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Rinky Hijikata (born 23 February 2001) is an Australian tennis player. Following a successful career at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Hijikata went professional and has a career high ATP singles ranking of World No. 159 achieved on 31 October 2022.

Rinky Hijikata
Hijikata in 2022
Country (sports) Australia
ResidenceSydney, Australia
Born (2001-02-23) 23 February 2001 (age 21)
Sydney, Australia[1]
Height1.78 m (5 ft 10 in)
Turned pro2021
PlaysRight-handed (two-handed backhand)
Prize money$319,733
Singles
Career record1–3 (at ATP Tour level, Grand Slam level, and in Davis Cup)
Career titles0
Highest rankingNo. 159 (31 October 2022)
Current rankingNo. 159 (31 October 2022)
Grand Slam singles results
Australian OpenQ2 (2020, 2021, 2022)
WimbledonQ3 (2022)
US Open1R (2022)
Doubles
Career record1–2 (at ATP Tour level, Grand Slam level, and in Davis Cup)
Career titles0
Highest rankingNo. 254 (1 August 2022)
Current rankingNo. 285 (31 October 2022)
Grand Slam doubles results
Australian Open2R (2022)
Medal record
Boys' Tennis
Representing a mixed-NOCs team
Youth Olympic Games
2018 Buenos Aires Doubles
Last updated on: 31 October 2022.

Hijikata made his ATP main draw debut at the 2022 Melbourne Summer Set 1, after qualifying for the main draw. He also played doubles with Christopher O'Connell.


Personal life


Hijikata was born in Sydney, Australia to parents who emigrated from Japan.[2] He began playing tennis at age three or four. He attended The King's School in Sydney from 2013-2016.[3] His father is a tennis coach. His favourite player growing up was Lleyton Hewitt and later, Kei Nishikori.[4]


Career



2018–2020: Career beginnings


Hijikata in 2018
Hijikata in 2018

In March 2018, Hijikata made his ITF debut at the Australia F3 in Mornington, Australia. He won his first match the following week at the Australia F4.

In October 2018, Hijikata won silver at the Tennis at the 2018 Summer Youth Olympics – Boys' doubles, teaming with Bulgaria's Adrian Andreev.[5]

In January 2019, Hijikata was given a wildcard into the 2019 Australian Open – Men's singles qualifying. He lost in the first round to Australian Compatriot Cyrus Wong. In March, Hijikata reached the quarter-final and semi-finals in the ITF events in Mornington, Australia. Later that year, in September, Hijikata won his first professional singles title at the M15 Fayetteville, in Arkansas, United States.[6]

In January 2020, Hijikata was given a wildcard into the 2020 Australian Open – Men's singles qualifying, where he made the second round.

In February 2021, he was given a wildcard into the 2021 Australian Open – Men's singles qualifying and he made the second round.

Hijikata won his second and third ITF titles in July 2021 and claimed a total of four ITF Futures singles titles during 2021. He finished 2021 with a singles ranking of 369 as of 22 November 2021.


2022: ATP debut, Maiden ATP win and Challenger title, top 200


In January 2022, Hijikata made his ATP tour debut at the 2022 Melbourne Summer Set 1 after qualifying for the main draw. It was also Hijikata's first top 100 win, defeating world number 98 Henri Laaksonen in the final qualifying round.[7] He lost in the first round to eventual finalist, Maxime Cressy.

Hijikata lost in the second round of the 2022 Australian Open – Men's singles qualifying.[8][9]

In April, Hijikata broke into the ATP top 300 after winning consecutive ITF tournaments in California in March 2022.[10]

In August, he qualified for the 2022 Los Cabos Open and reached the round of 16 recording his first ATP win after the retirement of the Mexican wildcard debutant Rodrigo Pacheco Méndez. He lost to top seed and World No. 1 Daniil Medvedev who recorded his 250th match win.[11] As a result he moved one position shy of the top 200 on 8 August 2022. He won his maiden Challenger title in Playford, Australia and moved 33 positions up into the top 160 at world No. 159 on 31 October 2022. He became the youngest Australian to win a Challenger title since 2018, when the-then 19-year-old Alexei Popyrin won in Jinan, China.[12]


Awards


In 2018 and 2019, Hijikata won the Newcombe Medal for Male Junior Athlete of the Year.[13]


Performance timelines


Key
W  F  SF QF #R RR Q# P# DNQ A Z# PO G S B NMS NTI P NH
(W) winner; (F) finalist; (SF) semifinalist; (QF) quarterfinalist; (#R) rounds 4, 3, 2, 1; (RR) round-robin stage; (Q#) qualification round; (P#) preliminary round; (DNQ) did not qualify; (A) absent; (Z#) Davis/Fed Cup Zonal Group (with number indication) or (PO) play-off; (G) gold, (S) silver or (B) bronze Olympic/Paralympic medal; (NMS) not a Masters tournament; (NTI) not a Tier I tournament; (P) postponed; (NH) not held; (SR) strike rate (events won / competed); (W–L) win–loss record.
To avoid confusion and double counting, these charts are updated at the conclusion of a tournament or when the player's participation has ended.

Singles


Current through the 2022 Los Cabos Open.

Tournament201920202021 2022SRW–L
Grand Slam tournaments
Australian Open Q1 Q2 Q2 Q2 0 / 0 0–0
French Open A A A A 0 / 0 0–0
Wimbledon A NH A Q3 0 / 0 0–0
US Open A A A 1R 0 / 1 0–1
Win–loss 0–0 0–0 0–0 0–1 0 / 1 0–1
Career statistics
201920202021 2022Career
Tournaments 0 0 0 3 3
Titles 0 0 0 0 0
Finals 0 0 0 0 0
Overall win–loss 0–0 0–0 0–0 1–3 1–3
Year-end ranking 742 685 375 25%

Doubles


Current through the 2022 Australian Open.

Tournament 2022SRW–L
Grand Slam tournaments
Australian Open 2R 0 / 1 1–1
French Open A 0 / 0 0–0
Wimbledon A 0 / 0 0–0
US Open A 0 / 0 0–0
Win–loss 1–1 0 / 1 1–1
Career statistics
Tournaments 2 2
Overall win–loss 1–2 1–2
Year-end ranking 33%

ATP Challengers and ITF Futures/World Tennis Tour finals



Singles: 11 (8–3)


Legend (singles)
ATP Challenger Tour (1–0)
ITF Futures/World Tennis Tour (7–3)
Result W–L    Date    Tournament Tier Surface Opponent Score
Win 1–0 Sep 2019 M15 Fayetteville, USA World Tennis Tour Hard Nick Chappell 2-6, 6–2, 6-1
Win 2–0 Jul 2021 M15 Monastir, Tunisia World Tennis Tour Hard Valentin Vacherot 6-3, 6-1
Win 3–0 Jul 2021 M15 Edwardsville, USA World Tennis Tour Hard Strong Kirchheimer 6-3, 6-1
Win 4–0 Sep 2021 M25 Sierre, Switzerland World Tennis Tour Clay Oliver Crawford 7-6, 6-1
Loss 4–1 Oct 2021 M25 Setúbal, Portugal World Tennis Tour Hard Arthur Cazaux 5-7, 0-6
Win 5–1 Oct 2021 M25 Calabasas, USA World Tennis Tour Hard Tristan Boyer 3-6, 7–6, 6-2
Loss 5–2 Mar 2022 M25 Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic World Tennis Tour Hard Geoffrey Blancaneaux 6-3, 2-6 2–6
Win 6–2 Mar 2022 M25 Bakersfield, USA World Tennis Tour Hard Keegan Smith 6–1, 7–5
Win 7–2 Mar 2022 M25 Calabasas, USA World Tennis Tour Hard Charles Broom 7–5, 6–2
Loss 7–3 Aug 2022 M25 Columbus, USA World Tennis Tour Hard Murphy Cassone 3–6, 0–6
Win 8–3 Oct 2022 Playford, Australia Challenger Hard Rio Noguchi 6–1, 6–1

Doubles: 3 (2–1)

Legend (doubles)
ATP Challenger Tour (0–0)
ITF Futures/World Tennis Tour (2–1)
Result W–L    Date    Tournament Tier Surface Partner Opponents Score
Loss 0–1 July 2021 Monastir, Tunisia M15 Hard Kody Pearson Jacob Brumm
August Holmgren		 5-7 6-7
Win 1–1 October 2021 Loulé, Portugal M25 Hard Mick Veldheer Gonçalo Falcão
Tomás Lipovšek Puches		 6-2, 6–3
Win 2–1 February 2022 Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic M25 Hard Henry Patten Hsu Yu-hsiou
Wu Tung-lin		 2–6, 7–6(7–4), [10–3]

ITF World Tennis Tour Juniors

Singles: 4 (2 titles, 2 runners-up)

Legend
Category GA (0–0)
Category G1 (0–2)
Category G2 (1–0)
Category G3 (1–0)
Category G4 (0–0)
Category G5 (0–0)
Result W–L    Date    Tournament Category Surface Opponent Score
Win 1–0 Oct 2017 30th Sarawak Chief Minister's Cup, Malaysia Category G3 Hard Digvijay Pratap Singh 7–6(7–5), 6–3
Win 2–0 Aug 2018 Oceania Closed Junior Championships, Fiji Category G2 Hard Tristan Schoolkate 6–2, 6–4
Loss 2–1 Sep 2018 Les Internationaux de Tennis Junior Banque Nationale du Canada, Canada Category G1 Hard Hugo Gaston 3–6, 4–6
Loss 2–2 Nov 2018 2018 Seogwipo Asia/Oceania Closed Junior Championships, South Korea Category G1 Hard Bu Yunchaokete 3–6, 1–6

Doubles: 10 (6 title, 4 runners-up)

Legend
Category GA (0–1)
Category G1 (3–2)
Category G2 (1–0)
Category G3 (1–1)
Category G4 (1–0)
Category G5 (0–0)
Result W–L    Date    Tournament Category Surface Partner Opponents Score
Loss 0–1 Feb 2017 NZ ITF Summer Championships 2017, New Zealand Category G3 Hard Kody Pearson Thomas Bosancic

Benard Bruno Nkomba

 3–6, 0–6
Win 1–1 Aug 2017 AS Open 2017, Slovenia Category G4 Clay Dane Sweeny Brian Bencic

Nemanja Malesevic

 6–4, 6–3
Win 2–1 Sep 2017 3rd Torneo Internazionale Junior "Citta' Di Palermo", Italy Category G3 Clay Dane Sweeny Daniil Glinka

Roberts Grinvalds

 6–1, 6–4
Loss 2–2 Jan 2018 AGL Loy Yang Traralgon Junior International, Australia Category G1 Hard Taisei Ichikawa Wojciech Marek

Tseng Chun-hsin

 6–7(1–7), 4–6
Loss 2–3 Jun 2018 54th Astrid Bowl Charleroi, Belgium Category G1 Clay Naoki Tajima Pavel Shumeiko

Henri Squire

 6–7(5–7), 3–6
Win 3–3 Jun 2018 26th Internat. Nürnberger Versicherungs-ITF-Junior Tournament, Germany Category G1 Clay Yannik Steinegger Filip Cristian Jianu

Tao Mu

 6–3, 2–6, [10-7]
Win 4–3 Aug 2018 Oceania Closed Junior Championships, Fiji Category G2 Hard Ken Cavrak Cihan Akay

Nikita Volonski

 6–4, 6–3
Loss 4–4 Oct 2018 Youth Olympic Games, Argentina Category GA Clay Adrian Andreev Sebastián Báez

Facundo Diaz Acosta

 4–6, 4–6
Win 5–4 Nov 2018 2018 Seogwipo Asia/Oceania Closed Junior Championships, South Korea Category G1 Hard Chen Dong Stefan Storch

Dane Sweeny

 6–3, 6–4
Win 6–4 Jan 2019 J1 Traralgon, Australia Category J1 Hard Otto Virtanen Jiří Lehečka

Wojciech Marek

 6–0, 6–3

References

  1. "Rinky Hijikata Bio at ATP". ATP. Retrieved 3 January 2022.
  2. "Rinky Hijikata Relishing Rafael Nadal Clash At US Open | ATP Tour | Tennis". ATP Tour.
  3. "Rinky Hijikata". LinkedIn. Archived from the original on 22 September 2022. Retrieved 30 August 2022.
  4. "GETTING TO KNOW: RINKY HIJIKATA". Tennis Australia. 25 August 2020. Retrieved 3 January 2022.
  5. "HIJIKATA WINS SILVER AT YOUTH OLYMPIC". Tennis Australia. 15 October 2018. Retrieved 3 January 2022.
  6. "AUSTRALIAN TEEN CELEBRATES FIRST TITLE". ITF. 23 September 2019. Retrieved 3 January 2022.
  7. "HIJIKATA SCORES FIRST TOP-100 WIN TO QUALIFY AT MELBOURNE SUMMER SET". Tennis Australia. 4 January 2022. Retrieved 8 January 2022.
  8. "Fourteen Aussie Men to Contest Australian Open 2022 Qualifying". Tennis Australia. 10 January 2022. Retrieved 12 January 2022.
  9. "Eight Aussies Ready to Continue Australian Open 2022 Qualifying Quests". Tennis Australia. 12 January 2022. Retrieved 12 January 2022.
  10. "RANKING MOVERS: SAVILLE, KOKKINAKIS AND KYRGIOS CONTINUE RESURGENCES". Tennis Australia. 4 April 2022. Retrieved 5 April 2022.
  11. "Daniil Medvedev Earns 250th Win in los Cabos Debut | ATP Tour | Tennis".
  12. https://www.atptour.com/en/news/hijikata-gojo-win-maiden-atp-challenger-tour-titles
  13. "Honour Roll". Tennis Australia. Retrieved 3 January 2022.

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Rinky Hijikata (* 23. Februar 2001 in Sydney, New South Wales) ist ein australischer Tennisspieler.
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