

What Time Will Rinky Hijikata Play Against Alejandro Davidovich Fokina?
Hijikata and Fokina are on the Day 1 Schedule at Us Open 2024 on Monday 26 August 2024. Lets breakdown the career, past stats and recent form of these players and predict who will get the victory.
Who Will Win In This Head-To-Head?
Rinky Hijikata and Alejandro Davidovich Fokina will be meeting for the first time on Court 7. Here are some career highlights for both players:
Rinky Hijikata:
– In August 2024, reached a career-high ranking of 62.
– Came back from a set down in three consecutive matches to reach the semifinals of the 2023 ‘s-Hertogenbosch ATP Tour.
– Won the 2023 Australian Open doubles title with Kubler, defeating [1] Koolhof/Skupski in the process.
– Also at the 2023 Australian Open, rallied from 2 sets down to win his first Grand Slam main draw singles match against Hanfmann.
– Won two Challenger singles titles on home soil: Playford in October 2022 and Burnie right after the 2023 Australian Open.
– Played college tennis at the University of North Carolina from 2020-21 and received All-American honors as a sophomore before turning pro.
Jessika Ponchet
Elena Gabriela Ruse
Jessica Bouzas Maneiro
Varvara Gracheva
Emma Navarro
Jelena Ostapenko
Ugo Humbert
Fabian Marozsan
Alejandro Davidovich Fokina
Andrey Rublev
Jule Niemeier
Jasmine Paolini
Alexander Zverev
Tallon Griekspoor
Stefanos Tsitsipas
Arthur Fils
Elina Svitolina
Anhelina Kalinina
Jaume Antoni Munar Clar
Karen Khachanov
Zizou Bergs
Diego Dedura-Palomero
Holger Rune
Casper Ruud
Jacob Fearnley
Alex De Minaur
Linda Fruhvirtova
Olga Danilovic
Moyuka Uchijima
Lois Boisson
Alejandro Davidovich Fokina:
– Reached a career-high ranking
of No. 21 in August 2023 and finished the year-end ranking at No. 26 for the eighth consecutive year in 2023.
– Broke Djokovic 9 times in a match at the 2022 ATP Masters 1000 Monte Carlo, setting a record for the most breaks of Djokovic in a best-of-3-set match and defeating the then-World No. 1 en route to his first ATP Tour final.
– Recorded victories over 2017 champion Zverev and No. 5 Ruud on his way to the semifinals of the 2023 ATP Masters 1000 Toronto.
– Reached his first Grand Slam quarterfinal at the 2021 Roland Garros and his first ATP Masters 1000 quarterfinal at the 2021 Monte Carlo, including a 5-set win over Ruud in the Roland Garros 3rd round.
– Ended his junior career as World No. 2 after winning the Wimbledon boys’ singles title and having a 20-1 record in 2017.
– Apart from tennis, he owns two cats and launched Adoptas.org in 2021, a pet adoption platform in Spain.
My Conclusion / Prediction:
My pick is that Hijikata will win.
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