Nao Hibino

Nao Hibino
Nao Hibino 2019 at the Wimbledon Championships
Nation:	Japan
Birthday:	November 28, 1994
Size:	163 cm
Playing hand:	Right, two-handed backhand
Trainer:	Eiji Takeuchi
Prize money:	$ 1,546,312
singles
Career record:	263: 190
Career title:	2 WTA , 8 ITF
Highest ranking:	56 (January 18, 2016)
Current placement:	72
Grand Slam record
Double
Career record:	146: 127
Career title:	2 WTA, 8 ITF
Highest ranking:	43 (July 31, 2017)
Current placement:	68
Grand Slam record
Last update of the infobox: March 16, 2020
Sources: official player profiles at the ATP / WTA and ITF (see web links )

Nao Hibino ( Japanese 日 比 野 菜 緒 , Hibino Nao ; born November 28, 1994 in Aichi Prefecture ) is a Japanese tennis player .

Career

Hibino started playing tennis at the age of ten, her preferred surface is the hard court. As a junior, she reached the second round at the Australian Open and Wimbledon in 2011 . In 2012 she made her debut on the ITF Women's Circuit and won her first three titles. The following year she won a tournament in the $ 25,000 category in Tsukuba for the first time.

In 2014, Hibino started at the US Open for the first time in qualifying for a Grand Slam tournament and lost in the second round. Her international breakthrough came in the following season, when she first won three ITF titles in the $ 50,000 category and then immediately landed her first win against her compatriot Hiroko Kuwata in Tokyo during her first main field participation at a tournament on the WTA Tour . In Tashkent she then won her first WTA title after a final victory over Donna Vekić, completely surprisingly and without losing a set . This was followed by another semi-final at a tournament of the WTA Challenger Series in Hua Hin as well as the final participation in the ITF tournament in the $ 100,000 category in Tokyo , so that she finished the 2015 season confidently in the top 100 of the world rankings for the first time .

In 2016, Hibino mainly played smaller tournaments on the WTA Tour and reached the round of eight several times. In addition, she was in the main field in all four Grand Slam tournaments for the first time, but she was eliminated in the first round. At the beginning of the year she achieved her best world ranking so far with position 56. In Tashkent she reached the final again, but this time Kristýna Plíšková had to admit defeat in three sets. In her first participation in the Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, she defeated Irina-Camelia Begu at the start , before losing to Garbiñe Muguruza in the second round . Although her performance stagnated the following year, she reached two more WTA finals in 2017: In Kuala Lumpur , which she lost to Ashleigh Barty , and in Nanchang , where she had to admit defeat to Peng Shuai . In doubles, she celebrated her first WTA title in Monterrey together with Alicia Rosolska. Due to another finals at the ITF tournament in Liuzhou , she was able to finish in the top 100 in the world for the third time in a row. In addition, she succeeded in New York against Catherine Bellis, her first success in the main draw of a Grand Slam tournament; in the second round she failed in three sets to Lucie Šafářová .

After a weaker year in 2018, she won her second WTA individual title in Hiroshima in front of her home crowd in 2019 after beating her compatriot Misaki Doi in the final . She won the subsequent double final on the side of Misaki Doi. In 2020 she was able to survive the first round as a qualifier in Melbourne for the first time, in which she beat Peng Shuai in three sets before she was eliminated by Maria Sakkari . In the quarterfinals of the WTA tournament in Hua Hin she was able to beat Elina Switolina for the first time, a player from the top 10; in the semifinals she was defeated by Leonie Küng .

In 2016 she made her debut for the Japanese Fed Cup team . Since then she has played eleven individual games for her country, six of which she has won.

Tournament victories

singles

No.	date	competition	category	Topping	Final opponent	Result
1.	17th June 2012	Tokyo	ITF $ 10,000	Hard court	Mari Tanaka	6-0, 6-2
2.	June 24, 2012	Mie	ITF $ 10,000	race	Yurina Koshino	6: 2, 0: 6, 6: 3
3.	September 14, 2012	Kyoto	ITF $ 10,000	Carpet (hall)	Yūki Tanaka	6: 4, 2: 6, 6: 2
4th	September 1st 2013	Tsukuba	ITF $ 25,000	Hard court	Erika Sema	6: 4, 7: 6 2
5.	17th May 2015	Kurume	ITF $ 50,000	race	Eri Hozumi	6: 3, 6: 1
6th	19th July 2015	Stockton	ITF $ 50,000	Hard court	To-Sophie Mestach	6: 1, 7: 6 6
7th	2nd August 2015	Lexington	ITF $ 50,000	Hard court	Samantha Crawford	6: 2, 6: 1
8th.	3rd October 2015	Tashkent	WTA International	Hard court	Donna Vekic	6: 2, 6: 2
9.	15th July 2018	Honolulu	ITF $ 60,000	Hard court	Jessica Pegula	6-0, 6-2
10.	15th September 2019	Hiroshima	WTA International	Hard court	Misaki Doi	6: 3, 6: 2

Double

No.	date	competition	category	Topping	Partner	Final opponents	Result
1.	September 14, 2012	Kyoto	ITF $ 10,000	Carpet (hall)	Emi Mutaguchi	Miyu Kato Misaki Mori	6: 4, 6: 3
2.	May 25, 2013	Goyang	ITF $ 25,000	Hard court	Akiko Omae	Han Na-lae Mi Yoo	6: 4, 6: 4
3.	3rd April 2015	Bangkok	ITF $ 15,000	Hard court	Miyu Kato	Miyabi Inoue Akiko Omae	6: 4, 6: 2
4th	August 1, 2015	Lexington	ITF $ 50,000	Hard court	Emily Webley-Smith	Nicha Lertpitaksinchai Peangtarn Plipuech	6: 2, 6: 2
5.	October 30, 2016	Poitiers	ITF $ 100,000	Hard court (hall)	Alicja Rosolska	Alexandra Cadanțu Nicola Geuer	6-0, 6-0
6th	April 9, 2017	Monterrey	WTA International	Hard court	Alicja Rosolska	Dalila Jakupović Nadija Kitschenok	6: 2, 7: 6 4
7th	20th October 2018	Suzhou	ITF $ 100,000	Hard court	Misaki Doi	Luksika Kumkhum Peangtarn Plipuech	6: 2, 6: 3
8th.	17th August 2019	Vancouver	ITF $ 100,000	Hard court	Miyu Kato	Naomi Broady Erin Routliffe	6: 2, 6: 2
9.	September 14, 2019	Hiroshima	WTA International	Hard court	Misaki Doi	Christina McHale Valeria Savinych	3: 6, 6: 4, [10: 4]
10.	9th November 2019	Shenzhen	ITF $ 100,000	Hard court	Makoto Ninomiya	Sofia Shapatava Emily Webley-Smith	6: 4, 6: 0

Performing in Grand Slam tournaments

singles

competition	2016	2017	2018	2019	2020	Career
Australian Open	1	1	1	-	2	2
French Open	1	1	-	-		1
Wimbledon	1	1	-	-		1
US Open	1	2	-	-		2

Double

competition	2016	2017	2018	2019	2020	Career
Australian Open	1	2	1	AF	2	AF
French Open	2	AF	2	1		AF
Wimbledon	1	1	-	1		1
US Open	AF	2	AF	1		AF

Web links

• WTA profile Nao Hibino (English)
• ITF profile Nao Hibino (English)
• Fed Cup stats by Nao Hibino (English)