Rinky Hijikata and Alex Rybakov will fight against each other in the qualifications of the Sarasota Challenger for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Monday at 12:00 pm on REMINGTON REYNOLDS 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.
As per the initial odds, Rinky Hijikata is the pick to win this match.
Rinky Hijikata -> 1.68
Alex Rybakov -> 2.13
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Prediction and head to head Rinky Hijikata vs. Alex Rybakov
There is no head to head record between Rinky Hijikata and Alex Rybakov since this will be the first time that they will fight against each other in the main tour.
Rinky Hijikata
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 16-21 | 9-12 | 1-5 | 1-1 | 5-3 | 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. 260 (career-high), Rinky got to the qualifications after defeating Christian Langmo 7-66 6-3.
In the qualifications, The Australian had a good straight sets win against Langmo (7-66 6-3).During the match, Hijikata scored less points (1) than Langmo. In fact, the world no. 260 won 75 points vs Langmo’s. That means that Hijikata was more focused during the important points. The Australian was very aggressive to blast 30 winners.
Talking about the service games, Hijikata fired 6 aces and he committed only 4 double faults. Rinky Hijikata lost the serve twice and he saved 5 break points. Furthermore, Hijikata put 53% of his first serves in, winning 65% (30/46) of the points behind his 1st serve and 56% (23/41) on the 2nd serve. Rinky broke Langmo 4 times after converting 57% of his break points (4/7).
Hijikata has a solid match record in the last 6 years having won 68% of his matches (90-43). 1-0 on clay in 2022. In connection with his performance on the same surface of this tournament, Hijikata has a compiled18-12 record in the last 6 years on clay.
Rinky’s best result of the current year was reaching the final in M25 Santo Domingo,M25 Bakersfield and M25 Calabasas.
Hijikata has a compiled 24-8 win-loss record in 2022, 1-0 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Sarasota Challenger
Hijikata has never competed in this tournament before.
Alex Rybakov
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 16-13 | 4-4 | 12-8 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 22-25 | 5-8 | 7-9 | 10-8 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 30-23 | 5-7 | 20-12 | 5-4 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 39-26 | 4-4 | 35-22 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 24-9 | 12-5 | 9-3 | 3-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 366, Rybakov reached the qualifications after defeating Emil Reinberg 6-3 6-1.
In the qualifications, Alex had a good straight sets win against Reinberg (6-3 6-1). During the match Rybakov scored 52 points vs Reinberg’s 33. The American was quite aggressive to blast 23 winners.
Talking about serving, Rybakov bagged 2 aces and he committed only 2 double faults. Alex Rybakov was quite effective on serve to win 74% (23/31) of his 1st serve and 77% (10/13) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. Alex was clinical in his return game without wasting any break point and break Reinberg 4 times.
Rybakov has an overall 9-8 win-loss record in 2022, 5-2 on clay (See FULL STATS).
H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Hijikata | Rybakov |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 1 | 1 |
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 |
| Tot Games | 22 | 16 |
| Pts | 75-76 | 52-33 |
| Total Points | 151 | 85 |
| Winners | 30 | 23 |
| %Winners | 40% | 44% |
Both Hijikata and Rybakov played 1 match. Also both players started their run from the qualifications.Both players have not conceded a single set in this event so far. Talking about their workload, Hijikata and Rybakov have played the same amount of sets 2. However, Hijikata played 6 games more than Rybakov. Hijikata scored 30 winners (40% of the total points). On the other side, The American managed to score 23 winners (44%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Hijikata | Rybakov |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 6 | 2 |
| Avg per match | 6 | 2 |
| 1st in | 46/87 | 31/44 |
| %1st in | 53% | 70% |
| 1st pts | 30/46 | 23/31 |
| %1st pts | 65% | 74% |
| 2nd pts | 23/41 | 10/13 |
| %2nd pts | 56% | 77% |
Hijikata bagged 6 aces . Rybakov bagged 2 aces . Hijikata won 65% points on his first serve. He pretty solid on his second serve to win 56% of the points. On the other side, Rybakov won 74% of the points on his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 77% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Hijikata | Rybakov |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 4 | 4 |
| Converted | 4/7 | 4/4 |
| % Converted | 57% | 100% |
| Conceded | 7 | 1 |
| Saved | 5 | 1 |
| % Saved | 71% | 100% |
| Times Broken | 2 | 0 |
Hijikata broke his opponent 4 times with a 57% conversion rate. Hijikata lost his serve twice and he saved 71% of the break points that he conceded. Alex broke his opponent 4 times with a 100% conversion rate. Rybakov was rock solid on his serve as he has never conceded a single service game after saving 1 break points.
| Hijikata | |||
| Q1 Langmo |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 7-66 6-3 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 22 | 22 | |
| pts | 75-76 | 75-76 | |
| Total points | 151 | 151 | |
| Winners | 30 | 30 | |
| %Winners | 40% | 40% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 6 | 6 | |
| Double Faults | 4 | 4 | |
| 1st in | 46/87 | 46/87 | |
| % 1st in | 53% | 53% | |
| 1st pts | 30/46 | 30/46 | |
| % 1st pts | 65% | 65% | |
| 2nd pts | 23/41 | 23/41 | |
| % 2nd pts | 56% | 56% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 4 | 4 | |
| Converted | 4/7 | 4/7 | |
| Converted % | 57% | 57% | |
| Conceded | 7 | 7 | |
| Saved | 5/7 | 5 | |
| Saved % | 71% | 71% | |
| Times Broken | 2 | 2 | |
| Rybakov | |||
| Q1 Reinberg |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-3 6-1 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 16 | 16 | |
| pts | 52-33 | 52-33 | |
| Total points | 85 | 85 | |
| Winners | 23 | 23 | |
| %Winners | 44% | 44% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 2 | 2 | |
| Double Faults | 2 | 2 | |
| 1st in | 31/44 | 31/44 | |
| % 1st in | 70% | 70% | |
| 1st pts | 23/31 | 23/31 | |
| % 1st pts | 74% | 74% | |
| 2nd pts | 10/13 | 10/13 | |
| % 2nd pts | 77% | 77% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 4 | 4 | |
| Converted | 4/4 | 4/4 | |
| Converted % | 100% | 100% | |
| Conceded | 1 | 1 | |
| Saved | 1/1 | 1 | |
| Saved % | 100% | 100% | |
| Times Broken | 0 | 0 | |
Head 2 Head
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