Brandon Nakashima and Rinky Hijikata will square off in the quarter of the Hangzhou Open for the 2nd time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Sunday at 1:30 pm on COURT CENTER. In this post, we analyze their head to head performance and prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Brandon Nakashima who should win in 2 sets.
As per the initial odds, Brandon Nakashima is the pick to win this match.
Brandon Nakashima -> 1.28
Rinky Hijikata -> 3.68
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Prediction and head to head Brandon Nakashima vs. Rinky Hijikata
This will be the 2nd time that Brandon Nakashima and Rinky Hijikata face off. The head to head is 1-0 for Nakashima (see full H2H stats), but they have never competed against each other on hard.
The last time that they fought against each other, Nakashima won 6-1 6-4 in the 2nd round in Houston back in April 2024.
Highlights Brandon Nakashima vs Rinky Hijikata – Houston 03-April-2024
Brandon Nakashima
58 - 25win/loss
36
36
WWWWWLWWWL | Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 59-25 | 23-9 | 13-7 | 14-4 | 9-5 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 21-26 | 9-15 | 3-4 | 8-3 | 1-4 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 41-26 | 17-13 | 5-5 | 9-4 | 10-4 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 45-25 | 17-10 | 4-7 | 20-5 | 4-3 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 28-14 | 19-6 | 4-4 | 5-3 | 0-0 | 0-1 |
Ranked no. 39 (career-high), Nakashima got to the quarter after defeating Unknown Player bye and Chak Lam Coleman Wong 6-7(7) 7-6(4) 6-1.
In the 2nd round against Lam Coleman Wong, Nakashima recovered from a 1-set down deficit before winning (6-77 7-64 6-1). During the match, Nakashima scored 108 points vs Lam Coleman Wong’s 87. Brandon was very aggressive to blast 56 winners.
Regarding the service games, Nakashima buried his opponent with 21 aces and he was very solid in conceding no double faults. Brandon Nakashima was extremely efficient on serve to win 84% (56/67) of his 1st serve and 68% (23/34) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. Brandon broke Lam Coleman Wong twice after converting 29% of his break points (2/7).
Nakashima has a solid win-loss record in the last 9 years having won 63% of his matches (223-133). 22-9 on hard in 2024. Talking about his performance on the same surface of this tournament, Nakashima has an overall106-66 win-loss record in the last 9 years on hard.
His best result of the season was winning the title the Tenerife 1 Challenger where he defeated Pedro Martinez Portero in the final 6-3 6-4.
Nakashima has a compiled 58-25 win-loss record in 2024, 22-9 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in Hangzhou
Brandon has never competed in this tournament before.
Rinky Hijikata
24 - 28win/loss
76
62
WLWLWLWWLW | Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 25-29 | 18-17 | 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 |
| 2020 | 1-2 | 1-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 81, Hijikata got to the quarter after beating Damir Dzumhur 2-6 7-6(6) 6-2 and Fabian Marozsan w/o.
In the 2nd round, Hijikata defeated Marozsan (w/o). During the match Hijikata and Marozsan scored the same amount of points (). However, the world no. 39 was stronger during the important points and that was the most significant difference in the match. The Australian was not very aggressive do strike just winners.
Talking about serving, Hijikata couldn’t to score even 1 ace for the entire match and he was quite solid in conceding no double faults for the entire match. Rinky Hijikata conceded no breaks for the entire match to put 0% of his first serves in, win 0% (/) of the points behind his 1st serve and 0% (/) on the 2nd serve.
Rinky has an overall 24-28 win-loss record in 2024, 17-16 on hard (See FULL STATS).
H2H Performance in the tournament (main draw)
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Nakashima | Hijikata |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 1 | 1 |
| Tot Set | 3 | 3 |
| Tot Games | 33 | 29 |
| Pts | 108-87 | 101-94 |
| Total Points | 195 | 195 |
| Winners | 56 | 41 |
| %Winners | 52% | 41% |
Both Nakashima and Hijikata played 1 match. Both players lost a set in the event. Brandon Nakashima conceded 1 set, while Rinky Hijikata surrendered 1 set. Talking about their workload, Nakashima and Hijikata have played the same amount of sets 3. However, Nakashima played 4 games more than Hijikata. Nakashima scored 56 winners (52% of the total points). On the other side, Hijikata managed to score 41 winners (41%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Nakashima | Hijikata |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 21 | 7 |
| Avg per match | 21 | 7 |
| 1st in | 67/101 | 60/96 |
| %1st in | 66% | 63% |
| 1st pts | 56/67 | 41/60 |
| %1st pts | 84% | 68% |
| 2nd pts | 23/34 | 18/36 |
| %2nd pts | 68% | 50% |
Nakashima fired 21 aces . Hijikata managed to score 7 aces . Nakashima won 84% points on his first serve. He pretty solid on his second serve to win 68% of the points. On the other side, Hijikata won 68% of the points behind his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 50% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Nakashima | Hijikata |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 2 | 4 |
| Converted | 2/7 | 4/9 |
| % Converted | 29% | 44% |
| Conceded | 4 | 8 |
| Saved | 4 | 4 |
| % Saved | 100% | 50% |
| Times Broken | 0 | 4 |
Brandon broke his opponent twice with a 29% conversion rate. Brandon pretty effective on his serve as he has never conceded a single service game after saving 4 break points. Rinky broke his opponent 4 times with a 44% conversion rate. The Australian conceded his serve 4 times and he saved 50% of the break points that he conceded.
| Nakashima | |||
| R2 Lam Coleman Wong |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-77 7-64 6-1 | ||
| Tot Set | 3 | 3 | |
| Tot Games | 33 | 33 | |
| pts | 108-87 | 108-87 | |
| Total points | 195 | 195 | |
| Winners | 56 | 56 | |
| %Winners | 52% | 52% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 21 | 21 | |
| Double Faults | 0 | 0 | |
| 1st in | 67/101 | 67/101 | |
| % 1st in | 66% | 66% | |
| 1st pts | 56/67 | 56/67 | |
| % 1st pts | 84% | 84% | |
| 2nd pts | 23/34 | 23/34 | |
| % 2nd pts | 68% | 68% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 2 | 2 | |
| Converted | 2/7 | 2/7 | |
| Converted % | 29% | 29% | |
| Conceded | 4 | 4 | |
| Saved | 4/4 | 4 | |
| Saved % | 100% | 100% | |
| Times Broken | 0 | 0 | |
| Hijikata | ||||
| R1 Dzumhur |
R2 Marozsan |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 2-6 7-66 6-2 | w/o | ||
| Tot Set | 3 | – | 3 | |
| Tot Games | 29 | – | 29 | |
| pts | 101-94 | – | 101-94 | |
| Total points | 195 | – | 195 | |
| Winners | 41 | – | 41 | |
| %Winners | 41% | – | 41% | |
| SERVE | ||||
| Aces | 7 | – | 7 | |
| Double Faults | 2 | – | 2 | |
| 1st in | 60/96 | – | 60/96 | |
| % 1st in | 63% | – | 63% | |
| 1st pts | 41/60 | – | 41/60 | |
| % 1st pts | 68% | – | 68% | |
| 2nd pts | 18/36 | – | 18/36 | |
| % 2nd pts | 50% | – | 50% | |
| Breaks | ||||
| Won | 4 | – | 4 | |
| Converted | 4/9 | – | 4/9 | |
| Converted % | 44% | – | 44% | |
| Conceded | 8 | – | 8 | |
| Saved | 4/8 | – | 4 | |
| Saved % | 50% | – | 50% | |
| Times Broken | 4 | – | 4 | |
Head 2 Head
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