Rinky Hijikata and Yusuke Takahashi will square off in the 1st round of the Burnie Challenger for the 2nd time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Tuesday at 12:30 pm on CENTRE 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 2 sets.
Rinky Hijikata -> 1.066
Yusuke Takahashi -> 7.4
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Prediction and head to head Rinky Hijikata vs. Yusuke Takahashi
This will be the 2nd time that Rinky Hijikata and Yusuke Takahashi clash against each other. The head to head is 1-0 for Takahashi (see full H2H stats), 1-0 on hard.
The last time that they played each other, Takahashi won 6-2 7-6(4) in the 1st round in M25 Decatur back in 2021.
Rinky Hijikata
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| 2020 | 1-2 | 1-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 149 (career-high), the Australian will start his run in the Burnie Challenger after he played his last match at the Australian Open where he lost 6-3 6-0 6-2 to Tsitsipas in the 2nd round on the 18th of January.
The Australian has an overall 3-3 win-loss record in 2023, 3-3 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Talking about his overall career, Rinky has an overall 122-67 record. He has a positive 87-42 record on hard.
Previously in the Burnie Challenger
Hijikata has never competed in this tournament before.
Yusuke Takahashi
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 31-28 | 25-25 | 0-0 | 6-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 37-31 | 33-28 | 0-0 | 4-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 17-22 | 17-21 | 0-0 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 19-23 | 18-21 | 0-0 | 1-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 4-3 | 1-1 | 0-0 | 3-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 709, Takahashi reached the 1st round after defeating Matthew Woerndle 6-2 6-1 and Issei Okamura 6-4 6-2.
In the qualifications, The Japanese had a good straight sets win against Okamura (6-4 6-2). During the match Takahashi scored 72 points vs Okamura’s 57. Takahashi was extremely aggressive to blast 30 winners.
About the serving games, Takahashi fired 3 aces and he committed only 4 double faults. Yusuke Takahashi lost the serve once and he saved 6 break points. Furthermore, Takahashi put 67% of his first serves in, winning 68% (30/44) of the points behind his 1st serve and 50% (11/22) on the 2nd serve. Takahashi broke Okamura 4 times after converting 33% of his break points (4/12).
Overall Performance in this tournament
The Japanese started his run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, he hasn’t surrendered yet a set in this competition to win 58% of the points he played.
Takahashi has a compiled 2-0 win-loss record in 2023, 2-0 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Tennis Scores in Burnie Challenger
- Shuichi SekiguchiSekiguchi – Dane SweenySweeny (6-2 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Max PurcellPurcell – Alex BoltBolt (6-2 7-5) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Adam WaltonWalton – Yuki MochizukiMochizuki (7-5 6-1) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Yuta ShimizuShimizu – Maxime ChazalChazal (6-2 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Tristan SchoolkateSchoolkate – Rio NoguchiNoguchi (6-3 2-6 6-1) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Thomas FancuttFancutt – Yasutaka UchiyamaUchiyama (3-6 7-64 7-5) – Stats, scores, rankings
Upcoming matches in the draw
- Dayne KellyKelly – Naoki NakagawaNakagawa (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- James DuckworthDuckworth – Makoto OchiOchi (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Marc PolmansPolmans – Brandon WalkinWalkin (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Omar JasikaJasika – (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Jake DelaneyDelaney – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Yusuke TakahashiTakahashi – Rinky HijikataHijikata (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Blake EllisEllis – Luke SavilleSaville (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Matthew Christopher RomiosChristopher Romios – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Adam WaltonWalton – Shuichi SekiguchiSekiguchi (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Yuta ShimizuShimizu – Tristan SchoolkateSchoolkate (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Daisuke SumizawaSumizawa – Hiroki MoriyaMoriya (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Shinji HazawaHazawa – (0-0) – H2H and prediction