Rinky Hijikata and Arthur Cazaux will face off in the 2^nd round of the Winston-Salem for the 2^nd time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Monday at 5:30 pm on COURT 3. In this post, we analyze their head to head performance and prediction.

Prediction, odds and live streaming

The pick for Tennis Tonic is Arthur Cazaux who should win in 3 sets.

As per the initial odds, Arthur Cazaux is the pick to win this match.
Arthur Cazaux -> 1.56
Rinky Hijikata -> 2.43

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Prediction and head to head Rinky Hijikata vs. Arthur Cazaux

This will be the 2^nd time that Rinky Hijikata and Arthur Cazaux face off. The head to head is 1-0 for Cazaux (see full H2H stats), 1-0 on hard.

The last time that they locked horns, Cazaux won 7-5 6-0 in the final in M25 Setubal back in 2021.

Rinky Hijikata

Ranked no. 65 (career-high), the Australian will start his run in Winston-Salem after he played his last match in Cincinnati where he lost 6-1 7-6(5) to Kovacevic in the qualifications on the 12^th of August.

The Australian has a compiled 20-26 win-loss record in 2024, 13-14 on hard (See FULL STATS).

Talking about his overall career, The Australian has an overall 185-124 record. He has a positive 134-76 record on hard.

Previously in Winston-Salem

Previously, his best result was reaching the 2^nd round in 2023. See his history.

Arthur Cazaux

Ranked no. 93, Cazaux reached the 2^nd round after defeating Botic Van De Zandschulp 6-1 7-6(3).

In the 1^st round, The French player had a good straight sets win against Van De Zandschulp (6-1 7-6³). During the match Cazaux scored 72 points vs Van De Zandschulp’s 54. The French player was exceptionally aggressive to blast 26 winners.

Talking about serving, Cazaux scored 4 aces and he committed only 4 double faults. Overall, Arthur Cazaux was extremely effective on serve to win 79% (26/33) of his 1st serve and 52% (15/29) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve twice. Cazaux broke Van De Zandschulp 4 times after converting 36% of his break points (4/11).

His best result of the current year was winning the title the Noumea Challenger where he overcame Enzo Couacaud in the final 6-1 6-1.

Cazaux has a compiled 17-16 win-loss record in 2024, 15-9 on hard (See FULL STATS).

Previously in Winston-Salem

The French player has never competed in this tournament before.

Tennis Scores in Salem Open

• Christopher EubanksEubanks – Adam WaltonWalton (2-6 7-5 6-4) – See score progression
• Borna CoricCoric – Sumit NagalNagal (6-4 6-2) – See score progression
• Aleksandar VukicVukic – Daniel EvansEvans (2-6 6-4 6-1) – See score progression
• Marton FucsovicsFucsovics – Taro DanielDaniel (4-6 6-1 6-2) – See score progression
• Arthur CazauxCazaux – Botic Van De ZandschulpVan De Zandschulp (6-1 7-6³) – See score progression
• Zizou BergsBergs – Reilly OpelkaOpelka (6-4 3-6 7-6¹) – See score progression
• Thiago Seyboth WildSeyboth Wild – James DuckworthDuckworth (3-6 6-3 6-4) – See score progression
• Thiago Seyboth WildSeyboth Wild – James DuckworthDuckworth (3-6 6-3 6-4) – See score progression
• Zizou BergsBergs – Reilly OpelkaOpelka (6-4 3-6 7-6(1)) – See score progression
• Christopher EubanksEubanks – Adam WaltonWalton (2-6 7-5 6-4) – See score progression

Upcoming matches in the draw

• David GoffinGoffin – Jaume Antoni Munar ClarAntoni Munar Clar (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Marton FucsovicsFucsovics – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Mackenzie McdonaldMcdonald – Corentin MoutetMoutet (1-0) – H2H and prediction
• Federico CoriaCoria – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Laslo DjereDjere – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Christopher O ConnellO Connell – Strong KirchheimerKirchheimer (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Alexandre MullerMuller – Constant LestienneLestienne (1-0) – H2H and prediction
• Aleksandar VukicVukic – Adrian MannarinoMannarino (0-2) – H2H and prediction
• Nuno BorgesBorges – Thiago Seyboth WildSeyboth Wild (0-1) – H2H and prediction
• Tomas Martin EtcheverryMartin Etcheverry – Zizou BergsBergs (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Hugo GastonGaston – Christopher EubanksEubanks (0-1) – H2H and prediction
• Sebastian BaezBaez – Borna CoricCoric (2-0) – H2H and prediction
• Omni KumarKumar – Pablo Carreno-BustaCarreno-Busta (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Francisco ComesanaComesana – (0-0) – H2H and prediction