Brandon Nakashima and Rinky Hijikata will square off in the 2nd round of the BNP Paribas Open for the 4th time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Saturday at 4:00 pm on STADIUM 5. In the following paragraphs, you can find the head to head analysis and prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Brandon Nakashima who should win in 2 sets.
Brandon Nakashima -> 1.39
Rinky Hijikata -> 2.99
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Prediction and head to head Brandon Nakashima vs. Rinky Hijikata
This will be the 4th time that Brandon Nakashima and Rinky Hijikata play each other. The head to head is 2-1 for Nakashima (see full H2H stats),but they are 1-1 on hard.
The last time that they competed against each other, Hijikata won 6-2 3-6 7-6(5) in the 2nd round in Adelaide back in January 2025.
Brandon Nakashima
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 33-30 | 19-14 | 6-8 | 2-5 | 6-3 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 61-32 | 24-12 | 13-7 | 15-8 | 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 |
Ranked no. 33 (career-high), Brandon will start his run in Indian Wells after he played his last match in Acapulco where he lost 6-4 1-6 6-4 to Machac in the semifinal on the 28th of February.
The American has an aggregate 6-6 win-loss record in 2025, 6-5 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Brandon’s best result of the year was getting to the semifinal in Acapulco.
Talking about his overall career, Brandon has an overall 232-146 record. He has a positive 114-74 record on hard.
Previously in Indian Wells
Previously, his best result was reaching the 2nd
round in 2021, 2022, 2023 and 2024. See his history.Rinky Hijikata
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 34-33 | 20-17 | 4-7 | 6-5 | 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. 83, Rinky reached the 2nd round after beating Alexander Shevchenko 6-1 6-3.
In the 1st round, Rinky had a good straight sets win against Shevchenko (6-1 6-3). During the match Hijikata scored 58 points vs Shevchenko’s 43. Rinky was exceptionally aggressive to blast 22 winners.
Talking about serving, Hijikata scored just 1 ace during the entire match and he committed only 1 double fault for the entire match. Rinky Hijikata lost the serve twice and he saved 2 break points. Furthermore, Hijikata put 73% of his first serves in, winning 63% (22/35) of the points behind his 1st serve and 46% (6/13) on the 2nd serve. Rinky broke Shevchenko 6 times after converting 67% of his break points (6/9).
Hijikata has an aggregate 6-8 win-loss record in 2025, 5-7 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in Indian Wells
Previously, his best result was reaching the 2nd round in 2023. See his history.
Tennis Scores in Indian Wells
- Giovanni Mpetshi PerricardMpetshi Perricard – Fabian MarozsanMarozsan (6-4 ret.) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Tommy PaulPaul – Tristan BoyerBoyer (6-3 6-1) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Alexei PopyrinPopyrin – Zizou BergsBergs (7-64 7-5) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Ugo HumbertHumbert – Kei NishikoriNishikori (6-4 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Matteo BerrettiniBerrettini – Christopher O ConnellO Connell (6-2 7-62) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Tallon GriekspoorGriekspoor – Alexander ZverevZverev (4-6 7-65 7-64) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Cameron NorrieNorrie – Jiri LeheckaLehecka (3-6 6-4 7-5) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Marcos GironGiron – Casper RuudRuud (7-64 3-6 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
Upcoming matches in the draw
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- Novak DjokovicDjokovic – Botic Van De ZandschulpVan De Zandschulp (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- David GoffinGoffin – Alex De MinaurDe Minaur (0-6) – H2H and prediction
- Grigor DimitrovDimitrov – Nuno BorgesBorges (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Damir DzumhurDzumhur – Frances TiafoeTiafoe (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Mackenzie McdonaldMcdonald – Francisco CerundoloCerundolo (0-2) – H2H and prediction
- Marcos GironGiron – Alexei PopyrinPopyrin (1-1) – H2H and prediction
- Quentin HalysHalys – Carlos Alcaraz GarfiaAlcaraz Garfia (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Karen KhachanovKhachanov – (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Hubert HurkaczHurkacz – Hugo GastonGaston (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Roman SafiullinSafiullin – Lorenzo MusettiMusetti (2-1) – H2H and prediction
- Andrey RublevRublev – (2-1) – H2H and prediction
- Tommy PaulPaul – Cameron NorrieNorrie (2-3) – H2H and prediction
- Alejandro TabiloTabilo – Dusan LajovicLajovic (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Denis ShapovalovShapovalov – Adam WaltonWalton (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Tallon GriekspoorGriekspoor – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Thiago Seyboth WildSeyboth Wild – Stefanos TsitsipasTsitsipas (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Jenson BrooksbyBrooksby – Felix Auger AliassimeAuger Aliassime (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Rinky HijikataHijikata – Brandon NakashimaNakashima (1-2) – H2H and prediction
- Tomas MachacMachac – Yosuke WatanukiWatanuki (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Bu YunchaoketeYunchaokete – Daniil MedvedevMedvedev (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Jack DraperDraper – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Mariano NavoneNavone – (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Holger Vitus Nodskov RuneVitus Nodskov Rune – Corentin MoutetMoutet (0-2) – H2H and prediction