Daniil Medvedev and Rinky Hijikata will face off in the 2nd round of the Abierto de Tenis Mifel for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Wednesday at 9:00 pm on STADIUM CSC. 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 Daniil Medvedev who should win in 2 sets.
Daniil Medvedev -> 1.046
Rinky Hijikata -> 10.25
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Prediction and head to head Daniil Medvedev vs. Rinky Hijikata
There is no head to head record between Daniil Medvedev and Rinky Hijikata since this will be the first time that they will fight against each other in the main tour.
Daniil Medvedev
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 41-23 | 20-12 | 6-4 | 10-4 | 5-3 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 46-21 | 28-9 | 11-5 | 1-5 | 6-2 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 66-18 | 38-8 | 10-3 | 11-4 | 7-3 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 45-19 | 26-8 | 3-2 | 8-6 | 8-3 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 63-13 | 33-5 | 5-3 | 18-3 | 7-2 | 0-0 |
Currently world no. 1 Daniil will start his run in Los Cabos after he played his last match in Mallorca where he lost 6-3 6-2 to Bautista-Agut in the quarter on the 23rd of June.
Daniil has an overall 27-10 win-loss record in 2022, 16-5 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Medvedev’s best result of the year was reaching the final at the Australian Open ,Hertogenbosch and Halle.
Talking about his overall career, Daniil has an overall 406-171 record. He has a positive 171-59 record on hard.
Previously in Los Cabos
The Russian has never competed in this tournament before.
Rinky Hijikata
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 28-32 | 14-16 | 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. 224, Hijikata reached the 2nd round after defeating Juan Sebastian Gomez 6-2 6-3, Gonzalo Villanueva 6-4 6-3 and Rodrigo Pacheco Mendez 6-3 4-0 ret..
In the 1st round, The Australian had a good straight sets win against Pacheco Mendez (6-3 4-0 ret.). During the match Hijikata scored 52 points vs Pacheco Mendez’s 33. Hijikata was pretty aggressive to blast 19 winners.
Talking about serving, Hijikata recorded 8 aces and he was very steady in conceding no double faults for the entire match. Rinky Hijikata was exceptionally efficient on serve to win 79% (19/24) of his 1st serve and 53% (8/15) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. The Australian was clinical in his return game without wasting any break point and break Pacheco Mendez 4 times.
Hijikata’s best result of the current year was getting to the final in M25 Santo Domingo,M25 Bakersfield and M25 Calabasas.
Rinky has an aggregate 37-18 win-loss record in 2022, 29-11 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Tennis Scores in Los Cabos
- Brandon NakashimaNakashima – Kaichi UchidaUchida (7-61 6-2) – See score progression
- Radu AlbotAlbot – Feliciano LopezLopez (6-3 6-76 6-3) – See score progression
- Thanasi KokkinakisKokkinakis – Fernando VerdascoVerdasco (6-3 6-75 6-2) – See score progression
- Steve JohnsonJohnson – Gonzalo VillanuevaVillanueva (7-61 6-4) – See score progression
- Jason Murray KublerMurray Kubler – Tomas Martin EtcheverryMartin Etcheverry (6-74 6-3 6-1) – See score progression
- Facundo BagnisBagnis – Ernesto EscobedoEscobedo (6-3 6-1) – See score progression
- Jordan ThompsonThompson – Yannick HanfmannHanfmann (6-3 6-0) – See score progression
- Rinky HijikataHijikata – Rodrigo Pacheco MendezPacheco Mendez (6-3 4-0 ret.) – See score progression
- Chun Hsin TsengHsin Tseng – Nick ChappellChappell (6-4 6-4) – See score progression
- Richard BerankisBerankis – Quentin HalysHalys (7-61 7-5) – See score progression
- Max PurcellPurcell – Henri LaaksonenLaaksonen (6-3 3-6 6-4) – See score progression
- Facundo BagnisBagnis – Ernesto EscobedoEscobedo (6-3 6-1) – See score progression
- Jordan ThompsonThompson – Yannick HanfmannHanfmann (6-3 6-0) – See score progression
- Brandon NakashimaNakashima – Kaichi UchidaUchida (7-6(1) 6-2) – See score progression
- Jason Murray KublerMurray Kubler – Tomas Martin EtcheverryMartin Etcheverry (6-7(4) 6-3 6-1) – See score progression
- Radu AlbotAlbot – Feliciano LopezLopez (6-3 6-7(6) 6-3) – See score progression
- Thanasi KokkinakisKokkinakis – Fernando VerdascoVerdasco (6-3 6-7(5) 6-2) – See score progression
- Steve JohnsonJohnson – Gonzalo VillanuevaVillanueva (7-6(1) 6-4) – See score progression
Upcoming matches in the draw
- Facundo BagnisBagnis – Richard BerankisBerankis (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Jason Murray KublerMurray Kubler – Radu AlbotAlbot (2-0) – H2H and prediction
- Thanasi KokkinakisKokkinakis – Steve JohnsonJohnson (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Daniil MedvedevMedvedev – Rinky HijikataHijikata (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Max PurcellPurcell – Brandon NakashimaNakashima (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Miomir KecmanovicKecmanovic – Jordan ThompsonThompson (5-0) – H2H and prediction
- Chun Hsin TsengHsin Tseng – Cameron NorrieNorrie (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Juan Hernandez SerranoHernandez Serrano – John MillmanMillman (0-0) – H2H and prediction