Rinky Hijikata and Ryuki Matsuda will face off in the 1st round of the Sydney Challenger for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Tuesday at 2:00 pm on COURT 2. Here the head to head stats and relative prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Rinky Hijikata who should win in 2 sets.
Rinky Hijikata -> 1.043
Ryuki Matsuda -> 8.6
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Prediction and head to head Rinky Hijikata vs. Ryuki Matsuda
There is no head to head record between Rinky Hijikata and Ryuki Matsuda since this will be the first time that they will play each other in the main tour.
Rinky Hijikata
32 - 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. 76, Rinky will start his run in the Sydney Challenger after he won the title in the Playford Challenger after beating 6-4 7-6(4) Shimizu in the final.
Rinky has an overall 32-32 win-loss record in 2024, 25-20 on hard (See FULL STATS).
His best result of the season was winning the title the Playford Challenger where he defeated Yuta Shimizu in the final 6-4 7-6(4).
Hijikata won his last 5 matches.
Talking about his overall career, Hijikata has an overall 197-130 record. He has a positive 146-82 record on hard.
Previously in the Sydney Challenger
Previously, his best result was reaching the semifinal in 2023. See his history.
Ryuki Matsuda
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 37-33 | 37-32 | 0-0 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 38-36 | 35-28 | 2-6 | 1-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 44-25 | 44-25 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 10-3 | 10-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 533, Ryuki reached the 1st round after beating Grigoriy Lomakin 3-6 6-3 6-2 and Taisei Ichikawa 7-6(5) 4-6 6-4.
In the qualifications, Matsuda defeated Ichikawa (7-65 4-6 6-4). During the match Matsuda and Ichikawa scored the same amount of points (112). However, the world no. 76 was stronger during the important points and that was the most significant difference in the match. Matsuda was exceptionally aggressive to blast 55 winners.
About the serving games, Matsuda made 10 aces and he committed only 2 double faults. Ryuki Matsuda lost the serve 4 times and he saved 15 break points. Furthermore, Matsuda put 72% of his first serves in, winning 60% (55/91) of the points behind his 1st serve and 57% (20/35) on the 2nd serve. The Japanese broke Ichikawa 4 times after converting 27% of his break points (4/15).
Overall Performance in this tournament
Matsuda started his run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, he has conceded 2 set in the tournament to win 52% of the points he played.
Ryuki’s best result of the current year was getting to the final in M15 Monastir and M15 Harmon.
Matsuda has an overall 35-29 win-loss record in 2024, 35-29 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Sydney Challenger
The Japanese has never competed in this tournament before.
Tennis Scores in Sydney Challenger
- Tibo ColsonColson – Shintaro ImaiImai (6-3 3-6 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Hikaru ShiraishiShiraishi – Moerani BouzigeBouzige (6-2 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Matthew DellavedovaDellavedova – Shintaro MochizukiMochizuki (6-1 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
Upcoming matches in the draw
- Alex BoltBolt – Ajeet RaiRai (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Marc PolmansPolmans – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Omar JasikaJasika – Takuya KumasakaKumasaka (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Jake DelaneyDelaney – Tristan SchoolkateSchoolkate (0-3) – H2H and prediction
- Aleksandre BakshiBakshi – Yuki MochizukiMochizuki (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Christian LangmoLangmo – Thanasi KokkinakisKokkinakis (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Blake EllisEllis – (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Masamichi ImamuraImamura – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Rinky HijikataHijikata – Ryuki MatsudaMatsuda (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Saba PurtseladzePurtseladze – Dane SweenySweeny (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Seita WatanabeWatanabe – Blake MottMott (0-0) – H2H and prediction