Clara Tauson and Nao Hibino will clash against each other in the 1st round of the Athens Open for the 4th time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Tuesday at 7:30 pm on CENTER COURT. 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 Clara Tauson who should win in 2 sets.
As per the initial odds, Clara Tauson is the pick to win this match.
Clara Tauson -> 1.34
Nao Hibino -> 3.24
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Prediction and head to head Clara Tauson vs. Nao Hibino
This will be the 4th time that Clara Tauson and Nao Hibino play each other. The head to head is 2-1 for Tauson (see full H2H stats), 2-1 on hard.
The last time that they played, Tauson won 6-2 6-3 in the 1st round in Tokyo back in 2024.
Highlights Clara Tauson vs Nao Hibino – Tokyo 22-October-2024
Clara Tauson
10 - 15win/loss
44
12
LLLWWLWLLL | Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 16-22 | 14-15 | 0-3 | 0-0 | 2-4 | 0-0 |
| 2025 | 36-22 | 23-13 | 4-5 | 3-1 | 6-3 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 38-28 | 19-16 | 14-5 | 5-3 | 0-3 | 0-1 |
| 2023 | 38-21 | 6-7 | 13-5 | 12-8 | 2-1 | 5-0 |
| 2022 | 26-18 | 10-12 | 0-1 | 16-4 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 30, Tauson will start her run in Athens after she played her last match at the London where she lost 6-3 6-3 to Sakkari in the 1st round on the 30th of June.
Tauson has an overall 10-15 win-loss record in 2026, 8-8 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Clara won her last 10 matches.
Talking about her overall career, Clara has an overall 280-143 record. She has a positive 113-66 record on hard.
Previously in Athens
Clara has never competed in this tournament before.
Nao Hibino
20 - 16win/loss
157
56
LWWWLWWLWL | Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 29-23 | 20-16 | 1-2 | 5-2 | 3-3 | 0-0 |
| 2025 | 26-26 | 15-13 | 10-11 | 1-1 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 27-32 | 21-21 | 2-7 | 2-1 | 2-3 | 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 |
Ranked no. 235, Hibino reached the 1st round after defeating Miriana Tona 6-4 6-0.
In the qualifications, The Japanese had a good straight sets win against Tona (6-4 6-0). During the match Hibino scored 60 points vs Tona’s 42. The Japanese was extremely aggressive to blast 28 winners.
About the serving games, Hibino was unable to score even 1 ace for the entire match and she committed only 1 double fault for the entire match. Nao Hibino lost the serve once. Furthermore, Hibino put 73% of her first serves in, winning 76% (28/37) of the points behind her 1st serve and 43% (6/14) on the 2nd serve. The Japanese broke Tona 5 times after converting 50% of her break points (5/10).
WTA Athens - Nao Hibino's projected path
Nao’s best result of the current year was reaching the semifinal in the W75 Brisbane.
The Japanese has an aggregate 20-16 win-loss record in 2026, 14-10 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Head 2 Head
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WWWWWWWWWW Tennis Scores in Athens
- Maria SakkariSakkari – Polina KudermetovaKudermetova (6-0 7-61) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Sara BejlekBejlek – Viktoria MorvayovaMorvayova (6-0 7-5) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Qinwen ZhengZheng – Jessica Bouzas ManeiroBouzas Maneiro (7-5 6-1) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Lilli TaggerTagger – Marianne ArgyrokastritiArgyrokastriti (6-1 6-1) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Mai HontamaHontama – Magda LinetteLinette (6-4 7-5) – Stats, scores, rankings
Upcoming matches in the draw
- Clara TausonTauson – Nao HibinoHibino (2-1) – H2H and prediction
- Sapfo SakellaridiSakellaridi – Miriana TonaTona (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Barbora KrejcikovaKrejcikova – Viktoriya TomovaTomova (0-2) – H2H and prediction
- Carole MonnetMonnet – Rebeka MasarovaMasarova (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Martha MatoulaMatoula – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Valentini GrammatikopoulouGrammatikopoulou – Alycia ParksParks (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Mina HodzicHodzic – Harriet DartDart (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Anna BlinkovaBlinkova – Aliaksandra SasnovichSasnovich (0-5) – H2H and prediction
