Nao Hibino and Timea Babos will square off in the qualifications of the Qatar TotalEnergies Open for the 2nd time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Saturday at 2:00 pm on Grandstand 2. In the following paragraphs, you can find the head to head analysis and prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Timea Babos who should win in 3 sets.
As per the initial odds, Timea Babos is the pick to win this match.
Timea Babos -> 1.7
Nao Hibino -> 2.07
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Prediction and head to head Nao Hibino vs. Timea Babos
This will be the 2nd time that Nao Hibino and Timea Babos clash against each other. The head to head is 1-0 for Babos (see full H2H stats), 1-0 on hard.
The last time that they played, Babos won 7-5 6-0 in the 1st round in the Vancouver.
Nao Hibino
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 14-14 | 12-10 | 0-4 | 2-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 40-30 | 26-19 | 9-7 | 1-1 | 4-3 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 36-29 | 26-19 | 7-8 | 3-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 7-21 | 1-9 | 5-8 | 0-0 | 1-4 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 13-10 | 9-7 | 4-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 93, the Japanese reached the qualifications after defeating Mai Hontama 6-4 6-2.
In the qualifications, Hibino had a good straight sets win against Hontama (6-4 6-2). During the match, Hibino scored 71 points vs Hontama’s 52. Hibino was very aggressive to blast 28 winners.
Regarding the service games, Hibino scored just 1 ace and she was quite consistent in conceding no double faults. Nao Hibino lost the serve 3 times and she saved 1 break points. Furthermore, Hibino put 72% of her first serves in, winning 72% (28/39) of the points behind her 1st serve and 33% (5/15) on the 2nd serve. Nao broke Hontama 6 times after converting 50% of her break points (6/12).
Hibino has favorable match record in the last 10 years having won 54% of her matches (279-239). 4-5 on hard in 2024. Talking about her performance on the same surface of this tournament, Hibino has an overall 209-164 record in the last years on hard.
Nao has an aggregate 4-5 win-loss record in 2024, 4-5 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in Doha
Timea Babos
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 13-10 | 4-4 | 6-5 | 3-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 36-18 | 18-10 | 18-6 | 0-1 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 24-26 | 14-11 | 8-14 | 0-0 | 2-1 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 18-18 | 6-5 | 1-6 | 10-5 | 1-2 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 5-13 | 3-8 | 1-2 | 1-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 182, Babos reached the qualifications after defeating Ekaterina Makarova (1996) 6-2 6-2.
In the qualifications, Babos had a good straight sets win against Makarova (1996) (6-2 6-2). During the match Babos scored 65 points vs Makarova (1996)’s 46. Timea was extremely aggressive to blast 23 winners.
Talking about serving, Babos struck 2 aces and she was quite consistent in conceding no double faults for the entire match. Timea Babos lost the serve twice and she saved 1 break points. Furthermore, Babos put 67% of her first serves in, winning 66% (23/35) of the points behind her 1st serve and 47% (8/17) on the 2nd serve. Timea broke Makarova (1996) 6 times after converting 60% of her break points (6/10).
The Hungarian has an aggregate 3-2 win-loss record in 2024, 3-2 on hard (See FULL STATS).
H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Hibino | Babos |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 1 | 1 |
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 |
| Tot Games | 18 | 16 |
| Pts | 71-52 | 65-46 |
| Total Points | 123 | 111 |
| Winners | 28 | 23 |
| %Winners | 39% | 35% |
Both Hibino and Babos played 1 match. Also both players started their run from the qualifications.Both players have not conceded a single set in this event so far. Talking about their workload, Hibino and Babos have played the same amount of sets 2. However, Hibino played 2 games more than Babos. The Japanese scored 28 winners (39% of the total points). On the other side, The Hungarian recorded 23 winners (35%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Hibino | Babos |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 1 | 2 |
| Avg per match | 1 | 2 |
| 1st in | 39/54 | 35/52 |
| %1st in | 72% | 67% |
| 1st pts | 28/39 | 23/35 |
| %1st pts | 72% | 66% |
| 2nd pts | 5/15 | 8/17 |
| %2nd pts | 33% | 47% |
Hibino fired 1 ace . Babos also scored 2 aces . Hibino won 72% points behind her first serve. She was rock solid on her second serve to win 33% of the points. On the other side, Babos won 66% of the points behind her first serve. She had a solid display on her second serve to win 47% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Hibino | Babos |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 6 | 6 |
| Converted | 6/12 | 6/10 |
| % Converted | 50% | 60% |
| Conceded | 4 | 3 |
| Saved | 1 | 1 |
| % Saved | 25% | 33% |
| Times Broken | 3 | 2 |
Hibino broke her opponent 6 times with a 50% conversion rate. The Japanese lost her serve 3 times and she saved 25% of the break points that she conceded. Timea broke her opponent 6 times with a 60% conversion rate. The Hungarian conceded her serve twice and she saved 33% of the break points that she conceded.
| Hibino | |||
| Q1 Hontama |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-4 6-2 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 18 | 18 | |
| pts | 71-52 | 71-52 | |
| Total points | 123 | 123 | |
| Winners | 28 | 28 | |
| %Winners | 39% | 39% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 1 | 1 | |
| Double Faults | 0 | 0 | |
| 1st in | 39/54 | 39/54 | |
| % 1st in | 72% | 72% | |
| 1st pts | 28/39 | 28/39 | |
| % 1st pts | 72% | 72% | |
| 2nd pts | 5/15 | 5/15 | |
| % 2nd pts | 33% | 33% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 6 | 6 | |
| Converted | 6/12 | 6/12 | |
| Converted % | 50% | 50% | |
| Conceded | 4 | 4 | |
| Saved | 1/4 | 1 | |
| Saved % | 25% | 25% | |
| Times Broken | 3 | 3 | |
| Babos | |||
| Q1 Makarova |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-2 6-2 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 16 | 16 | |
| pts | 65-46 | 65-46 | |
| Total points | 111 | 111 | |
| Winners | 23 | 23 | |
| %Winners | 35% | 35% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 2 | 2 | |
| Double Faults | 0 | 0 | |
| 1st in | 35/52 | 35/52 | |
| % 1st in | 67% | 67% | |
| 1st pts | 23/35 | 23/35 | |
| % 1st pts | 66% | 66% | |
| 2nd pts | 8/17 | 8/17 | |
| % 2nd pts | 47% | 47% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 6 | 6 | |
| Converted | 6/10 | 6/10 | |
| Converted % | 60% | 60% | |
| Conceded | 3 | 3 | |
| Saved | 1/3 | 1 | |
| Saved % | 33% | 33% | |
| Times Broken | 2 | 2 | |
Head 2 Head
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