Andreas Seppi and Rinky Hijikata will face off in the 1st round of the Ilkley Challenger for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Tuesday at 1:30 pm on COURT 4. In the following paragraphs, you can find the head to head analysis and prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Andreas Seppi who should win in 3 sets.
As per the initial odds, Andreas Seppi is the pick to win this match.
Andreas Seppi -> 1.79
Rinky Hijikata -> 1.98
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Prediction and head to head Andreas Seppi vs. Rinky Hijikata
There is no head to head record between Andreas Seppi and Rinky Hijikata since this will be the first time that they will square off in the main tour.
Andreas Seppi
8 - 12win/loss
354
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LLLWLWWWLL | Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 15-19 | 6-8 | 1-3 | 2-5 | 6-3 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 28-24 | 3-8 | 1-2 | 17-8 | 6-5 | 1-1 |
| 2020 | 10-16 | 2-6 | 3-6 | 5-4 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2019 | 29-27 | 17-11 | 0-7 | 5-5 | 7-4 | 0-0 |
| 2018 | 33-27 | 12-8 | 9-8 | 9-7 | 3-4 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 151, the Italian will start his run in the Ilkley Challenger after he played his last match in S Hertogenbosch where he lost 7-6(4) 7-6(9) to Mannarino in the 1st round on the 7th of June.
Seppi has a composed 7-12 win-loss record in 2022, 2-1 on grass (See FULL STATS).
Talking about his overall career, Andreas has an overall 633-554 record. He has a positive 80-55 record on grass.
Previously in the Ilkley Challenger
Andreas has never competed in this tournament before.
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. 230 (career-high), Rinky got to the 1st round after beating Illya Marchenko 6-3 6-75 7-62 and Lukas Lacko 3-6 6-3 6-4.
In the qualifications against Lacko, Rinky recovered from a 1-set down deficit before winning (3-6 6-3 6-4). During the match Hijikata scored 104 points vs Lacko’s 94. Hijikata was exceptionally aggressive to blast 42 winners.
About the serving games, Hijikata recorded 6 aces and he committed only 6 double faults. Rinky Hijikata lost the serve 3 times and he saved 9 break points. Furthermore, Hijikata put 63% of his first serves in, winning 74% (42/57) of the points behind his 1st serve and 44% (15/34) on the 2nd serve. The Australian broke Lacko 4 times after converting 29% of his break points (4/14).
Overall Performance in this tournament
Hijikata started his run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, he has conceded 2 set in the tournament to win 53% of the points he played.
The Australian’s best result of the season was getting to the final in M25 Santo Domingo,M25 Bakersfield and M25 Calabasas.
Rinky has an aggregate 32-13 win-loss record in 2022, 2-0 on grass (See FULL STATS).
Head 2 Head
LLWLWWWWLL Tennis Scores in Ilkley Challenger
- Jack SockSock – Michael MmohMmoh (6-3 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Jiri VeselyVesely – Altug CelikbilekCelikbilek (7-63 6-1) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Constant LestienneLestienne – Arthur FeryFery (4-6 7-5 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Fernando VerdascoVerdasco – Mikhail KukushkinKukushkin (6-0 0-0 ret.) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Pierre-Hugues HerbertHerbert – Henri LaaksonenLaaksonen (6-4 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
Upcoming matches in the draw
- Fernando VerdascoVerdasco – Constant LestienneLestienne (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Andreas SeppiSeppi – Rinky HijikataHijikata (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Vasek PospisilPospisil – Aidan MchughMchugh (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- John MillmanMillman – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Jordan ThompsonThompson – Nuno BorgesBorges (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Ernesto EscobedoEscobedo – Daniel MasurMasur (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Sebastian OfnerOfner – Jesper De JongDe Jong (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Hugo GrenierGrenier – Ramkumar RamanathanRamanathan (0-4) – H2H and prediction
- Borna GojoGojo – Jason Murray KublerMurray Kubler (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Gijs BrouwerBrouwer – Lucas PouillePouille (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Zizou BergsBergs – Jurij RodionovRodionov (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Charles BroomBroom – Daniel CoxCox (0-1) – H2H and prediction
