Flavio Cobolli and Rinky Hijikata will clash against each other in the 2nd round of the Almaty Open for the 2nd time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Wednesday at 3:00 pm on COURT 1. In this post, we analyze their head to head performance and prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Flavio Cobolli who should win in 2 sets.
Flavio Cobolli -> 1.4
Rinky Hijikata -> 2.94
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Prediction and head to head Flavio Cobolli vs. Rinky Hijikata
This will be the 2nd time that Flavio Cobolli and Rinky Hijikata face off. The head to head is 1-0 for Cobolli (see full H2H stats), but they have never played each other on indoor hard courts.
The last time that they played each other, Cobolli won 7-5 4-6 6-4 6-4 in the 1st round in at the Wimbledon back in 2024.
Flavio Cobolli
30 - 25win/loss
22
17
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 34-29 | 9-13 | 15-6 | 4-7 | 6-3 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 43-29 | 26-13 | 10-9 | 4-3 | 3-4 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 56-36 | 10-6 | 43-23 | 3-6 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 35-34 | 6-4 | 24-21 | 5-8 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 46-30 | 5-4 | 39-21 | 2-5 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 22, Flavio will start his run in Almaty after he played his last match in Shanghai where he lost 7-5 6-1 to Munar Clar in the 2nd round on the 3rd of October.
The Italian has a compiled 30-25 win-loss record in 2025, 0-3 on indoor hard courts (See FULL STATS).
His best result of the current season was winning the title in Bucharest where he overcame Sebastian Baez in the final 6-4 6-4 and in Hamburg where he beat Andrey Rublev in the final 6-2 6-4.
Talking about his overall career, Flavio has an overall 220-167 record. He has a negative 14-27 record on indoor hard courts.
Previously in Almaty
Flavio has never competed in this tournament before.
Rinky Hijikata
24 - 28win/loss
127
62
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 29-33 | 15-17 | 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. 114, Hijikata got to the 2nd round after defeating Jakub Paul 7-6(2) 6-3, Ugo Blanchet 7-5 6-2 and Timofey Skatov 7-6(3) 2-6 6-3.
In the 1st round, The Australian defeated Skatov (7-63 2-6 6-3).During the match Hijikata scored less points (4) than Skatov. In fact, the world no. 22 won 88 points vs Skatov’s. That means that Hijikata was more focused during the important points. The Australian was pretty aggressive to blast 42 winners.
About the serving games, Hijikata struck 6 aces and he committed only 2 double faults. Rinky Hijikata lost the serve 4 times and he saved 8 break points. Furthermore, Hijikata put 66% of his first serves in, winning 63% (42/67) of the points behind his 1st serve and 59% (20/34) on the 2nd serve. Rinky broke Skatov 3 times after converting 43% of his break points (3/7).
Hijikata’s best result of the year was reaching the semifinal in the Bordeaux Challenger and the Birmingham Challenger.
The Australian has a composed 24-28 win-loss record in 2025, 3-2 on indoor hard courts (See FULL STATS).
Tennis Scores in Almaty
- Adam WaltonWalton – Tristan SchoolkateSchoolkate (7-64 6-73 6-2) – See score progression
- Aleksandar VukicVukic – Marko TopoTopo (6-4 3-6 6-1) – See score progression
- Rinky HijikataHijikata – Timofey SkatovSkatov (7-63 2-6 6-3) – See score progression
- Brandon NakashimaNakashima – Hamad MedjedovicMedjedovic (7-65 6-2) – See score progression
- Fabian MarozsanMarozsan – Luca NardiNardi (7-63 6-3) – See score progression
- Theo Arribage/Albano OlivettiArribage/Albano Olivetti – N.Sriram Balaji/N. Vijay Sundar PrashanthBalaji/N. Vijay Sundar Prashanth (6-4 3-6 11-9) – See score progression
- Corentin MoutetMoutet – Bernard TomicTomic (6-1 7-69) – See score progression
- James DuckworthDuckworth – Ugo BlanchetBlanchet (6-3 6-4) – See score progression
- Gabriel DialloDiallo – Amir OmarkhanovOmarkhanov (6-3 6-1) – See score progression
- Rinky HijikataHijikata – Timofey SkatovSkatov (7-6(3) 2-6 6-3) – See score progression
- Brandon NakashimaNakashima – Hamad MedjedovicMedjedovic (7-6(5) 6-2) – See score progression
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 – Fabian MarozsanMarozsan (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Rinky HijikataHijikata – Flavio CobolliCobolli (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Gabriel DialloDiallo – James DuckworthDuckworth (1-0) – H2H and prediction