Rinky Hijikata and Alexander Ritschard will face off in the 2nd round of the Cary 1 Challenger for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Wednesday at 4:30 pm on STADIUM. 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 Rinky Hijikata who should win in 3 sets.
As per the initial odds, Rinky Hijikata is the pick to win this match.
Rinky Hijikata -> 1.49
Alexander Ritschard -> 2.49
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Prediction and head to head Rinky Hijikata vs. Alexander Ritschard
There is no head to head record between Rinky Hijikata and Alexander Ritschard since this will be the first time that they will face off in the main tour.
Rinky Hijikata
Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
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2024 | 27-32 | 20-20 | 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. 118, the Australian reached the 2nd round after beating Sho Shimabukuro 6-3 6-2.
In the 1st round, The Australian had a good straight sets win against Shimabukuro (6-3 6-2). During the match, Hijikata scored 74 points vs Shimabukuro’s 57. Hijikata was pretty aggressive to blast 29 winners.
Talking about the service games, Hijikata made 2 aces and he committed only 6 double faults. Rinky Hijikata lost the serve once and he saved 9 break points. Furthermore, Hijikata put 51% of his first serves in, winning 78% (29/37) of the points behind his 1st serve and 47% (17/36) on the 2nd serve. Hijikata broke Shimabukuro 4 times after converting 44% of his break points (4/9).
Hijikata has a solid match record in the last 7 years having won 63% of his matches (146-87). 18-13 on hard in 2023. In connection with his performance on the same surface of this event, Hijikata has an overall102-52 record in the last 7 years on hard.
His best result of the season was winning the title the Burnie Challenger where he beat James Duckworth in the final 6-3 6-3.
The Australian has an overall 27-23 win-loss record in 2023, 18-13 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Cary 1 Challenger
Alexander Ritschard
Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
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2024 | 42-20 | 7-5 | 29-8 | 5-6 | 1-1 | 0-0 |
2023 | 28-30 | 6-8 | 13-11 | 9-9 | 0-2 | 0-0 |
2022 | 36-27 | 7-5 | 11-11 | 15-9 | 3-2 | 0-0 |
2021 | 25-23 | 1-4 | 20-14 | 4-5 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
2020 | 24-13 | 11-5 | 12-7 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 1-1 |
Ranked no. 186, Ritschard reached the 2nd round after defeating Bjorn Fratangelo 6-3 4-6 6-2.
In the 1st round, The Swiss defeated Fratangelo (6-3 4-6 6-2). During the match Ritschard scored 92 points vs Fratangelo’s 80. The Swiss was quite aggressive to blast 39 winners.
Talking about serving, Ritschard blasted 9 aces and he committed only 4 double faults. Alexander Ritschard lost the serve twice and he saved 6 break points. Furthermore, Ritschard put 57% of his first serves in, winning 76% (39/51) of the points behind his 1st serve and 47% (18/38) on the 2nd serve. The Swiss broke Fratangelo 4 times after converting 50% of his break points (4/8).
Ritschard’s best result of the current season was getting to the final in the Lyon Challenger.
The Swiss has an overall 19-21 win-loss record in 2023, 1-2 on hard (See FULL STATS).
H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
Points | Hijikata | Ritschard |
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Match played | 1 | 1 |
Tot Set | 2 | 3 |
Tot Games | 17 | 27 |
Pts | 74-57 | 92-80 |
Total Points | 131 | 172 |
Winners | 29 | 39 |
%Winners | 39% | 42% |
Both Hijikata and Ritschard played 1 match. At the moment, Alexander Ritschard dropped 1 set while Rinky Hijikata hasn’t surrendered a set so far. Hijikata has played 1 set(s) less than Ritschard (2 vs 3). Therefore, Hijikata played 10 games less than Ritschard. The Australian scored 29 winners (39% of the total points). On the other side, The Swiss made 39 winners (42%).
Serve Performance
Serve | Hijikata | Ritschard |
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Aces | 2 | 9 |
Avg per match | 2 | 9 |
1st in | 37/73 | 51/89 |
%1st in | 51% | 57% |
1st pts | 29/37 | 39/51 |
%1st pts | 78% | 76% |
2nd pts | 17/36 | 18/38 |
%2nd pts | 47% | 47% |
Hijikata fired 2 aces . Ritschard blasted 9 aces . Hijikata won 78% points behind his first serve. He was rock solid on his second serve to win 47% of the points. On the other side, Ritschard won 76% of the points on his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 47% of the points.
How they played the important points
Breaks | Hijikata | Ritschard |
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Won | 4 | 4 |
Converted | 4/9 | 4/8 |
% Converted | 44% | 50% |
Conceded | 10 | 8 |
Saved | 9 | 6 |
% Saved | 90% | 75% |
Times Broken | 1 | 2 |
Hijikata broke his opponent 4 times with a 44% conversion rate. Rinky surrendered his serve once and he saved 90% of the break points that he conceded. Alexander broke his opponent 4 times with a 50% conversion rate. Ritschard conceded his serve twice and he saved 75% of the break points that he conceded.
Hijikata | |||
R1 Shimabukuro |
Total | ||
---|---|---|---|
Score | 6-3 6-2 | ||
Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
Tot Games | 17 | 17 | |
pts | 74-57 | 74-57 | |
Total points | 131 | 131 | |
Winners | 29 | 29 | |
%Winners | 39% | 39% | |
SERVE | |||
Aces | 2 | 2 | |
Double Faults | 6 | 6 | |
1st in | 37/73 | 37/73 | |
% 1st in | 51% | 51% | |
1st pts | 29/37 | 29/37 | |
% 1st pts | 78% | 78% | |
2nd pts | 17/36 | 17/36 | |
% 2nd pts | 47% | 47% | |
Breaks | |||
Won | 4 | 4 | |
Converted | 4/9 | 4/9 | |
Converted % | 44% | 44% | |
Conceded | 10 | 10 | |
Saved | 9/10 | 9 | |
Saved % | 90% | 90% | |
Times Broken | 1 | 1 |
Ritschard | |||
R1 Fratangelo |
Total | ||
---|---|---|---|
Score | 6-3 4-6 6-2 | ||
Tot Set | 3 | 3 | |
Tot Games | 27 | 27 | |
pts | 92-80 | 92-80 | |
Total points | 172 | 172 | |
Winners | 39 | 39 | |
%Winners | 42% | 42% | |
SERVE | |||
Aces | 9 | 9 | |
Double Faults | 4 | 4 | |
1st in | 51/89 | 51/89 | |
% 1st in | 57% | 57% | |
1st pts | 39/51 | 39/51 | |
% 1st pts | 76% | 76% | |
2nd pts | 18/38 | 18/38 | |
% 2nd pts | 47% | 47% | |
Breaks | |||
Won | 4 | 4 | |
Converted | 4/8 | 4/8 | |
Converted % | 50% | 50% | |
Conceded | 8 | 8 | |
Saved | 6/8 | 6 | |
Saved % | 75% | 75% | |
Times Broken | 2 | 2 |
Head 2 Head
Tennis Scores in Cary 1 Challenger
- Nicolas Moreno De AlboranMoreno De Alboran – Quinn VandecasteeleVandecasteele (6-3 7-5) – See score progression
- Tung-Lin WuWu – Yuki MochizukiMochizuki (4-6 6-3 6-2) – See score progression
- Billy HarrisHarris – Emilio GomezGomez (7-5 7-65) – See score progression
- Lloyd HarrisHarris – Shintaro MochizukiMochizuki (6-74 6-3 6-2) – See score progression
- Stefan DostanicDostanic – Zachary SvajdaSvajda (7-65 6-3) – See score progression
- Rinky HijikataHijikata – Sho ShimabukuroShimabukuro (6-3 6-2) – See score progression
- Seong Chan HongChan Hong – Alexander ShevchenkoShevchenko (3-6 6-3 7-64) – See score progression
- Adolfo Daniel VallejoDaniel Vallejo – Leandro RiediRiedi (6-3 6-4) – See score progression
- Ryan PenistonPeniston – Karl PolingPoling (6-2 1-6 7-5) – See score progression
- Arthur CazauxCazaux – Abedallah ShelbayhShelbayh (6-3 6-0) – See score progression
- Blake EllisEllis – Tennys SandgrenSandgren (6-3 1-6 6-3) – See score progression
- Adam WaltonWalton – Beibit ZhukayevZhukayev (6-4 6-3) – See score progression
- Gijs BrouwerBrouwer – Ethan QuinnQuinn (6-72 6-3 6-1) – See score progression
- Alexander RitschardRitschard – Bjorn FratangeloFratangelo (6-3 4-6 6-2) – See score progression
- Patrick KypsonKypson – Keegan SmithSmith (6-3 6-2) – See score progression
- Tung-Lin WuWu – Yuki MochizukiMochizuki (4-6 6-3 6-2) – See score progression
- Nicolas Moreno De AlboranMoreno De Alboran – Quinn VandecasteeleVandecasteele (6-3 7-5) – See score progression
- Stefan DostanicDostanic – Zachary SvajdaSvajda (7-6(5) 6-3) – See score progression
- Arthur CazauxCazaux – Abedallah ShelbayhShelbayh (6-3 6-0) – See score progression
- Blake EllisEllis – Tennys SandgrenSandgren (6-3 1-6 6-3) – See score progression
- Liam BroadyBroady – Eliot SpizzirriSpizzirri (6-2 6-2) – See score progression
Upcoming matches in the draw
- Alexander RitschardRitschard – Rinky HijikataHijikata (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Seong Chan HongChan Hong – Patrick KypsonKypson (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Billy HarrisHarris – Adam WaltonWalton (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Ryan PenistonPeniston – Gijs BrouwerBrouwer (1-1) – H2H and prediction
- Tung-Lin WuWu – (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Nicolas Moreno De AlboranMoreno De Alboran – Stefan DostanicDostanic (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Blake EllisEllis – Liam BroadyBroady (0-0) – H2H and prediction