Danka Kovinic and Nao Hibino will face off in the 1st round of the ASB Classic for the 2nd time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Wednesday at 12:00 pm on Grandstand. In the following lines you can find the head to head analysis and prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Nao Hibino who should win in 3 sets.
As per the initial odds, Nao Hibino is the pick to win this match.
Nao Hibino -> 1.833
Danka Kovinic -> 1.97
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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 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 6-4 6-4 in the qualifications in New Haven back in 2016.
Danka Kovinic
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 3-4 | 1-2 | 2-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 3-4 | 2-3 | 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 |
Ranked no. 60, the will start her run in Auckland after she played her last match in the Buenos Aires where she lost 6-4 6-1 to Udvardy in the final on the 20th of November.
This will be the first match of the season on hard.
Talking about her overall career, Danka has an overall 363-284 record. She has a negative 96-121 record on hard.
Previously in Auckland
Previously, her best result was reaching the 1st round in 2016 and 2017. See her history.
Nao Hibino
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 26-26 | 15-13 | 10-11 | 1-1 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 27-32 | 21-21 | 2-7 | 2-1 | 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 |
Ranked no. 138, the Japanese got to the 1st round after beating Coco Vandeweghe 2-6 7-69 6-2 and Jaqueline Cristian 6-3 4-6 6-2.
In the qualifications, The Japanese defeated Cristian (6-3 4-6 6-2). During the match Hibino scored 103 points vs Cristian’s 82. Hibino was very aggressive to blast 30 winners.
Talking about serving, Hibino made 2 aces and she committed only 1 double fault for the entire match. Nao Hibino lost the serve 3 times and she saved 4 break points. Furthermore, Hibino put 59% of her first serves in, winning 63% (30/48) of the points behind her 1st serve and 67% (22/33) on the 2nd serve. Hibino broke Cristian 6 times after converting 46% of her break points (6/13).
Overall Performance in this tournament
Nao started her run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, she has conceded 2 set in the tournament to win 53% of the points she played.
Nao has an aggregate 2-0 win-loss record in 2023, 2-0 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Head 2 Head
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- Venus WilliamsWilliams – Lin ZhuZhu (0-0) – H2H and prediction
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- Rebecca MarinoMarino – Ysaline BonaventureBonaventure (1-0) – H2H and prediction
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