Rinky Hijikata and Michail Pervolarakis will clash against each other in the qualifications of the Cleveland Challenger for the 2nd time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Monday at 12:30 pm on CENTER COURT. In this post, we analyze their head to head performance 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 -> 1.33
Michail Pervolarakis -> 3.2
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Prediction and head to head Rinky Hijikata vs. Michail Pervolarakis
This will be the 2nd time that Rinky Hijikata and Michail Pervolarakis fight against each other. The head to head is 1-0 for Hijikata (see full H2H stats), but they have never competed against each other on indoor hard courts.
The last time that they fought against each other, Hijikata won 6-3 4-6 4-0 ret. in the 1st round in M25 Loule back in 2021.
Rinky Hijikata
| 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 |
Ranked no. 346 (career-high), the Australian reached the qualifications after defeating Govind Nanda 7-5 6-3.
In the qualifications, Hijikata had a good straight sets win against Nanda (7-5 6-3). During the match, Hijikata scored 68 points vs Nanda’s 58. Hijikata was very aggressive to blast 27 winners.
Regarding the service games, Hijikata managed to score 5 aces and he committed only 2 double faults. Overall, Rinky Hijikata was pretty effective on serve to win 77% (27/35) of his 1st serve and 54% (20/37) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve once. The Australian broke Nanda 3 times after converting 60% of his break points (3/5).
Hijikata has a solid record in the last 6 years having won 65% of his matches (70-37). 1-0 on indoor hard courts in 2022. Talking about his performance on the same surface of this event, Hijikata has a compiled2-1 record in the last 6 years on indoor hard courts.
Hijikata has an aggregate 4-2 win-loss record in 2022, 1-0 on indoor hard courts (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Cleveland Challenger
The Australian has never competed in this tournament before.
Michail Pervolarakis
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 1-6 | 1-5 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 24-32 | 16-20 | 0-3 | 8-9 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 28-22 | 25-20 | 0-0 | 3-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 6-13 | 6-13 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2019 | 31-25 | 31-23 | 0-0 | 0-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 407, Pervolarakis reached the qualifications after beating Tung-Lin Wu 6-4 7-65.
In the qualifications, Michail had a good straight sets win against Wu (6-4 7-65). During the match Pervolarakis scored 83 points vs Wu’s 78. Pervolarakis was extremely aggressive to blast 36 winners.
Talking about serving, Pervolarakis struck 3 aces and he committed only 4 double faults. Overall, Michail Pervolarakis was pretty effective on serve to win 73% (36/49) of his 1st serve and 56% (18/32) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve once. Pervolarakis broke Wu twice after converting 20% of his break points (2/10).
The Greek has an aggregate 2-4 win-loss record in 2022, 1-1 on indoor hard courts (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Cleveland Challenger
Previously, his best result was reaching the qualifications in 2021. See his history.
H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Hijikata | Pervolarakis |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 1 | 1 |
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 |
| Tot Games | 21 | 23 |
| Pts | 68-58 | 83-78 |
| Total Points | 126 | 161 |
| Winners | 27 | 36 |
| %Winners | 40% | 43% |
Both Hijikata and Pervolarakis 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, Hijikata and Pervolarakis have played the same amount of sets 2. However, Hijikata played 2 games less than Pervolarakis. Rinky scored 27 winners (40% of the total points). On the other side, Michail struck 36 winners (43%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Hijikata | Pervolarakis |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 5 | 3 |
| Avg per match | 5 | 3 |
| 1st in | 35/72 | 49/81 |
| %1st in | 49% | 60% |
| 1st pts | 27/35 | 36/49 |
| %1st pts | 77% | 73% |
| 2nd pts | 20/37 | 18/32 |
| %2nd pts | 54% | 56% |
Hijikata managed to score 5 aces . Pervolarakis managed to score 3 aces . Hijikata won 77% points behind his first serve. He was rock solid on his second serve to win 54% of the points. On the other side, Pervolarakis won 73% of the points behind his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 56% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Hijikata | Pervolarakis |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 3 | 2 |
| Converted | 3/5 | 2/10 |
| % Converted | 60% | 20% |
| Conceded | 4 | 5 |
| Saved | 3 | 4 |
| % Saved | 75% | 80% |
| Times Broken | 1 | 1 |
Hijikata broke his opponent 3 times with a 60% conversion rate. The Australian surrendered his serve once and he saved 75% of the break points that he conceded. The Greek broke his opponent twice with a 20% conversion rate. The Greek conceded his serve once and he saved 80% of the break points that he conceded.
| Hijikata | |||
| Q1 Nanda |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 7-5 6-3 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 21 | 21 | |
| pts | 68-58 | 68-58 | |
| Total points | 126 | 126 | |
| Winners | 27 | 27 | |
| %Winners | 40% | 40% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 5 | 5 | |
| Double Faults | 2 | 2 | |
| 1st in | 35/72 | 35/72 | |
| % 1st in | 49% | 49% | |
| 1st pts | 27/35 | 27/35 | |
| % 1st pts | 77% | 77% | |
| 2nd pts | 20/37 | 20/37 | |
| % 2nd pts | 54% | 54% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 3 | 3 | |
| Converted | 3/5 | 3/5 | |
| Converted % | 60% | 60% | |
| Conceded | 4 | 4 | |
| Saved | 3/4 | 3 | |
| Saved % | 75% | 75% | |
| Times Broken | 1 | 1 | |
| Pervolarakis | |||
| Q1 Wu |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-4 7-65 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 23 | 23 | |
| pts | 83-78 | 83-78 | |
| Total points | 161 | 161 | |
| Winners | 36 | 36 | |
| %Winners | 43% | 43% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 3 | 3 | |
| Double Faults | 4 | 4 | |
| 1st in | 49/81 | 49/81 | |
| % 1st in | 60% | 60% | |
| 1st pts | 36/49 | 36/49 | |
| % 1st pts | 73% | 73% | |
| 2nd pts | 18/32 | 18/32 | |
| % 2nd pts | 56% | 56% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 2 | 2 | |
| Converted | 2/10 | 2/10 | |
| Converted % | 20% | 20% | |
| Conceded | 5 | 5 | |
| Saved | 4/5 | 4 | |
| Saved % | 80% | 80% | |
| Times Broken | 1 | 1 | |
Head 2 Head
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