Rinky Hijikata and Max Purcell will fight against each other in the 1st round of the Busan Challenger for the 2nd time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Tuesday at 10:30 am on COURT 5. 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 Max Purcell who should win in 3 sets.
As per the initial odds, Max Purcell is the pick to win this match.
Max Purcell -> 1.86
Rinky Hijikata -> 1.86
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Prediction and head to head Rinky Hijikata vs. Max Purcell
This will be the 2nd time that Rinky Hijikata and Max Purcell play each other. The head to head is 1-0 for Purcell (see full H2H stats), but they have never played each other on hard.
The last time that they played, Purcell won 6-3 6-3 in the 2nd round in Australia F4 (Mornington) back in 2018.
Rinky Hijikata
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 25-31 | 18-19 | 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 |
| 2020 | 1-2 | 1-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 191 (career-high), the Australian will start his run in the Busan Challenger after he played his last match in the Seoul Challenger where he lost 6-4 6-1 to O in the 2nd round on the 12th of October.
Rinky has a compiled 47-25 win-loss record in 2022, 32-16 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Hijikata’s best result of the current year was getting to the final in M25 Santo Domingo,M25 Bakersfield,M25 Calabasas and M25 Columbus.
Talking about his overall career, Hijikata has an overall 113-60 record. He has a positive 79-36 record on hard.
Previously in the Busan Challenger
The Australian has never competed in this tournament before.
Max Purcell
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 21-24 | 10-16 | 2-3 | 1-1 | 8-4 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 52-28 | 45-17 | 2-3 | 5-5 | 0-3 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 36-29 | 21-15 | 5-8 | 2-2 | 8-4 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 21-14 | 13-9 | 0-1 | 4-1 | 4-3 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 5-12 | 3-5 | 1-2 | 1-5 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 282, Purcell reached the 1st round after beating Seita Watanabe 6-0 6-2 and Seong Chan Hong 7-65 6-0.
In the qualifications, The Australian had a good straight sets win against Chan Hong (7-65 6-0). During the match Purcell scored 67 points vs Chan Hong’s 48. The Australian was very aggressive to blast 30 winners.
About the serving games, Purcell bagged 8 aces and he committed only 2 double faults. Max Purcell was extremely efficient on serve to win 97% (30/31) of his 1st serve and 56% (14/25) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. Purcell broke Chan Hong 3 times after converting 50% of his break points (3/6).
Overall Performance in this tournament
Purcell started his run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, he hasn’t conceded yet a set in this competition to conquer 60% of the points he played.
Purcell has an overall 29-26 win-loss record in 2022, 14-12 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Head 2 Head
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- Shintaro MochizukiMochizuki – Marek GengelGengel (6-2 2-6 6-0) – See score progression
- Joris De LooreDe Loore – Yuta ShimizuShimizu (6-3 6-2) – See score progression
- Maximilian NeuchristNeuchrist – Makoto OchiOchi (4-6 7-65 6-4) – See score progression
- Keegan SmithSmith – Shinji HazawaHazawa (2-6 6-1 6-2) – See score progression
- Mukund SasikumarSasikumar – Naoki NakagawaNakagawa (6-3 6-4) – See score progression
- Max PurcellPurcell – Seong Chan HongChan Hong (7-65 6-0) – See score progression
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- James DuckworthDuckworth – Marc PolmansPolmans (2-1) – H2H and prediction
- Cedrik-Marcel StebeStebe – Li TuTu (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Kaichi UchidaUchida – Ji Sung NamSung Nam (0-3) – H2H and prediction
- Kimmer CoppejansCoppejans – Aleksandar KovacevicKovacevic (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Maximilian MartererMarterer – Kamil MajchrzakMajchrzak (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Skander MansouriMansouri – Joris De LooreDe Loore (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Christopher EubanksEubanks – Yibing WuWu (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Sasi Kumar MukundKumar Mukund – Christopher O ConnellO Connell (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Yunseong ChungChung – Chun Hsin TsengHsin Tseng (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Soon-Woo KwonKwon – Maximilian NeuchristNeuchrist (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Tung-Lin WuWu – Radu AlbotAlbot (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Marek GengelGengel – Hiroki MoriyaMoriya (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Keegan SmithSmith – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Rinky HijikataHijikata – Max PurcellPurcell (0-1) – H2H and prediction
