Nao Hibino and Ekaterina Makarova (1996) will square off in the qualifications of the Australian Open for the 1^st time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Wednesday at 12:00 pm on Court 16. In the following paragraphs, you can find the head to head analysis and prediction.

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The pick for Tennis Tonic is Nao Hibino who should win in 2 sets.

As per the initial odds, Nao Hibino is the pick to win this match.
Nao Hibino -> 1.161
Ekaterina Makarova (1996) -> 4.95

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Prediction and head to head Nao Hibino vs. Ekaterina Makarova (1996)

There is no head to head record between Nao Hibino and Ekaterina Makarova (1996) since this will be the first time that they will square off in the main tour.

Nao Hibino

Ranked no. 143, Hibino reached the qualifications after beating Marina Stakusic 7-6(5) 6-1.

In the qualifications, Nao had a good straight sets win against Stakusic (7-6⁵ 6-1). During the match, Hibino scored 77 points vs Stakusic’s 62. The Japanese was pretty aggressive to blast 31 winners.

Talking about the service games, Hibino scored just 1 ace in the course of the match and she committed only 6 double faults. Nao Hibino lost the serve 3 times and she saved 5 break points. Furthermore, Hibino put 69% of her first serves in, winning 72% (31/43) of the points behind her 1st serve and 32% (6/19) on the 2nd serve. Hibino broke Stakusic 6 times after converting 50% of her break points (6/12).

Hibino has positive win-loss record in the last 10 years having won 51% of her matches (251-242). 4-1 on hard in 2025. Regarding her performance on the same surface of this competition, Hibino has a compiled 187-162 match record in the last years on hard.

The Japanese has a composed 4-1 win-loss record in 2025, 4-1 on hard (See FULL STATS).

Previously at the Australian Open

Ekaterina Makarova (1996)

Ranked no. 245, the Russian got to the qualifications after beating Noma Akugue Noha 6-2 6-3.

In the qualifications, Makarova had a good straight sets win against Akugue Noha (6-2 6-3). During the match Makarova scored 64 points vs Akugue Noha’s 53. The Russian was extremely aggressive to blast 31 winners.

Talking about serving, Makarova couldn’t to score even 1 ace for the entire match and she was quite consistent in conceding no double faults for the entire match. Ekaterina Makarova (1996) lost the serve once and she saved 3 break points. Furthermore, Makarova put 84% of her first serves in, winning 63% (31/49) of the points behind her 1st serve and 44% (4/9) on the 2nd serve. The Russian broke Akugue Noha 5 times after converting 56% of her break points (5/9).

The Russian has an aggregate 1-1 win-loss record in 2025, 1-1 on hard (See FULL STATS).

Previously at the Australian Open

Previously, her best result was reaching the qualifications in 2023 and 2024. See her history.

H2H Performance in the tournament

Matches, sets, games and points

Points	Hibino	Makarova
Match played	1	1
Tot Set	2	2
Tot Games	20	17
Pts	77-62	64-53
Total Points	139	117
Winners	31	31
%Winners	40%	48%

Both Hibino and Makarova played 1 match. Also both players started their run from the qualifications.Both players have not surrendered a single set in this event so far. Talking about their workload, Hibino and Makarova have played the same amount of sets 2. However, Hibino played 3 games more than Makarova. Nao scored 31 winners (40% of the total points). On the other side, Ekaterina scored 31 winners (48%).

Serve Performance

Serve	Hibino	Makarova
Aces	1	0
Avg per match	1	0
1st in	43/62	49/58
%1st in	69%	84%
1st pts	31/43	31/49
%1st pts	72%	63%
2nd pts	6/19	4/9
%2nd pts	32%	44%

Hibino scored 1 ace . Makarova didn’t manage to fire a single ace to far. Hibino won 72% points behind her first serve. She pretty effective on her second serve to win 32% of the points. On the other side, Makarova won 63% of the points behind her first serve. She had a solid display on her second serve to win 44% of the points.

How they played the important points

Breaks	Hibino	Makarova
Won	6	5
Converted	6/12	5/9
% Converted	50%	56%
Conceded	8	4
Saved	5	3
% Saved	63%	75%
Times Broken	3	1

Nao broke her opponent 6 times with a 50% conversion rate. Nao conceded her serve 3 times and she saved 63% of the break points that she conceded. Makarova broke her opponent 5 times with a 56% conversion rate. The Russian conceded her serve once and she saved 75% of the break points that she conceded.

Hibino
	Q1 Stakusic	Total
Score	7-65 6-1
Tot Set	2	2
Tot Games	20	20
pts	77-62	77-62
Total points	139	139
Winners	31	31
%Winners	40%	40%
SERVE
Aces	1	1
Double Faults	6	6
1st in	43/62	43/62
% 1st in	69%	69%
1st pts	31/43	31/43
% 1st pts	72%	72%
2nd pts	6/19	6/19
% 2nd pts	32%	32%
Breaks
Won	6	6
Converted	6/12	6/12
Converted %	50%	50%
Conceded	8	8
Saved	5/8	5
Saved %	63%	63%
Times Broken	3	3

Makarova
	Q1 Akugue Noha	Total
Score	6-2 6-3
Tot Set	2	2
Tot Games	17	17
pts	64-53	64-53
Total points	117	117
Winners	31	31
%Winners	48%	48%
SERVE
Aces	0	0
Double Faults	0	0
1st in	49/58	49/58
% 1st in	84%	84%
1st pts	31/49	31/49
% 1st pts	63%	63%
2nd pts	4/9	4/9
% 2nd pts	44%	44%
Breaks
Won	5	5
Converted	5/9	5/9
Converted %	56%	56%
Conceded	4	4
Saved	3/4	3
Saved %	75%	75%
Times Broken	1	1

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