Polona Hercog vs Timea BabosPrediction, Head-to-Head Results, and Stats
🇸🇮Polona Hercog
#224 · 35 yrs · Right-Handed
4 meetings · sets 7–2
🇭🇺Timea Babos
Unranked · 33 yrs · Right-Handed
117wPolona Hercog and Timea Babos have met 4 times since 2015; Polona Hercog leads 3–1. Their first meeting came at Bad Gastein in 2015 on clay. On clay courts Hercog leads 2–1. Across all meetings Hercog has taken 7 sets to Babos's 2. Their most recent meeting: Polona Hercog won at Megasaray Hotels Open - Antalya (2024).
Spread & Straight-Sets Form
Completed best-of-3 matches · Last 12 months
| Indicator | Hercog | Babos | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Indicator | Polona Hercog | Timea Babos | ||
| Wins in straight sets | 68% | 23/34 | — | |
| Wins a set when losing | 36% | 8/22 | — | |
| Goes to a deciding set | 34% | 19/56 | — | |
| Covers −1.5 sets as favorite | 49% | 19/39 | — | |
| Covers +1.5 sets as underdog | 69% | 11/16 | — | |
| Tiebreak sets won | 56% | 9/16 | — | |
| Wins after taking set 1 | 90% | 28/31 | — | |
| Wins 2-0 after taking set 1 | 74% | 23/31 | — | |
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: 3 of 4 completed meetings ended in straight sets (Hercog 3, Babos 0).
Style Matchup
Playing styles and historical archetype record
Hercog
👑 The Complete Package
Babos
👑 The Complete Package
Matchup analysis
Both Polona Hercog and Timea Babos are 👑 The Complete Package types. Mirror matchups usually come down to execution, fitness, and surface fit, across 4,208 matches in our dataset the historical split is about even.
Previous meetings
4 career meetings, newest first
Mar 28, 2024
Megasaray Hotels Open - Antalya
C Clay · 2nd Round
Apr 27, 2016
Rabat
C Clay · Round of 32
Mar 2, 2016
Monterrey
H Hard · Round of 32
Jul 22, 2015
Bad Gastein
C Clay · Round of 32
Player ROI
Hypothetical if you put 1u on each player to win every one of their matches · Last 90 days
| Metric | Hercog | Babos |
|---|---|---|
| W-L | 2–6 | - |
| Avg odds | 2.38 | - |
| ROI % | -47.9% | - |
| Units P/L | -3.83u | - |
Small sample: ROI stabilizes with more matches; fewer than 10 in the window is noisy.
Travel
Last 30 days
| Metric | Hercog | Babos |
|---|---|---|
| Countries | 3 | — |
| Events | 3 | — |
| Matches | 5 | — |
| Distance | — | — |
| Route | SRB → ECU → AUT | — |
Host country from each tournament in the last 30 days, including the current event even when a player arrived on a bye. 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
Alena Kovackova
W50 Burgas · 1st Round
Oct 6
Lisa Pigato
W75 Quinta do Lago · Quarterfinals
Oct 2
Naiktha Bains
W75 Quinta do Lago · 2nd Round
Oct 1
Ayana Akli
W75 Quinta do Lago · 1st Round
Sep 30
Leyre Romero Gormaz
Tolentino Open - Tolentino · 1st Round
Sep 21
Julie Struplova
Zavarovalnica Triglav - Ljubljana · 1st Round
Sep 14
Moyuka Uchijima
U.S. Open - New York · 1st Round Qualifying
Aug 25
Laura Pigossi
W100 Gran Canaria-Maspalomas · 1st Round
Jul 29
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 · 56–56 matches
| Metric | Hercog | Babos |
|---|---|---|
| Matches won | 61% | - |
| Sets won | 58% | - |
| Games won | 54% | - |
Record by tier
Head-to-head record by tournament tier
| Stage | Hercog | Babos |
|---|---|---|
| WTA 500 | 1 | 0 |
| WTA 250 | 1 | 1 |
| WTA 125 | 1 | 0 |
By surface
Head-to-head record per surface
| Surface | Hercog | Babos |
|---|---|---|
| Hard | 1 | 0 |
| Clay | 2 | 1 |
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