Australian Open: Hijikata books spot against Tsitsipas in second round
Rinky Hijikata rallied to beat Yannick Hanfmann 4-6, 4-6, 6-3, 7-6 (5), 6-3 on Monday night. He’ll play Greek Stefanos Tsitsipas, the No 3 seed, in the next round
Rinky Hijikata US Open 2023 (Icon SMI/Panoramic)
Australian wildcard Rinky Hijikata moved into the second round of the Australian Open by eventually beating German qualifier Yannick Hanfmann 4-6, 4-6, 6-3, 7-6 (5), 6-3 at Melbourne Park on Monday night.
Hijikata, ranked No 169, will play Greek Stefanos Tsitsipas, the No 3 seed, next.
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- Tomas Machac vs. Casper Ruud
- Roberto Carballes Baena vs. Novak Djokovic
- Yu Hsiou Hsu vs. Alex De Minaur
- Denis Kudla vs. Roman Safiullin
- João Sousa vs. Roberto Bautista Agut
- Aleksandar Vukic vs. Brandon Holt
- Enzo Couacaud vs. Hugo Dellien
- Richard Gasquet vs. Ugo Humbert
- Christopher O’Connell vs. Jenson Brooksby
- Thanasi Kokkinakis vs. Fabio Fognini
- Juan Pablo Varillas vs. Alexander Zverev
- Chun-Hsin Tseng vs. Alexei Popyrin
- John Isner vs. Adrian Mannarino
- Jan-Lennard Struff vs. Tommy Paul
- Matteo Berrettini vs. Andy Murray
- David Goffin vs. Laurent Lokoli
- Ben Shelton vs. Zhizhen Zhang
- Taylor Fritz vs. Nikoloz Basilashvili
- Maxime Cressy vs. Albert Ramos-Vinolas
- Max Purcell vs. Emil Ruusuvuori
- Alejandro Davidovich Fokina vs. Alexander Bublik
- J.J. Wolf vs. Jordan Thompson
- Nicolas Jarry vs. Miomir Kecmanovic
- Pablo Carreno Busta vs. Pedro Cachin
- Filip Krajinovic vs. Holger Rune
- Diego Schwartzman vs. Oleksii Krutykh
- Zizou Bergs vs. Laslo Djere
- Grigor Dimitrov vs. Aslan Karatsev
- Mattia Bellucci vs. Benjamin Bonzi
- Facundo Bagnis vs. Daniel Evans
- Daniel Elahi Galan vs. Jeremy Chardy
- Andrey Rublev vs. Dominic Thiem
- Marcos Giron vs. Daniil Medvedev: monday
- Constant Lestienne beat Thiago Monteiro: 6-3, 7-6 (2), 6-3
- Lorenzo Musetti vs. Lloyd Harris: monday
- Stefanos Tsitsipas beat Quentin Halys: 6-3, 6-4, 7-6 (6)
- Vasek Pospisil vs. Felix Auger-Aliassime: monday
- Cameron Norrie (11) beat Luca Van Assche (WC): 7-6 (3), 6-0, 6-3
- Alex Molcan beat Stan Wawrinka: 6-7 (3), 6-3, 1-6, 7-6 (2), 6-4
- Marton Fucsovics beat Federico Coria: 4-6, 7-5, 2-6, 7-6 (6), 6-2
- Christopher Eubanks (WC) beat SoonWoo Kwon: 6-3, 6-7 (1), 6-3, 4-6, 6-4
- John Millman (WC) beat Marc-Andrea Huesler: 6-7 (8), 7-5, 6-7 (2), 6-2, 6-3
- Dalibor Svrcina (Q) beat Jaume Munar: 6-3, 6-2, 6-2
- Jiri Lehecka beat Borna Coric (21): 6-3, 6-3, 6-3
- Lorenzo Sonego beat Nuno Borges: 7-6 (4), 6-3, 6-7 (6), 6-1
- Jason Kubler (WC) beat Sebastian Baez: 6-4, 6-4, 6-4
- Taro Daniel beat Ernesto Escobedo (Q): 7-5, 6-2, 3-6, 6-3
- Rafael Nadal (1) beat Jack Draper: 7-5, 2-6, 6-4, 6-1
- Frances Tiafoe (16) beat Daniel Altmaier: 6-3, 6-3, 6-7 (5), 7-6 (6)
- Karen Khachanov (18) beat Bernabe Zapata Miralles: 7-6 (3), 6-2, 6-0
- Mackenzie McDonald beat Brandon Nakashima: 7-6 (5), 7-6 (1), 1-6, 6-7 (10), 6-4
- Tallon Griekspoor beat Pavel Kotov (LL): 6-3, 7-6 (3), 6-3
- Denis Shapovalov (20) beat Dusan Lajovic: 6-4, 4-6, 6-4, 6-1
- Yoshihito Nishioka (31) beat Mikael Ymer: 6-4, 6-2, 7-5
- Sebastian Korda (29) beat Cristian Garin: 6-4, 1-6, 6-3, 6-2
- Hubert Hurkacz (10) beat Pedro Martinez: 7-6 (1), 6-2, 6-2
- Corentin Moutet beat Yibing Wu (WC): 6-4, 5-7, 6-2, 4-6, 7-5
- Francisco Cerundolo (28) beat Guido Pella: 6-4, 6-4, 6-3
- Jannik Sinner (15) beat Kyle Edmund: 6-4, 6-0, 6-2
- Tomas Martin Etcheverry beat Gregoire Barrere: 3-6, 6-3, 6-4, 6-4
- Botic van de Zandschulp (32) beat Ilya Ivashka: 6-3, 3-6, 7-5, 6-3
- Yosuke Watanuki (Q) beat Arthur Rinderknech: 6-3, 6-3, 6-2
- Juncheng Shang (Q) beat Oscar Otte: 6-2, 6-4, 6-7 (2), 7-5
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