Ekaterina Makarova (1996) and Timea Babos will square off in the 1st round of the Hungarian Grand Prix for the 2nd time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Tuesday at 10:00 am on CENTER COURT. Here the head to head stats and relative prediction.

Prediction, odds and live streaming

The pick for Tennis Tonic is Timea Babos who should win in 2 sets.

As per the initial odds, Timea Babos is the pick to win this match.
Timea Babos -> 1.3
Ekaterina Makarova (1996) -> 3.54

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Prediction and head to head Ekaterina Makarova (1996) vs. Timea Babos

This will be the 2nd time that Ekaterina Makarova (1996) and Timea Babos fight against each other. The head to head is 1-0 for Babos (see full H2H stats), but they have never competed against each other on clay.

The last time that they fought against each other, Babos won 6-2 6-2 in the qualifications in Doha back in February 2024.

Ekaterina Makarova (1996)

Ekaterina Makarova (1996)

14 - 23win/loss

Hard
2-7
I Hard
0-0
Clay
12-14
Grass
0-2
Rank
183
High
158
WLLLLLWLWL
Year Total Hard Clay I.hard Grass Carpet
2024 14-23 2-7 12-14 0-0 0-2 0-0
2023 57-37 14-8 38-24 5-4 0-1 0-0
2022 45-32 9-7 31-14 5-9 0-1 0-1
2021 38-31 6-3 22-19 8-8 0-0 2-1
2020 4-2 0-0 1-1 3-1 0-0 0-0

Ranked no. 183, the Russian reached the 1st round after defeating Emily Appleton 6-3 6-2, Katarina Zavatska w/o and Timea Babos .

In the qualifications, The Russian defeated Zavatska (w/o). During the match, Makarova (1996) and Zavatska scored the same amount of points (). However, the world no. 183 was stronger during the important points and that was the most significant difference in the match. Makarova (1996) was not very aggressive to strike just winners.

Regarding the service games, Makarova (1996) was unable to score even 1 ace throughout the encounter and she was pretty steady in conceding no double faults. Ekaterina Makarova (1996) conceded no breaks for the entire match to put 0% of her first serves in, win 0% (0) of the points behind her 1st serve and 0% (0) on the 2nd serve.

Makarova (1996) has a winning win-loss record in the last 7 years having won 56% of her matches (219-169). 12-14 on clay in 2024. Talking about her performance on the same surface of this event, Makarova (1996) has a composed136-101 record in the last 7 years on clay.

Makarova (1996)’s best result of the season was reaching the final in W15 Campinas.

Makarova (1996) has a composed 14-23 win-loss record in 2024, 12-14 on clay (See FULL STATS).

Previously in Budapest

Ekaterina has never competed in this tournament before.

Budapest
Makarova (1996)'s Record

Timea Babos

Timea Babos

14 - 12win/loss

Hard
4-4
I Hard
3-1
Clay
7-7
Rank
259
High
25
LLWLWWLWWL
Year Total Hard Clay I.hard Grass Carpet
2024 14-12 4-4 7-7 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. 259, Timea will start her run in Budapest after she played her last match in the W75 Caserta where she lost 7-6(2) 3-6 6-2 to Mitu in the 1st round on the 5th of June.

Timea has a composed 14-12 win-loss record in 2024, 7-7 on clay (See FULL STATS).

Babos’s best result of the current season was reaching the semifinal in the W75 Maribor.

In terms of her career, The Hungarian has an overall 449-345 record. She has a positive 115-97 record on clay.

Previously in Budapest

Previously, she won this tournament once in 2017. See her history.

Budapest
Babos's Record

Tennis Scores in Budapest

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