Rinky Hijikata and Blaise Bicknell will fight against each other in the 1st round of the Sydney Challenger for the 3rd time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Tuesday at 3:00 pm on COURT 5. Here the head to head stats and relative prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Rinky Hijikata who should win in 2 sets.
Rinky Hijikata -> 1.22
Blaise Bicknell -> 3.74
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Prediction and head to head Rinky Hijikata vs. Blaise Bicknell
This will be the 3rd time that Rinky Hijikata and Blaise Bicknell clash against each other. The head to head is 2-0 for Hijikata (see full H2H stats), 1-0 on hard.
The last time that they played, Hijikata won 4-6 6-2 6-3 in the 1st round in the Acapulco Challenger back in 2024.
Rinky Hijikata
27 - 32win/loss
127
62
| 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 |
Ranked no. 127, Hijikata will start his run in the Sydney Challenger after he played his last match in the Brisbane 3 Challenger where he lost 6-4 6-2 to Matsuoka in the 1st round on the 11th of November.
Hijikata has an overall 27-32 win-loss record in 2025, 13-16 on hard (See FULL STATS).
The Australian’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 228-163 record. He has a positive 163-99 record on hard.
Previously in the Sydney Challenger
Previously, his best result was reaching the final in 2024. See his history.
Blaise Bicknell
25 - 20win/loss
513
306
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 25-20 | 22-12 | 3-7 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 12-17 | 9-10 | 3-7 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 34-16 | 22-9 | 12-7 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 29-22 | 13-10 | 15-9 | 1-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 12-9 | 8-6 | 4-2 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 513, Blaise reached the 1st round after defeating Noah Brownrigg 6-4 5-7 6-2
and Shinji Hazawa 3-6 7-6(5) 6-4.The Jamaican’s best result of the year was reaching the final in M25 Laval and M25 Champaign.
Bicknell has an overall 25-20 win-loss record in 2025, 22-12 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Sydney Challenger
Bicknell has never competed in this tournament before.
Tennis Scores in Sydney Challenger
- Tung-Lin WuWu – Marc PolmansPolmans (6-4 3-6 7-5) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Hayato MatsuokaMatsuoka – Bernard TomicTomic (6-4 ret.) – Stats, scores, rankings
- James DuckworthDuckworth – Moerani BouzigeBouzige (6-4 6-1) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Matthew DellavedovaDellavedova – Filip PeliwoPeliwo (6-2 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Carl Emil OverbeckEmil Overbeck – Jake DelaneyDelaney (6-3 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Carl Emil OverbeckEmil Overbeck – Jake DelaneyDelaney (6-3 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Dane SweenySweeny – Christian LangmoLangmo (2-0 ret.) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Tai SachSach – Rio NoguchiNoguchi (2-6 6-1 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Karan SinghSingh – Aryan ShahShah (7-62 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
- James McCabeMcCabe – Hiroki MoriyaMoriya (6-4 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
Upcoming matches in the draw
- James DuckworthDuckworth – Matthew DellavedovaDellavedova (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Jason Murray KublerMurray Kubler – Li TuTu (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Tung-Lin WuWu – Marc PolmansPolmans (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Blake EllisEllis – Shinji HazawaHazawa (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Takuya KumasakaKumasaka – Alex BoltBolt (0-0) – H2H and prediction