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·250·HardRinky Hijikata defeated Raphael Collignon 3-6, 7(9)-6(7), 7(7)-6(5) — Winston-Salem Open 2026 R32.
Raphael Collignon and Rinky Hijikata: Rinky Hijikata leads 1–0 across 1 recorded meeting.
Fifth-seeded Collignon won 125 of the 241 points and 18 of the 33 games in Winston-Salem, a 53 percent favorite in the betting market who is out of the draw anyway. The serving split explains it: Hijikata landed 80 percent of his first serves to the No. 38's 50, and four of Collignon's eight double faults came in the closing set. That set swung twice, Hijikata breaking in game 7 for 5-2 before Collignon broke back in game 10 to force the tiebreak. Three hours and nine minutes puts the 95th-ranked Hijikata into the round of 16, with a hard-court season that had been sitting at 9-9.