Viktoriya Tomova and Timea Babos will face off in the qualifications of the Dubai Duty Free Championships for the 2nd time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Saturday at 12:00 pm on Court 1. 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 Viktoriya Tomova who should win in 3 sets.
As per the initial odds, Viktoriya Tomova is the pick to win this match.
Viktoriya Tomova -> 1.58
Timea Babos -> 2.28
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Prediction and head to head Viktoriya Tomova vs. Timea Babos
This will be the 2nd time that Viktoriya Tomova and Timea Babos play each other. The head to head is 1-0 for Babos (see full H2H stats), but they have never competed against each other on hard.
The last time that they competed against each other, Babos won 6-1 6-2 in the semifinal in the Taipei back in 2019.
Viktoriya Tomova
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 34-34 | 15-18 | 15-13 | 0-1 | 4-2 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 42-29 | 16-9 | 20-10 | 4-5 | 2-5 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 41-32 | 14-8 | 21-15 | 2-5 | 4-3 | 0-1 |
| 2021 | 23-32 | 5-9 | 13-12 | 2-7 | 1-3 | 2-1 |
| 2020 | 17-10 | 1-4 | 4-3 | 12-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 68,she will start her run in Dubai after she played her last match in Dubai where she defeated 6-4 6-0 to Raina in the qualifications on the 16th of February.
Viktoriya has a compiled 5-7 win-loss record in 2024, 5-6 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Talking about her overall career, The Bulgarian has an overall 284-220 record. She has a positive 84-69 record on hard.
Previously in Dubai
Previously, her best result was reaching the 2nd round in 2023. See her history.
Timea Babos
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 14-16 | 4-7 | 7-8 | 3-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 36-18 | 18-10 | 18-6 | 0-1 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 24-26 | 14-11 | 8-14 | 0-0 | 2-1 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 18-18 | 6-5 | 1-6 | 10-5 | 1-2 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 5-13 | 3-8 | 1-2 | 1-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 179, Babos reached the qualifications after beating Maria Timofeeva 6-2 2-6 6-3.
In the qualifications, Timea defeated Timofeeva (6-2 2-6 6-3). During the match Babos scored 83 points vs Timofeeva’s 77. The Hungarian was quite aggressive to blast 28 winners.
About the serving games, Babos couldn’t to score even 1 ace for the entire match and she committed only 5 double faults. Timea Babos lost the serve 6 times and she saved 5 break points. Furthermore, Babos put 61% of her first serves in, winning 56% (28/50) of the points behind her 1st serve and 50% (16/32) on the 2nd serve. Timea broke Timofeeva 7 times after converting 58% of her break points (7/12).
Timea has an overall 4-3 win-loss record in 2024, 4-3 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in Dubai
Previously, her best result was reaching the 1st round in 2015, 2019 and 2021. See her history.
H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Tomova | Babos |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 1 | 1 |
| Tot Set | 2 | 3 |
| Tot Games | 16 | 25 |
| Pts | 73-46 | 83-77 |
| Total Points | 119 | 160 |
| Winners | 24 | 28 |
| %Winners | 33% | 34% |
Both Tomova and Babos played 1 match. Also both players started their run from the qualifications.At the moment, Timea Babos conceded 1 set while Viktoriya Tomova hasn’t surrendered a set so far. Tomova has played 1 set(s) less than Babos (2 vs 3). Therefore, Tomova played 9 games less than Babos. Viktoriya scored 24 winners (33% of the total points). On the other side, Timea managed to score 28 winners (34%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Tomova | Babos |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 4 | 0 |
| Avg per match | 4 | 0 |
| 1st in | 31/53 | 50/82 |
| %1st in | 58% | 61% |
| 1st pts | 24/31 | 28/50 |
| %1st pts | 77% | 56% |
| 2nd pts | 11/22 | 16/32 |
| %2nd pts | 50% | 50% |
Tomova struck 4 aces . Babos didn’t manage to fire a single ace to far. Tomova won 77% points on her first serve. She pretty solid on her second serve to win 50% of the points. On the other side, Babos won 56% of the points on her first serve. She had a solid display on her second serve to win 50% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Tomova | Babos |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 5 | 7 |
| Converted | 5/13 | 7/12 |
| % Converted | 38% | 58% |
| Conceded | 6 | 11 |
| Saved | 5 | 5 |
| % Saved | 83% | 45% |
| Times Broken | 1 | 6 |
Viktoriya broke her opponent 5 times with a 38% conversion rate. Viktoriya dropped her serve once and she saved 83% of the break points that she conceded. Timea broke her opponent 7 times with a 58% conversion rate. The Hungarian conceded her serve 6 times and she saved 45% of the break points that she conceded.
| Tomova | ||
| Total | ||
|---|---|---|
| Score | ||
| Tot Set | 0 | |
| Tot Games | 0 | |
| pts | 0-0 | |
| Total points | 0 | |
| Winners | 0 | |
| %Winners | 0% | |
| SERVE | ||
| Aces | 0 | |
| Double Faults | 0 | |
| 1st in | 0/0 | |
| % 1st in | 0% | |
| 1st pts | 0/0 | |
| % 1st pts | % | |
| 2nd pts | 0/0 | |
| % 2nd pts | 0% | |
| Breaks | ||
| Won | 0 | |
| Converted | 0/0 | |
| Converted % | 0% | |
| Conceded | 0 | |
| Saved | 0 | |
| Saved % | 0% | |
| Times Broken | 0 | |
| Babos | |||
| Q1 Timofeeva |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-2 2-6 6-3 | ||
| Tot Set | 3 | 3 | |
| Tot Games | 25 | 25 | |
| pts | 83-77 | 83-77 | |
| Total points | 160 | 160 | |
| Winners | 28 | 28 | |
| %Winners | 34% | 34% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 0 | 0 | |
| Double Faults | 5 | 5 | |
| 1st in | 50/82 | 50/82 | |
| % 1st in | 61% | 61% | |
| 1st pts | 28/50 | 28/50 | |
| % 1st pts | 56% | 56% | |
| 2nd pts | 16/32 | 16/32 | |
| % 2nd pts | 50% | 50% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 7 | 7 | |
| Converted | 7/12 | 7/12 | |
| Converted % | 58% | 58% | |
| Conceded | 11 | 11 | |
| Saved | 5/11 | 5 | |
| Saved % | 45% | 0% | |
| Times Broken | 6 | 6 | |
Head 2 Head
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