Rinky Hijikata and Denis Yevseyev will square off in the 1^st round of the Jinan Challenger for the 2^nd time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Wednesday at 1:30 pm on COURT 2. 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 Rinky Hijikata who should win in 2 sets.

As per the initial odds, Rinky Hijikata is the pick to win this match.
Rinky Hijikata -> 1.25
Denis Yevseyev -> 3.66

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Prediction and head to head Rinky Hijikata vs. Denis Yevseyev

This will be the 2^nd time that Rinky Hijikata and Denis Yevseyev face off. The head to head is 1-0 for Hijikata (see full H2H stats), 1-0 on hard.

The last time that they fought against each other, Hijikata won 6-7(3) 6-4 6-3 in the 1^st round in the Little Rock Challenger back in 2022.

Rinky Hijikata

Ranked no. 114, Rinky will start his run in the Jinan Challenger after he played his last match in Shanghai where he lost 6-3 5-7 6-4 to Kent in the qualifications on the 30^th of September.

Hijikata has a compiled 21-26 win-loss record in 2025, 12-14 on hard (See FULL STATS).

Hijikata’s best result of the season was getting to the semifinal in the Bordeaux Challenger and the Birmingham Challenger.

Talking about his overall career, Rinky has an overall 222-157 record. He has a positive 162-97 record on hard.

Previously in the Jinan Challenger

Hijikata has never competed in this tournament before.

Denis Yevseyev

Ranked no. 341, the Kazakhstani got to the 1^st round after beating Aoran Wang 7-5 6-4 and Sergey Fomin 7-6(1) 6-0.

In the qualifications, Yevseyev had a good straight sets win against Fomin (7-6¹ 6-0). During the match Yevseyev scored 72 points vs Fomin’s 43. Denis was quite aggressive to blast 22 winners.

Talking about serving, Yevseyev made 6 aces and he committed only 2 double faults. Denis Yevseyev lost the serve 3 times. Furthermore, Yevseyev put 60% of his first serves in, winning 76% (22/29) of the points behind his 1st serve and 47% (9/19) on the 2nd serve. Yevseyev broke Fomin 6 times after converting 43% of his break points (6/14).

Overall Performance in this tournament

The Kazakhstani started his run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, he hasn’t dropped yet a set in this competition to win 58% of the points he played.

Denis has a composed 26-35 win-loss record in 2025, 11-11 on hard (See FULL STATS).

Tennis Scores in Jinan Challenger

• Titouan DroguetDroguet – Jie CuiCui (6-4 6-1) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Billy HarrisHarris – Yosuke WatanukiWatanuki (1-6 6-3 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Mackenzie McdonaldMcdonald – Harold MayotMayot (6-3 7-6²) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Adam WaltonWalton – Fajing SunSun (3-6 7-5 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Billy HarrisHarris – Yosuke WatanukiWatanuki (1-6 6-3 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings

Upcoming matches in the draw

• James DuckworthDuckworth – (0-1) – H2H and prediction
• Denis YevseyevYevseyev – Rinky HijikataHijikata (0-1) – H2H and prediction
• Christopher O ConnellO Connell – Liam DraxlDraxl (1-0) – H2H and prediction
• Fajing SunSun – Adam WaltonWalton (0-2) – H2H and prediction
• Pavel KotovKotov – August HolmgrenHolmgren (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Brandon HoltHolt – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Titouan DroguetDroguet – Jie CuiCui (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Dalibor SvrcinaSvrcina – Bernard TomicTomic (1-0) – H2H and prediction
• Kyrian JacquetJacquet – Kasidit SamrejSamrej (1-0) – H2H and prediction