Rinky Hijikata and Timofey Skatov will face off in the 1^st round of the Almaty Open for the 1^st time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Tuesday at 1:30 pm on CENTER COURT. 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 -> 1.51
Timofey Skatov -> 2.55

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Prediction and head to head Rinky Hijikata vs. Timofey Skatov

There is no head to head record between Rinky Hijikata and Timofey Skatov since this will be the first time that they will clash against each other in the main tour.

Rinky Hijikata

Ranked no. 114, Rinky reached the 1^st round after beating Jakub Paul 7-6(2) 6-3 and Ugo Blanchet 7-5 6-2.

Hijikata has a winning win-loss record in the last 9 years having won 58% of his matches (224-159). 2-2 on indoor hard courts in 2025. In connection with his performance on the same surface of this competition, Hijikata has an aggregate14-12 record in the last 9 years on indoor hard courts.

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

Rinky has an overall 23-28 win-loss record in 2025, 2-2 on indoor hard courts (See FULL STATS).

Previously in Almaty

Hijikata has never competed in this tournament before.

Timofey Skatov

Ranked no. 236, Timofey will start his run in Almaty after he played his last match in the Jinan Challenger where he lost 6-3 6-4 to Santillan in the qualifications on the 6^th of October.

Timofey has a compiled 29-28 win-loss record in 2025, 0-0 on indoor hard courts (See FULL STATS)

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This will be the first match of the season on indoor hard courts.

His best result of the year was conquering the title the Todi Challenger where he overcame Stefano Travaglia in the final 7-6(4) 0-6 6-2.

In terms of his career, Skatov has an overall 226-187 record. He has a negative 5-14 record on indoor hard courts.

Previously in Almaty

Previously, his best result was reaching the 2^nd round in 2021. See his history.

Tennis Scores in Almaty

• Aleksandar VukicVukic – Marko TopoTopo (6-4 3-6 6-1) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Adam WaltonWalton – Tristan SchoolkateSchoolkate (7-6⁴ 6-7³ 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Fabian MarozsanMarozsan – Luca NardiNardi (7-6³ 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Corentin MoutetMoutet – Bernard TomicTomic (6-1 7-6⁹) – Stats, scores, rankings
• James DuckworthDuckworth – Ugo BlanchetBlanchet (6-3 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Gabriel DialloDiallo – Amir OmarkhanovOmarkhanov (6-3 6-1) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Theo Arribage/Albano OlivettiArribage/Albano Olivetti – N.Sriram Balaji/N. Vijay Sundar PrashanthBalaji/N. Vijay Sundar Prashanth (6-4 3-6 11-9) – Stats, scores, rankings

Upcoming matches in the draw

• Jan-Lennard StruffStruff – Mackenzie McdonaldMcdonald (1-0) – H2H and prediction
• Laslo DjereDjere – Alexander ShevchenkoShevchenko (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Adam WaltonWalton – Daniil MedvedevMedvedev (1-0) – H2H and prediction
• Beibit ZhukayevZhukayev – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Brandon NakashimaNakashima – (0-1) – H2H and prediction
• Rinky HijikataHijikata – Timofey SkatovSkatov (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Gabriel DialloDiallo – James DuckworthDuckworth (1-0) – H2H and prediction