Rinky Hijikata dispatches Timofey Skatov 7-6(3) 2-6 6-3 in the 1st round in Almaty on Tuesday. Hijikata will engage against Flavio Cobolli in the 2nd round. The battle lasted 2 hours and 14 minutes.
Stats: aces, double faults, breaks, winners
Rinky won this match even if he conquered less points than Skatov (88 vs. 92).
Hijikata
Hijikata won this match even if he wasn’t that great in converting his break points since he converted only 43% (3/7) of the procured opportunities.
Skatov
On the other side, Timofey was struggling to find the solution in converting his break points (only 33% – 4/12). That was one of the key issues for his loss.
After this match, the head to head between Hijikata and Skatov is 1-0 for Rinky.
Draw and next match H2H: Rinky Hijikata vs. Flavio Cobolli – stats
Hijikata will square off with Cobolli in the 2nd round.
This will be the 2nd time that Rinky Hijikata and Flavio Cobolli face off. The head to head is 1-0 for Cobolli (see full H2H stats), but they have never competed against each other on I.hard.
Tennis Scores in Almaty
- Adam WaltonWalton – Tristan SchoolkateSchoolkate (7-64 6-73 6-2)
- Alexander ShevchenkoShevchenko – Laslo DjereDjere (7-61 7-612)
- Aleksandar VukicVukic – Marko TopoTopo (6-4 3-6 6-1)
- Rinky HijikataHijikata – Timofey SkatovSkatov (7-63 2-6 6-3)
- Brandon NakashimaNakashima – Hamad MedjedovicMedjedovic (7-65 6-2)
- Fabian MarozsanMarozsan – Luca NardiNardi (7-63 6-3)
- Gabriel DialloDiallo – Amir OmarkhanovOmarkhanov (6-3 6-1)
- Corentin MoutetMoutet – Bernard TomicTomic (6-1 7-69)
- James DuckworthDuckworth – Ugo BlanchetBlanchet (6-3 6-4)
Upcoming matches
- Jan-Lennard StruffStruff – Mackenzie McdonaldMcdonald (1-0) – H2H details and stats
- Adam WaltonWalton – Daniil MedvedevMedvedev (1-0) – H2H details and stats
- Beibit ZhukayevZhukayev – (0-0) – H2H details and stats
- Brandon NakashimaNakashima – Fabian MarozsanMarozsan (0-0) – H2H details and stats
- Rinky HijikataHijikata – Flavio CobolliCobolli (0-1) – H2H details and stats
- Alexander ShevchenkoShevchenko – Corentin MoutetMoutet (0-2) – H2H details and stats
- Gabriel DialloDiallo – James DuckworthDuckworth (1-0) – H2H details and stats