Nao Hibino

Nao Hibino
日比野 菜緒

Hibino at the 2015 Wimbledon Championships
Country (sports)	Japan
Residence	Ichinomiya, Aichi, Japan
Born	(1994-11-28) November 28, 1994 Ichinomiya, Aichi, Japan
Plays	Right (two-handed backhand)
Prize money	$ 244,836
Singles
Career record	137-73
Career titles	1 WTA, 7 ITF
Highest ranking	No. 56 (18 January 2016)
Current ranking	No. 56 (8 February 2016)
Grand Slam Singles results
Australian Open	1R (2016)
Wimbledon	Q2 (2015)
US Open	Q3 (2015)
Doubles
Career record	57–49
Career titles	0 WTA, 4 ITF
Highest ranking	No. 150 (18 January 2016)
Current ranking	No. 156 (8 February 2016)
Grand Slam Doubles results
Australian Open	1R (2016)
Last updated on: 8 February 2016.

Nao Hibino (日比野 菜緒, Hibino Nao, born 28 November 1994) is a professional Japanese tennis player, and currently the women's Japanese and Asian number 1.^[1] She is currently ranked 58th in singles and 157th in doubles - both career high rankings. In 2015 she won her maiden WTA title.

Career

2014

Hibino made her WTA main draw debut at the 2014 Japan Women's Open, in the doubles event where she partnered Riko Sawayanagi. They lost in the first round to Yurika Sema and Erika Sema. Prior to her main draw debut she had won 4 ITF singles titles and 2 ITF doubles titles. She made her grand slam debut at the 2015 US Open where she defeated Anna Tatishvili in the first qualifying round.

2015

In 2015, Hibino reached the final of the 2015 Fukuoka International Women's Cup where she lost to Kristýna Plíšková. The following week she won the 2015 Kurume Best Amenity Cup, defeating Eri Hozumi in the final, 6–3, 6–1. Hibino made her debut at the 2015 Wimbledon Championships, defeating Ayumi Morita in the first qualifying round before losing to Anna Tatishvili. Her second $50,000 title came at the 2015 Stockton Challenge, defeating Belgian An-Sophie Mestach in the final. This was Hibino's first singles title outside Japan. Her rise continued when she continued her good results at 2015 FSP Gold River Challenge and the 2015 Kentucky Bank Tennis Championships, reaching the semifinals and winning the title, respectively. At the 2015 US Open, Hibino reached the final qualifying round, defeating Tereza Martincová and Eri Hozumi in the first two rounds before losing to Kateryna Bondarenko.

At the 2015 Japan Women's Open Hibino won her first singles WTA main draw match defeating Hiroko Kuwata in three sets, before she lost to Madison Brengle in the second round. Her success on the WTA tour continued when she won her first WTA title at the 2015 Tashkent Open without dropping a set. Her wins were over Anhelina Kalinina, Kateryna Kozlova, Bojana Jovanovski and in the final Donna Vekić. This title gave Hibino a career high ranking, breaking into the top 100 for the first time in her career.

WTA career finals

Singles: 1 (1 title)

Outcome	No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Opponent in final	Score in final
Winner	1.	3 October 2015	Tashkent Open, Tashkent, Uzbekistan	Hard	Donna Vekić	6–2, 6–2

ITF Circuit finals

Singles Finals: 10 (7–3)

Outcome	No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Opponent	Score
Winner	1.	11 June 2012	Tokyo, Japan	Hard	Mari Tanaka	6–0, 6–2
Winner	2.	24 June 2012	Mie, Japan	Grass	Yurina Koshino	6–2, 0–6, 6–3
Winner	3.	15 September 2012	Kyoto, Japan	Carpet (i)	Yuuki Tanaka	6–4, 2–6, 6–2
Winner	4.	1 September 2013	Tsukuba, Japan	Hard	Erika Sema	6–4, 7–6(7–2)
Runner-up	5.	15 June 2014	Fergana, Uzbekistan	Hard	Nigina Abduraimova	3–6, 4–6
Runner-up	6.	10 May 2015	Fukuoka, Japan	Grass	Kristýna Plíšková	5–7, 4–6
Winner	7.	17 May 2015	Kurume, Japan	Grass	Eri Hozumi	6–3, 6–1
Winner	8.	19 July 2015	Stockton, USA	Hard	An-Sophie Mestach	6–1, 7–6(8–6)
Winner	9.	2 August 2015	Lexington, USA	Hard	Samantha Crawford	6–2, 6–1
Runner-up	10.	21 November 2015	Tokyo, Japan	Hard	Zhang Shuai	4–6, 1–6

Doubles Finals: 8 (4–4)

Outcome	No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Partner	Opponents	Score
Winner	1.	15 September 2012	Kyoto, Japan	Carpet (i)	Emi Mutaguchi	Miyu Kato Misaki Mori	6–4, 6–3
Runner–up	2.	5 May 2013	Gifu, Japan	Hard	Riko Sawayanagi	Luksika Kumkhum Erika Sema	4–6, 3–6
Winner	3.	20 May 2013	Goyang, South Korea	Hard	Akiko Omae	Yoo Mi Han Na-lae	6–4, 6–4
Runner-up	4.	15 June 2014	Fergana, Uzbekistan	Hard	Prarthana Thombare	Hiroko Kuwata Mari Tanaka	1–6, 4–6
Winner	5.	4 April 2015	Bangkok, Thailand	Hard	Miyu Kato	Miyabi Inoue Akiko Omae	6–4, 6–2
Runner-up	6.	11 April 2015	Ahmedabad, India	Hard	Prarthana Thombare	Peangtarn Plipuech Nungnadda Wannasuk	3–6, 6–2, [10–12]
Runner–up	7.	26 July 2015	Sacramento, USA	Hard	Emily Webley-Smith	Ashley Weinhold Caitlin Whoriskey	4–6, 6–3, [12–14]
Winner	8.	2 August 2015	Lexington, USA	Hard	Emily Webley-Smith	Nicha Lertpitaksinchai Peangtarn Plipuech	6–2, 6–2

Grand Slam performance timeline

Singles

References

External links

• Nao Hibino at the Women's Tennis Association
• Nao Hibino at the International Tennis Federation

Women's Tennis Association: Top Japanese female singles tennis players as of 18 January 2016 1. Nao Hibino (56 ) 2. Misaki Doi (64 ) 3. Kurumi Nara (94 ) 4. Naomi Osaka (127 ) 5. Risa Ozaki (145 ) 6. Misa Eguchi (157 ) 7. Miyu Kato (184 ) 8. Hiroko Kuwata (186 ) 9. Kimiko Date-Krumm (187 ) 10. Eri Hozumi (189 )