Timea Babos shocks Maria Tig in the 1st round of the Gippsland Trophy. HIGHLIGHTS – MELBOURNE RESULTS

GIPPSLAND TROPHY - MELBOURNE DRAW AND RESULTS. Babos surprises Maria Tig to face Caroline Garcia in the 2nd round

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Luke Meyer
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Prediction and head to head Timea Babos vs. Patricia Maria Tig

Timea Babos upsets Patricia Maria Tig 7-65 6-3 in the 1st round in Melbourne on Sunday. Babos will play against Caroline Garcia in the 2nd round. The match lasted 1 hour and 58 minutes.

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Timea won the set after she broke Maria Tig in the 3rd (2-1) and in the 7th (4-3) game. Patricia tried to stage a comeback breaking in the 6th (3-3) and in the 10th (5-5) game. However, Timea managed to stay calm and finish the job to finally clinch the set at the following breaker at 5.

Tiebreak

Timea won 3 minibreaks in the 1st (1-0), 5th (3-2) and 12th (7-5) point. On the other side, Maria Tig won 2 minibreaks in the 2nd (1-1) and 10th (5-5) point.

This was the tiebreak sequence: 1-0, 1-1, 2-1, 2-2, 3-2, 4-2, 5-2, 5-3, 5-4, 5-5, 6-5, 7-5

Timea converted 40% of her break points (2/5). She had 5 break points opportunities in the 3rd (1-1 0-40), the 5th (3-1 30-40), the 7th (3-3 40-A and 40-A) and the 11th game (5-5 40-A). Moreover, on the other side, Maria Tig converted 66% of her break points (2/3). She had her opportunities in the 2nd (1-0 40-A), the 6th (2-3 30-40) and the 9th game (4-5 15-40).

They played 92 points. Timea won 6 points more than the Romanian (49-43). Babos dropped 17 points on serve (27-17). In addition, on the other side, Maria Tig conceded 22 points on serve (26-22).

Babos commenced this set in the best possible way after breaking Maria Tig in the 2nd game (2-0). Nonetheless, there was more to do for the Hungarian to win the set since the Romanian found the way to break back in the 3rd (1-2) game. Babos kept her focus to break the Romanian in the 4th (3-1) game before conquering the set (6-3).

Timea converted 50% of her break points (2/4). She had 4 break points opportunities in the 2nd (1-0 40-A) and the 4th game (2-1 0-40, 15-40 and 30-40). On the other side, the Romanian was clinical in converting the only break point that she conquered in the 3rd game (0-2 15-40).

They contested 56 points. Babos was the one to win the set after conquering 10 points more than Patricia (33-23). The Hungarian surrendered 7 points on serve (17-7). On the other side, Patricia conceded 16 points on serve (16-16).

Stats: aces, double faults, breaks, winners

Babos
Tig
Timea Babos
7-65 6-3
1h:58
Patricia Maria Tig
82
82
Total points
66
66
27
27
Winners
30
30
33%
33%
Ratio Winners
45%
45%
-- Serve --
10
10
Aces
2
2
6
6
Double Faults
4
4
55%
55%
1st in
65%
65%
73%
73%
1st won
57%
57%
27/37
27/37
1st won
30/53
30/53
53%
53%
2nd won
43%
43%
16/30
16/30
2nd won
12/28
12/28
-- Break Points --
4/9
4/9
Total
3/4
3/4
44%
44%
Won
75%
75%
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At the end of the match, the Hungarian scored 82 points vs. Maria Tig’s 66.

Timea fired 10 aces and she committed 6 double faults. Babos won this match even if she was far from perfect in converting her break points since she converted only 44% (4/9) of the procured opportunities. On the other side, the Romanian was effective when converting 75% of the break points that she procured points (3/4). Yet, that was not enough to win the match.

After this match, the head to head between Babos and Maria Tig is 1-0 for Timea.

Highlights Timea Babos vs. Patricia Maria Tig Gippsland Trophy – Melbourne

Draw and next match H2H: Timea Babos vs. Caroline Garcia – stats

Babos will play Garcia in the 2nd round.

This will be the 4th time that Timea Babos and Caroline Garcia fight against each other. The head to head is 2-1 for Garcia (see full H2H stats), but Babos leads 1-0 on hard.

The last time that they fought against each other, Garcia won 6-3 6-4 in the 2nd round in Rome back in 2018.

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