Arthur Rinderknech and David Goffin will fight against each other in the 1^st round of the China Open for the 4^th time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Friday at 11:00 am on BRAD DREWETT. In this post, we analyze their head to head performance and prediction.

Prediction, odds and live streaming

The pick for Tennis Tonic is Arthur Rinderknech who should win in 3 sets.

As per the initial odds, Arthur Rinderknech is the pick to win this match.
Arthur Rinderknech -> 1.58
David Goffin -> 2.26

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Prediction and head to head Arthur Rinderknech vs. David Goffin

This will be the 4^th time that Arthur Rinderknech and David Goffin square off. The head to head is 3-0 for Goffin (see full H2H stats), 2-0 on hard.

The last time that they played each other, Goffin won 6-3 6-2 in the qualifications in Beijing back in September 2025.

Arthur Rinderknech

Ranked no. 54, the French player got to the 1^st round after beating Nishesh Basavareddy 6-4 6-4 and David Goffin 6-3 6-2.

Rinderknech has a solid match record in the last 10 years having won 60% of his matches (315-214). 7-13 on hard in 2025. In connection with his performance on the same surface of this event, Rinderknech has a composed 107-74 record in the last years on hard.

Arthur’s best result of the year was reaching the semifinal in Kitzbuhel.

Rinderknech has an aggregate 24-30 win-loss record in 2025, 7-13 on hard (See FULL STATS).

Previously in Beijing

David Goffin

Ranked no. 87, the Belgian reached the 1^st round after defeating Yi Zhou 6-4 3-6 7-5 and Arthur Rinderknech 6-3 6-2.

In the qualifications, David had a good straight sets win against Rinderknech (6-3 6-2). During the match Goffin scored 63 points vs Rinderknech’s 48. Goffin was quite aggressive to blast 23 winners.

Talking about serving, Goffin couldn’t to score even 1 ace for the entire match and he committed only 4 double faults. Overall, David Goffin was pretty effective on serve to win 77% (23/30) of his 1st serve and 57% (8/14) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve once. David broke Rinderknech 5 times after converting 42% of his break points (5/12).

Overall Performance in this tournament

Goffin started his run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, he has conceded 1 set in the tournament to win 53% of the points he played.

David has a compiled 12-20 win-loss record in 2025, 8-13 on hard (See FULL STATS).

Previously in Beijing

Previously, his best result was reaching the 2^nd round in 2015. See his history.

H2H Performance in the tournament

Matches, sets, games and points

Points	Rinderknech	Goffin
Match played	1	2
Tot Set	2	5
Tot Games	20	48
Pts	63-41	170-153
Total Points	104	323
Winners	28	65
%Winners	44%	38%

Rinderknech played 1 match while Goffin competed in 2 matches. At the moment, David Goffin surrendered 1 set while Arthur Rinderknech hasn’t dropped a set so far. Rinderknech has played 3 set(s) less than Goffin (2 vs 5). Therefore, Rinderknech played 28 games less than Goffin. Arthur scored 28 winners (44% of the total points). On the other side, David scored 65 winners (38%).

Serve Performance

Serve	Rinderknech	Goffin
Aces	18	3
Avg per match	18	1.5
1st in	29/43	88/133
%1st in	67%	66%
1st pts	28/29	65/88
%1st pts	97%	74%
2nd pts	12/14	17/45
%2nd pts	86%	38%

Rinderknech made 18 aces . Goffin blasted 3 aces (1.5 per match). Rinderknech won 97% points behind his first serve. He quite strong on his second serve to win 86% of the points. On the other side, Goffin won 74% of the points behind his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 38% of the points.

How they played the important points

Breaks	Rinderknech	Goffin
Won	2	11
Converted	2/5	11/31
% Converted	40%	35%
Conceded	0	11
Saved	0	5
% Saved	0%	45%
Times Broken	0	6

The French player broke his opponent twice with a 40% conversion rate. Rinderknech pretty effective on his serve as he has never conceded a single service game after saving 0 break points. David broke his opponents 11 times with a 35% conversion rate. David conceded his serve 6 times and he saved 45% of the break points that he conceded.

Rinderknech
	Q1 Basavareddy	Q3 Goffin	Total
Score	6-4 6-4	6-3 6-2
Tot Set	2	2	4
Tot Games	20	17	37
pts	63-41	–	63-41
Total points	104	0	104
Winners	28		28
%Winners	44%	0%	44%
SERVE
Aces	18	0	18
Double Faults	1		1
1st in	29/43	/	29/43
% 1st in	67%	0%	67%
1st pts	28/29	/	28/29
% 1st pts	97%	0%	97%
2nd pts	12/14	/	12/14
% 2nd pts	86%	0%	86%
Breaks
Won	2		2
Converted	2/5	/	2/5
Converted %	40%	0%	40%
Conceded	0		0
Saved	0/0	0/	0
Saved %	–	–	0%
Times Broken	0		0

Goffin
	Q1 Zhou	Q3 Rinderknech	Total
Score	6-4 3-6 7-5	6-3 6-2
Tot Set	3	2	5
Tot Games	31	17	48
pts	107-105	63-48	170-153
Total points	212	111	323
Winners	42	23	65
%Winners	39%	37%	38%
SERVE
Aces	3	0	3
Double Faults	2	4	6
1st in	58/89	30/44	88/133
% 1st in	65%	68%	66%
1st pts	42/58	23/30	65/88
% 1st pts	72%	77%	74%
2nd pts	9/31	8/14	17/45
% 2nd pts	29%	57%	38%
Breaks
Won	6	5	11
Converted	6/19	5/12	11/31
Converted %	32%	42%	35%
Conceded	8	3	11
Saved	3/8	2/3	5
Saved %	38%	67%	53%
Times Broken	5	1	6

Tennis Scores in Beijing

• Alejandro Davidovich FokinaDavidovich Fokina – Camilo Ugo CarabelliUgo Carabelli (6-1 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Fabian MarozsanMarozsan – Benjamin BonziBonzi (7-6¹ 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Bu Yunchaokete/Cameron NorrieYunchaokete/Cameron Norrie – Marcelo Melo/Alexander ZverevMelo/Alexander Zverev (7-6⁵ 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Terence AtmaneAtmane – Zhizhen ZhangZhang (6-4 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Alexandre MullerMuller – Karen KhachanovKhachanov (4-6 7-6⁵ 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings

Upcoming matches in the draw

• Adrian MannarinoMannarino – Alexander BublikBublik (0-1) – H2H and prediction
• David GoffinGoffin – Arthur RinderknechRinderknech (3-0) – H2H and prediction
• Daniil MedvedevMedvedev – Cameron NorrieNorrie (4-1) – H2H and prediction
• Andrey RublevRublev – Flavio CobolliCobolli (0-1) – H2H and prediction
• Lorenzo SonegoSonego – Alexander ZverevZverev (0-5) – H2H and prediction
• Miomir KecmanovicKecmanovic – (0-1) – H2H and prediction
• Corentin MoutetMoutet – Tallon GriekspoorGriekspoor (0-3) – H2H and prediction
• Alejandro Davidovich FokinaDavidovich Fokina – Camilo Ugo CarabelliUgo Carabelli (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Alex De MinaurDe Minaur – Bu YunchaoketeYunchaokete (2-0) – H2H and prediction
• Jannik SinnerSinner – Marin CilicCilic (1-0) – H2H and prediction
• Fabian MarozsanMarozsan – Alexandre MullerMuller (0-0) – H2H and prediction