Rinky Hijikata and Yunseong Chung will square off in the quarter of the Seoul Challenger for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Friday at 1:30 pm on CENTER COURT. Here the head to head stats and relative prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Rinky Hijikata who should win in 2 sets.
As per the initial odds, Rinky Hijikata is the pick to win this match.
Rinky Hijikata -> 1.36
Yunseong Chung -> 3.02
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Prediction and head to head Rinky Hijikata vs. Yunseong Chung
There is no head to head record between Rinky Hijikata and Yunseong Chung since this will be the first time that they will clash against each other in the main tour.
Rinky Hijikata
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 25-30 | 18-18 | 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. 141, Rinky reached the quarter after defeating Sho Shimabukuro 6-4 7-63 and Evgeny Donskoy 6-3 6-4.
In the 2nd round, Hijikata had a good straight sets win against Donskoy (6-3 6-4). During the match, Hijikata scored 73 points vs Donskoy’s 58. Rinky was very aggressive to blast 28 winners.
Regarding the service games, Hijikata managed to score 6 aces and he was quite consistent in conceding no double faults. Overall, Rinky Hijikata was very effective on serve to win 78% (28/36) of his 1st serve and 54% (15/28) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve once. Rinky broke Donskoy 3 times after converting 30% of his break points (3/10).
Overall Performance in this tournament
Rinky hasn’t lost yet a set in this event to win 54% of the points he played.
Hijikata has a solid win-loss record in the last 7 years having won 64% of his matches (133-75). 14-9 on hard in 2023. Regarding his performance on the same surface of this event, Hijikata has a composed98-48 record in the last 7 years on hard.
His best result of the year was winning the title the Burnie Challenger where he overcame James Duckworth in the final 6-3 6-3.
Hijikata has a composed 14-11 win-loss record in 2023, 14-9 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Seoul Challenger
Yunseong Chung
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 14-16 | 14-16 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 30-22 | 20-16 | 5-4 | 3-1 | 2-1 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 34-25 | 23-17 | 7-4 | 4-4 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 28-15 | 21-10 | 5-4 | 2-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 3-6 | 1-2 | 0-2 | 2-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 363, the Korean got to the quarter after defeating Peter Gojowczyk 6-2 6-3 and Jordan Thompson 6-4 6-3.
In the 2nd round, The Korean had a good straight sets win against Thompson (6-4 6-3). During the match Chung scored 61 points vs Thompson’s 46. Yunseong was exceptionally aggressive to blast 18 winners.
Talking about serving, Chung managed to score 3 aces and he was extremely solid in conceding no double faults for the entire match. Yunseong Chung lost the serve once and he saved 2 break points. Furthermore, Chung put 57% of his first serves in, winning 64% (18/28) of the points behind his 1st serve and 81% (17/21) on the 2nd serve. Chung broke Thompson 4 times after converting 80% of his break points (4/5).
Overall Performance in this tournament
Yunseong hasn’t dropped yet a set in the tournament to win 57% of the points he played.
Yunseong has an aggregate 11-10 win-loss record in 2023, 9-7 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Seoul Challenger
Previously, his best result was reaching the 3rd round in 2019. See his history.
H2H Performance in the tournament (main draw)
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Hijikata | Chung |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 2 | 2 |
| Tot Set | 4 | 4 |
| Tot Games | 42 | 36 |
| Pts | 148-128 | 124-93 |
| Total Points | 276 | 217 |
| Winners | 51 | 40 |
| %Winners | 34% | 32% |
Both Hijikata and Chung played 2 matches. Both players have not surrendered a single set in this event so far. Talking about their workload, Hijikata and Chung have played the same amount of sets 4. However, Hijikata played 6 games more than Chung. The Australian scored 51 winners (34% of the total points). On the other side, Chung managed to score 40 winners (32%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Hijikata | Chung |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 7 | 7 |
| Avg per match | 3.5 | 3.5 |
| 1st in | 71/130 | 59/99 |
| %1st in | 55% | 60% |
| 1st pts | 51/71 | 40/59 |
| %1st pts | 72% | 68% |
| 2nd pts | 29/59 | 27/40 |
| %2nd pts | 49% | 68% |
Hijikata bagged 7 aces (3.5 per match). Chung struck 7 aces (3.5 per match). Hijikata won 72% points behind his first serve. He pretty effective on his second serve to win 49% of the points. On the other side, Chung won 68% of the points behind his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 68% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Hijikata | Chung |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 8 | 9 |
| Converted | 8/18 | 9/16 |
| % Converted | 44% | 56% |
| Conceded | 9 | 5 |
| Saved | 4 | 3 |
| % Saved | 44% | 60% |
| Times Broken | 5 | 2 |
Rinky broke his opponents 8 times with a 44% conversion rate. Rinky dropped his serve 5 times and he saved 44% of the break points that he conceded. Chung broke his opponents 9 times with a 56% conversion rate. Yunseong conceded his serve twice and he saved 60% of the break points that he conceded.
| Hijikata | ||||
| R1 Shimabukuro |
R2 Donskoy |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-4 7-63 | 6-3 6-4 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | 4 | |
| Tot Games | 23 | 19 | 42 | |
| pts | 75-70 | 73-58 | 148-128 | |
| Total points | 145 | 131 | 276 | |
| Winners | 23 | 28 | 51 | |
| %Winners | 31% | 38% | 34% | |
| SERVE | ||||
| Aces | 1 | 6 | 7 | |
| Double Faults | 5 | 0 | 5 | |
| 1st in | 35/66 | 36/64 | 71/130 | |
| % 1st in | 53% | 56% | 55% | |
| 1st pts | 23/35 | 28/36 | 51/71 | |
| % 1st pts | 66% | 78% | 72% | |
| 2nd pts | 14/31 | 15/28 | 29/59 | |
| % 2nd pts | 45% | 54% | 49% | |
| Breaks | ||||
| Won | 5 | 3 | 8 | |
| Converted | 5/8 | 3/10 | 8/18 | |
| Converted % | 63% | 30% | 44% | |
| Conceded | 6 | 3 | 9 | |
| Saved | 2/6 | 2/3 | 4 | |
| Saved % | 33% | 67% | 50% | |
| Times Broken | 4 | 1 | 5 | |
| Chung | ||||
| R1 Gojowczyk |
R2 Thompson |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-2 6-3 | 6-4 6-3 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | 4 | |
| Tot Games | 17 | 19 | 36 | |
| pts | 63-47 | 61-46 | 124-93 | |
| Total points | 110 | 107 | 217 | |
| Winners | 22 | 18 | 40 | |
| %Winners | 35% | 30% | 32% | |
| SERVE | ||||
| Aces | 4 | 3 | 7 | |
| Double Faults | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| 1st in | 31/50 | 28/49 | 59/99 | |
| % 1st in | 62% | 57% | 60% | |
| 1st pts | 22/31 | 18/28 | 40/59 | |
| % 1st pts | 71% | 64% | 68% | |
| 2nd pts | 10/19 | 17/21 | 27/40 | |
| % 2nd pts | 53% | 81% | 68% | |
| Breaks | ||||
| Won | 5 | 4 | 9 | |
| Converted | 5/11 | 4/5 | 9/16 | |
| Converted % | 45% | 80% | 56% | |
| Conceded | 2 | 3 | 5 | |
| Saved | 1/2 | 2/3 | 3 | |
| Saved % | 50% | 67% | 59% | |
| Times Broken | 1 | 1 | 2 | |
Head 2 Head
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