Laura Siegemund and Nao Hibino will fight against each other in the qualifications of the Japan Open Tennis Championships for the 2^nd time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Sunday at 12:30 pm on Court 1. In this post, we analyze their head to head performance and prediction.

Prediction, odds and live streaming

The pick for Tennis Tonic is Laura Siegemund who should win in 3 sets.

As per the initial odds, Laura Siegemund is the pick to win this match.
Laura Siegemund -> 1.69
Nao Hibino -> 2.07

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Prediction and head to head Laura Siegemund vs. Nao Hibino

This will be the 2^nd time that Laura Siegemund and Nao Hibino clash against each other. The head to head is 1-0 for Siegemund (see full H2H stats), but they have never played each other on hard.

The last time that they fought against each other, Siegemund won 7-6(1) 6-4 in the 1^st round in Mallorca back in 2016.

Laura Siegemund

Ranked no. 68, the German reached the qualifications after defeating Rina Saigo 7-5 6-2.

In the qualifications, Laura had a good straight sets win against Saigo (7-5 6-2). During the match, Siegemund scored 73 points vs Saigo’s 63. Siegemund was exceptionally aggressive to blast 25 winners.

Talking about the service games, Siegemund scored just 1 ace in the encounter and she committed only 2 double faults. Laura Siegemund lost the serve 4 times and she saved 3 break points. Furthermore, Siegemund put 67% of her first serves in, winning 50% (25/50) of the points behind her 1st serve and 52% (13/25) on the 2nd serve. Siegemund broke Saigo 7 times after converting 70% of her break points (7/10).

Siegemund has a solid win-loss record in the last 10 years having won 60% of her matches (264-177). 12-9 on hard in 2024. Regarding her performance on the same surface of this tournament, Siegemund has a composed 90-78 win-loss record in the last years on hard.

Siegemund’s best result of the year was reaching the final in Hua Hin.

Siegemund has an aggregate 24-19 win-loss record in 2024, 12-9 on hard (See FULL STATS).

Previously in Osaka

The German has never competed in this tournament before.

Nao Hibino

Ranked no. 142, the Japanese reached the qualifications after beating Mananchaya Sawangkaew 3-6 7-5 6-3.

In the qualifications against Sawangkaew, The Japanese recovered from a 1-set down deficit before winning (3-6 7-5 6-3). During the match Hibino scored 93 points vs Sawangkaew’s 89. Nao was quite aggressive to blast 47 winners.

Talking about serving, Hibino bagged 3 aces and she committed only 5 double faults. Nao Hibino lost the serve 4 times and she saved 4 break points. Furthermore, Hibino put 73% of her first serves in, winning 65% (47/72) of the points behind her 1st serve and 42% (11/26) on the 2nd serve. Hibino broke Sawangkaew 5 times after converting 71% of her break points (5/7).

Nao has an overall 26-28 win-loss record in 2024, 20-18 on hard (See FULL STATS)

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Previously in Osaka

Previously, her best result was reaching the 1^st round in 2018, 2019 and 2023. See her history.

H2H Performance in the tournament

Matches, sets, games and points

Points	Siegemund	Hibino
Match played	1	1
Tot Set	2	3
Tot Games	20	30
Pts	73-63	93-89
Total Points	136	182
Winners	25	47
%Winners	34%	51%

Both Siegemund and Hibino played 1 match. Also both players started their run from the qualifications.At the moment, Nao Hibino conceded 1 set while Laura Siegemund hasn’t conceded a set so far. Siegemund has played 1 set(s) less than Hibino (2 vs 3). Therefore, Siegemund played 10 games less than Hibino. The German scored 25 winners (34% of the total points). On the other side, Nao scored 47 winners (51%).

Serve Performance

Serve	Siegemund	Hibino
Aces	1	3
Avg per match	1	3
1st in	50/75	72/98
%1st in	67%	73%
1st pts	25/50	47/72
%1st pts	50%	65%
2nd pts	13/25	11/26
%2nd pts	52%	42%

Siegemund struck 1 ace . Hibino also blasted 3 aces . Siegemund won 50% points behind her first serve. She was rock solid on her second serve to win 52% of the points. On the other side, Hibino won 65% of the points on her first serve. She had a solid display on her second serve to win 42% of the points.

How they played the important points

Breaks	Siegemund	Hibino
Won	7	5
Converted	7/10	5/7
% Converted	70%	71%
Conceded	7	8
Saved	3	4
% Saved	43%	50%
Times Broken	4	4

The German broke her opponent 7 times with a 70% conversion rate. The German conceded her serve 4 times and she saved 43% of the break points that she conceded. The Japanese broke her opponent 5 times with a 71% conversion rate. The Japanese conceded her serve 4 times and she saved 50% of the break points that she conceded.

Siegemund
	Q1 Saigo	Total
Score	7-5 6-2
Tot Set	2	2
Tot Games	20	20
pts	73-63	73-63
Total points	136	136
Winners	25	25
%Winners	34%	34%
SERVE
Aces	1	1
Double Faults	2	2
1st in	50/75	50/75
% 1st in	67%	67%
1st pts	25/50	25/50
% 1st pts	50%	50%
2nd pts	13/25	13/25
% 2nd pts	52%	52%
Breaks
Won	7	7
Converted	7/10	7/10
Converted %	70%	70%
Conceded	7	7
Saved	3/7	3
Saved %	43%	43%
Times Broken	4	4

Hibino
	Q1 Sawangkaew	Total
Score	3-6 7-5 6-3
Tot Set	3	3
Tot Games	30	30
pts	93-89	93-89
Total points	182	182
Winners	47	47
%Winners	51%	51%
SERVE
Aces	3	3
Double Faults	5	5
1st in	72/98	72/98
% 1st in	73%	73%
1st pts	47/72	47/72
% 1st pts	65%	65%
2nd pts	11/26	11/26
% 2nd pts	42%	42%
Breaks
Won	5	5
Converted	5/7	5/7
Converted %	71%	71%
Conceded	8	8
Saved	4/8	4
Saved %	50%	50%
Times Broken	4	4

Tennis Scores in Osaka

• Marco BrugnerottoBrugnerotto – Palaphoom KovapituktedKovapitukted (6-2 6-1) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Siddharth VishwakarmaVishwakarma – Ashwin Ryan SharmaRyan Sharma (6-2 7-5) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Tom EvansEvans – Fitriadi M RifqiM Rifqi (3-6 6-4 6-1) – Stats, scores, rankings
• David Agung SusantoAgung Susanto – Roy HobbsHobbs (6-4 6-1) – Stats, scores, rankings

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