Rinky Hijikata and Hayato Matsuoka will clash against each other in the 1st round of the Brisbane 3 Challenger for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Tuesday at 12:30 pm on PAT RAFTER ARENA. 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 -> 1.067
Hayato Matsuoka -> 6.65
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Prediction and head to head Rinky Hijikata vs. Hayato Matsuoka
There is no head to head record between Rinky Hijikata and Hayato Matsuoka since this will be the first time that they will face off in the main tour.
Rinky Hijikata
27 - 31win/loss
114
62
WWWWWLWWLL | Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 34-33 | 20-17 | 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. 127, Hijikata will start his run in the Brisbane 3 Challenger after he played his last match in the Charlottesville Challenger where he lost 6-3 6-4 to Rosenkranz in the 2nd round on the 30th of October.
The Australian has a compiled 27-31 win-loss record in 2025, 13-15 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Rinky’s best result of the current season was getting to the semifinal in the Bordeaux Challenger and the Birmingham Challenger.
Talking about his overall career, Hijikata has an overall 228-162 record. He has a positive 163-98 record on hard.
Previously in the Brisbane 3 Challenger
The Australian has never competed in this tournament before.
Hayato Matsuoka
29 - 27win/loss
360
360
LLWWWWWWLW | Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 38-30 | 31-23 | 7-7 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 39-26 | 26-15 | 13-10 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 15-13 | 10-9 | 5-4 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 3-4 | 0-1 | 3-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 589 (career-high), Hayato reached the 1st round after defeating Matthew Hulme 6-4 6-4 and Scott Jones 7-6(1) 7-5.
In the qualifications, Hayato had a good straight sets win against Jones (7-61 7-5). During the match Matsuoka scored 80 points vs Jones’s 73. Matsuoka was very aggressive to blast 41 winners.
About the serving games, Matsuoka recorded 7 aces and he committed only 1 double fault for the entire match. Hayato Matsuoka was quite effective on serve to win 79% (41/52) of his 1st serve and 54% (15/28) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. Matsuoka broke Jones once after converting 14% of his break points (1/7).
Overall Performance in this tournament
Hayato started his run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, he hasn’t lost yet a set in this competition to win 53% of the points he played.
Matsuoka’s best result of the current season was reaching the semifinal in M15 Torello,M25 Les Franqueses del Valles and M25 Huzhou.
Hayato has a compiled 29-27 win-loss record in 2025, 22-20 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Head 2 Head
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