Denis Shapovalov and Rinky Hijikata will face off in the 1st round of the Adelaide International 1 for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Tuesday at 4:30 pm on SHOWCOURT 1. In this post, we analyze their head to head performance and prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Denis Shapovalov who should win in 2 sets.
As per the initial odds, Denis Shapovalov is the pick to win this match.
Denis Shapovalov -> 1.26
Rinky Hijikata -> 3.85
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Prediction and head to head Denis Shapovalov vs. Rinky Hijikata
There is no head to head record between Denis Shapovalov and Rinky Hijikata since this will be the first time that they will square off in the main tour.
Denis Shapovalov
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 26-22 | 14-11 | 2-5 | 9-3 | 1-3 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 33-25 | 9-10 | 5-6 | 16-6 | 3-3 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 13-13 | 6-6 | 3-3 | 0-1 | 4-3 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 34-26 | 22-12 | 4-4 | 7-6 | 1-4 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 30-23 | 11-11 | 7-6 | 4-3 | 8-3 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 18,he will start his run in Adelaide after he played his last match in 0 where he defeated 6-2 6-4 to Kokkinakis in the Rubber 1 on the 27th of November.
This will be the first match of the season on hard.
Talking about his overall career, Denis has an overall 263-169 record. He has a positive 118-73 record on hard.
Previously in Adelaide
Shapovalov has never competed in this tournament before.
Rinky Hijikata
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 34-33 | 20-17 | 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 got to the 1st round after beating Gregoire Barrere 6-2 6-3 and James Duckworth 7-5 6-4.
In the qualifications, Rinky had a good straight sets win against Duckworth (7-5 6-4). During the match Hijikata scored 77 points vs Duckworth’s 73. Hijikata was pretty aggressive to blast 31 winners.
About the serving games, Hijikata bagged 7 aces and he committed only 4 double faults. Overall, Rinky Hijikata was extremely effective on serve to win 78% (31/40) of his 1st serve and 53% (18/34) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve once. Hijikata broke Duckworth 3 times after converting 33% of his break points (3/9).
Overall Performance in this tournament
Rinky started his run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, he hasn’t conceded yet a set in this competition to win 55% of the points he played.
The Australian has an aggregate 2-0 win-loss record in 2023, 2-0 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Head 2 Head
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- Yoshihito NishiokaNishioka – Holger RuneRune (2-6 6-4 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Alexei PopyrinPopyrin – Felix Auger-AliassimeAuger-Aliassime (6-4 7-65) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Miomir KecmanovicKecmanovic – Christopher O ConnellO Connell (6-4 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Marcos GironGiron – Richard GasquetGasquet (7-65 6-76 7-5) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Mackenzie McdonaldMcdonald – Daniel Elahi GalanElahi Galan (6-3 0-0 ret.) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Quentin HalysQuentin – Jordan ThompsonJordan (6-3 6-4) – See score progression
Upcoming matches in the draw
- Andy MurrayMurray – Sebastian KordaKorda (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Roberto Bautista AgutBautista Agut – Andrey RublevRublev (3-4) – H2H and prediction
- Novak DjokovicDjokovic – Constant LestienneLestienne (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Marcos GironGiron – Alexei PopyrinPopyrin (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Thanasi KokkinakisKokkinakis – Maxime CressyCressy (1-1) – H2H and prediction
- Daniil MedvedevMedvedev – Lorenzo SonegoSonego (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Pedro CachinCachin – Karen KhachanovKhachanov (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Yoshihito NishiokaNishioka – Mackenzie McdonaldMcdonald (3-1) – H2H and prediction
- Soon-Woo KwonKwon – Jack DraperDraper (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Mikael YmerYmer – Roman SafiullinSafiullin (1-1) – H2H and prediction
- Jannik SinnerSinner – Kyle EdmundEdmund (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Rinky HijikataHijikata – Denis ShapovalovShapovalov (0-0) – H2H and prediction
