Aleksandar Kovacevic and Rinky Hijikata will clash against each other in the 1st round of the Gwangju Challenger for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Tuesday at 6:30 pm on SHOW COURT. In this post, we analyze their head to head performance and prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Aleksandar Kovacevic who should win in 3 sets.
Aleksandar Kovacevic -> 1.52
Rinky Hijikata -> 2.39
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Prediction and head to head Aleksandar Kovacevic vs. Rinky Hijikata
There is no head to head record between Aleksandar Kovacevic and Rinky Hijikata since this will be the first time that they will face off in the main tour.
Aleksandar Kovacevic
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 19-19 | 14-7 | 5-8 | 0-1 | 0-3 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 43-27 | 34-15 | 0-5 | 7-2 | 2-5 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 41-31 | 22-18 | 4-4 | 15-9 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 20-17 | 11-10 | 2-3 | 7-4 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 5-5 | 1-1 | 0-0 | 4-4 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 167 (career-high), Aleksandar will start his run in the Gwangju Challenger after he played his last match in Seoul where he lost 6-3 4-6 6-3 to Nishioka in the semifinal on the 1st of October.
Kovacevic has an overall 32-24 win-loss record in 2022, 19-14 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Aleksandar’s best result of the current year was reaching the final in the Indianapolis Challenger.
Talking about his overall career, Aleksandar has an overall 100-80 record. He has a positive 60-49 record on hard.
Previously in the Gwangju Challenger
The American 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. 194 (career-high), the Australian will start his run in the Gwangju Challenger after he played his last match in the Columbus 2 Challenger where he lost 3-6 6-3 6-0 to Gomez in the semifinal on the 24th of September.
Hijikata has an aggregate 44-23 win-loss record in 2022, 29-14 on hard (See FULL STATS)
.Hijikata’s best result of the current season was getting to the final in M25 Santo Domingo,M25 Bakersfield,M25 Calabasas and M25 Columbus.
In terms of his career, Rinky has an overall 110-58 record. He has a positive 76-34 record on hard.
Tennis Scores in Gwangju Challenger
- Marc PolmansPolmans – John MillmanMillman (6-4 0-0 ret.) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Yibing WuYibing – Sanhui ShinSanhui (6-3 6-2) – See score progression
Upcoming matches in the draw
- Emilio GomezGomez – Ben PataelPatael (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Nicolas BarrientosBarrientos – Jason JungJung (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Joris De LooreDe Loore – Keegan SmithSmith (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Li TuTu – Tung-Lin WuWu (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Naoki NakagawaNakagawa – Ryan PenistonPeniston (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Maximilian MartererMarterer – Marek GengelGengel (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Skander MansouriMansouri – Christopher EubanksEubanks (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Sasi Kumar MukundKumar Mukund – Ji Hoon SonHoon Son (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Duckhee LeeLee – Maximilian NeuchristNeuchrist (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Yunseong ChungChung – Ji Sung NamSung Nam (2-1) – H2H and prediction
- Aleksandar KovacevicKovacevic – Rinky HijikataHijikata (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Uisung ParkPark – Jay ClarkeClarke (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Zsombor PirosPiros – Kimmer CoppejansCoppejans (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Dalibor SvrcinaSvrcina – Christopher O ConnellO Connell (0-0) – H2H and prediction