Jelena Ostapenko vs Timea BabosPrediction, Head-to-Head Results, and Stats
🇱🇻Jelena Ostapenko
#31 · 29 yrs · Right-Handed
4 meetings · sets 5–5
🇭🇺Timea Babos
Unranked · 33 yrs · Right-Handed
111wJelena Ostapenko and Timea Babos have met 4 times since 2016; they are level 2–2. Their first meeting came at Katowice in 2016 on hard. On hard courts they are level 2–2. Across all meetings Ostapenko has taken 5 sets to Babos's 5. Their most recent meeting: Timea Babos won at Seoul (2019).
Spread & Straight-Sets Form
Completed best-of-3 matches · Last 12 months
| Indicator | Ostapenko | Babos | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Indicator | Jelena Ostapenko | Timea Babos | ||
| Wins in straight sets | 68% | 15/22 | — | |
| Wins a set when losing | 53% | 9/17 | — | |
| Goes to a deciding set | 41% | 16/39 | — | |
| Covers −1.5 sets as favorite | 55% | 12/22 | — | |
| Covers +1.5 sets as underdog | 60% | 9/15 | — | |
| Tiebreak sets won | 50% | 3/6 | — | |
| Wins after taking set 1 | 70% | 16/23 | — | |
| Wins 2-0 after taking set 1 | 65% | 15/23 | — | |
Colored rows are higher-is-better: green above 50%, red below. Favorite/underdog set by book odds; cover rows count only matches with odds on record. Small sample — read with care. Head-to-head: 2 of 4 completed meetings ended in straight sets (Ostapenko 1, Babos 1).
Style Matchup
Playing styles and historical archetype record
Ostapenko
👑 The Complete Package
Babos
👑 The Complete Package
Matchup analysis
Both Jelena Ostapenko and Timea Babos are 👑 The Complete Package types. Mirror matchups usually come down to execution, fitness, and surface fit, across 3,166 matches in our dataset the historical split is about even.
Previous meetings
4 career meetings, newest first
Sep 18, 2019
Seoul
H Hard · Round of 32
Mar 21, 2018
Miami
H Hard · Round of 64
Aug 5, 2016
Florianopolis
H Hard · Quarterfinals
Apr 8, 2016
Katowice
H Hard · Quarterfinals
Player ROI
Hypothetical if you put 1u on each player to win every one of their matches · Last 90 days
| Metric | Ostapenko | Babos |
|---|---|---|
| W-L | 5–2 | - |
| Avg odds | 1.74 | - |
| ROI % | -7.7% | - |
| Units P/L | -0.54u | - |
Small sample: ROI stabilizes with more matches; fewer than 10 in the window is noisy.
Travel
Last 30 days
| Metric | Ostapenko | Babos |
|---|---|---|
| Countries | 1 | — |
| Events | 1 | — |
| Matches | 1 | — |
| Distance | 0 mi · 0 km | — |
| Route | POL | — |
Host country from the tournament each match was played in, over the last 30 days. Route is the order of countries visited; consecutive stops in the same country are shown once. Distance is the great-circle total between host cities, shown only when every stop in the window is geocoded. A rough fatigue signal, not a headline stat.
Recent Form
Last five matches per player
Magdalena Frech
Cincinnati Open - Cincinnati · 2nd Round
Aug 15
Aryna Sabalenka
Wimbledon - London · 3rd Round
Jul 3
Antonia Ruzic
Wimbledon - London · 2nd Round
Jul 1
Harriet Dart
Wimbledon - London · 1st Round
Jun 29
Zeynep Sonmez
Lexus Eastbourne Open - Eastbourne · Quarterfinals
Jun 25
Panna Udvardy
Lexus Eastbourne Open - Eastbourne · 2nd Round
Jun 24
Francesca Jones
Lexus Eastbourne Open - Eastbourne · 1st Round
Jun 22
Magda Linette
French Open - Paris · 2nd Round
May 27
Ekaterina Makarova
Hungarian Grand Prix - Budapest · 1st Round
Jul 16
Marina Bassols Ribera
Open Internacional Femeni Solgirones - La Bisbal D'Emporda · 1st Round
Apr 2
Polona Hercog
Megasaray Hotels Open - Antalya · 2nd Round
Mar 28
Ipek Oz
Megasaray Hotels Open - Antalya · 1st Round
Mar 27
Linda Noskova
Brisbane International - Brisbane · 1st Round
Jan 2
Heather Watson
Credit Andorra Open - Andorra · 1st Round
Nov 28
Daria Kasatkina
Zhengzhou Open - Zhengzhou · 1st Round
Oct 10
Varvara Lepchenko
Barranquilla Open - Barranquilla · 1st Round
Aug 15
Rivalry momentum
Cumulative head-to-head lead over time
Win rate
Matches, sets and games won · Last 12 months · 39–39 matches
| Metric | Ostapenko | Babos |
|---|---|---|
| Matches won | 56% | - |
| Sets won | 56% | - |
| Games won | 52% | - |
Record by tier
Head-to-head record by tournament tier
| Stage | Ostapenko | Babos |
|---|---|---|
| WTA 250 | 1 | 2 |
| WTA 1000 | 1 | 0 |
By surface
Head-to-head record per surface
| Surface | Ostapenko | Babos |
|---|---|---|
| Hard | 2 | 2 |
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