Rinky Hijikata and Seong Chan Hong will clash against each other in the quarter of the Playford Challenger for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Friday at 11:00 am on CENTER 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 2 sets.
As per the initial odds, Rinky Hijikata is the pick to win this match.
Rinky Hijikata -> 1.29
Seong Chan Hong -> 3.44
Click here to see the updated quotes and live streaming (only selected countries - USA excluded).
To be able to watch live streaming bet365, a funded account is required or you need to have placed a bet in the last 24 hours. 18+ BeGambleAware.
Here where top tennis events are broadcasted or streamed online (ATP, WTA).
At the challenger level, there will be free live streaming on Challenger TV.
Â
Prediction and head to head Rinky Hijikata vs. Seong Chan Hong
There is no head to head record between Rinky Hijikata and Seong Chan Hong 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 11-17 | 9-12 | 1-4 | 1-1 | 0-0 | 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. 70 (career-high), the Australian got to the quarter after defeating Ji Sung Nam 6-4 7-64 and Yasutaka Uchiyama 6-2 7-5.
In the 2nd round, The Australian had a good straight sets win against Uchiyama (6-2 7-5). During the match, Hijikata scored 73 points vs Uchiyama’s 55. Hijikata was exceptionally aggressive to blast 31 winners.
Talking about the service games, Hijikata wasn’t able to score even 1 ace in the match and he committed only 1 double fault. Overall, Rinky Hijikata was very efficient on serve to win 76% (31/41) of his 1st serve and 52% (13/25) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve once. The Australian broke Uchiyama 4 times after converting 57% of his break points (4/7).
Overall Performance in this tournament
Hijikata hasn’t dropped yet a set in this tournament to conquer 54% of the points he played.
Hijikata has a solid win-loss record in the last 7 years having won 63% of his matches (161-95). 33-21 on hard in 2023. Regarding his performance on the same surface of this tournament, Hijikata has a composed117-60 win-loss record in the last 7 years on hard.
His best result of the year was winning the title the Burnie Challenger where he beat James Duckworth in the final 6-3 6-3.
The Australian has a compiled 42-31 win-loss record in 2023, 33-21 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Playford Challenger
Seong Chan Hong
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 24-15 | 24-12 | 0-1 | 0-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 27-34 | 17-18 | 5-6 | 5-6 | 0-4 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 40-18 | 36-12 | 4-3 | 0-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 17-8 | 7-3 | 10-4 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 223, Chan Hong reached the quarter after beating Jayden Court 7-67 6-3 and Naoki Nakagawa 6-3 6-3.
In the 2nd round, Chan Hong had a good straight sets win against Nakagawa (6-3 6-3). During the match Chan Hong scored 67 points vs Nakagawa’s 46. The Korean was quite aggressive to blast 30 winners.
Talking about serving, Chan Hong struck 5 aces and he was exceptionally consistent in conceding no double faults for the entire match. Seong Chan Hong conceded no breaks for the entire match to put 73% of his first serves in, win 94% (30/32) of the points behind his 1st serve and 50% (6/12) on the 2nd serve. Chan Hong broke Nakagawa 3 times after converting 38% of his break points (3/8).
Overall Performance in this tournament
The Korean hasn’t dropped yet a set in the tournament to win 56% of the points he played.
Seong’s best result of the season was reaching the semifinal in the Nonthaburi 3 Challenger,the Rome Challenger and the Tallahassee Challenger.
Seong has an aggregate 25-28 win-loss record in 2023, 16-13 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Playford Challenger
Seong has never competed in this tournament before.
H2H Performance in the tournament (main draw)
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Hijikata | Chan Hong |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 2 | 2 |
| Tot Set | 4 | 4 |
| Tot Games | 43 | 40 |
| Pts | 152-131 | 143-111 |
| Total Points | 283 | 254 |
| Winners | 68 | 69 |
| %Winners | 45% | 48% |
Both Hijikata and Chan Hong played 2 matches. Both players have not conceded a single set in this event so far. Talking about their workload, Hijikata and Chan Hong have played the same amount of sets 4. However, Hijikata played 3 games more than Chan Hong. Hijikata scored 68 winners (45% of the total points). On the other side, Seong bagged 69 winners (48%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Hijikata | Chan Hong |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 1 | 13 |
| Avg per match | 0.5 | 6.5 |
| 1st in | 100/154 | 85/116 |
| %1st in | 65% | 73% |
| 1st pts | 68/100 | 69/85 |
| %1st pts | 68% | 81% |
| 2nd pts | 28/54 | 19/31 |
| %2nd pts | 52% | 61% |
Hijikata managed to score 1 ace (0.5 per match). Chan Hong also scored 13 aces (6.5 per match). Hijikata won 68% points on his first serve. He pretty effective on his second serve to win 52% of the points. On the other side, Chan Hong won 81% of the points on his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 61% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Hijikata | Chan Hong |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 8 | 5 |
| Converted | 8/13 | 5/10 |
| % Converted | 62% | 50% |
| Conceded | 19 | 4 |
| Saved | 15 | 4 |
| % Saved | 79% | 100% |
| Times Broken | 4 | 0 |
Rinky broke his opponents 8 times with a 62% conversion rate. Rinky dropped his serve 4 times and he saved 79% of the break points that he conceded. Seong broke his opponents 5 times with a 50% conversion rate. Chan Hong was rock solid on his serve as he has never conceded a single service game after saving 4 break points.
| Hijikata | ||||
| R1 Sung Nam |
R2 Uchiyama |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-4 7-64 | 6-2 7-5 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | 4 | |
| Tot Games | 23 | 20 | 43 | |
| pts | 79-76 | 73-55 | 152-131 | |
| Total points | 155 | 128 | 283 | |
| Winners | 37 | 31 | 68 | |
| %Winners | 47% | 42% | 45% | |
| SERVE | ||||
| Aces | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
| Double Faults | 4 | 1 | 5 | |
| 1st in | 59/88 | 41/66 | 100/154 | |
| % 1st in | 67% | 62% | 65% | |
| 1st pts | 37/59 | 31/41 | 68/100 | |
| % 1st pts | 63% | 76% | 68% | |
| 2nd pts | 15/29 | 13/25 | 28/54 | |
| % 2nd pts | 52% | 52% | 52% | |
| Breaks | ||||
| Won | 4 | 4 | 8 | |
| Converted | 4/6 | 4/7 | 8/13 | |
| Converted % | 67% | 57% | 62% | |
| Conceded | 11 | 8 | 19 | |
| Saved | 8/11 | 7/8 | 15 | |
| Saved % | 73% | 88% | 81% | |
| Times Broken | 3 | 1 | 4 | |
| Chan Hong | ||||
| R1 Court |
R2 Nakagawa |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 7-67 6-3 | 6-3 6-3 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | 4 | |
| Tot Games | 22 | 18 | 40 | |
| pts | 76-65 | 67-46 | 143-111 | |
| Total points | 141 | 113 | 254 | |
| Winners | 39 | 30 | 69 | |
| %Winners | 51% | 45% | 48% | |
| SERVE | ||||
| Aces | 8 | 5 | 13 | |
| Double Faults | 2 | 0 | 2 | |
| 1st in | 53/72 | 32/44 | 85/116 | |
| % 1st in | 74% | 73% | 73% | |
| 1st pts | 39/53 | 30/32 | 69/85 | |
| % 1st pts | 74% | 94% | 81% | |
| 2nd pts | 13/19 | 6/12 | 19/31 | |
| % 2nd pts | 68% | 50% | 61% | |
| Breaks | ||||
| Won | 2 | 3 | 5 | |
| Converted | 2/2 | 3/8 | 5/10 | |
| Converted % | 100% | 38% | 50% | |
| Conceded | 4 | 0 | 4 | |
| Saved | 4/4 | 0/0 | 4 | |
| Saved % | 100% | – | 50% | |
| Times Broken | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
Head 2 Head
LLLLWWLLWL
LLWWLWLWLW 
Upcoming matches in the draw
- Hiroki MoriyaMoriya – James DuckworthDuckworth (1-1) – H2H and prediction
- Taro DanielDaniel – Yuta ShimizuShimizu (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Seong Chan HongChan Hong – Rinky HijikataHijikata (0-0) – H2H and prediction
