PLAYER PROFILE
Rinky Hijikata
6
AUSTRALIAN
RANKING
RANKING
77
ATP
RANKING
RANKING
- Age23
- Born23 February 2001
- Birth PlaceSydney, New South Wales
- LivesWilloughby, New South Wales
- PlaysRight-handed
- CoachJarrad Bunt
“"I said at the French (Open) that I felt like I was in for a big result and I just had to kind of keep plugging away at it."”
— Rinky Hijikata, 20 Jun 2024
» Hijikata hits new heights at Queen’s Club
On court
- Selected to represent Australia at the Longines Future Tennis Aces tournament in Paris, 2013
- Represented Australia at the 2018 Youth Olympic Games, where he won a silver medal in doubles with Adrian Andreev
- Competed at all four junior Grand Slam events in 2018, making the quarterfinals of the Australian Open and the doubles semifinals at Wimbledon
- Cracked the ITF world junior top 15 in November 2018
- Named Junior Male Athlete of the Year at the 2018 Newcombe Medal, Australian Tennis Awards
- Favourite surface is Plexicushion
- Trains at the Sydney Olympic Park Tennis Centre in Homebush, NSW
- Hero is Japan’s Kei Nishikori
- Goal is to hopefully win a Grand Slam title and represent Australia in Davis Cup
- Named as orange boy for the 2021 Davis Cup Finals
- Won first ATP Challenger title at Playford in October 2022
- Won the Australian Open 2023 men’s doubles title with Jason Kubler as wildcards. Hijikata was ranked No.277 at the time and contesting only his third tour-level doubles tournament
- Made the fourth round in singles at US Open 2023 as a wildcard
- Broke into the world’s top 100 in singles for the first time in September 2023.
Off court
- Enjoys tennis because “you can travel the world and meet new friends”
- Five words that sum up Hijikata: cheeky, smart, funny, tough and focused
- Favourite city is New York because “there are heaps of fun things to do and fun places to visit”
- Favourite food is fish and Japanese
- If not a tennis player he would be a baseball player or a doctor
Year-end ranking history
2023 | 71 |
2022 | 166 |
2021 | 369 |
2020 | 677 |
2019 | 746 |
2018 | 1745 |
Titles/Finals
Titles
2019 Fayetteville ITF
Rinky Hijikata in the news
Aussies face tough test at Paris Olympics
26 July, 2024
The nine Australian tennis players at the Paris 2024 Olympic Games have discovered their first-round opponents.
Read moreThe nine Australian tennis players at the Paris 2024 Olympic Games have discovered their first-round opponents.
Five days to go: All you need to know about the Olympic Tennis event
22 July, 2024
The nine-person Australian tennis team have started to arrive in the Olympic Village ahead of the Paris 2024 Olympic Tennis event, staged on clay at Roland Garros from…
Read moreThe nine-person Australian tennis team have started to arrive in the Olympic Village ahead of the Paris 2024 Olympic Tennis event, staged on clay at Roland Garros from…
Australian men accomplish 42-year rankings first
15 July, 2024
There are 10 Australians inside the world's top 100 in the ATP Tour singles rankings for the first time since January 1982.
Read moreThere are 10 Australians inside the world's top 100 in the ATP Tour singles rankings for the first time since January 1982.
Thompson’s chance to achieve 45-year first at Wimbledon 2024
13 July, 2024
Jordan Thompson is aiming to become the seventh different Australian to win a Grand Slam men's doubles title in the past three years.
Read moreJordan Thompson is aiming to become the seventh different Australian to win a Grand Slam men's doubles title in the past three years.