Lucia Bronzetti and Nao Hibino will square off in the qualifications of the Dubai Duty Free Championships for the 2nd time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Saturday at 10:00 am on Court 2. Here the head to head stats and relative prediction.
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The pick for Tennis Tonic is Lucia Bronzetti who should win in 3 sets.
As per the initial odds, Lucia Bronzetti is the pick to win this match.
Lucia Bronzetti -> 1.67
Nao Hibino -> 2.12
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Prediction and head to head Lucia Bronzetti vs. Nao Hibino
This will be the 2nd time that Lucia Bronzetti and Nao Hibino face off. The head to head is 1-0 for Bronzetti (see full H2H stats), 1-0 on hard.
The last time that they competed against each other, Bronzetti won 4-6 6-2 6-1 in the qualifications in at the Australian Open back in 2022.
Lucia Bronzetti
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 8-13 | 6-11 | 1-1 | 1-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 32-30 | 15-17 | 10-9 | 4-2 | 3-2 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 36-26 | 18-10 | 13-10 | 3-3 | 2-3 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 53-23 | 14-4 | 38-14 | 1-5 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 11-11 | 0-2 | 5-4 | 6-5 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 56, the Italian reached the qualifications after beating Tereza Martincova 6-1 6-4.
In the qualifications, Bronzetti had a good straight sets win against Martincova (6-1 6-4). During the match, Bronzetti scored 63 points vs Martincova’s 40. Lucia was very aggressive to blast 22 winners.
Regarding the service games, Bronzetti struck 2 aces and she committed only 1 double fault. Lucia Bronzetti lost the serve once and she saved 2 break points. Furthermore, Bronzetti put 62% of her first serves in, winning 69% (22/32) of the points behind her 1st serve and 65% (13/20) on the 2nd serve. Lucia broke Martincova 5 times after converting 63% of her break points (5/8).
Bronzetti has a winning win-loss record in the last 9 years having won 58% of her matches (267-191). 3-6 on hard in 2024. Regarding her performance on the same surface of this tournament, Bronzetti has an overall82-51 win-loss record in the last 9 years on hard.
The Italian has an overall 4-7 win-loss record in 2024, 3-6 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in Dubai
Lucia 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 qualifications after defeating Greetje Minnen 6-4 6-2.
In the qualifications, Hibino had a good straight sets win against Minnen (6-4 6-2). During the match Hibino scored 64 points vs Minnen’s 50. Nao was quite aggressive to blast 23 winners.
Talking about serving, Hibino recorded 3 aces and she committed only 2 double faults. Nao Hibino lost the serve twice and she saved 2 break points. Furthermore, Hibino put 76% of her first serves in, winning 62% (23/37) of the points behind her 1st serve and 67% (8/12) on the 2nd serve. Nao broke Minnen 5 times after converting 42% of her break points (5/12).
Hibino has an overall 6-6 win-loss record in 2024, 6-6 on hard (See FULL STATS).
H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Bronzetti | Hibino |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 1 | 1 |
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 |
| Tot Games | 17 | 18 |
| Pts | 63-40 | 64-50 |
| Total Points | 103 | 114 |
| Winners | 22 | 23 |
| %Winners | 35% | 36% |
Both Bronzetti and Hibino played 1 match. Also both players started their run from the qualifications.Both players have not dropped a single set in this event so far. Talking about their workload, Bronzetti and Hibino have played the same amount of sets 2. However, Bronzetti played 1 game less than Hibino. The Italian scored 22 winners (35% of the total points). On the other side, Hibino fired 23 winners (36%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Bronzetti | Hibino |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 2 | 3 |
| Avg per match | 2 | 3 |
| 1st in | 32/52 | 37/49 |
| %1st in | 62% | 76% |
| 1st pts | 22/32 | 23/37 |
| %1st pts | 69% | 62% |
| 2nd pts | 13/20 | 8/12 |
| %2nd pts | 65% | 67% |
Bronzetti struck 2 aces . Hibino struck 3 aces . Bronzetti won 69% points on her first serve. She very solid her second serve to win 65% of the points. On the other side, Hibino won 62% of the points on her first serve. She had a solid display on her second serve to win 67% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Bronzetti | Hibino |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 5 | 5 |
| Converted | 5/8 | 5/12 |
| % Converted | 63% | 42% |
| Conceded | 3 | 4 |
| Saved | 2 | 2 |
| % Saved | 67% | 50% |
| Times Broken | 1 | 2 |
The Italian broke her opponent 5 times with a 63% conversion rate. The Italian surrendered her serve once and she saved 67% of the break points that she conceded. Hibino broke her opponent 5 times with a 42% conversion rate. The Japanese conceded her serve twice and she saved 50% of the break points that she conceded.
| Bronzetti | |||
| Q1 Martincova |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-1 6-4 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 17 | 17 | |
| pts | 63-40 | 63-40 | |
| Total points | 103 | 103 | |
| Winners | 22 | 22 | |
| %Winners | 35% | 35% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 2 | 2 | |
| Double Faults | 1 | 1 | |
| 1st in | 32/52 | 32/52 | |
| % 1st in | 62% | 62% | |
| 1st pts | 22/32 | 22/32 | |
| % 1st pts | 69% | 69% | |
| 2nd pts | 13/20 | 13/20 | |
| % 2nd pts | 65% | 65% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 5 | 5 | |
| Converted | 5/8 | 5/8 | |
| Converted % | 63% | 63% | |
| Conceded | 3 | 3 | |
| Saved | 2/3 | 2 | |
| Saved % | 67% | 67% | |
| Times Broken | 1 | 1 | |
| Hibino | |||
| Q1 Minnen |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-4 6-2 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 18 | 18 | |
| pts | 64-50 | 64-50 | |
| Total points | 114 | 114 | |
| Winners | 23 | 23 | |
| %Winners | 36% | 36% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 3 | 3 | |
| Double Faults | 2 | 2 | |
| 1st in | 37/49 | 37/49 | |
| % 1st in | 76% | 76% | |
| 1st pts | 23/37 | 23/37 | |
| % 1st pts | 62% | 62% | |
| 2nd pts | 8/12 | 8/12 | |
| % 2nd pts | 67% | 67% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 5 | 5 | |
| Converted | 5/12 | 5/12 | |
| Converted % | 42% | 42% | |
| Conceded | 4 | 4 | |
| Saved | 2/4 | 2 | |
| Saved % | 50% | 50% | |
| Times Broken | 2 | 2 | |
Head 2 Head
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