Rinky Hijikata and Dane Sweeny will face off in the 2nd round of the Playford Challenger for the 2nd time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Thursday at 11:00 am on CENTRE COURT. Here the head to head stats and relative prediction.
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The pick for Tennis Tonic is Rinky Hijikata who should win in 2 sets.
Rinky Hijikata -> 1.285
Dane Sweeny -> 3.36
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Prediction and head to head Rinky Hijikata vs. Dane Sweeny
This will be the 2nd time that Rinky Hijikata and Dane Sweeny fight against each other. The head to head is 1-0 for Hijikata (see full H2H stats), but they have never played each other on hard.
The last time that they fought against each other, Hijikata won 6-3 1-6 6-2 in the 1st round in the Kobe Challenger back in 2022.
Rinky Hijikata
28 - 32win/loss
73
62
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| 2020 | 1-2 | 1-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 83, Hijikata reached the 2nd round after defeating Emile Hudd 7-6(4) 7-6(2).
In the 1st round, Rinky had a good straight sets win against Hudd (7-64 7-62). During the match, Hijikata scored 103 points vs Hudd’s 88. The Australian was extremely aggressive to blast 39 winners.
Talking about the service games, Hijikata bagged 3 aces and he committed only 7 double faults. Rinky Hijikata lost the serve 3 times and he saved 3 break points. Furthermore, Hijikata put 57% of his first serves in, winning 72% (39/54) of the points behind his 1st serve and 49% (20/41) on the 2nd serve. The Australian broke Hudd 3 times after converting 25% of his break points (3/12).
Hijikata has a solid match record in the last 8 years having won 60% of his matches (193-130). 21-20 on hard in 2024. Talking about his performance on the same surface of this tournament, Hijikata has a compiled142-82 record in the last 8 years on hard.
Rinky has a composed 28-32 win-loss record in 2024, 21-20 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Playford Challenger
Dane Sweeny
16 - 20win/loss
346
194
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 18-26 | 18-19 | 0-2 | 0-2 | 0-3 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 35-33 | 25-23 | 10-8 | 0-1 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 62-26 | 59-22 | 3-2 | 0-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 27-23 | 19-15 | 1-1 | 7-6 | 0-0 | 0-1 |
| 2020 | 5-5 | 3-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 2-2 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 332, Dane got to the 2nd round after defeating Blake Ellis 6-2 7-5.
In the 1st round, The Australian had a good straight sets win against Ellis (6-2 7-5). During the match Sweeny scored 75 points vs Ellis’s 55. Sweeny was exceptionally aggressive to blast 30 winners.
Talking about serving, Sweeny recorded 3 aces and he was extremely steady in conceding no double faults for the entire match. Overall, Dane Sweeny was very effective on serve to win 75% (30/40) of his 1st serve and 61% (11/18) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve once. Sweeny broke Ellis 4 times after converting 31% of his break points (4/13).
The Australian’s best result of the year was getting to the final in the Burnie 2 Challenger.
Sweeny has an overall 16-20 win-loss record in 2024, 16-14 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Playford Challenger
Previously, his best result was reaching the 2nd round in 2019 and 2022. See his history.
H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Hijikata | Sweeny |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 1 | 1 |
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 |
| Tot Games | 26 | 20 |
| Pts | 103-88 | 75-55 |
| Total Points | 191 | 130 |
| Winners | 39 | 30 |
| %Winners | 38% | 40% |
Both Hijikata and Sweeny played 1 match. Both players have not dropped a single set in this event so far. Talking about their workload, Hijikata and Sweeny have played the same amount of sets 2. However, Hijikata played 6 games more than Sweeny. Hijikata scored 39 winners (38% of the total points). On the other side, Sweeny fired 30 winners (40%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Hijikata | Sweeny |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 3 | 3 |
| Avg per match | 3 | 3 |
| 1st in | 54/95 | 40/58 |
| %1st in | 57% | 69% |
| 1st pts | 39/54 | 30/40 |
| %1st pts | 72% | 75% |
| 2nd pts | 20/41 | 11/18 |
| %2nd pts | 49% | 61% |
Hijikata scored 3 aces . Sweeny scored 3 aces . Hijikata won 72% points behind his first serve. He extremely effective on his second serve to win 49% of the points. On the other side, Sweeny won 75% of the points on his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 61% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Hijikata | Sweeny |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 3 | 4 |
| Converted | 3/12 | 4/13 |
| % Converted | 25% | 31% |
| Conceded | 6 | 4 |
| Saved | 3 | 3 |
| % Saved | 50% | 75% |
| Times Broken | 3 | 1 |
Hijikata broke his opponent 3 times with a 25% conversion rate. Rinky dropped his serve 3 times and he saved 50% of the break points that he conceded. Dane broke his opponent 4 times with a 31% conversion rate. Dane conceded his serve once and he saved 75% of the break points that he conceded.
| Hijikata | |||
| R1 Hudd | Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 7-64 7-62 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 26 | 26 | |
| pts | 103-88 | 103-88 | |
| Total points | 191 | 191 | |
| Winners | 39 | 39 | |
| %Winners | 38% | 38% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 3 | 3 | |
| Double Faults | 7 | 7 | |
| 1st in | 54/95 | 54/95 | |
| % 1st in | 57% | 57% | |
| 1st pts | 39/54 | 39/54 | |
| % 1st pts | 72% | 72% | |
| 2nd pts | 20/41 | 20/41 | |
| % 2nd pts | 49% | 49% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 3 | 3 | |
| Converted | 3/12 | 3/12 | |
| Converted % | 25% | 25% | |
| Conceded | 6 | 6 | |
| Saved | 3/6 | 3 | |
| Saved % | 50% | 50% | |
| Times Broken | 3 | 3 | |
| Sweeny | |||
| R1 Ellis | Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-2 7-5 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 20 | 20 | |
| pts | 75-55 | 75-55 | |
| Total points | 130 | 130 | |
| Winners | 30 | 30 | |
| %Winners | 40% | 40% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 3 | 3 | |
| Double Faults | 0 | 0 | |
| 1st in | 40/58 | 40/58 | |
| % 1st in | 69% | 69% | |
| 1st pts | 30/40 | 30/40 | |
| % 1st pts | 75% | 75% | |
| 2nd pts | 11/18 | 11/18 | |
| % 2nd pts | 61% | 61% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 4 | 4 | |
| Converted | 4/13 | 4/13 | |
| Converted % | 31% | 31% | |
| Conceded | 4 | 4 | |
| Saved | 3/4 | 3 | |
| Saved % | 75% | 75% | |
| Times Broken | 1 | 1 | |
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- Masamichi ImamuraImamura – Thomas FancuttFancutt (6-3 6-1) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Shintaro MochizukiMochizuki – Ryuki MatsudaMatsuda (6-4 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
Upcoming matches in the draw
- Li TuTu – (4-1) – H2H and prediction
- Marc PolmansPolmans – (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Christian LangmoLangmo – Omar JasikaJasika (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Yuta ShimizuShimizu – Yuki MochizukiMochizuki (2-2) – H2H and prediction
- Rinky HijikataHijikata – Dane SweenySweeny (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Tristan SchoolkateSchoolkate – Masamichi ImamuraImamura (0-0) – H2H and prediction