Hailey Baptiste and Clervie Ngounoue will square off in the 1^st round of the Cincinnati Open for the 1^st time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Thursday at 7:00 pm on GRANDSTAND. In this post, we analyze their head to head performance and prediction.

Prediction, odds and live streaming

The pick for Tennis Tonic is Hailey Baptiste who should win in 2 sets.

As per the initial odds, Hailey Baptiste is the pick to win this match.
Hailey Baptiste -> 1.41
Clervie Ngounoue -> 2.91

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Prediction and head to head Hailey Baptiste vs. Clervie Ngounoue

There is no head to head record between Hailey Baptiste and Clervie Ngounoue since this will be the first time that they will square off in the main tour.

Hailey Baptiste

Ranked no. 50, Baptiste will start her run in Cincinnati after she played her last match in Montreal where she lost 6-4 6-3 to Rybakina in the 2^nd round on the 29^th of July.

Hailey has an overall 25-18 win-loss record in 2025, 8-8 on hard (See FULL STATS).

Talking about her overall career, Hailey has an overall 222-152 record. She has a positive 111-81 record on hard.

Previously in Cincinnati

Previously, her best result was reaching the qualifications in 2022 and 2024. See her history.

Clervie Ngounoue

Ranked no. 221, Clervie reached the 1^st round after defeating Olivia Gadecki 6-7(2) 6-3 6-3 and Yue Yuan 3-6 6-4 6-3.

In the qualifications against Yuan, Clervie recovered from a 1-set down deficit before winning (3-6 6-4 6-3). During the match Ngounoue scored 81 points vs Yuan’s 77. Ngounoue was exceptionally aggressive to blast 33 winners.

Talking about serving, Ngounoue made 8 aces and she committed only 1 double fault for the entire match. Clervie Ngounoue lost the serve 4 times and she saved 7 break points. Furthermore, Ngounoue put 63% of her first serves in, winning 65% (33/51) of the points behind her 1st serve and 57% (17/30) on the 2nd serve. Clervie broke Yuan 5 times after converting 71% of her break points (5/7).

Overall Performance in this tournament

Ngounoue started her run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, she has conceded 2 set in the tournament to win 51% of the points she played.

Her best result of the season was winning the title the W50 Birmingham where she beat Viktoria Hruncakova in the final 4-6 6-2 6-3.

Clervie has an aggregate 32-10 win-loss record in 2025, 26-8 on hard (See FULL STATS).

Previously in Cincinnati

Ngounoue has never competed in this tournament before.

Tennis Scores in Cincinnati

• Enrique Lopez-Perez/David MarreroLopez-Perez/David Marrero – Sander Gille/Joran VliegenGille/Joran Vliegen (7-6⁵ 2-6 10-7) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Alexey VatutinVatutin – Oriol Roca BatallaRoca Batalla (6-2 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Antoine Cornut-ChauvincCornut-Chauvinc – Adam PavlasekPavlasek (6-3 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Benjamin BonziBonzi – Alessandro BegaBega (7-6⁴ 6-1) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Steve DarcisDarcis – Norbert GombosGombos (6-4 6-1) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Mathias BourgueBourgue – Daniel MasurMasur (6-4 6-7⁵ 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Federico GaioGaio – Borna GojoGojo (6-3 7-5) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Tristan LamasineLamasine – Jose Hernandez-FernandezHernandez-Fernandez (6-4 6-0) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Johan Sebastien TatlotSebastien Tatlot – Zdenek KolarKolar (7-5 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Uladzimir IgnatikIgnatik – Eduard Esteve LobatoEsteve Lobato (6-1 ret.) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Facundo ArguelloArguello – Corentin Denolly
  Denolly (6-4 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Hugo GastonGaston – Bernabe Zapata MirallesZapata Miralles (6-1 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Manuel GuinardGuinard – Peter HellerHeller (7-6³ 1-6 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Sumit NagalNagal – Hugo NysNys (6-4 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Elliot BenchetritBenchetrit – Roberto Ortega-OlmedoOrtega-Olmedo (6-1 7-5) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Mohamed SafwatSafwat – Tim Van RijthovenVan Rijthoven (7-5 5-7 7-6¹) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Pedro CachinCachin – Matteo MartineauMartineau (6-1 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings

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