Donna Vekic and Nao Hibino will fight against each other in the 1st round of the Zhengzhou Open for the 4th time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Monday at 3:00 pm on Center Court. In this post, we analyze their head to head performance and prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Donna Vekic who should win in 2 sets.
As per the initial odds, Donna Vekic is the pick to win this match.
Donna Vekic -> 1.36
Nao Hibino -> 3.15
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Prediction and head to head Donna Vekic vs. Nao Hibino
This will be the 4th time that Donna Vekic and Nao Hibino clash against each other. The head to head is 2-1 for Vekic (see full H2H stats),but they are 1-1 on hard.
The last time that they played, Vekic won 7-5 6-3 in the 1st round in Melbourne back in 2018.
Donna Vekic
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 10-9 | 7-6 | 1-2 | 2-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 29-20 | 16-9 | 4-5 | 2-3 | 7-3 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 28-20 | 10-9 | 9-6 | 2-1 | 7-4 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 19-16 | 10-12 | 0-1 | 5-0 | 4-3 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 8-11 | 6-6 | 1-3 | 1-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 21, Vekic will start her run in Zhengzhou after she played her last match in Beijing where she lost 6-3 7-5 to Blinkova in the 1st round on the 30th of September.
Vekic has an overall 28-17 win-loss record in 2023, 15-8 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Her best result of the current season was winning the title in Monterrey where she overcame Caroline Garcia in the final 6-4 3-6 7-5.
Talking about her overall career, Vekic has an overall 367-263 record. She has a positive 210-141 record on hard.
Previously in Zhengzhou
Vekic has never competed in this tournament before.
Nao Hibino
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 14-13 | 12-10 | 0-3 | 2-0 | 0-0 | 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. 93, Nao got to the 1st round after beating Xichen Zhao 6-0 6-1 and Carol Zhao 6-3 6-2.
In the qualifications, The Japanese had a good straight sets win against Zhao (6-3 6-2). During the match Hibino and Zhao scored the same amount of points (). However, the world no. 21 was stronger during the important points and that was the most significant difference in the match. Nao was not very aggressive do strike just winners.
About the serving games, Hibino couldn’t to score even 1 ace for the entire match and she was exceptionally consistent in conceding no double faults for the entire match. Nao Hibino conceded no breaks for the entire match to put 0% of her first serves in, win 0% (/) of the points behind her 1st serve and 0% (/) on the 2nd serve.
Overall Performance in this tournament
The Japanese started her run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, she hasn’t lost yet a set in this tournament to win 69% of the points she played.
Her best result of the current season was winning the title the W25 Kashiwa where she beat Su Jeong Jang in the final 6-4 6-3 and in Prague where she overcame Linda Noskova in the final 6-4 6-1.
Hibino has an overall 37-26 win-loss record in 2023, 24-16 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Head 2 Head
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LLLWWLLWLW Tennis Scores in Zhengzhou
- Laura SiegemundSiegemund – Diana ShnaiderShnaider (6-2 3-0 ret.) – See score progression
- Ellen PerezPerez – Tamara KorpatschKorpatsch (6-4 5-7 6-4) – See score progression
- Nao HibinoHibino – Carol ZhaoZhao (6-3 6-2) – See score progression
- Vera ZvonarevaZvonareva – Timea BabosBabos (6-73 6-2 7-65) – See score progression
- Kateryna VolodkoVolodko – Xiaodi YouYou (6-4 3-6 6-2) – See score progression
- Lesya TsurenkoTsurenko – Moyuka UchijimaUchijima (7-5 6-1) – See score progression
- Laura SiegemundSiegemund – Diana ShnaiderShnaider (6-2 3-0 ret.) – See score progression
- Vera ZvonarevaZvonareva – Timea BabosBabos (6-7(3) 6-2 7-6(5)) – See score progression
- Ellen PerezPerez – Tamara KorpatschKorpatsch (6-4 5-7 6-4) – See score progression
Upcoming matches in the draw
- Petra MarticMartic – Magda LinetteLinette (0-3) – H2H and prediction
- Lesya TsurenkoTsurenko – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Nao HibinoHibino – Donna VekicVekic (1-2) – H2H and prediction
- Lucia BronzettiBronzetti – Hanyu GuoGuo (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Tamara KorpatschKorpatsch – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Elisabetta CocciarettoCocciaretto – Darya KasatkinaKasatkina (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Veronika KudermetovaKudermetova – Vera ZvonarevaZvonareva (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Anhelina KalininaKalinina – Ellen PerezPerez (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Kateryna BondarenkoBondarenko – Qinwen ZhengZheng (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Ludmilla SamsonovaSamsonova – Tatjana MariaMaria (2-0) – H2H and prediction
- Lin ZhuZhu – Laura SiegemundSiegemund (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Moyuka UchijimaUchijima – Jasmine PaoliniPaolini (0-0) – H2H and prediction
