Timea Babos breezes past Naiktha Bains 6-3 6-0 in the qualifications in Rabat on Sunday after playing a marvellous match to play Irina Khromacheva in the 1st round. The match lasted 1 hour and 11 minutes. Her best result in this tournament was reaching the final in 2015. Here you can see her history at this event.
Stats: aces, double faults, breaks, winners
At the end of the match, Timea scored 61 points vs. the Australian’s 34.
Babos
Timea served exceptionally well to win 78% of the points (31/40) behind her first serve. However she won only 35% points (7/20) on her second serve. The Hungarian was remarkable in converting all the break points (5/5).
Bains
On the other side, Bains wasn’t that great in converting her break points (only 17% – 1/6). That was one of the key issues for her demise.
After this match, the head to head between Babos and Bains is 2-0 for Timea.
Draw and next match H2H: Timea Babos vs. Irina Khromacheva – stats
Babos will fight against Khromacheva in the 1st round.
There is no head to head record between Timea Babos and Irina Khromacheva since this will be the first time that they will fight against each other in the main tour.
Live score progression and stats
Babos had a strong start of this set after breaking Naiktha Bains in the 1st game (1-0). Anyhow, the Hungarian refused to bow to find the way to come back to break Naiktha in the 4th (2-2) and in the 6th (4-2) game before winning the set (6-3).
A defining moment of this set was when the Hungarian won 5 consecutive games in the 1st set so as to bring the game count from 0-2 to 5-2.
Babos was unerring in converting all her break points in the 4th (1-2 15-40), the 6th (3-2 15-40) and the 10th game (6-2 0-40). On the other side, Bains converted 25% of her break points (1/4). She had her opportunities in the 1st (0-0 40-A) and the 5th game (2-2 30-40, 40-A and 40-A).
They played 65 points. The Hungarian was the winner of the set after clinching 13 more points than Bains (39-26). Timea dropped 16 points on serve (24-16). on the other side of the court, the Australian conceded 15 points on serve (10-15).
The Australian was overpowered in this set and Timea won the set 6-0.
Timea was perfect in converting all her break points in the 2nd (2-0 15-40) and the 5th game (4-0 15-40). On the other side, the Australian was unable to convert any of her 2 break points. She had 2 break points opportunities in the 1st game (0-0 15-40 and 30-40).
They contested 30 points. The Hungarian was the winner of the set after clinching 14 more points than Bains (22-8). Babos conceded 6 points on serve (14-6). on the other side of the court, Naiktha conceded 8 points on serve (2-8).
Tennis Scores in Rabat
- Anastasia TikhonovaTikhonova – Valeriya StrakhovaStrakhova (6-2 6-3) – Stats and score progression
- Timea BabosBabos – Naiktha BainsBains (6-3 6-0) – Stats and score progression
- Jana FettFett – Angela Fita BoludaFita Boluda (6-3 7-65) – Stats and score progression
- Tatiana ProzorovaProzorova – Francesca Di LorenzoDi Lorenzo (6-4 6-3) – Stats and score progression
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