Rinky Hijikata and Hayato Matsuoka will clash against each other in the 1^st round of the Brisbane 3 Challenger for the 1^st 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

Hard

13-15

I Hard

6-5

Clay

4-7

Grass

4-4

Rank
127

High
62

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Year	Total	Hard	Clay	I.hard	Grass	Carpet
2025	27-32	13-16	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

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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 2^nd round on the 30^th 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.

Brisbane 3 Challenger

Hijikata's Record

Hayato Matsuoka

29 - 27win/loss

Hard

22-20

I Hard

0-0

Clay

7-7

Rank
483

High
483

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Year	Total	Hard	Clay	I.hard	Grass	Carpet
2025	34-28	27-21	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

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Ranked no. 589 (career-high), Hayato reached the 1^st 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).

Brisbane 3 Challenger

Matsuoka's Record