Rinky Hijikata and Daniel Evans will fight against each other in the 1st round of the Libema Open for the 2nd time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Wednesday at 2:30 am on COURT 2. In this post, we analyze their head to head performance and prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Rinky Hijikata who should win in 3 sets.
As per the initial odds, Rinky Hijikata is the pick to win this match.
Rinky Hijikata -> 1.74
Daniel Evans -> 2.09
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Prediction and head to head Rinky Hijikata vs. Daniel Evans
This will be the 2nd time that Rinky Hijikata and Daniel Evans fight against each other. The head to head is 1-0 for Evans (see full H2H stats), but they have never played each other on grass.
The last time that they fought against each other, Evans won 6-3 6-4 in the 1st round in Adelaide back in 2024.
Rinky Hijikata
15 - 19win/loss
88
62
LLWWWLLWWW | Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 15-20 | 7-10 | 4-7 | 1-1 | 3-2 | 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. 75, Hijikata will start his run in ‘s-Hertogenbosch after he played his last match in the Birmingham Challenger where he lost 6-3 6-4 to Smith in the semifinal on the 8th of June.
The Australian has an aggregate 15-19 win-loss record in 2025, 3-1 on grass (See FULL STATS).
Rinky’s best result of the year was reaching the semifinal in the Bordeaux Challenger and the Birmingham Challenger.
Talking about his overall career, Hijikata has an overall 216-150 record. He has a positive 22-16 record on grass.
Previously in ‘s-Hertogenbosch
Previously, his best result was reaching the semifinal in 2023. See his history.
Daniel Evans
11 - 15win/loss
170
21
LWLWWWLLWL | Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 13-17 | 2-4 | 6-7 | 1-3 | 4-3 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 18-26 | 8-11 | 3-8 | 4-3 | 3-4 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 19-27 | 11-15 | 5-7 | 2-2 | 1-3 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 35-27 | 19-13 | 4-7 | 6-4 | 6-3 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 27-24 | 12-11 | 6-6 | 3-4 | 6-3 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 217, Daniel got to the 1st round after defeating Adam Walton 6-2 2-6 6-3 and Mees Rottgering 6-3 6-7(5) 6-2.
In the qualifications, The Brit defeated Rottgering (6-3 6-75 6-2). During the match Evans scored 112 points vs Rottgering’s 103. The Brit was exceptionally aggressive to blast 50 winners.
Talking about serving, Evans scored just 1 ace during the entire match and he committed only 5 double faults. Daniel Evans lost the serve once and he saved 6 break points. Furthermore, Evans put 66% of his first serves in, winning 72% (50/69) of the points behind his 1st serve and 47% (17/36) on the 2nd serve. Daniel broke Rottgering 5 times after converting 56% of his break points (5/9).
Overall Performance in this tournament
Evans started his run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, he has conceded 2 set in the tournament to win 51% of the points he played.
Evans has an overall 11-15 win-loss record in 2025, 2-1 on grass (See FULL STATS).
Previously in ‘s-Hertogenbosch
Evans has never competed in this tournament before.
Head 2 Head
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LWLWWWLLWL Tennis Scores in ‘s Hertogenbosch
- Otto VirtanenVirtanen – Tomas Martin EtcheverryMartin Etcheverry (7-66 7-5) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Mackenzie McdonaldMcdonald – Mattia BellucciBellucci (6-1 6-74 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Reilly OpelkaOpelka – Jesper De JongDe Jong (6-75 7-65 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Zizou BergsBergs – Alexander BlockxBlockx (6-3 1-6 7-63) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Nuno BorgesBorges – Nishesh BasavareddyBasavareddy (7-62 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Gabriel DialloDiallo – Aleksandar VukicVukic (7-5 7-62) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Nicolas JarryJarry – Luciano DarderiDarderi (5-7 6-4 7-63) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Jordan ThompsonThompson – Aleksandar KovacevicKovacevic (6-4 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
Upcoming matches in the draw
- Roberto Bautista AgutBautista Agut – Hubert HurkaczHurkacz (3-3) – H2H and prediction
- Adrian MannarinoMannarino – Christopher O ConnellO Connell (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Mackenzie McdonaldMcdonald – Karen KhachanovKhachanov (0-4) – H2H and prediction
- Jordan ThompsonThompson – Gabriel DialloDiallo (1-1) – H2H and prediction
- Laslo DjereDjere – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Reilly OpelkaOpelka – Nicolas JarryJarry (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Nuno BorgesBorges – Otto VirtanenVirtanen (1-2) – H2H and prediction
- Alexei PopyrinPopyrin – Zizou BergsBergs (1-1) – H2H and prediction
- Rinky HijikataHijikata – Daniel EvansEvans (0-1) – H2H and prediction
