Rinky Hijikata

2018–2021: Pro beginnings

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.^[8]

In January 2019, Hijikata was given a wildcard into the 2019 Australian Open – Men's singles qualifying. He lost in the first round to Hiroki Moriya. In March, Hijikata reached the quarterfinals and semifinals 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.^[9]

Hijikata received wildcards into qualifying for the Australian Open in both 2020 and 2021, losing in the second round both times.

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

2022: ATP & Major debut, Maiden win & 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.^[10] He lost in the first round to eventual finalist, Maxime Cressy. He also played doubles with Christopher O'Connell.

Hijikata lost in the second round of the 2022 Australian Open – Men's singles qualifying.^[11][12]

In April, Hijikata broke into the ATP top 300 after winning consecutive ITF tournaments in California in March 2022.^[13]

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.^[14] As a result, he moved one position shy of the top 200 on 8 August 2022. He made his Grand Slam debut at the US Open as a wildcard.

Hijikata 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.^[15]

2023: Major doubles title & top 25, Masters singles debut & top 75

Hijikata was given a wildcard into the Australian Open, where he recorded his first Grand Slam win by defeating Yannick Hanfmann in a come-from-behind victory.^[16] He lost in the second round to third seed Stefanos Tsitsipas. Pairing with Jason Kubler in the men's doubles event, they won the title after defeating three seeded teams en route; sixth seeds Lloyd Glasspool and Harri Heliövaara in the second round, saved a match point in the third round against Tomislav Brkić and Gonzalo Escobar,^[17][18] top seeds and world No. 1 doubles pair Wesley Koolhof and Neal Skupski in the quarterfinals,^[19] and eighth seeds Marcel Granollers and Horacio Zeballos in the semifinals.^[20][21] They went on to defeat Hugo Nys and Jan Zieliński in the final, becoming the second consecutive all-Australian champions at the event.^[22][23]

At the 2023 Delray Beach Open he reached the semifinals in doubles partnering American Reese Stalder and defeating second seeded pair of Jamie Murray and Michael Venus in the quarterfinals.^[24][25] He reached the final defeating Mexican duo Hans Hach Verdugo and Miguel Ángel Reyes-Varela.

He made his Masters 1000 debut in Indian Wells as a qualifier, and defeated Mikael Ymer in the first round in straight sets. He lost in the second round to 30th seed Sebastián Báez.^[26]

At the Rosmalen Grass Court Championships he entered the main draw as a lucky loser for his debut on grass and won his first match defeating wildcard Gijs Brouwer.^[27] He then defeated Marc-Andrea Hüsler from a set down to reach his first ATP tour level quarterfinal.^[28] Again from a set down, he beat Mackenzie McDonald to reach his first semifinal at ATP tour level.^[29][30]

He reached the fourth round of the 2023 US Open having received a wildcard, defeating Pavel Kotov, Márton Fucsovics^[31] and Zhang Zhizhen.^[32][33] As a result, he made his top 100 debut in the rankings at world No. 82 climbing 28 spots on 11 September 2023.^[34][35] He qualified on his debut at the 2023 Rolex Shanghai Masters and defeated Laslo Djere in the first round. At the same tournament he reached the semifinals partnering Cameron Norrie.^[36][37] At the 2023 Japan Open Tennis Championships he won his second doubles title with compatriot Max Purcell. As a result, he reached the top 25 in doubles on 23 October 2023.^[38][39][40]

2024: First win on clay, ATP 500 debut & quarterfinal, top 65

Hijikata started the year off with a quarterfinal appearance at the 2024 Brisbane International, defeating fellow Australian Thanasi Kokkinakis and Tomáš Macháč before being defeated by eventual champion Grigor Dimitrov.

At the 2024 Dallas Open, Hijikata made it to his fourth doubles final alongside William Blumberg, losing to Max Purcell and Jordan Thompson.^[41] He reached his third ATP quarterfinal at the 2024 Delray Beach Open a defeat over Liam Broady and an upset over sixth seed Matteo Arnaldi. At the 2024 Los Cabos Open he again upset the sixth seed, this time Miomir Kecmanović.^[42] At the 2024 U.S. Men's Clay Court Championships he recorded his first clay court win over fifth seed Christopher Eubanks.^[43]

At the 2024 Libéma Open he lost to compatriot Alexei Popyrin in singles, while he reached the quarterfinals in doubles. At the 2024 Queen's Club Championships, where he made his ATP 500 main draw debut as a qualifier, he defeated Frances Tiafoe by retirement and Matteo Arnaldi to reach his second grass court quarterfinal.^[44]

In doubles at the 2024 Wimbledon Championships, Hijikata partnered fellow Australian John Peers. The pair defeated Jamie Murray and Andy Murray in the first round, which was the latter's final appearance at Wimbledon.^[45]

On his debut at the 2024 National Bank Open in Montreal he qualified for the main draw and recorded his first win at the tournament and only his second at a Masters level over qualifier Taro Daniel. As a result, he reached the top 65 in the rankings on 12 August 2024^[46] and No. 62 two weeks later, after advancing to his fourth ATP quarterfinal of the season at the 2024 Winston-Salem Open.^[47]

2025–2026: Wimbledon doubles finalist, Masters fourth round, top 10 win

At the 2025 Wimbledon Championships Hijikata reached the final with David Pel as alternate pair, defeating third seeds Kevin Krawietz and Tim Pütz^[48] and top seeds and world No. 1 duo Marcelo Arévalo and Mate Pavić en route.^[49] They lost the championship match to fifth seeds Julian Cash and Lloyd Glasspool.^[50]

At the 2026 BNP Paribas Open Hijikata qualified for the main draw and reached the third round of a Masters 1000 for the first time in his career defeating 20th seed Luciano Darderi.^[51] He went one step further to reach the fourth round and defeated top 10 player Alexander Bublik, his first top-10 win. As a result, Hijikata returned to the top 100 in the singles live rankings.^[52]

Singles

Current through the 2026 Indian Wells Open.

Doubles

Doubles: 2 (1 title, 1 runner-up)

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Result	Year	Tournament	Surface	Partner	Opponents	Score
Win	2023	Australian Open	Hard	Jason Kubler	Hugo Nys Jan Zieliński	6–4, 7–6(7–4)
Loss	2025	Wimbledon	Grass	David Pel	Julian Cash Lloyd Glasspool	2–6, 6–7(3–7)

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Doubles: 5 (2 titles, 3 runner-ups)

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Result	W–L	Date	Tournament	Tier	Surface	Partner	Opponents	Score
Win	1–0	Jan 2023	Australian Open, Australia	Grand Slam	Hard	Jason Kubler	Hugo Nys Jan Zieliński	6–4, 7–6(7–4)
Loss	1–1	Feb 2023	Delray Beach Open, US	ATP 250	Hard	Reese Stalder	Marcelo Arévalo Jean-Julien Rojer	3–6, 4–6
Win	2–1	Oct 2023	Japan Open, Japan	ATP 500	Hard	Max Purcell	Jamie Murray Michael Venus	6–4, 6–1
Loss	2–2	Feb 2024	Dallas Open, US	ATP 250	Hard (i)	William Blumberg	Max Purcell Jordan Thompson	4–6, 6–2, [8–10]
Loss	2–3	Jul 2025	Wimbledon, UK	Grand Slam	Grass	David Pel	Julian Cash Lloyd Glasspool	2–6, 6–7(3–7)

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Singles: 6 (4 titles, 2 runner-ups)

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Result	W–L	Date	Tournament	Tier	Surface	Opponent	Score
Win	1–0	Oct 2022	Playford Tennis International, Australia	Challenger	Hard	Rio Noguchi	6–1, 6–1
Win	2–0	Feb 2023	Burnie International, Australia	Challenger	Hard	James Duckworth	6–3, 6–3
Loss	2–1	Sep 2023	Cary Challenger II, US	Challenger	Hard	Zachary Svajda	6–7(3–7), 6–4, 1–6
Win	3–1	Oct 2024	Playford Tennis International, Australia (2)	Challenger	Hard	Yuta Shimizu	6–4, 7–6(7–4)
Loss	3–2	Oct 2024	NSW Open, Australia	Challenger	Hard	Thanasi Kokkinakis	1–6, 1–6
Win	4–2	Nov 2025	Playford Tennis International, Australia (3)	Challenger	Hard	Dane Sweeny	6–0, 6–7(8–10), 6–4

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Doubles: 4 (3 titles, 1 runner-up)

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Result	W–L	Date	Tournament	Tier	Surface	Partner	Opponents	Score
Win	1–0	Sep 2023	Cary Challenger II, US	Challenger	Hard	Andrew Harris	William Blumberg Luis David Martínez	6–4, 3–6, [10–6]
Loss	1–1	Mar 2024	Arizona Tennis Classic, US	Challenger	Hard	Henry Patten	Sadio Doumbia Fabien Reboul	3–6, 2–6
Win	2–1	Oct 2025	Sioux Falls Challenger, US	Challenger	Hard (i)	Mac Kiger	Andrew Fenty Juan José Bianchi	6–4, 6–4
Win	3–1	Nov 2025	NSW Open, Australia	Challenger	Hard	Marc Polmans	Calum Puttergill Dane Sweeny	6–0, 6–4

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Singles: 10 (7 titles, 3 runner-ups)

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Result	W–L	Date	Tournament	Tier	Surface	Opponent	Score
Win	1–0	Sep 2019	M15 Fayetteville, US	WTT	Hard	Nick Chappell	2–6, 6–2, 6–1
Win	2–0	Jul 2021	M15 Monastir, Tunisia	WTT	Hard	Valentin Vacherot	6–3, 6–1
Win	3–0	Jul 2021	M15 Edwardsville, US	WTT	Hard	Strong Kirchheimer	6–3, 6–1
Win	4–0	Sep 2021	M25 Sierre, Switzerland	WTT	Clay	Oliver Crawford	7–6, 6–1
Loss	4–1	Oct 2021	M25 Setúbal, Portugal	WTT	Hard	Arthur Cazaux	5–7, 0–6
Win	5–1	Oct 2021	M25 Calabasas, US	WTT	Hard	Tristan Boyer	3–6, 7–5, 6–2
Loss	5–2	Mar 2022	M25 Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic	WTT	Hard	Geoffrey Blancaneaux	6–3, 2–6, 2–6
Win	6–2	Mar 2022	M25 Bakersfield, US	WTT	Hard	Keegan Smith	6–1, 7–5
Win	7–2	Mar 2022	M25 Calabasas, US	WTT	Hard	Charles Broom	7–5, 6–2
Loss	7–3	Aug 2022	M25 Columbus, US	WTT	Hard	Murphy Cassone	3–6, 0–6

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Doubles: 3 (2 titles, 1 runner-up)

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Result	W–L	Date	Tournament	Tier	Surface	Partner	Opponents	Score
Loss	0–1	Jul 2021	M15 Monastir, Tunisia	WTT	Hard	Kody Pearson	Jacob Brumm August Holmgren	5–7, 6–7
Win	1–1	Oct 2021	M25 Loulé, Portugal	WTT	Hard	Mick Veldheer	Gonçalo Falcão Tomás Lipovšek Puches	6–2, 6–3
Win	2–1	Feb 2022	M25 Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic	WTT	Hard	Henry Patten	Hsu Yu-hsiou Wu Tung-lin	2–6, 7–6(7–4), [10–3]

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Singles: 4 (2–2)

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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

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Doubles: 10 (6–4)

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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 Díaz 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

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