Paula Badosa Gibert and Cori Gauff will square off in the 3rd round of the Qatar TotalEnergies Open for the 2nd time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Wednesday at 2:00 pm on Centre 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 Paula Badosa Gibert who should win in 3 sets.

As per the initial odds, Paula Badosa Gibert is the pick to win this match.
Paula Badosa Gibert -> 1.54
Cori Gauff -> 2.62

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Prediction and head to head Paula Badosa Gibert vs. Cori Gauff

This will be the 2nd time that Paula Badosa Gibert and Cori Gauff face off. The head to head is 1-0 for Badosa (see full H2H stats), 1-0 on hard.

The last time that they squared off, Badosa won 6-2 6-2 in the 3rd round in Indian Wells back in 2021.

Paula Badosa Gibert

Paula Badosa Gibert

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Rank
25
High
2
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Year Total Hard Clay I.hard Grass Carpet
2025 18-13 13-8 3-2 0-1 2-2 0-0
2024 37-19 26-11 6-5 0-1 5-2 0-0
2023 18-9 6-4 11-4 0-0 1-1 0-0
2022 32-22 20-13 8-5 1-2 3-2 0-0
2021 43-17 19-9 17-3 4-3 3-2 0-0
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Ranked no. 4 (career-high), Paula got to the 3rd round after defeating Clara Tauson 6-1 6-2.

In the 2nd round, Paula had a good straight sets win against Tauson (6-1 6-2). During the match, Badosa scored 60 points vs Tauson’s 35. The Spaniard was pretty aggressive to blast 22 winners.

Regarding the service games, Badosa bagged 9 aces and she committed only 4 double faults. Paula Badosa Gibert was quite effective on serve to win 88% (22/25) of her 1st serve and 55% (12/22) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. Paula broke Tauson 4 times after converting 44% of her break points (4/9).

Badosa has a solid match record in the last 10 years having won 65% of her matches (289-153). 9-3 on hard in 2022. Talking about her performance on the same surface of this competition, Badosa has a composed 107-55 match record in the last years on hard.

Her best result of the current season was winning the title in in Sydney where she defeated Barbora Krejcikova in the final 6-3 4-6 7-6(4).

The Spaniard has an aggregate 9-3 win-loss record in 2022, 9-3 on hard (See FULL STATS).

Previously in Doha

The Spaniard has never competed in this tournament before.

Doha
Badosa's Record

Cori Gauff

Cori Gauff

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Rank
3
High
2
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Year Total Hard Clay I.hard Grass Carpet
2025 48-16 29-9 18-3 1-2 0-2 0-0
2024 54-18 31-10 14-5 4-1 5-2 0-0
2023 51-16 40-9 7-4 0-0 4-3 0-0
2022 38-23 23-16 10-4 0-1 5-2 0-0
2021 36-16 16-10 16-4 0-0 4-2 0-0
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Ranked no. 23, Cori got to the 3rd round after defeating Shelby Rogers 6-2 6-3 and Caroline Garcia 6-2 7-63.

In the 2nd round, Cori had a good straight sets win against Garcia (6-2 7-63). During the match Gauff scored 74 points vs Garcia’s 56. The American was pretty aggressive to blast 30 winners.

Talking about serving, Gauff blasted 5 aces and she committed only 9 double faults. Overall, Cori Gauff was pretty effective on serve to win 81% (30/37) of her 1st serve and 53% (17/32) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent her to concede the serve twice. Cori broke Garcia 4 times after converting 80% of her break points (4/5).

Overall Performance in this tournament

The American hasn’t dropped yet a set in the tournament to win 58% of the points she played.

The American’s best result of the current year was reaching the semifinal in Adelaide.

Cori has an aggregate 6-4 win-loss record in 2022, 6-4 on hard (See FULL STATS).

Doha
Gauff's Record

H2H Performance in the tournament (main draw)

P.Badosa
C.Gauff
1h:09
1h:09
Time on court​
!
2h:44
2h:44
1h:09
1h:09
Last match​
1h:32
1h:32
1
1
Match played
!
2
2
15
15
Games Played​
38
38
2
2
Set played​​
4
4
60
60
Total points​
139
139
60
60
Avg point​
69.5
69.5
22
22
Winners
55
55
22
22
Avg Winners​
27.5
27.5
37%
37%
Ratio winners
40%
40%
-- Serve --
9
9
Aces
13
13
9
9
Avg Aces
6.5
6.5
4
4
Double Faults
12
12
4
4
Avg Double Faults
!
6
6
22/25
22/25
1st won total​
55/74
55/74
!
88%
88%
1st won %
!
74%
74%
12/22
12/22
2nd won total​
34/58
34/58
55%
55%
2nd won %
59%
59%
-- Break Points --
4/9
4/9
BP won
7/13
7/13
4/9
4/9
Avg BP won
3.5/6.5
3.5/6.5
44%
44%
Won
!
54%
54%
4
4
Conceded
6
6
4
4
Avg Conceded
3
3
0
0
Broken
2
2
!
0
0
Avg Broken
1
1
4
4
Saved
4
4
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Matches, sets, games and points

Points Badosa Gauff
Match played 1 2
Tot Set 2 4
Tot Games 15 38
Pts 60-35 139-102
Total Points 95 241
Winners 22 55
%Winners 37% 40%

Badosa played 1 match while Gauff competed in 2 matches. Both players have not conceded a single set in this event so far. Badosa has played 2 set(s) less than Gauff (2 vs 4). Therefore, Badosa played 23 games less than Gauff. The Spaniard scored 22 winners (37% of the total points). On the other side, Cori fired 55 winners (40%).

Serve Performance

Serve Badosa Gauff
Aces 9 13
Avg per match 9 6.5
1st in 25/47 74/132
%1st in 53% 56%
1st pts 22/25 55/74
%1st pts 88% 74%
2nd pts 12/22 34/58
%2nd pts 55% 59%

Badosa managed to score 9 aces . Gauff blasted 13 aces (6.5 per match). Badosa won 88% points behind her first serve. She pretty effective on her second serve to win 55% of the points. On the other side, Gauff won 74% of the points on her first serve. She had a solid display on her second serve to win 59% of the points.

How they played the important points

Breaks Badosa Gauff
Won 4 7
Converted 4/9 7/13
% Converted 44% 54%
Conceded 4 6
Saved 4 4
% Saved 100% 67%
Times Broken 0 2

Paula broke her opponent 4 times with a 44% conversion rate. Badosa quite strong on her serve as she has never lost a single service game after saving 4 break points. Cori broke her opponents 7 times with a 54% conversion rate. Gauff conceded her serve twice and she saved 67% of the break points that she conceded.

Badosa
R2
Tauson 		Total
Score 6-1 6-2
Tot Set 2 2
Tot Games 15 15
pts 60-35 60-35
Total points 95 95
Winners 22 22
%Winners 37% 37%
SERVE
Aces 9 9
Double Faults 4 4
1st in 25/47 25/47
% 1st in 53% 53%
1st pts 22/25 22/25
% 1st pts 88% 88%
2nd pts 12/22 12/22
% 2nd pts 55% 55%
Breaks
Won 4 4
Converted 4/9 4/9
Converted % 44% 44%
Conceded 4 4
Saved 4/4 4
Saved % 100% 100%
Times Broken 0 0
Gauff
R1
Rogers		 R2
Garcia		 Total
Score 6-2 6-3 6-2 7-63
Tot Set 2 2 4
Tot Games 17 21 38
pts 65-46 74-56 139-102
Total points 111 130 241
Winners 25 30 55
%Winners 38% 41% 40%
SERVE
Aces 8 5 13
Double Faults 3 9 12
1st in 37/63 37/69 74/132
% 1st in 59% 54% 56%
1st pts 25/37 30/37 55/74
% 1st pts 68% 81% 74%
2nd pts 17/26 17/32 34/58
% 2nd pts 65% 53% 59%
Breaks
Won 3 4 7
Converted 3/8 4/5 7/13
Converted % 38% 80% 54%
Conceded 1 5 6
Saved 1/1 3/5 4
Saved % 100% 60% 160%
Times Broken 0 2 2

Tennis Scores in Doha

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