Maria Timofeeva and Zhibek Kulambayeva will face off in the qualifications of the European Open for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Monday at 12:30 pm on M2. Here the head to head stats and relative prediction.
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The pick for Tennis Tonic is Maria Timofeeva who should win in 3 sets.
Maria Timofeeva -> 1.57
Zhibek Kulambayeva -> 2.28
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Prediction and head to head Maria Timofeeva vs. Zhibek Kulambayeva
There is no head to head record between Maria Timofeeva and Zhibek Kulambayeva since this will be the first time that they will clash against each other in the main tour.
Maria Timofeeva
21 - 20win/loss
151
93
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 41-28 | 16-8 | 20-13 | 5-6 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 21-21 | 14-10 | 4-8 | 3-2 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 30-19 | 15-6 | 10-6 | 5-5 | 0-2 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 34-21 | 21-11 | 7-7 | 6-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 40-19 | 22-11 | 13-4 | 3-3 | 0-0 | 2-1 |
Ranked no. 277, the Russian got to the qualifications after defeating Ekaterina Yashina 6-0 6-2.
In the qualifications, Maria had a good straight sets win against Yashina (6-0 6-2). During the match, Timofeeva scored 63 points vs Yashina’s 37. Maria was extremely aggressive to blast 23 winners.
Regarding the service games, Timofeeva was unable to score even 1 ace in the match and she committed only 4 double faults. Maria Timofeeva lost the serve once and she saved 6 break points. Furthermore, Timofeeva put 70% of her first serves in, winning 59% (23/39) of the points behind her 1st serve and 71% (12/17) on the 2nd serve. Timofeeva broke Yashina 6 times after converting 60% of her break points (6/10).
Timofeeva has a solid record in the last 8 years having won 62% of her matches (181-113). 14-10 on clay in 2025. In connection with her performance on the same surface of this tournament, Timofeeva has a compiled55-38 win-loss record in the last 8 years on clay.
Timofeeva’s best result of the season was reaching the semifinal in the W50 Aschaffenburg.
Maria has an overall 21-20 win-loss record in 2025, 14-10 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Previously in Hamburg
Zhibek Kulambayeva
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 30-21 | 0-0 | 30-21 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 49-32 | 12-11 | 31-17 | 6-4 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 32-26 | 6-8 | 26-15 | 0-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 19-20 | 4-8 | 15-10 | 0-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 38-21 | 5-5 | 28-11 | 5-5 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 306 (career-high), the Kazakhstani got to the qualifications after defeating Mina Hodzic 6-4 7-5.
In the qualifications, Zhibek had a good straight sets win against Hodzic (6-4 7-5). During the match Kulambayeva scored 78 points vs Hodzic’s 70. The Kazakhstani was quite aggressive to blast 32 winners.
About the serving games, Kulambayeva couldn’t to score even 1 ace for the entire match and she committed only 2 double faults. Zhibek Kulambayeva lost the serve 5 times and she saved 3 break points. Furthermore, Kulambayeva put 78% of her first serves in, winning 59% (32/54) of the points behind her 1st serve and 20% (3/15) on the 2nd serve. Zhibek broke Hodzic 7 times after converting 54% of her break points (7/13).
The Kazakhstani has an overall 24-13 win-loss record in 2025, 24-13 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Previously in Hamburg
Kulambayeva has never competed in this tournament before.
H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Timofeeva | Kulambayeva |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 1 | 1 |
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 |
| Tot Games | 14 | 22 |
| Pts | 63-37 | 78-70 |
| Total Points | 100 | 148 |
| Winners | 23 | 32 |
| %Winners | 37% | 41% |
Both Timofeeva and Kulambayeva 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, Timofeeva and Kulambayeva have played the same amount of sets 2. However, Timofeeva played 8 games less than Kulambayeva. Maria scored 23 winners (37% of the total points). On the other side, Kulambayeva recorded 32 winners (41%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Timofeeva | Kulambayeva |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 0 | 0 |
| Avg per match | 0 | 0 |
| 1st in | 39/56 | 54/69 |
| %1st in | 70% | 78% |
| 1st pts | 23/39 | 32/54 |
| %1st pts | 59% | 59% |
| 2nd pts | 12/17 | 3/15 |
| %2nd pts | 71% | 20% |
Timofeeva didn’t manage to fire a single ace to far. Kulambayeva also didn’t manage to fire a single ace to far. Timofeeva won 59% points behind her first serve. She pretty effective on her second serve to win 71% of the points. On the other side, Kulambayeva won 59% of the points on her first serve. She had a solid display on her second serve to win 20% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Timofeeva | Kulambayeva |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 6 | 7 |
| Converted | 6/10 | 7/13 |
| % Converted | 60% | 54% |
| Conceded | 7 | 8 |
| Saved | 6 | 3 |
| % Saved | 86% | 38% |
| Times Broken | 1 | 5 |
Timofeeva broke her opponent 6 times with a 60% conversion rate. The Russian lost her serve once and she saved 86% of the break points that she conceded. Kulambayeva broke her opponent 7 times with a 54% conversion rate. Zhibek conceded her serve 5 times and she saved 38% of the break points that she conceded.
| Timofeeva | |||
| Q1 Yashina | Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-0 6-2 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 14 | 14 | |
| pts | 63-37 | 63-37 | |
| Total points | 100 | 100 | |
| Winners | 23 | 23 | |
| %Winners | 37% | 37% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 0 | 0 | |
| Double Faults | 4 | 4 | |
| 1st in | 39/56 | 39/56 | |
| % 1st in | 70% | 70% | |
| 1st pts | 23/39 | 23/39 | |
| % 1st pts | 59% | 59% | |
| 2nd pts | 12/17 | 12/17 | |
| % 2nd pts | 71% | 71% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 6 | 6 | |
| Converted | 6/10 | 6/10 | |
| Converted % | 60% | 60% | |
| Conceded | 7 | 7 | |
| Saved | 6/7 | 6 | |
| Saved % | 86% | 86% | |
| Times Broken | 1 | 1 | |
| Kulambayeva | |||
| Q1 Hodzic | Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-4 7-5 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 22 | 22 | |
| pts | 78-70 | 78-70 | |
| Total points | 148 | 148 | |
| Winners | 32 | 32 | |
| %Winners | 41% | 41% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 0 | 0 | |
| Double Faults | 2 | 2 | |
| 1st in | 54/69 | 54/69 | |
| % 1st in | 78% | 78% | |
| 1st pts | 32/54 | 32/54 | |
| % 1st pts | 59% | 59% | |
| 2nd pts | 3/15 | 3/15 | |
| % 2nd pts | 20% | 20% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 7 | 7 | |
| Converted | 7/13 | 7/13 | |
| Converted % | 54% | 54% | |
| Conceded | 8 | 8 | |
| Saved | 3/8 | 3 | |
| Saved % | 38% | 38% | |
| Times Broken | 5 | 5 | |
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