Rinky Hijikata and Dalibor Svrcina will play each other in the 2nd round of the Gwangju Challenger for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Thursday at 11:00 am on CENTER 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 -> 1.727
Dalibor Svrcina -> 2.06
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Prediction and head to head Rinky Hijikata vs. Dalibor Svrcina
There is no head to head record between Rinky Hijikata and Dalibor Svrcina 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 | 16-22 | 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), Hijikata reached the 2nd round after defeating Aleksandar Kovacevic 6-4 6-4.
In the 1st round, Rinky had a good straight sets win against Kovacevic (6-4 6-4). During the match, Hijikata scored 67 points vs Kovacevic’s 62. The Australian was very aggressive to blast 26 winners.
Regarding the service games, Hijikata scored 4 aces and he committed only 1 double fault. Rinky Hijikata lost the serve once and he saved 4 break points. Furthermore, Hijikata put 62% of his first serves in, winning 63% (26/41) of the points behind his 1st serve and 60% (15/25) on the 2nd serve. Hijikata broke Kovacevic 3 times after converting 50% of his break points (3/6).
Hijikata has a solid match record in the last 6 years having won 66% of his matches (111-58). 30-14 on hard in 2022. Regarding his performance on the same surface of this tournament, Hijikata has a compiled77-34 win-loss record in the last 6 years on hard.
Rinky’s best result of the current season was reaching the final in M25 Santo Domingo,M25 Bakersfield,M25 Calabasas and M25 Columbus.
Hijikata has an overall 45-23 win-loss record in 2022, 30-14 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Gwangju Challenger
Rinky has never competed in this tournament before.
Dalibor Svrcina
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 14-14 | 6-5 | 6-7 | 2-1 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 31-31 | 7-10 | 24-20 | 0-0 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 28-24 | 8-9 | 18-14 | 1-0 | 1-1 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 36-17 | 8-3 | 25-13 | 3-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 15-10 | 6-3 | 3-5 | 6-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 217, Svrcina reached the 2nd round after defeating Christopher O Connell 6-4 6-2.
In the 1st round, Svrcina had a good straight sets win against O Connell (6-4 6-2). During the match Svrcina scored 71 points vs O Connell’s 51. Svrcina was extremely aggressive to blast 32 winners.
About the serving games, Svrcina was unable to score even 1 ace for the entire match and he committed only 5 double faults. Dalibor Svrcina lost the serve once and he saved 2 break points. Furthermore, Svrcina put 78% of his first serves in, winning 71% (32/45) of the points behind his 1st serve and 46% (6/13) on the 2nd serve. Dalibor broke O Connell 4 times after converting 44% of his break points (4/9).
Svrcina’s best result of the season was getting to the final in M25 Faro,M25 Rovinj,the Prague 1 Challenger and the Prostejov Challenger.
Svrcina has an aggregate 25-20 win-loss record in 2022, 6-6 on hard (See FULL STATS).
H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Hijikata | Svrcina |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 1 | 1 |
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 |
| Tot Games | 20 | 18 |
| Pts | 67-62 | 71-51 |
| Total Points | 129 | 122 |
| Winners | 26 | 32 |
| %Winners | 39% | 45% |
Both Hijikata and Svrcina played 1 match. Both players have not lost a single set in this event so far. Talking about their workload, Hijikata and Svrcina have played the same amount of sets 2. However, Hijikata played 2 games more than Svrcina. The Australian scored 26 winners (39% of the total points). On the other side, Svrcina bagged 32 winners (45%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Hijikata | Svrcina |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 4 | 0 |
| Avg per match | 4 | 0 |
| 1st in | 41/66 | 45/58 |
| %1st in | 62% | 78% |
| 1st pts | 26/41 | 32/45 |
| %1st pts | 63% | 71% |
| 2nd pts | 15/25 | 6/13 |
| %2nd pts | 60% | 46% |
Hijikata struck 4 aces . Svrcina didn’t manage to fire a single ace to far. Hijikata won 63% points behind his first serve. He quite strong on his second serve to win 60% of the points. On the other side, Svrcina won 71% of the points behind his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 46% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Hijikata | Svrcina |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 3 | 4 |
| Converted | 3/6 | 4/9 |
| % Converted | 50% | 44% |
| Conceded | 5 | 3 |
| Saved | 4 | 2 |
| % Saved | 80% | 67% |
| Times Broken | 1 | 1 |
Rinky broke his opponent 3 times with a 50% conversion rate. The Australian surrendered his serve once and he saved 80% of the break points that he conceded. The Czech broke his opponent 4 times with a 44% conversion rate. Dalibor conceded his serve once and he saved 67% of the break points that he conceded.
| Hijikata | |||
| R1 Kovacevic |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-4 6-4 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 20 | 20 | |
| pts | 67-62 | 67-62 | |
| Total points | 129 | 129 | |
| Winners | 26 | 26 | |
| %Winners | 39% | 39% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 4 | 4 | |
| Double Faults | 1 | 1 | |
| 1st in | 41/66 | 41/66 | |
| % 1st in | 62% | 62% | |
| 1st pts | 26/41 | 26/41 | |
| % 1st pts | 63% | 63% | |
| 2nd pts | 15/25 | 15/25 | |
| % 2nd pts | 60% | 60% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 3 | 3 | |
| Converted | 3/6 | 3/6 | |
| Converted % | 50% | 50% | |
| Conceded | 5 | 5 | |
| Saved | 4/5 | 4 | |
| Saved % | 80% | 80% | |
| Times Broken | 1 | 1 | |
| Svrcina | |||
| R1 O |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-4 6-2 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 18 | 18 | |
| pts | 71-51 | 71-51 | |
| Total points | 122 | 122 | |
| Winners | 32 | 32 | |
| %Winners | 45% | 45% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 0 | 0 | |
| Double Faults | 5 | 5 | |
| 1st in | 45/58 | 45/58 | |
| % 1st in | 78% | 78% | |
| 1st pts | 32/45 | 32/45 | |
| % 1st pts | 71% | 71% | |
| 2nd pts | 6/13 | 6/13 | |
| % 2nd pts | 46% | 46% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 4 | 4 | |
| Converted | 4/9 | 4/9 | |
| Converted % | 44% | 44% | |
| Conceded | 3 | 3 | |
| Saved | 2/3 | 2 | |
| Saved % | 67% | 67% | |
| Times Broken | 1 | 1 | |
Head 2 Head
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