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

 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

Titles/Finals

Titles

2019 Fayetteville ITF