Frances Tiafoe and Rinky Hijikata will fight against each other in the 1st round of the cinch Championships for the 2nd time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Monday at 1:00 pm on COURT 1. In this post, we analyze their head to head performance and prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Frances Tiafoe who should win in 2 sets.
Frances Tiafoe -> 1.23
Rinky Hijikata -> 4.2
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Prediction and head to head Frances Tiafoe vs. Rinky Hijikata
This will be the 2nd time that Frances Tiafoe and Rinky Hijikata square off. The head to head is 1-0 for Tiafoe (see full H2H stats), but they have never played each other on grass.
The last time that they played each other, Tiafoe won 6-4 6-1 6-4 in the 4th round in at the U.S. Open back in 2023.
Highlights Frances Tiafoe vs Rinky Hijikata – U.S. Open 03-September-2023
Frances Tiafoe
13 - 15win/loss
30
10
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 13-15 | 6-6 | 5-6 | 1-1 | 1-2 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 40-21 | 21-10 | 8-4 | 4-5 | 7-2 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 35-25 | 19-11 | 8-6 | 5-5 | 3-3 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 42-27 | 19-13 | 4-7 | 10-4 | 9-3 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 19-15 | 7-9 | 6-3 | 6-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 28, Francis will start his run in London after he played his last match in Stuttgart where he lost 5-7 6-4 7-6(1) to Draper in the quarter on the 14th of June.
Tiafoe has an overall 13-14 win-loss record in 2024, 1-1 on grass (See FULL STATS).
The American’s best result of the current year was getting to the final in Houston.
Talking about his overall career, The American has an overall 354-247 record. He has a positive 29-20 record on grass.
Previously in London
Previously, his best result was reaching the quarter in 2018 and 2021. See his history
.Rinky Hijikata
14 - 19win/loss
75
70
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 16-20 | 9-12 | 1-5 | 1-1 | 5-2 | 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. 80, the Australian got to the 1st round after beating Henry Searle 6-4 6-3 and Arthur Rinderknech 7-5 6-3.
In the qualifications, The Australian had a good straight sets win against Rinderknech (7-5 6-3). During the match Hijikata scored 73 points vs Rinderknech’s 61. The Australian was pretty aggressive to blast 37 winners.
About the serving games, Hijikata scored 8 aces and he committed only 3 double faults. Rinky Hijikata was extremely efficient on serve to win 77% (37/48) of his 1st serve and 55% (18/33) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. The Australian was clinical in his return game without wasting any break point and break Rinderknech twice.
Overall Performance in this tournament
Rinky started his run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, he hasn’t surrendered yet a set in this event to win 56% of the points he played.
Hijikata has a composed 13-19 win-loss record in 2024, 2-1 on grass (See FULL STATS).
Previously in London
Rinky has never competed in this tournament before.
Tennis Scores in London
- Rinky HijikataHijikata – Arthur RinderknechRinderknech (7-5 6-3) – See score progression
- Alexei PopyrinPopyrin – Mackenzie McdonaldMcdonald (6-3 6-4) – See score progression
- Taro DanielDaniel – Thanasi KokkinakisKokkinakis (w/o) – See score progression
- Giovanni Mpetshi PerricardMpetshi Perricard – Zizou BergsBergs (7-5 4-6 6-3) – See score progression
Upcoming matches in the draw
- Andy MurrayMurray – Alexei PopyrinPopyrin (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Daniel EvansEvans – Brandon NakashimaNakashima (1-2) – H2H and prediction
- Milos RaonicRaonic – Cameron NorrieNorrie (2-0) – H2H and prediction
- Grigor DimitrovDimitrov – Adrian MannarinoMannarino (5-0) – H2H and prediction
- Taro DanielDaniel – Taylor Harry FritzHarry Fritz (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Alejandro TabiloTabilo – Alejandro Davidovich FokinaDavidovich Fokina (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Tomas Martin EtcheverryMartin Etcheverry – Billy HarrisHarris (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Sebastian KordaKorda – Karen KhachanovKhachanov (2-3) – H2H and prediction
- Sebastian BaezBaez – Tommy PaulPaul (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Rinky HijikataHijikata – Frances TiafoeTiafoe (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Lorenzo MusettiMusetti – Alex De MinaurDe Minaur (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Mariano NavoneNavone – Jack DraperDraper (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Carlos Alcaraz GarfiaAlcaraz Garfia – Francisco CerundoloCerundolo (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Holger Vitus Nodskov RuneVitus Nodskov Rune – Jordan ThompsonThompson (0-0) – H2H and prediction