Stefanos Tsitsipas and Rinky Hijikata will clash against each other in the 2nd round of the Shanghai Rolex Masters for the 2nd time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Saturday at 12:30 pm on STADIUM COURT. Here the head to head stats and relative prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Stefanos Tsitsipas who should win in 2 sets.
Stefanos Tsitsipas -> 1.21
Rinky Hijikata -> 4.4
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Prediction and head to head Stefanos Tsitsipas vs. Rinky Hijikata
This will be the 2nd time that Stefanos Tsitsipas and Rinky Hijikata clash against each other. The head to head is 1-0 for Tsitsipas (see full H2H stats), 1-0 on hard.
The last time that they squared off, Tsitsipas won 6-3 6-0 6-2 in the 2nd round in at the Australian Open back in January 2023.
Highlights Stefanos Tsitsipas vs Rinky Hijikata – Australian Open 18-January-2023
Stefanos Tsitsipas
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 22-18 | 12-10 | 7-5 | 2-1 | 1-2 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 45-22 | 13-11 | 22-6 | 8-3 | 2-2 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 51-24 | 19-9 | 17-5 | 11-6 | 4-4 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 61-24 | 18-8 | 17-4 | 18-9 | 8-3 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 55-19 | 26-8 | 23-5 | 6-5 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 6, the Greek will start his run in Shanghai after he played his last match in Beijing where he lost 6-4 6-4 to Jarry in the 1st round on the 29th of September.
Stefanos has a composed 42-18 win-loss record in 2023, 18-8 on hard (See FULL STATS).
His best result of the year was winning the title in Los Cabos where he overcame Alex De Minaur in the final 6-3 6-4.
Talking about his overall career, The Greek has an overall 435-197 record. He has a positive 167-84 record on hard.
Previously in Shanghai
Previously, his best result was reaching the semifinal in 2019. See his history.
Rinky Hijikata
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 34-33 | 20-17 | 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. 75, Rinky got to the 2nd round after defeating Marek Gengel 6-3 6-2, Benjamin Lock 6-1 6-4 and Laslo Djere 7-64 7-5.
In the 1st round, Rinky had a good straight sets win against Djere (7-64 7-5). During the match Hijikata scored 95 points vs Djere’s 87. Rinky was quite aggressive to blast 48 winners.
About the serving games, Hijikata blasted 2 aces and he committed only 3 double faults. Rinky Hijikata lost the serve once and he saved 7 break points. Furthermore, Hijikata put 64% of his first serves in, winning 79% (48/61) of the points behind his 1st serve and 46% (16/35) on the 2nd serve. The Australian broke Djere twice after converting 40% of his break points (2/5).
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.
The Australian has a compiled 39-29 win-loss record in 2023, 30-19 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Tennis Scores in Shanghai
- Brandon NakashimaNakashima – Holger RuneRune (6-0 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Casper RuudRuud – Yoshihito NishiokaNishioka (7-5 6-0) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Fabian MarozsanMarozsan – Alex De MinaurDe Minaur (6-3 7-5) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Dusan LajovicLajovic – Tallon GriekspoorGriekspoor (6-4 3-2 ret.) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Christopher EubanksEubanks – Yannick HanfmannHanfmann (4-6 6-3 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
Upcoming matches in the draw
- Adrian MannarinoMannarino – Chun Hsin TsengHsin Tseng (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Mikhail KukushkinKukushkin – Daniel EvansEvans (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Grigor DimitrovDimitrov – Aleksandar VukicVukic (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Dusan LajovicLajovic – Fabian MarozsanMarozsan (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Jan-Lennard StruffStruff – (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Mackenzie McdonaldMcdonald – Francisco CerundoloCerundolo (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Botic Van De ZandschulpVan De Zandschulp – Ugo HumbertHumbert (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Christian GarinGarin – Daniil MedvedevMedvedev (1-2) – H2H and prediction
- Quentin HalysHalys – Andrey RublevRublev (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Hubert HurkaczHurkacz – Thanasi KokkinakisKokkinakis (2-1) – H2H and prediction
- Roman SafiullinSafiullin – Alexander ZverevZverev (0-2) – H2H and prediction
- Tommy PaulPaul – Sebastian OfnerOfner (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Frances TiafoeTiafoe – Lorenzo SonegoSonego (1-2) – H2H and prediction
- Stefanos TsitsipasTsitsipas – Rinky HijikataHijikata (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Yosuke WatanukiWatanuki – Taylor Harry FritzHarry Fritz (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Casper RuudRuud – Christopher EubanksEubanks (1-1) – H2H and prediction
- Tomas Martin EtcheverryMartin Etcheverry – Zhizhen ZhangZhang (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Felix Auger AliassimeAuger Aliassime – Marton FucsovicsFucsovics (2-1) – H2H and prediction
- Sebastian KordaKorda – Bu YunchaoketeYunchaokete (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Yu Hsiou HsuHsiou Hsu – Lorenzo MusettiMusetti (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Jeff WolfWolf – Cameron NorrieNorrie (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Jannik SinnerSinner – Marcos GironGiron (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Beibit ZhukayevZhukayev – Karen KhachanovKhachanov (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Dane SweenySweeny – Sebastian BaezBaez (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Jiri LeheckaLehecka – Diego Sebastian SchwartzmanSebastian Schwartzman (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Terence AtmaneAtmane – Nicolas JarryJarry (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Carlos Alcaraz GarfiaAlcaraz Garfia – Gregoire BarrereBarrere (0-0) – H2H and prediction