Rinky Hijikata and Takuya Kumasaka will play each other in the 1st round of the Burnie 1 Challenger for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Tuesday at 12:30 pm on CENTER COURT. 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 2 sets.
As per the initial odds, Rinky Hijikata is the pick to win this match.
Rinky Hijikata -> 1.012
Takuya Kumasaka -> 12
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Prediction and head to head Rinky Hijikata vs. Takuya Kumasaka
There is no head to head record between Rinky Hijikata and Takuya Kumasaka since this will be the first time that they will fight against each other 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. 74, the Australian will start his run in the Burnie 1 Challenger after he played his last match at the Australian Open where he lost 3-6 6-3 6-2 6-7(2) 7-6(8) to Struff in the 1st round on the 15th of January.
Rinky has a composed 2-3 win-loss record in 2024, 2-3 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Talking about his overall career, The Australian has an overall 167-101 record. He has a positive 123-65 record on hard.
Previously in the Burnie 1 Challenger
Previously, he won this tournament once in 2023. See his history.
Takuya Kumasaka
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 18-11 | 16-10 | 2-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 33-24 | 18-12 | 15-12 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 22-14 | 22-14 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 8-8 | 8-6 | 0-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 739 (career-high), Takuya reached the 1st round after defeating Naoki Tajima 6-4 7-64 and Corey Gaal 7-65 4-6 7-64.
In the qualifications, Kumasaka defeated Gaal (7-65 4-6 7-64). During the match Kumasaka scored 114 points vs Gaal’s 109. The Japanese was quite aggressive to blast 43 winners.
About the serving games, Kumasaka fired 5 aces and he committed only 3 double faults. Takuya Kumasaka lost the serve 6 times and he saved 5 break points. Furthermore, Kumasaka put 64% of his first serves in, winning 64% (43/67) of the points behind his 1st serve and 43% (16/37) on the 2nd serve. Kumasaka broke Gaal 5 times after converting 42% of his break points (5/12).
Overall Performance in this tournament
The Japanese started his run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, he has conceded 1 set in the tournament to win 52% of the points he played.
Takuya has an overall 2-0 win-loss record in 2024, 2-0 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Head 2 Head
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Upcoming matches in the draw
- Yasutaka UchiyamaUchiyama – Yusuke TakahashiTakahashi (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Blake EllisEllis – (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Mikalai HaliakHaliak – Marc PolmansPolmans (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Scott JonesJones – Omar JasikaJasika (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Rio NoguchiNoguchi – Blake MottMott (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Moerani BouzigeBouzige – Dane SweenySweeny (0-2) – H2H and prediction
- Yuki MochizukiMochizuki – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Matthew HulmeHulme – Adam WaltonWalton (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Rinky HijikataHijikata – Takuya KumasakaKumasaka (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Tristan SchoolkateSchoolkate – Luke SavilleSaville (3-3) – H2H and prediction
