Danka Kovinic and Nao Hibino will fight against each other in the qualifications of the Melbourne Summer Set 1 for the 2nd time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Tuesday at 11:00 am on Court 6. In the following paragraphs, you can find the head to head analysis and prediction.
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The pick for Tennis Tonic is Danka Kovinic who should win in 3 sets.
As per the initial odds, Danka Kovinic is the pick to win this match.
Danka Kovinic -> 1.80
Nao Hibino -> 1.90
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Prediction and head to head Danka Kovinic vs. Nao Hibino
This will be the 2nd time that Danka Kovinic and Nao Hibino face off. The head to head is 1-0 for Hibino (see full H2H stats), 1-0 on hard.
The last time that they squared off, Hibino won 6-4 6-4 in the qualifications in New Haven back in 2016.
Danka Kovinic
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 1-1 | 0-0 | 1-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 16-16 | 4-8 | 10-7 | 2-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 29-21 | 6-8 | 23-11 | 0-1 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 14-20 | 4-12 | 10-6 | 0-1 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 9-9 | 3-6 | 6-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 96, Danka got to the qualifications after beating Alexandra Osborne 6-2 6-1.
In the qualifications, Danka had a good straight sets win against Osborne (6-2 6-1). During the match, Kovinic scored 60 points vs Osborne’s 37. Danka was quite aggressive to blast 25 winners.
Talking about the service games, Kovinic was unable to score even 1 ace throughout the match and she committed only 1 double fault. Danka Kovinic was extremely efficient on serve to win 81% (25/31) of her 1st serve and 62% (8/13) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. Danka broke Osborne 4 times after converting 29% of her break points (4/14).
Kovinic has a winning win-loss record in the last 10 years having won 54% of her matches (256-220). 1-0 on hard in 2022. Talking about her performance on the same surface of this competition, Kovinic has an overall 79-101 match record in the last years on hard.
The has a compiled 1-0 win-loss record in 2022, 1-0 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in Melbourne
Danka has never competed in this tournament before.
Nao Hibino
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 27-31 | 21-21 | 2-7 | 2-0 | 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 |
| 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. 129, Hibino got to the qualifications after defeating Katarzyna Kawa 6-3 6-0.
In the qualifications, Nao had a good straight sets win against Kawa (6-3 6-0). During the match Hibino scored 60 points vs Kawa’s 35. Nao was exceptionally aggressive to blast 27 winners.
Talking about serving, Hibino scored just 1 ace during the entire match and she committed only 1 double fault for the entire match. Nao Hibino lost the serve twice and she saved 4 break points. Furthermore, Hibino put 69% of her first serves in, winning 66% (27/41) of the points behind her 1st serve and 39% (7/18) on the 2nd serve. Nao broke Kawa 6 times after converting 75% of her break points (6/8).
The Japanese has an overall 1-0 win-loss record in 2022, 1-0 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in Melbourne
The Japanese has never competed in this tournament before.
H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Kovinic | Hibino |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 1 | 1 |
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 |
| Tot Games | 15 | 15 |
| Pts | 60-37 | 60-35 |
| Total Points | 97 | 95 |
| Winners | 25 | 27 |
| %Winners | 42% | 45% |
Both Kovinic and Hibino played 1 match. Also both players started their run from the qualifications.Both players have not lost a single set in this event so far. Talking about their workload, Kovinic and Hibino have played the same amount of sets 2. They also played the same amount of games (15). Kovinic scored 25 winners (42% of the total points). On the other side, Hibino scored 27 winners (45%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Kovinic | Hibino |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 0 | 1 |
| Avg per match | 0 | 1 |
| 1st in | 31/44 | 41/59 |
| %1st in | 70% | 69% |
| 1st pts | 25/31 | 27/41 |
| %1st pts | 81% | 66% |
| 2nd pts | 8/13 | 7/18 |
| %2nd pts | 62% | 39% |
Kovinic didn’t manage to fire a single ace to far. Hibino made 1 ace . Kovinic won 81% points on her first serve. She quite strong on her second serve to win 62% of the points. On the other side, Hibino won 66% of the points on her first serve. She had a solid display on her second serve to win 39% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Kovinic | Hibino |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 4 | 6 |
| Converted | 4/14 | 6/8 |
| % Converted | 29% | 75% |
| Conceded | 3 | 6 |
| Saved | 3 | 4 |
| % Saved | 100% | 67% |
| Times Broken | 0 | 2 |
Kovinic broke her opponent 4 times with a 29% conversion rate. Danka pretty solid on her serve as she has never dropped a single service game after saving 3 break points. Hibino broke her opponent 6 times with a 75% conversion rate. Nao conceded her serve twice and she saved 67% of the break points that she conceded.
| Kovinic | |||
| Q1 Osborne |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-2 6-1 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 15 | 15 | |
| pts | 60-37 | 60-37 | |
| Total points | 97 | 97 | |
| Winners | 25 | 25 | |
| %Winners | 42% | 42% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 0 | 0 | |
| Double Faults | 1 | 1 | |
| 1st in | 31/44 | 31/44 | |
| % 1st in | 70% | 70% | |
| 1st pts | 25/31 | 25/31 | |
| % 1st pts | 81% | 81% | |
| 2nd pts | 8/13 | 8/13 | |
| % 2nd pts | 62% | 62% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 4 | 4 | |
| Converted | 4/14 | 4/14 | |
| Converted % | 29% | 29% | |
| Conceded | 3 | 3 | |
| Saved | 3/3 | 3 | |
| Saved % | 100% | 100% | |
| Times Broken | 0 | 0 | |
| Hibino | |||
| Q1 Kawa |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-3 6-0 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 15 | 15 | |
| pts | 60-35 | 60-35 | |
| Total points | 95 | 95 | |
| Winners | 27 | 27 | |
| %Winners | 45% | 45% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 1 | 1 | |
| Double Faults | 1 | 1 | |
| 1st in | 41/59 | 41/59 | |
| % 1st in | 69% | 69% | |
| 1st pts | 27/41 | 27/41 | |
| % 1st pts | 66% | 66% | |
| 2nd pts | 7/18 | 7/18 | |
| % 2nd pts | 39% | 39% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 6 | 6 | |
| Converted | 6/8 | 6/8 | |
| Converted % | 75% | 75% | |
| Conceded | 6 | 6 | |
| Saved | 4/6 | 4 | |
| Saved % | 67% | 67% | |
| Times Broken | 2 | 2 | |
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