Rinky Hijikata and Kyle Edmund will clash against each other in the 1st round of the Winnipeg Challenger for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Tuesday at 3:30 pm on STADIUM. In the following lines you can find the head to head analysis 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 -> 1.54
Kyle Edmund -> 2.41
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Prediction and head to head Rinky Hijikata vs. Kyle Edmund
There is no head to head record between Rinky Hijikata and Kyle Edmund since this will be the first time that they will square off in the main tour.
Rinky Hijikata
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 34-33 | 20-17 | 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. 221, Rinky will start his run in the Winnipeg Challenger after he played his last match in the Indianapolis Challenger where he lost 6-3 6-4 to Shelton in the 1st round on the 19th of July.
Hijikata has an aggregate 34-17 win-loss record in 2022, 26-10 on hard (See FULL STATS).
The Australian’s best result of the current season was getting to the final in M25 Santo Domingo,M25 Bakersfield and M25 Calabasas.
Talking about his overall career, Rinky has an overall 100-52 record. He has a positive 73-30 record on hard.
Previously in the Winnipeg Challenger
Rinky has never competed in this tournament before.
Kyle Edmund
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 10-8 | 0-0 | 5-5 | 0-0 | 5-3 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 39-25 | 8-7 | 4-5 | 25-11 | 2-2 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 14-16 | 1-7 | 7-6 | 6-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 5-5 | 4-4 | 0-0 | 1-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 496, Kyle got to the 1st round after defeating Hady Habib 6-2 6-73 6-4.
In the qualifications, Kyle defeated Habib (6-2 6-73 6-4). During the match Edmund scored 116 points vs Habib’s 99. Kyle was exceptionally aggressive to blast 44 winners.
Talking about serving, Edmund scored 18 aces and he committed only 6 double faults. Overall, Kyle Edmund was very efficient on serve to win 80% (44/55) of his 1st serve and 51% (25/49) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve twice. Edmund broke Habib 5 times after converting 31% of his break points (5/16).
Edmund has an aggregate 1-0 win-loss record in 2022, 1-0 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Head 2 Head
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