Rinky Hijikata

• 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
• Made his Olympic debut at Paris 2024

• 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

2019 Fayetteville ITF