Barbora Krejcikova and Nao Hibino will square off in the 2^nd round of the Livesport Prague Open for the 2^nd time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Thursday at 3:00 pm on Centre. In this post, we analyze their head to head performance and prediction.

Prediction, odds and live streaming

The pick for Tennis Tonic is Barbora Krejcikova who should win in 2 sets.

As per the initial odds, Barbora Krejcikova is the pick to win this match.
Barbora Krejcikova -> 1.164
Nao Hibino -> 5.45

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Prediction and head to head Barbora Krejcikova vs. Nao Hibino

This will be the 2^nd time that Barbora Krejcikova and Nao Hibino play each other. The head to head is 1-0 for Hibino (see full H2H stats), 1-0 on hard.

The last time that they locked horns, Hibino won 6-7(6) 6-3 6-4 in the 1^st round in the Suzhou back in 2018.

Barbora Krejcikova

Ranked no. 18, Krejcikova got to the 2^nd round after defeating Anna Blinkova 6-3 6-1.

In the 1^st round, Barbora had a good straight sets win against Blinkova (6-3 6-1). During the match, Krejcikova scored 65 points vs Blinkova’s 42. Krejcikova was pretty aggressive to blast 25 winners.

Talking about the service games, Krejcikova scored 4 aces and she committed only 6 double faults. Barbora Krejcikova lost the serve twice and she saved 2 break points. Furthermore, Krejcikova put 66% of her first serves in, winning 66% (25/38) of the points behind her 1st serve and 50% (10/20) on the 2nd serve. Krejcikova was clinical in her return game without wasting any break point and break Blinkova 6 times.

Krejcikova has a solid match record in the last 10 years having won 65% of her matches (303-166). 10-4 on hard in 2022. Regarding her performance on the same surface of this tournament, Krejcikova has a compiled 89-63 match record in the last years on hard.

Krejcikova’s best result of the current season was reaching the final in Sydney.

Krejcikova has an aggregate 14-9 win-loss record in 2022, 10-4 on hard (See FULL STATS).

Previously in Prague

Nao Hibino

Ranked no. 251, Hibino got to the 2^nd

round after beating Rebecca Sramkova 7-6⁹ 6-1 and Mihaela Buzarnescu 6-2 6-2.

In the 1^st round, The Japanese had a good straight sets win against Buzarnescu (6-2 6-2). During the match Hibino scored 61 points vs Buzarnescu’s 34. The Japanese was very aggressive to blast 22 winners.

Talking about serving, Hibino fired 3 aces and she committed only 2 double faults. Nao Hibino lost the serve 3 times and she saved 3 break points. Furthermore, Hibino put 72% of her first serves in, winning 61% (22/36) of the points behind her 1st serve and 50% (7/14) on the 2nd serve. Nao broke Buzarnescu 7 times after converting 78% of her break points (7/9).

Hibino’s best result of the current year was getting to the final in the W25 Chiang Rai.

Nao has a composed 21-18 win-loss record in 2022, 14-10 on hard (See FULL STATS).

Previously in Prague

The Japanese has never competed in this tournament before.

H2H Performance in the tournament

Matches, sets, games and points

Points	Krejcikova	Hibino
Match played	1	2
Tot Set	2	4
Tot Games	16	36
Pts	65-42	134-95
Total Points	107	229
Winners	25	49
%Winners	38%	37%

Krejcikova played 1 match while Hibino competed in 2 matches. Hibino started her run from the qualifications while Krejcikova had a direct access to the main draw. Both players have not surrendered a single set in this event so far. Krejcikova has played 2 set(s) less than Hibino (2 vs 4). Therefore, Krejcikova played 20 games less than Hibino. Barbora scored 25 winners (38% of the total points). On the other side, The Japanese made 49 winners (37%).

Serve Performance

Serve	Krejcikova	Hibino
Aces	4	4
Avg per match	4	2
1st in	38/58	78/130
%1st in	66%	60%
1st pts	25/38	49/78
%1st pts	66%	63%
2nd pts	10/20	28/52
%2nd pts	50%	54%

Krejcikova managed to score 4 aces . Hibino recorded 4 aces (2 per match). Krejcikova won 66% points behind her first serve. She was rock solid on her second serve to win 50% of the points. On the other side, Hibino won 63% of the points behind her first serve. She had a solid display on her second serve to win 54% of the points.

How they played the important points

Breaks	Krejcikova	Hibino
Won	6	11
Converted	6/6	11/15
% Converted	100%	73%
Conceded	4	12
Saved	2	7
% Saved	50%	58%
Times Broken	2	5

Barbora broke her opponent 6 times with a 100% conversion rate. Krejcikova dropped her serve twice and she saved 50% of the break points that she conceded. Hibino broke her opponents 11 times with a 73% conversion rate. Nao conceded her serve 5 times and she saved 58% of the break points that she conceded.

Krejcikova
	R1 Blinkova	Total
Score	6-3 6-1
Tot Set	2	2
Tot Games	16	16
pts	65-42	65-42
Total points	107	107
Winners	25	25
%Winners	38%	38%
SERVE
Aces	4	4
Double Faults	6	6
1st in	38/58	38/58
% 1st in	66%	66%
1st pts	25/38	25/38
% 1st pts	66%	66%
2nd pts	10/20	10/20
% 2nd pts	50%	50%
Breaks
Won	6	6
Converted	6/6	6/6
Converted %	100%	100%
Conceded	4	4
Saved	2/4	2
Saved %	50%	50%
Times Broken	2	2

Hibino
	Q1 Sramkova	Q3 Selekhmeteva	R1 Buzarnescu	Total
Score	7-69 6-1	6-2 2-6 6-3	6-2 6-2
Tot Set	2	3	2	7
Tot Games	20	25	16	61
pts	73-61	–	61-34	134-95
Total points	134	0	95	229
Winners	27		22	49
%Winners	37%	0%	36%	37%
SERVE
Aces	1	0	3	4
Double Faults	5		2	7
1st in	42/80	/	36/50	78/130
% 1st in	53%	0%	72%	60%
1st pts	27/42	/	22/36	49/78
% 1st pts	64%	0%	61%	63%
2nd pts	21/38	/	7/14	28/52
% 2nd pts	55%	0%	50%	54%
Breaks
Won	4		7	11
Converted	4/6	/	7/9	11/15
Converted %	67%	0%	78%	73%
Conceded	6		6	12
Saved	4/6	0/	3/6	7
Saved %	67%	–	50%	117%
Times Broken	2		3	5

Tennis Scores in Prague

• Marie BouzkovaBouzkova – Dominika SalkovaSalkova (6-1 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Oksana SelekhmetevaSelekhmeteva – Chloe PaquetPaquet (6-4 1-6 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Magda LinetteLinette – Viktoriya TomovaTomova (6-3 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Qiang WangWang – Dalila JakupovicJakupovic (6-3 6-1) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Alessandro BegaBega – Francisco CabralCabral (4-6 6-1 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Joao DominguesDomingues – Duarte ValeVale (6-2 6-1) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Yannick MertensMertens – Goncalo FalcaoFalcao (6-4 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Frederico GilGil – Luis FariaFaria (6-3 4-6 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
• David Vega HernandezVega Hernandez – Lorenzo FrigerioFrigerio (2-6 6-1 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Hubert HurkaczHurkacz – Samuel BensoussanBensoussan (4-6 6-3 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings

Upcoming matches in the draw

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• Alize CornetCornet – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Nao HibinoHibino – Barbora KrejcikovaKrejcikova (1-0) – H2H and prediction
• Magda LinetteLinette – Qiang WangWang (3-2) – H2H and prediction
• Marie BouzkovaBouzkova – (0-0) – H2H and prediction