Mikael Ymer and Rinky Hijikata will fight against each other in the 1st round of the BNP Paribas Open for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Thursday at 6:30 pm on STADIUM 7. In the following paragraphs, you can find the head to head analysis and prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Mikael Ymer who should win in 2 sets.
Mikael Ymer -> 1.36
Rinky Hijikata -> 3.15
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Prediction and head to head Mikael Ymer vs. Rinky Hijikata
There is no head to head record between Mikael Ymer and Rinky Hijikata since this will be the first time that they will face off in the main tour.
Mikael Ymer
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 16-10 | 0-1 | 10-6 | 6-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 24-18 | 6-7 | 3-3 | 11-4 | 4-4 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 31-25 | 9-6 | 3-8 | 17-9 | 2-2 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 27-24 | 9-5 | 10-7 | 5-9 | 3-3 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 57 (career-high), the Swede will start his run in Indian Wells after he played his last match in Dubai where he lost 3-6 6-3 6-3 to Van De Zandschulp in the 2nd round on the 1st of March.
Mikael has an overall 16-8 win-loss record in 2023, 5-4 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Ymer’s best result of the year was reaching the final in the Neuve Challenger.
Talking about his overall career, Ymer has an overall 270-157 record. He has a positive 58-34 record on hard.
Previously in Indian Wells
Ymer has never competed in this tournament before.
Rinky Hijikata
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 27-32 | 13-16 | 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. 130, the Australian got to the 1st round after beating Felipe Meligeni Alves 6-4 4-0 ret. and Tennys Sandgren 6-3 6-3.
In the qualifications, Rinky had a good straight sets win against Sandgren (6-3 6-3). During the match Hijikata scored 67 points vs Sandgren’s 48. Hijikata was pretty aggressive to blast 25 winners.
About the serving games, Hijikata made 4 aces and he committed only 2 double faults. Overall, Rinky Hijikata was exceptionally effective on serve to win 83% (25/30) of his 1st serve and 55% (11/20) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve once. Hijikata broke Sandgren 4 times after converting 40% of his break points (4/10).
His best result of the year was conquering the title the Burnie Challenger where he overcame James Duckworth in the final 6-3 6-3.
The Australian has a compiled 10-6 win-loss record in 2023, 10-5 on hard (See FULL STATS).
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- Cristian GarinGarin – Daniel Elahi GalanElahi Galan (6-4 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Pedro CachinCachin – Nikoloz BasilashviliBasilashvili (7-5 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Emil RuusuvuoriRuusuvuori – Constant LestienneLestienne (6-4 4-1 ret.) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Marcos GironGiron – Aleksandar KovacevicKovacevic (6-3 7-5) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Brandon NakashimaNakashima – John IsnerIsner (7-67 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Ugo HumbertHumbert – Bernabe Zapata MirallesZapata Miralles (6-2 7-66) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Jason Murray KublerMurray Kubler – Lorenzo SonegoSonego (6-4 7-64) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Jiri LeheckaLehecka – Arthur RinderknechRinderknech (7-64 7-5) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Jordan ThompsonThompson – Gael MonfilsMonfils (6-3 6-1) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Diego SchwartzmanSchwartzman – Federico CoriaCoria (6-1 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Oscar OtteOtte – Laslo DjereDjere (6-3 7-5) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Ilya IvashkaIvashka – Roman SafiullinSafiullin (6-4 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Alejandro TabiloAlejandro – Maximilian MartererMaximilian (6-4 6-3) – See score progression
Upcoming matches in the draw
- Stan WawrinkaWawrinka – Aleksandar VukicVukic (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Roberto Bautista AgutBautista Agut – Emil RuusuvuoriRuusuvuori (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Jan-Lennard StruffStruff – Quentin HalysHalys (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Thiago Moura MonteiroMoura Monteiro – Guido PellaPella (2-3) – H2H and prediction
- Jason Murray KublerMurray Kubler – Grigor DimitrovDimitrov (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Diego Sebastian SchwartzmanSebastian Schwartzman – Casper RuudRuud (5-3) – H2H and prediction
- Mackenzie McdonaldMcdonald – Filip KrajinovicKrajinovic (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Dominic ThiemThiem – Adrian MannarinoMannarino (8-1) – H2H and prediction
- Gregoire BarrereBarrere – Jack SockSock (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Thanasi KokkinakisKokkinakis – Brandon HoltHolt (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Jordan ThompsonThompson – Stefanos TsitsipasTsitsipas (0-2) – H2H and prediction
- Daniil MedvedevMedvedev – Brandon NakashimaNakashima (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Pedro CachinCachin – Alexander ZverevZverev (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Yoshihito NishiokaNishioka – Christian GarinGarin (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Alexander BublikBublik – Tung-Lin WuWu (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Karen KhachanovKhachanov – Oscar OtteOtte (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Pedro Martinez PorteroMartinez Portero – Marc-Andrea HueslerHuesler (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Ilya IvashkaIvashka – Botic Van De ZandschulpVan De Zandschulp (0-2) – H2H and prediction
- Andrey RublevRublev – Jiri LeheckaLehecka (1-1) – H2H and prediction
- Matteo BerrettiniBerrettini – Taro DanielDaniel (3-1) – H2H and prediction
- Frances TiafoeTiafoe – Marcos GironGiron (2-1) – H2H and prediction
- Alejandro TabiloTabilo – Maximilian MartererMarterer (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Borna GojoGojo – Richard GasquetGasquet (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Alexei PopyrinPopyrin – Zhizhen ZhangZhang (2-0) – H2H and prediction
- Alex MolcanMolcan – Albert Ramos-VinolasRamos-Vinolas (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Mikael YmerYmer – Rinky HijikataHijikata (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Tomas Martin EtcheverryMartin Etcheverry – Andy MurrayMurray (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Ugo HumbertHumbert – Denis ShapovalovShapovalov (1-3) – H2H and prediction
- Yibing WuWu – Alejandro Davidovich FokinaDavidovich Fokina (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Jeff WolfWolf – Marton FucsovicsFucsovics (1-0) – H2H and prediction