Ben Shelton and Rinky Hijikata will square off in the 2nd round of the Mallorca Championships for the 3rd time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Wednesday at 6:00 pm 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 Ben Shelton who should win in 2 sets.
As per the initial odds, Ben Shelton is the pick to win this match.
Ben Shelton -> 1.37
Rinky Hijikata -> 3.1
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Prediction and head to head Ben Shelton vs. Rinky Hijikata
This will be the 3rd time that Ben Shelton and Rinky Hijikata play each other. The head to head is 1-1 for Shelton and Hijikata (see full H2H stats), but they have never competed against each other on grass.
The last time that they fought against each other, Shelton won 6-3 6-4 in the 1st round in the Indianapolis Challenger back in 2022.
Ben Shelton
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 10-6 | 9-5 | 0-0 | 1-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 42-26 | 22-13 | 8-4 | 8-5 | 4-4 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 28-26 | 21-13 | 4-8 | 1-2 | 2-3 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 40-11 | 16-9 | 0-0 | 24-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 18-7 | 7-3 | 5-2 | 6-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 14 (career-high), Shelton will start his run in Mallorca after he played his last match in London where he lost 6-3 7-6(3) to Mpetshi in the 1st round on the 18th of June.
The American has a compiled 19-13 win-loss record in 2024, 0-2 on grass (See FULL STATS).
His best result of the season was winning the title in Houston where he defeated Frances Tiafoe in the final 7-5 4-6 6-3.
Talking about his overall career, Ben has an overall 105-57 record. He has a negative 2-5 record on grass.
Previously in Mallorca
Previously, his best result was reaching the 2nd round in 2023. See his history.
Rinky Hijikata
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 8-11 | 7-10 | 0-0 | 1-1 | 0-0 | 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, the Australian got to the 2nd round after defeating Luca Nardi 6-2 2-6 7-5.
In the 1st round, The Australian defeated Nardi (6-2 2-6 7-5). During the match Hijikata scored 96 points vs Nardi’s 88. The Australian was quite aggressive to blast 37 winners.
About the serving games, Hijikata wasn’t able to score even 1 ace for the entire match and he committed only 4 double faults. Rinky Hijikata lost the serve 3 times and he saved 4 break points. Furthermore, Hijikata put 64% of his first serves in, winning 76% (37/49) of the points behind his 1st serve and 46% (13/28) on the 2nd serve. Hijikata broke Nardi 4 times after converting 22% of his break points (4/18).
The Australian has an overall 16-20 win-loss record in 2024, 5-2 on grass (See FULL STATS).
Previously in Mallorca
The Australian has never competed in this tournament before.
Head 2 Head
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