Christopher O Connell and Rinky Hijikata will square off in the 2^nd round of the Seoul Challenger for the 2^nd time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Wednesday at 11:00 am on COURT 2. Here the head to head stats and relative prediction.

Prediction, odds and live streaming

The pick for Tennis Tonic is Christopher O Connell who should win in 2 sets.

As per the initial odds, Christopher O Connell is the pick to win this match.
Christopher O Connell -> 1.33
Rinky Hijikata -> 3.2

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Prediction and head to head Christopher O Connell vs. Rinky Hijikata

This will be the 2^nd time that Christopher O Connell and Rinky Hijikata play each other. The head to head is 1-0 for O Connell (see full H2H stats), but they have never competed against each other on hard.

The last time that they competed against each other, O Connell won 6-2 6-1 in the 1^st round in M15 Balatonalmadi back in 2019.

Christopher O Connell

Christopher O Connell

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Year	Total	Hard	Clay	I.hard	Grass	Carpet
2024	11-13	9-8	2-4	0-0	0-1	0-0
2023	38-34	19-18	11-9	4-3	4-4	0-0
2022	50-25	30-16	12-5	3-1	5-3	0-0
2021	22-16	14-9	3-3	1-1	4-3	0-0
2020	12-12	4-5	4-3	4-4	0-0	0-0

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Ranked no. 109, the Australian got to the 2^nd round after beating Ryan Peniston 5-7 6-3 7-6⁶.

In the 1^st round against Peniston, Christopher recovered from a 1-set down deficit before winning (5-7 6-3 7-6⁶). During the match, O Connell scored 112 points vs Peniston’s 108. Christopher was exceptionally aggressive to blast 47 winners.

Regarding the service games, O Connell managed to score 7 aces and he was very solid in conceding no double faults. Overall, Christopher O Connell was very efficient on serve to win 71% (47/66) of his 1st serve and 58% (26/45) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve twice. O Connell broke Peniston twice after converting 29% of his break points (2/7).

O Connell has a solid win-loss record in the last 10 years having won 64% of his matches (308-175). 21-14 on hard in 2022. In connection with his performance on the same surface of this tournament, O Connell has a composed 127-83 record in the last years on hard.

Christopher’s best result of the current season was getting to the final in the Split Challenger and the Porto Challenger.

Christopher has an overall 38-22 win-loss record in 2022, 21-14 on hard (See FULL STATS).

Previously in the Seoul Challenger

Seoul Challenger

O Connell's Record

Rinky Hijikata

Rinky Hijikata

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Rank
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High
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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

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Ranked no. 192 (career-high), will start his run in the Seoul Challenger after he played his last match in the Seoul Challenger where he defeated 6-1 6-2 to Kim in the 1^st round on the 11^th of October.

The Australian has an overall 46-24 win-loss record in 2022, 31-15 on hard (See FULL STATS).

The Australian’s best result of the current year was getting to the final in M25 Santo Domingo,M25 Bakersfield,M25 Calabasas and M25 Columbus.

In terms of his career, Hijikata has an overall 112-59 record. He has a positive 78-35 record on hard.

Seoul Challenger

Hijikata's Record

H2H Performance in the tournament

Matches, sets, games and points

Both O Connell and Hijikata played 1 match. At the moment, Christopher O Connell surrendered 1 set while Rinky Hijikata hasn’t surrendered a set so far. O Connell has played 1 set more than Hijikata (3 vs 2). Therefore, O Connell played 19 games more than Hijikata. The Australian scored 47 winners (42% of the total points). On the other side, The Australian fired 14 winners (26%).

Serve Performance

O Connell struck 7 aces . Hijikata bagged 3 aces . O Connell won 71% points on his first serve. He extremely effective on his second serve to win 58% of the points. On the other side, Hijikata won 74% of the points behind his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 77% of the points.

How they played the important points

Christopher broke his opponent twice with a 29% conversion rate. O Connell surrendered his serve twice and he saved 67% of the break points that he conceded. The Australian broke his opponent 6 times with a 67% conversion rate. Rinky conceded his serve once and he saved 0% of the break points that he conceded.

Head 2 Head

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Christopher
O Connell

3:0

Rinky
Hijikata

Rank

79

High

53

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Rank

77

High

70

Win Loss

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2024 2023 2022

11 - 13

16 - 22

9-8

Hard

9-12

0-0

I Hard

1-1

2-4

Clay

1-5

0-1

Grass

5-4

Tennis Scores in Seoul Challenger

• Naoki NakagawaNakagawa – Alexei PopyrinPopyrin (3-6 7-5 7-6⁶) – See score progression
• Dalibor SvrcinaSvrcina – Christopher EubanksEubanks (6-7⁶ 6-4 6-4) – See score progression
• John MillmanMillman – Hiroki MoriyaMoriya (6-3 6-1) – See score progression
• Kimmer CoppejansCoppejans – Tung-Lin WuWu (6-3 6-4) – See score progression
• James DuckworthDuckworth – Aleksandar KovacevicKovacevic (7-6⁶ 6-3) – See score progression
• Kamil MajchrzakMajchrzak – Jay ClarkeClarke (6-2 6-2) – See score progression
• Rinky HijikataHijikata – Jangjun KimKim (6-1 6-2) – See score progression
• Maximilian MartererMarterer – Chun Hsin TsengHsin Tseng (6-3 6-2) – See score progression
• Shintaro MochizukiMochizuki – Emilio GomezGomez (5-7 6-4 6-4) – See score progression
• Cedrik-Marcel StebeStebe – Aleksandar VukicVukic (7-5 6-7⁶ 6-4) – See score progression
• Maximilian NeuchristNeuchrist – Marc PolmansPolmans (3-6 6-3 6-4) – See score progression
• Christopher O ConnellO Connell – Ryan PenistonPeniston (5-7 6-3 7-6⁶) – See score progression
• Yibing WuWu – Radu AlbotAlbot (6-0 4-6 6-2) – See score progression
• Li TuTu – Kaichi UchidaUchida (6-4 6-0) – See score progression
• Hong ChungChung – Zsombor PirosPiros (4-6 6-3 3-0 ret.) – See score progression
• Shintaro MochizukiMochizuki – Emilio GomezGomez (5-7 6-4 6-4) – See score progression
• Maximilian NeuchristNeuchrist – Marc PolmansPolmans (3-6 6-3 6-4) – See score progression
• James DuckworthDuckworth – Aleksandar KovacevicKovacevic (7-6(6) 6-3) – See score progression
• Hong ChungChung – Zsombor PirosPiros (4-6 6-3 3-0 ret.) – See score progression

Upcoming matches in the draw

• John MillmanMillman – Kamil MajchrzakMajchrzak (1-0) – H2H and prediction
• James DuckworthDuckworth – Hong ChungChung (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Li TuTu – Naoki NakagawaNakagawa (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Kimmer CoppejansCoppejans – Maximilian MartererMarterer (1-1) – H2H and prediction
• Christopher O ConnellO Connell – Rinky HijikataHijikata (1-0) – H2H and prediction
• Yibing WuWu – Cedrik-Marcel StebeStebe (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Dalibor SvrcinaSvrcina – Steve JohnsonJohnson (0-0) – H2H and prediction

O Connell

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