James Duckworth and Rinky Hijikata will face off in the qualifications of the Adelaide International 1 for the 2nd time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Sunday at 5:30 pm on COURT 3. Here the head to head stats and relative prediction.
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The pick for Tennis Tonic is James Duckworth who should win in 3 sets.
James Duckworth -> 1.86
Rinky Hijikata -> 1.87
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Prediction and head to head James Duckworth vs. Rinky Hijikata
This will be the 2nd time that James Duckworth and Rinky Hijikata play each other. The head to head is 1-0 for Hijikata (see full H2H stats), 1-0 on hard.
The last time that they played each other, Hijikata won 4-6 6-1 6-2 in the quarter in the Playford Challenger back in October 2022.
James Duckworth
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 40-33 | 19-19 | 6-4 | 10-4 | 5-6 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 42-29 | 23-14 | 2-3 | 7-7 | 10-5 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 51-28 | 43-21 | 1-3 | 5-2 | 2-2 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 24-27 | 20-18 | 0-2 | 0-1 | 4-6 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 36-24 | 15-9 | 1-2 | 12-9 | 8-4 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 155, James reached the qualifications after beating Ben Shelton 6-3 7-62.
In the qualifications, The Australian had a good straight sets win against Shelton (6-3 7-62). During the match, Duckworth scored 82 points vs Shelton’s 63. The Australian was exceptionally aggressive to blast 32 winners.
Regarding the service games, Duckworth recorded 12 aces and he committed only 2 double faults. James Duckworth was exceptionally effective on serve to win 89% (32/36) of his 1st serve and 67% (16/24) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. Duckworth broke Shelton once after converting 10% of his break points (1/10).
Duckworth has a solid match record in the last 10 years having won 60% of his matches (301-199). 20-18 on hard in 2022. Talking about his performance on the same surface of this event, Duckworth has an overall 192-119 record in the last years on hard.
The Australian’s best result of the current year was reaching the final in the Cassis Challenger.
Duckworth has a composed 24-27 win-loss record in 2022, 20-18 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in Adelaide
Rinky Hijikata
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 29-32 | 15-16 | 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. 164, Hijikata reached the qualifications after defeating Gregoire Barrere 6-2 6-3.
In the qualifications, Hijikata had a good straight sets win against Barrere (6-2 6-3). During the match Hijikata scored 66 points vs Barrere’s 42. The Australian was exceptionally aggressive to blast 25 winners.
About the serving games, Hijikata fired 3 aces and he committed only 1 double fault for the entire match. Rinky Hijikata was pretty effective on serve to win 83% (25/30) of his 1st serve and 71% (12/17) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. The Australian broke Barrere 3 times after converting 43% of his break points (3/7).
Rinky’s best result of the season was reaching the final in M25 Santo Domingo,M25 Bakersfield,M25 Calabasas,M25 Columbus and the Playford Challenger.
Hijikata has an overall 53-29 win-loss record in 2022, 37-19 on hard (See FULL STATS).
H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Duckworth | Hijikata |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 1 | 1 |
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 |
| Tot Games | 22 | 17 |
| Pts | 82-63 | 66-42 |
| Total Points | 145 | 108 |
| Winners | 32 | 25 |
| %Winners | 39% | 38% |
Both Duckworth and Hijikata played 1 match. Also both players started their run from the qualifications.Both players have not lost a single set in this event so far. Talking about their workload, Duckworth and Hijikata have played the same amount of sets 2. However, Duckworth played 5 games more than Hijikata. James scored 32 winners (39% of the total points). On the other side, Rinky bagged 25 winners (38%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Duckworth | Hijikata |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 12 | 3 |
| Avg per match | 12 | 3 |
| 1st in | 36/60 | 30/47 |
| %1st in | 60% | 64% |
| 1st pts | 32/36 | 25/30 |
| %1st pts | 89% | 83% |
| 2nd pts | 16/24 | 12/17 |
| %2nd pts | 67% | 71% |
Duckworth bagged 12 aces . Hijikata blasted 3 aces . Duckworth won 89% points on his first serve. He quite strong on his second serve to win 67% of the points. On the other side, Hijikata won 83% of the points on his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 71% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Duckworth | Hijikata |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 1 | 3 |
| Converted | 1/10 | 3/7 |
| % Converted | 10% | 43% |
| Conceded | 1 | 0 |
| Saved | 1 | 0 |
| % Saved | 100% | 0% |
| Times Broken | 0 | 0 |
James broke his opponent once with a 10% conversion rate. The Australian was rock solid on his serve as he has never dropped a single service game after saving 1 break points. The Australian broke his opponent 3 times with a 43% conversion rate. Hijikata was rock solid on his serve as he has never conceded a single service game after saving 0 break points.
| Duckworth | |||
| Q1 Shelton | Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-3 7-62 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 22 | 22 | |
| pts | 82-63 | 82-63 | |
| Total points | 145 | 145 | |
| Winners | 32 | 32 | |
| %Winners | 39% | 39% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 12 | 12 | |
| Double Faults | 2 | 2 | |
| 1st in | 36/60 | 36/60 | |
| % 1st in | 60% | 60% | |
| 1st pts | 32/36 | 32/36 | |
| % 1st pts | 89% | 89% | |
| 2nd pts | 16/24 | 16/24 | |
| % 2nd pts | 67% | 67% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 1 | 1 | |
| Converted | 1/10 | 1/10 | |
| Converted % | 10% | 10% | |
| Conceded | 1 | 1 | |
| Saved | 1/1 | 1 | |
| Saved % | 100% | 100% | |
| Times Broken | 0 | 0 | |
| Hijikata | |||
| Q1 Barrere | Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-2 6-3 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 17 | 17 | |
| pts | 66-42 | 66-42 | |
| Total points | 108 | 108 | |
| Winners | 25 | 25 | |
| %Winners | 38% | 38% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 3 | 3 | |
| Double Faults | 1 | 1 | |
| 1st in | 30/47 | 30/47 | |
| % 1st in | 64% | 64% | |
| 1st pts | 25/30 | 25/30 | |
| % 1st pts | 83% | 83% | |
| 2nd pts | 12/17 | 12/17 | |
| % 2nd pts | 71% | 71% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 3 | 3 | |
| Converted | 3/7 | 3/7 | |
| Converted % | 43% | 43% | |
| Conceded | 0 | 0 | |
| Saved | 0/0 | 0 | |
| Saved % | – | 0% | |
| Times Broken | 0 | 0 | |
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