TASHKENT. Timea Babos tops Flipkens in the 1st round

Timea Babos topples Kirsten Flipkens 6-2 7-5 in the 1^st round in Tashkent on Tuesday. Babos will have to play Pauline Parmentier in the 2^nd round.

Score, report, and key facts

1^st set.

Babos commenced this set in the best possible way after breaking Flipkens in the 1^st game (1-0). Notwithstanding, that wasn’t sufficient for Timea to win the set as Flipkens succeeded in breaking back in the 2^nd (1-1) game. Babos kept her cool to break Kirsten in the 5^th (3-2) and in the 7^th (5-2) game before winning the set (6-2).

The Belgian had no answers in the last 5 games of the set (from 1-2 to 6-2).

2^nd set.

Babos started off on the right foot in the set after breaking Flipkens in the 1^st game (1-0). Yet, that was not enough for Babos to win the set as the Belgian succeeded in breaking back in the 8^th (4-4) game. The Hungarian kept her focus to break Flipkens in the 11^th (6-5) game before winning the set (7-5).

Statistics

At the end of the match, the Hungarian scored 75 points vs. Kirsten’s 56 points.

Timea served pretty well to win 76% of the points (26/34) behind her first serve. Yet she won only 47% points (18/38) on her second serve. Babos was pretty focused in converting 50% of the break points that she conquered (5/10). On the other side, Flipkens was struggling in converting her break points since she converted only 25% of her break points (2/8). That was one of the key issues for her defeat.

After this contest, the head to head between Babos and Flipkens is 1-0 for Timea.

Next Match: Timea Babos vs. Pauline Parmentier – stats

Babos will take on Parmentier in the 2^nd round.

This will be the 3^rd time that Timea Babos and Pauline Parmentier play each other. The head to head is 1-1 for Babos and Parmentier (see full H2H stats), 1-0 on hard.

The last time that they locked horns, Parmentier won 6-7¹ 6-2 6-0 in the 2^nd round in Miami back in 2017.

Tennis Scores in Tashkent

• Timea BabosBabos – Kirsten FlipkensFlipkens (6-2 7-5) – See score progression
• Margarita GasparyanGasparyan – Stefanie VoegeleVoegele (6-4 4-6 6-4) – See score progression
• Pauline ParmentierParmentier – Aleksandra KrunicKrunic (6-1 6-2) – See score progression
• Monica NiculescuNiculescu – Nigina AbduraimovaAbduraimova (6-1 7-5) – See score progression
• Tatjana MariaMaria – Olga GovortsovaGovortsova (7-6⁵ 6-1) – See score progression
• Ysaline BonaventureBonaventure – Akgul AmanmuradovaAmanmuradova (6-3 6-1) – See score progression
• Kristyna PliskovaPliskova – Jasmine PaoliniPaolini (6-4 6-4) – See score progression
• Tereza MartincovaMartincova – Irina-Camelia BeguBegu (6-7⁴ 6-4 6-4) – See score progression
• Sorana CirsteaCirstea – Denisa AllertovaAllertova (6-1 6-4) – See score progression
• Katarina ZavatskaZavatska – Jelena OstapenkoOstapenko (6-3 5-4 ret.) – See score progression
• Danka KovinicKovinic – Sabina SharipovaSharipova (6-0 5-7 6-2) – See score progression
• Anna KalinskayaKalinskaya – Harriet DartDart (6-4 6-4) – See score progression
• Alison Van UytvanckVan Uytvanck – Liudmila SamsonovaSamsonova (6-0 6-1) – See score progression
• Viktoria KuzmovaKuzmova – Francesca Di LorenzoDi Lorenzo (7-6³ 6-3) – See score progression
• Katarzyna KawaKawa – Vitalia DiatchenkoDiatchenko (7-5 6-3) – See score progression
• Greetje MinnenMinnen – Kateryna BondarenkoBondarenko (6-2 6-2) – See score progression

Upcoming matches

• Viktoria KuzmovaKuzmova – Greetje MinnenMinnen (0-0) – See H2H details
• Katarzyna KawaKawa – Kristyna PliskovaPliskova (0-0) – See H2H details
• Alison Van UytvanckVan Uytvanck – Monica NiculescuNiculescu (1-1) – See H2H details
• Pauline ParmentierParmentier – Timea BabosBabos (1-1) – See H2H details
• Tatjana MariaMaria – Anna KalinskayaKalinskaya (0-0) – See H2H details
• Tereza MartincovaMartincova – Katarina ZavatskaZavatska (0-0) – See H2H details
• Sorana CirsteaCirstea – Ysaline BonaventureBonaventure (0-0) – See H2H details
• Danka KovinicKovinic – Margarita GasparyanGasparyan (1-0) – See H2H details