the main tour.

Maxime Cressy

Maxime Cressy

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Rank
186

High
31

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Year	Total	Hard	Clay	I.hard	Grass	Carpet
2024	22-16	11-8	0-1	6-3	5-4	0-0
2023	19-31	3-10	0-5	15-10	1-5	0-1
2022	34-30	15-11	5-7	3-8	11-4	0-0
2021	43-32	14-10	2-8	16-8	4-4	7-2
2020	19-17	3-5	2-4	14-7	0-0	0-1

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Ranked no. 112 (career-high), Maxime reached the 1^st round after beating Joao Sousa 6-2 6-3 and Andrea Vavassori 7-6⁶ 7-6¹⁰.

In the qualifications, The American had a good straight sets win against Vavassori (7-6⁶ 7-6¹⁰). During the match, Cressy scored 91 points vs Vavassori’s 84. Cressy was quite aggressive to blast 47 winners.

Talking about the service games, Cressy fired 9 aces and he committed only 4 double faults. Maxime Cressy lost the serve twice and he saved 2 break points. Furthermore, Cressy put 70% of his first serves in, winning 78% (47/60) of the points behind his 1st serve and 50% (13/26) on the 2nd serve. The American broke Vavassori twice after converting 40% of his break points (2/5).

Overall Performance in this tournament

Cressy started his run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, he hasn’t dropped yet a set in this tournament to conquer 55% of the points he played.

Cressy has a solid record in the last 6 years having won 62% of his matches (164-100). 2-0 on hard in 2022. Talking about his performance on the same surface of this tournament, Cressy has a compiled81-49 win-loss record in the last 6 years on hard.

Cressy has an overall 2-0 win-loss record in 2022, 2-0 on hard (See FULL STATS).

Previously in Melbourne

Melbourne

Cressy's Record

Rinky Hijikata

Rinky Hijikata

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Rank
77

High
70

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Year	Total	Hard	Clay	I.hard	Grass	Carpet
2024	16-22	9-12	1-5	1-1	5-4	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

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Ranked no. 375, Rinky reached the 1^st round after beating Denis Kudla 6-1 7-5 and Henri Laaksonen 4-6 7-6⁸ 6-4.

In the qualifications against Laaksonen, Hijikata recovered from a 1-set down deficit before winning (4-6 7-6⁸ 6-4). During the match Hijikata and Laaksonen scored the same amount of points (108). However, the world no. 112 was stronger during the important points and that was the most significant difference in the match. Rinky was very aggressive to blast 43 winners.

Talking about serving, Hijikata made 5 aces and he was pretty steady in conceding no double faults for the entire match. Rinky Hijikata lost the serve 4 times and he saved 2 break points. Furthermore, Hijikata put 58% of his first serves in, winning 70% (43/61) of the points behind his 1st serve and 53% (24/45) on the 2nd serve. Rinky broke Laaksonen 4 times after converting 44% of his break points (4/9).

Overall Performance in this tournament

Hijikata started his run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, he has conceded 1 set in the tournament to win 53% of the points he played.

Hijikata has an overall 2-0 win-loss record in 2022, 2-0 on hard (See FULL STATS).

Previously in Melbourne

Rinky has never competed in this tournament before.

Melbourne

Hijikata's Record

H2H Performance in the tournament

Matches, sets, games and points

Both Cressy and Hijikata played 2 matches. Also both players started their run from the qualifications.At the moment, Rinky Hijikata dropped 1 set while Maxime Cressy hasn’t conceded a set so far. Cressy has played 1 set(s) less than Hijikata (4 vs 5). Therefore, Cressy played 9 games less than Hijikata. Cressy scored 77 winners (50% of the total points). On the other side, Rinky recorded 68 winners (39%).

Serve Performance

Cressy fired 20 aces (10 per match). Hijikata scored 9 aces (4.5 per match). Cressy won 76% points behind his first serve. He pretty solid on his second serve to win 49% of the points. On the other side, Hijikata won 70% of the points behind his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 57% of the points.

How they played the important points

The American broke his opponents 6 times with a 60% conversion rate. Maxime conceded his serve 3 times and he saved 77% of the break points that he conceded. Rinky broke his opponents 8 times with a 50% conversion rate. The Australian conceded his serve 5 times and he saved 44% of the break points that he conceded.

Head 2 Head

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Maxime
Cressy

1:0

Rinky
Hijikata

Rank

186

High

31

1Hard0

Rank

77

High

70

Win Loss

Cressy

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Hijikata

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2024 2023 2022

22 - 16

16 - 22

11-8

Hard

9-12

6-3

I Hard

1-1

0-1

Clay

1-5

5-4

Grass

5-4

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