Rinky Hijikata and Dane Sweeny will clash against each other in the final of the Playford Challenger for the 3^rd time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Sunday at 1:00 pm on CENTRE COURT. In the following lines 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 3 sets.

As per the initial odds, Rinky Hijikata is the pick to win this match.
Rinky Hijikata -> 1.41
Dane Sweeny -> 2.64

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Prediction and head to head Rinky Hijikata vs. Dane Sweeny

This will be the 3^rd time that Rinky Hijikata and Dane Sweeny face off. The head to head is 2-0 for Hijikata (see full H2H stats), 1-0 on hard.

The last time that they played each other, Hijikata won 6-4 6-3 in the 2^nd round in the Playford Challenger back in 2024.

Rinky Hijikata

Ranked no. 125, the Australian reached the final after beating Takuya Kumasaka 6-2 6-0

, Tai Sach 6-3 6-2, James McCabe 7-6(2) 6-2 and Alex Bolt 6-3 6-3.

In the semifinal, Hijikata had a good straight sets win against Bolt (6-3 6-3). During the match, Hijikata scored 73 points vs Bolt’s 58. The Australian was pretty aggressive to blast 35 winners.

Regarding the service games, Hijikata recorded 7 aces and he committed only 1 double fault. Rinky Hijikata lost the serve twice and he saved 9 break points. Furthermore, Hijikata put 72% of his first serves in, winning 73% (35/48) of the points behind his 1st serve and 26% (5/19) on the 2nd serve. Hijikata broke Bolt 5 times after converting 71% of his break points (5/7).

Overall Performance in this tournament

Hijikata hasn’t lost yet a set in this competition to conquer 58% of the points he played.

Hijikata has a winning record in the last 9 years having won 59% of his matches (234-164). 19-17 on hard in 2025. In connection with his performance on the same surface of this competition, Hijikata has an overall169-100 record in the last 9 years on hard.

The Australian’s best result of the current season was reaching the semifinal in the Bordeaux Challenger,the Birmingham Challenger and the Playford Challenger.

Hijikata has a compiled 33-33 win-loss record in 2025, 19-17 on hard (See FULL STATS).

Previously in the Playford Challenger

Dane Sweeny

Ranked no. 209, the Australian got to the final after defeating Finn Bass 3-6 6-1 6-3, Hikaru Shiraishi 6-2 6-4, Philip Sekulic 6-2 6-4 and James Duckworth 7-6(6) 5-7 7-6(5).

In the semifinal, The Australian defeated Duckworth (7-6⁶ 5-7 7-6⁵). During the match Sweeny scored 131 points vs Duckworth’s 125. The Australian was pretty aggressive to blast 59 winners.

About the serving games, Sweeny managed to score 3 aces and he committed only 2 double faults. Overall, Dane Sweeny was pretty efficient on serve to win 71% (59/83) of his 1st serve and 62% (24/39) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve 3 times. Dane broke Duckworth twice after converting 20% of his break points (2/10).

Overall Performance in this tournament

The Australian has conceded 2 set in the tournament to win 54% of the points he played.

The Australian’s best result of the year was reaching the final in M25 Swan Hill,M15 Los Angeles,M15 San Diego,M15 Brisbane,M25 Taipei,M25 Tamworth,M25 Perth and M25 Brisbane.

Sweeny has a composed 78-25 win-loss record in 2025, 71-23 on hard (See FULL STATS).

Previously in the Playford Challenger

Previously, his best result was reaching the 2^nd round in 2019, 2022 and 2024. See his history.

H2H Performance in the tournament (main draw)

Matches, sets, games and points

Points	Hijikata	Sweeny
Match played	4	4
Tot Set	8	10
Tot Games	70	99
Pts	262-189	354-306
Total Points	451	660
Winners	113	147
%Winners	43%	42%

Both Hijikata and Sweeny played 4 matches. At the moment, Dane Sweeny dropped 2 sets while Rinky Hijikata hasn’t surrendered a set so far. Hijikata has played 2 set(s) less than Sweeny (8 vs 10). Therefore, Hijikata played 29 games less than Sweeny. Rinky scored 113 winners (43% of the total points). On the other side, Sweeny blasted 147 winners (42%).

Serve Performance

Serve	Hijikata	Sweeny
Aces	11	15
Avg per match	2.8	3.8
1st in	151/232	207/318
%1st in	65%	65%
1st pts	113/151	147/207
%1st pts	75%	71%
2nd pts	43/81	66/111
%2nd pts	53%	59%

Hijikata bagged 11 aces (2.8 per match). Sweeny scored 15 aces (3.8 per match). Hijikata won 75% points on his first serve. He was rock solid on his second serve to win 53% of the points. On the other side, Sweeny won 71% of the points on his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 59% of the points.

How they played the important points

Breaks	Hijikata	Sweeny
Won	16	14
Converted	16/27	14/38
% Converted	59%	37%
Conceded	14	25
Saved	11	18
% Saved	79%	72%
Times Broken	3	7

The Australian broke his opponents 16 times with a 59% conversion rate. Hijikata surrendered his serve 3 times and he saved 79% of the break points that he conceded. Sweeny broke his opponents 14 times with a 37% conversion rate. Sweeny conceded his serve 7 times and he saved 72% of the break points that he conceded.

Hijikata
	R1 Kumasaka	R2 Sach	1/4 McCabe	1/2 Bolt	Total
Score	6-2 6-0	6-3 6-2	7-62 6-2	6-3 6-3
Tot Set	2	2	2	2	8
Tot Games	14	17	21	18	70
pts	55-33	63-45	71-53	73-58	262-189
Total points	88	108	124	131	451
Winners	22	26	30	35	113
%Winners	40%	41%	42%	48%	43%
SERVE
Aces	1	2	1	7	11
Double Faults	4	2	2	1	9
1st in	28/48	39/60	36/57	48/67	151/232
% 1st in	58%	65%	63%	72%	65%
1st pts	22/28	26/39	30/36	35/48	113/151
% 1st pts	79%	67%	83%	73%	75%
2nd pts	10/20	13/21	15/21	5/19	43/81
% 2nd pts	50%	62%	71%	26%	53%
Breaks
Won	5	4	2	5	16
Converted	5/8	4/8	2/4	5/7	16/27
Converted %	63%	50%	50%	71%	59%
Conceded	1	2	0	11	14
Saved	1/1	1/2	0/0	9/11	11
Saved %	100%	50%	–	82%	58%
Times Broken	0	1	0	2	3

Sweeny
	R1 Bass	R2 Shiraishi	1/4 Sekulic	1/2 Duckworth	Total
Score	3-6 6-1 6-3	6-2 6-4	6-2 6-4	7-66 5-7 7-65
Tot Set	3	2	2	3	10
Tot Games	25	18	18	38	99
pts	77-66	74-63	72-52	131-125	354-306
Total points	143	137	124	256	660
Winners	34	32	22	59	147
%Winners	44%	43%	31%	45%	42%
SERVE
Aces	5	3	4	3	15
Double Faults	0	6	1	2	9
1st in	47/77	47/72	30/47	83/122	207/318
% 1st in	61%	65%	64%	68%	65%
1st pts	34/47	32/47	22/30	59/83	147/207
% 1st pts	72%	68%	73%	71%	71%
2nd pts	17/30	12/25	13/17	24/39	66/111
% 2nd pts	57%	48%	76%	62%	59%
Breaks
Won	4	4	4	2	14
Converted	4/7	4/7	4/14	2/10	14/38
Converted %	57%	57%	29%	20%	37%
Conceded	4	12	1	8	25
Saved	2/4	11/12	0/1	5/8	18
Saved %	50%	92%	0%	63%	51%
Times Broken	2	1	1	3	7

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