Rinky Hijikata

Biography

Rinky Hijikata was born on February 23, 2001 in Sydney to Japanese immigrant parents; his father works as a tennis coach. He is right-handed and stands 178 cm tall. He studied at The King's School in Sydney, then spent a year at the University of North Carolina, playing for the Tar Heels college team before turning professional.

As a junior, he rose to No. 9 in the ITF world rankings (2018) and won silver in doubles at the Youth Olympic Games alongside Bulgaria's Adrian Andreev. He began his professional career in 2018, and by 2022 had won several ITF titles and his first Challenger crown, in Playford.

In January 2023, at the Australian Open, he won a Grand Slam doubles title alongside compatriot Jason Kubler, beating Hugo Nys and Jan Zielinski in the final; along the way, the pair defeated top seeds Wesley Koolhof and Neal Skupski. That same year, Hijikata added an ATP title in Tokyo with Max Purcell and reached the fourth round in singles at the US Open, cracking the top 100 for the first time.

He reached his career-high singles ranking of No. 62 in August 2024, the same month he made the quarterfinals in Winston-Salem. In the summer of 2025, at Wimbledon, alongside the Netherlands' David Pel, he reached the doubles final, defeating the world's top pair Marcelo Arévalo and Mate Pavic along the way, but lost to Lloyd Glasspool and Julian Cash. In the spring of 2026, at the Masters event in Indian Wells, he reached the fourth round of a tournament at that level for the first time in his career, picking up his first win over a top-10 player, Alexander Bublik.

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