Jurij Rodionov and Rinky Hijikata will square off in the 1st round of the Cleveland Challenger for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Tuesday at 10:00 am 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 3 sets.
Rinky Hijikata -> 1.74
Jurij Rodionov -> 2.04
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Prediction and head to head Jurij Rodionov vs. Rinky Hijikata
There is no head to head record between Jurij Rodionov and Rinky Hijikata since this will be the first time that they will fight against each other in the main tour.
Jurij Rodionov
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 41-30 | 17-12 | 14-10 | 10-7 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 27-32 | 10-10 | 6-12 | 11-7 | 0-3 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 44-33 | 3-6 | 15-13 | 21-11 | 5-3 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 45-31 | 5-5 | 16-11 | 21-11 | 3-4 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 20-28 | 2-4 | 2-7 | 13-13 | 3-3 | 0-1 |
Ranked no. 133, the Austrian will start his run in the Cleveland Challenger after he played his last match in the Columbus Challenger where he lost 6-4 2-6 6-4 to Stephan in the semifinal on the 29th of January.
Jurij has an overall 4-3 win-loss record in 2022, 3-1 on indoor hard courts (See FULL STATS).
The Austrian’s best result of the season was reaching the semifinal in the Columbus Challenger.
Talking about his overall career, Rodionov has an overall 161-120 record. He has a positive 50-33 record on indoor hard courts.
Previously in the Cleveland Challenger
Previously, his best result was reaching the 2nd round in 2020. See his history.
Rinky Hijikata
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 29-33 | 15-17 | 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 |
| 2021 | 41-13 | 31-9 | 9-3 | 1-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 346 (career-high), the Australian got to the 1st round after beating Govind Nanda 7-5 6-3 and Michail Pervolarakis 6-3 6-3.
In the qualifications, Rinky had a good straight sets win against Pervolarakis (6-3 6-3). During the match Hijikata scored 64 points vs Pervolarakis’s 47. Hijikata was extremely aggressive to blast 24 winners.
Talking about serving, Hijikata recorded 5 aces and he committed only 2 double faults. Overall, Rinky Hijikata was very effective on serve to win 75% (24/32) of his 1st serve and 52% (11/21) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve twice. The Australian broke Pervolarakis 5 times after converting 63% of his break points (5/8).
Overall Performance in this tournament
The Australian started his run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, he hasn’t conceded yet a set in this event to conquer 56% of the points he played.
Rinky has a composed 5-2 win-loss record in 2022, 2-0 on indoor hard courts (See FULL STATS).
Tennis Scores in Cleveland Challenger
- Tennys SandgrenSandgren – Christian HarrisonHarrison (7-65 3-6 7-63) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Cedrik-Marcel StebeStebe – Mikael TorpegaardTorpegaard (4-6 6-4 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Nicola KuhnKuhn – Bjorn FratangeloFratangelo (7-68 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Thomas FabbianoFabbiano – Mitchell KruegerKrueger (7-5 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Ernesto EscobedoEscobedo – Keegan SmithSmith (7-63 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
Upcoming matches in the draw
- Jason JungJung – Emilio GomezGomez (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Roberto QuirozQuiroz – William BlumbergBlumberg (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Tennys SandgrenSandgren – Thomas FabbianoFabbiano (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Yasutaka UchiyamaUchiyama – Sebastian FanselowFanselow (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Jack SockSock – Brayden SchnurSchnur (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Yoshihito NishiokaNishioka – Denis IstominIstomin (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Michael MmohMmoh – Aleksandar KovacevicKovacevic (2-0) – H2H and prediction
- Ernesto EscobedoEscobedo – Nicola KuhnKuhn (2-0) – H2H and prediction
- Geoffrey BlancaneauxBlancaneaux – Emilio NavaNava (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Alexis GalarneauGalarneau – Ulises BlanchBlanch (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Jeff WolfWolf – Liam BroadyBroady (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Rinky HijikataHijikata – Jurij RodionovRodionov (0-0) – H2H and prediction