Rinky Hijikata and Mitchell Krueger will face off in the 1st round of the Australian Open for the 2nd time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Tuesday at 4:00 pm on Court 3. 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 Rinky Hijikata who should win in 4 sets.
As per the initial odds, Rinky Hijikata is the pick to win this match.
Rinky Hijikata -> 1.41
Mitchell Krueger -> 2.91
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Prediction and head to head Rinky Hijikata vs. Mitchell Krueger
This will be the 2nd time that Rinky Hijikata and Mitchell Krueger play each other. The head to head is 1-0 for Hijikata (see full H2H stats), 1-0 on hard.
The last time that they played, Hijikata won 6-3 6-3 in the qualifications in the Phoenix Challenger back in 2023.
Rinky Hijikata
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 17-23 | 8-11 | 4-7 | 1-1 | 4-4 | 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, Hijikata will start his run at the Australian Open after he played his last match in Adelaide where he lost 6-3 6-4 to Paul in the quarter on the 9th of January.
Rinky has an overall 3-3 win-loss record in 2025, 3-3 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Talking about his overall career, The Australian has an overall 204-134 record. He has a positive 153-86 record on hard.
Previously at the Australian Open
Previously, his best result was reaching the 2nd round in 2023. See his history.
Mitchell Krueger
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 16-24 | 6-13 | 9-7 | 0-1 | 1-3 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 42-31 | 30-17 | 9-7 | 2-6 | 1-1 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 29-29 | 15-19 | 4-4 | 10-6 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 29-28 | 18-15 | 6-5 | 1-6 | 4-2 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 29-24 | 19-12 | 5-5 | 3-5 | 2-2 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 148, Mitchell reached the 1st round after defeating Filip Cristian Jianu 6-3 6-4, Duje Ajdukovic 6-4 6-3 and Yasutaka Uchiyama 6-3 6-7(5) 6-4.
In the qualifications, Mitchell defeated Uchiyama (6-3 6-75 6-4). During the match Krueger scored 94 points vs Uchiyama’s 79. Krueger was extremely aggressive to blast 48 winners.
Talking about serving, Krueger blasted 9 aces and he committed only 1 double fault for the entire match. Overall, Mitchell Krueger was extremely efficient on serve to win 81% (48/59) of his 1st serve and 58% (11/19) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve once. The American broke Uchiyama 4 times after converting 57% of his break points (4/7).
Overall Performance in this tournament
Krueger started his run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, he has conceded 1 set in the tournament to win 56% of the points he played.
Mitchell has an overall 3-1 win-loss record in 2025, 3-1 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously at the Australian Open
Previously, his best result was reaching the 1st round in 2019. See his history.
Head 2 Head
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