Tommy Paul and Rinky Hijikata will face off in the quarter of the Adelaide International for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Thursday at 12:30 pm on CENTRE 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 Tommy Paul who should win in 2 sets.
Tommy Paul -> 1.194
Rinky Hijikata -> 4.65
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Prediction and head to head Tommy Paul vs. Rinky Hijikata
There is no head to head record between Tommy Paul and Rinky Hijikata since this will be the first time that they will fight against each other in the main tour.
Tommy Paul
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 1-0 | 1-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 45-20 | 17-12 | 10-4 | 8-2 | 10-2 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 46-29 | 29-13 | 5-6 | 3-5 | 9-5 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 39-27 | 21-12 | 2-6 | 9-5 | 7-4 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 33-23 | 12-12 | 9-7 | 12-4 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 12 (career-high), Paul reached the quarter after defeating Unknown Player bye and Manuel Guinard 6-4 3-6 6-3.
In the 2nd round, Tommy defeated Guinard (6-4 3-6 6-3).During the match, Paul scored less points (1) than Guinard. In fact, the world no. 12 won 88 points vs Guinard’s. That means that Paul was more focused during the important points. Tommy was very aggressive to blast 43 winners.
Talking about the service games, Paul blasted 9 aces and he committed only 4 double faults. Overall, Tommy Paul was very effective on serve to win 72% (43/60) of his 1st serve and 55% (18/33) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve once. Tommy was clinical in his return game without wasting any break point and break Guinard twice.
Paul has a solid match record in the last 10 years having won 63% of his matches (346-201). 1-0 on hard in 2025. Talking about his performance on the same surface of this event, Paul has an aggregate 178-103 win-loss record in the last years on hard.
Paul has a composed 1-0 win-loss record in 2025, 1-0 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in Adelaide
Rinky Hijikata
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 3-2 | 3-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 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. 79, Rinky got to the quarter after beating Omar Jasika 6-0 2-1 ret., David Goffin 6-1 6-2 and Brandon Nakashima 6-2 3-6 7-6(5).
In the 2nd round, The Australian defeated Nakashima (6-2 3-6 7-65). During the match Hijikata scored 86 points vs Nakashima’s 84. The Australian was exceptionally aggressive to blast 38 winners.
Talking about serving, Hijikata recorded 6 aces and he committed only 5 double faults. Overall, Rinky Hijikata was exceptionally effective on serve to win 78% (38/49) of his 1st serve and 65% (24/37) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve once. Rinky broke Nakashima twice after converting 40% of his break points (2/5).
Overall Performance in this tournament
Rinky started his run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, he has conceded 1 set in the tournament to win 54% of the points he played.
Rinky has a compiled 3-2 win-loss record in 2025, 3-2 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in Adelaide
Previously, his best result was reaching the 1st round in 2023 and 2024. See his history
.H2H Performance in the tournament (main draw)
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Paul | Hijikata |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 1 | 3 |
| Tot Set | 3 | 8 |
| Tot Games | 28 | 54 |
| Pts | 88-89 | 180-134 |
| Total Points | 177 | 314 |
| Winners | 43 | 70 |
| %Winners | 49% | 39% |
Paul played 1 match while Hijikata competed in 3 matches. Hijikata started his run from the qualifications while Paul had a direct access to the main draw. Both players lost a set in the event. Tommy Paul surrendered 1 set, while Rinky Hijikata dropped 1 set. Paul has played 5 set(s) less than Hijikata (3 vs 8). Therefore, Paul played 26 games less than Hijikata. Paul scored 43 winners (49% of the total points). On the other side, The Australian made 70 winners (39%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Paul | Hijikata |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 9 | 12 |
| Avg per match | 9 | 4 |
| 1st in | 60/93 | 91/162 |
| %1st in | 65% | 56% |
| 1st pts | 43/60 | 70/91 |
| %1st pts | 72% | 77% |
| 2nd pts | 18/33 | 45/71 |
| %2nd pts | 55% | 63% |
Paul blasted 9 aces . Hijikata fired 12 aces (4 per match). Paul won 72% points behind his first serve. He extremely effective on his second serve to win 55% of the points. On the other side, Hijikata won 77% of the points behind his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 63% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Paul | Hijikata |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 2 | 11 |
| Converted | 2/2 | 11/18 |
| % Converted | 100% | 61% |
| Conceded | 11 | 9 |
| Saved | 10 | 7 |
| % Saved | 91% | 78% |
| Times Broken | 1 | 2 |
The American broke his opponent twice with a 100% conversion rate. Tommy surrendered his serve once and he saved 91% of the break points that he conceded. The Australian broke his opponents 11 times with a 61% conversion rate. Rinky conceded his serve twice and he saved 78% of the break points that he conceded.
| Paul | |||
| R2 Guinard | Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-4 3-6 6-3 | ||
| Tot Set | 3 | 3 | |
| Tot Games | 28 | 28 | |
| pts | 88-89 | 88-89 | |
| Total points | 177 | 177 | |
| Winners | 43 | 43 | |
| %Winners | 49% | 49% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 9 | 9 | |
| Double Faults | 4 | 4 | |
| 1st in | 60/93 | 60/93 | |
| % 1st in | 65% | 65% | |
| 1st pts | 43/60 | 43/60 | |
| % 1st pts | 72% | 72% | |
| 2nd pts | 18/33 | 18/33 | |
| % 2nd pts | 55% | 55% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 2 | 2 | |
| Converted | 2/2 | 2/2 | |
| Converted % | 100% | 100% | |
| Conceded | 11 | 11 | |
| Saved | 10/11 | 10 | |
| Saved % | 91% | 91% | |
| Times Broken | 1 | 1 | |
| Hijikata | ||||||
| Q1 Jasika | Q3 Walton | R1 Goffin | R2 Nakashima | Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-0 2-1 ret. | 1-6 7-64 6-4 | 6-1 6-2 | 6-2 3-6 7-65 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 10 | |
| Tot Games | 9 | 30 | 15 | 30 | 84 | |
| pts | 33-10 | – | 61-40 | 86-84 | 180-134 | |
| Total points | 43 | 0 | 101 | 170 | 314 | |
| Winners | 11 | 21 | 38 | 70 | ||
| %Winners | 33% | 0% | 34% | 44% | 39% | |
| SERVE | ||||||
| Aces | 2 | 0 | 4 | 6 | 12 | |
| Double Faults | 1 | 3 | 5 | 9 | ||
| 1st in | 13/19 | / | 29/57 | 49/86 | 91/162 | |
| % 1st in | 68% | 0% | 51% | 57% | 56% | |
| 1st pts | 11/13 | / | 21/29 | 38/49 | 70/91 | |
| % 1st pts | 85% | 0% | 72% | 78% | 77% | |
| 2nd pts | 5/6 | / | 16/28 | 24/37 | 45/71 | |
| % 2nd pts | 83% | 0% | 57% | 65% | 63% | |
| Breaks | ||||||
| Won | 4 | 5 | 2 | 11 | ||
| Converted | 4/4 | / | 5/9 | 2/5 | 11/18 | |
| Converted % | 100% | 0% | 56% | 40% | 61% | |
| Conceded | 0 | 5 | 4 | 9 | ||
| Saved | 0/0 | 0/ | 4/5 | 3/4 | 7 | |
| Saved % | – | – | 80% | 75% | 155% | |
| Times Broken | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | ||
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