Rinky Hijikata and Li Tu will fight against each other in the 2nd round of the Gwangju Challenger for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Wednesday at 10:30 am on SHOW COURT. In the following lines you can find the head to head analysis and prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Rinky Hijikata who should win in 3 sets.
As per the initial odds, Rinky Hijikata is the pick to win this match.
Rinky Hijikata -> 1.48
Li Tu -> 2.51
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Prediction and head to head Rinky Hijikata vs. Li Tu
There is no head to head record between Rinky Hijikata and Li Tu since this will be the first time that they will square off in the main tour.
Rinky Hijikata
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 16-22 | 9-12 | 1-5 | 1-1 | 5-4 | 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, Hijikata reached the 2nd round after beating Gabriel Diallo 6-2 6-4.
In the 1st round, Rinky had a good straight sets win against Diallo (6-2 6-4). During the match, Hijikata scored 61 points vs Diallo’s 49. Rinky was exceptionally aggressive to blast 26 winners.
Talking about the service games, Hijikata was unable to score even 1 ace in the match and he committed only 5 double faults. Rinky Hijikata was quite effective on serve to win 81% (26/32) of his 1st serve and 60% (12/20) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. Hijikata broke Diallo 3 times after converting 33% of his break points (3/9).
Hijikata has a solid match record in the last 7 years having won 64% of his matches (134-76). 15-10 on hard in 2023. In connection with his performance on the same surface of this competition, Hijikata has an aggregate99-49 match record in the last 7 years on hard.
His best result of the season was winning the title the Burnie Challenger where he overcame James Duckworth in the final 6-3 6-3.
The Australian has an aggregate 15-12 win-loss record in 2023, 15-10 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Gwangju Challenger
Li Tu
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 17-15 | 14-10 | 1-1 | 0-0 | 2-4 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 38-32 | 29-19 | 0-3 | 3-6 | 6-4 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 50-25 | 34-16 | 15-6 | 1-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 41-7 | 28-4 | 0-0 | 13-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 225, Li got to the 2nd round after beating Tung-Lin Wu 6-3 6-2.
In the 1st round, Li had a good straight sets win against Wu (6-3 6-2). During the match Tu scored 60 points vs Wu’s 42. Tu was exceptionally aggressive to blast 27 winners.
Talking about serving, Tu fired 3 aces and he committed only 6 double faults. Li Tu conceded no breaks for the entire match to save 1 break points. Furthermore, Tu put 54% of his first serves in, winning 82% (27/33) of the points behind his 1st serve and 50% (14/28) on the 2nd serve. Li was clinical in his return game without wasting any break point and break Wu 3 times.
The Australian’s best result of the current season was getting to the final in M15 Monastir.
Li has an aggregate 11-8 win-loss record in 2023, 11-3 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Gwangju Challenger
Previously, his best result was reaching the 2nd round in 2022. See his history.
H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Hijikata | Tu |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 1 | 1 |
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 |
| Tot Games | 18 | 17 |
| Pts | 61-49 | 60-42 |
| Total Points | 110 | 102 |
| Winners | 26 | 27 |
| %Winners | 43% | 45% |
Both Hijikata and Tu played 1 match. Both players have not lost a single set in this event so far. Talking about their workload, Hijikata and Tu have played the same amount of sets 2. However, Hijikata played 1 game more than Tu. The Australian scored 26 winners (43% of the total points). On the other side, Tu recorded 27 winners (45%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Hijikata | Tu |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 0 | 3 |
| Avg per match | 0 | 3 |
| 1st in | 32/52 | 33/61 |
| %1st in | 62% | 54% |
| 1st pts | 26/32 | 27/33 |
| %1st pts | 81% | 82% |
| 2nd pts | 12/20 | 14/28 |
| %2nd pts | 60% | 50% |
Hijikata didn’t manage to fire a single ace to far. Tu fired 3 aces . Hijikata won 81% points on his first serve. He pretty effective on his second serve to win 60% of the points. On the other side, Tu won 82% of the points behind his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 50% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Hijikata | Tu |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 3 | 3 |
| Converted | 3/9 | 3/3 |
| % Converted | 33% | 100% |
| Conceded | 1 | 1 |
| Saved | 1 | 1 |
| % Saved | 100% | 100% |
| Times Broken | 0 | 0 |
Rinky broke his opponent 3 times with a 33% conversion rate. The Australian pretty effective on his serve as he has never conceded a single service game after saving 1 break points. The Australian broke his opponent 3 times with a 100% conversion rate. Li was rock solid on his serve as he has never conceded a single service game after saving 1 break points.
| Hijikata | |||
| R1 Diallo |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-2 6-4 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 18 | 18 | |
| pts | 61-49 | 61-49 | |
| Total points | 110 | 110 | |
| Winners | 26 | 26 | |
| %Winners | 43% | 43% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 0 | 0 | |
| Double Faults | 5 | 5 | |
| 1st in | 32/52 | 32/52 | |
| % 1st in | 62% | 62% | |
| 1st pts | 26/32 | 26/32 | |
| % 1st pts | 81% | 81% | |
| 2nd pts | 12/20 | 12/20 | |
| % 2nd pts | 60% | 60% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 3 | 3 | |
| Converted | 3/9 | 3/9 | |
| Converted % | 33% | 33% | |
| Conceded | 1 | 1 | |
| Saved | 1/1 | 1 | |
| Saved % | 100% | 100% | |
| Times Broken | 0 | 0 | |
| Tu | |||
| R1 Wu |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-3 6-2 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 17 | 17 | |
| pts | 60-42 | 60-42 | |
| Total points | 102 | 102 | |
| Winners | 27 | 27 | |
| %Winners | 45% | 45% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 3 | 3 | |
| Double Faults | 6 | 6 | |
| 1st in | 33/61 | 33/61 | |
| % 1st in | 54% | 54% | |
| 1st pts | 27/33 | 27/33 | |
| % 1st pts | 82% | 82% | |
| 2nd pts | 14/28 | 14/28 | |
| % 2nd pts | 50% | 50% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 3 | 3 | |
| Converted | 3/3 | 3/3 | |
| Converted % | 100% | 100% | |
| Conceded | 1 | 1 | |
| Saved | 1/1 | 1 | |
| Saved % | 100% | 100% | |
| Times Broken | 0 | 0 | |
Head 2 Head
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LWLLWLLWLW Tennis Scores in Gwangju Challenger
- Yunseong ChungChung – Kaichi UchidaUchida (7-64 6-3) – See score progression
- Max PurcellPurcell – Ricardas BerankisBerankis (6-3 6-2) – See score progression
- Emilio GomezGomez – Altug CelikbilekCelikbilek (6-3 6-2) – See score progression
- Marc PolmansPolmans – Yuta ShimizuShimizu (2-6 7-5 6-4) – See score progression
- James DuckworthDuckworth – Omar JasikaJasika (6-3 6-1) – See score progression
- Dominik PalanPalan – Yu Hsiou HsuHsiou Hsu (6-2 6-3) – See score progression
- Luke SavilleSaville – Peter GojowczykGojowczyk (6-3 6-4) – See score progression
- Jason JungJung – Denis KudlaKudla (6-3 6-71 6-3) – See score progression
- Evgeny DonskoyDonskoy – Daniel MasurMasur (6-3 6-1) – See score progression
- Aleksandar VukicVukic – Sho ShimabukuroShimabukuro (7-5 7-62) – See score progression
- Jordan ThompsonThompson – Uisung ParkPark (6-1 6-73 6-0) – See score progression
- Bu YunchaoketeYunchaokete – Sanhui ShinShin (6-4 6-1) – See score progression
- Rinky HijikataHijikata – Gabriel DialloDiallo (6-2 6-4) – See score progression
- Christopher EubanksEubanks – Lloyd HarrisHarris (7-63 4-6 6-4) – See score progression
- Brandon HoltHolt – Cem IlkelIlkel (3-6 6-0 6-1) – See score progression
- Li TuTu – Tung-Lin WuWu (6-3 6-2) – See score progression
- Max PurcellPurcell – Ricardas BerankisBerankis (6-3 6-2) – See score progression
- Dominik PalanPalan – Yu Hsiou HsuHsiou Hsu (6-2 6-3) – See score progression
- Emilio GomezGomez – Altug CelikbilekCelikbilek (6-3 6-2) – See score progression
- Yunseong ChungChung – Kaichi UchidaUchida (7-6(4) 6-3) – See score progression
- Jason JungJung – Denis KudlaKudla (6-3 6-7(1) 6-3) – See score progression
- Evgeny DonskoyDonskoy – Daniel MasurMasur (6-3 6-1) – See score progression
Upcoming matches in the draw
- Evgeny DonskoyDonskoy – Jordan ThompsonThompson (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- James DuckworthDuckworth – Marc PolmansPolmans (3-2) – H2H and prediction
- Max PurcellPurcell – Luke SavilleSaville (3-4) – H2H and prediction
- Aleksandar VukicVukic – Bu YunchaoketeYunchaokete (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Yunseong ChungChung – Jason JungJung (0-2) – H2H and prediction
- Brandon HoltHolt – Christopher EubanksEubanks (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Rinky HijikataHijikata – Li TuTu (0-0) – H2H and prediction
