51 Facts About Timea Babos

Timea Babos is a Hungarian professional tennis player who is a former world No 1 in doubles.

Timea Babos is a four-time Grand Slam champion in women's doubles, having won the 2018 and 2020 Australian Opens, as well as the French Open in 2019 and 2020, all alongside Kristina Mladenovic.

Timea Babos became world No 1 for the first time in July 2018, holding the top ranking for 13 weeks, and was the first Hungarian player, male or female, to reach world No 1 in either singles or doubles.

Timea Babos has won 24 doubles titles on the WTA Tour, including the 2017,2018 and 2019 WTA Finals and two at WTA 1000 level.

In singles, Timea Babos has a career-high ranking of No 25, achieved in September 2016, and has won three WTA titles, finishing runner-up on five occasions.

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Timea Babos has represented Hungary in the Billie Jean King Cup since 2011, and competed at the 2012 and 2016 Olympic Games.

Timea Babos was born on 10 May 1993 to mother Zsuzsanna and father Csaba in Sopron, Hungary.

Timea Babos's father is a coach at the tennis club her family owns in Sopron, while her mother is a housewife.

Timea Babos's sister was a very good player and won NCAA titles when studying at Berkeley in the United States.

Timea Babos was originally a swimmer and was national champion in Hungary, but during that time she looked differently at swimming, finding it quite boring and as hard work, so she started to come with her sister to tennis practice at the age of 8.

Timea Babos loved watching her sister's work-outs with their Dad, when she was eight and her sister 16, so her parents signed her up for a class at a local club and after a few months, she was accepted into local events.

Timea Babos's break-through came at the age of nine, where after leading the u12 club team to four qualification round victories, she qualified for the u12 National Championships.

Timea Babos began competing on the ITF Junior Circuit in September 2006 at the age of 13, winning the title in her debut event in doubles event at the lowest-level Grade 5 Talentum Cup in homeland Hungary.

Timea Babos then made her Grand Slam debut at the junior 2008 French Open, reaching the second round in both singles and doubles.

Timea Babos started to produce strong results at the junior Grand Slam and other Grade-A and Grade-1 events in 2009.

Timea Babos started year with great performances at the Grade-1 tournaments.

Timea Babos finished 2009 season, with singles second round and quarterfinal in doubles at the Orange Bowl.

Timea Babos had a strong start of next season, winning her first singles tournament of the year, the Grade-1 Loy Yang Traralgon International.

Timea Babos followed this with singles quarterfinal and final in doubles at the Australian Open.

Timea Babos did not stop with success, winning then US Open, again with Stephens, after walkover by An-Sophie Mestach and Silvia Njiric in the final.

Timea Babos continued winning one and losing two $10K finals, by the end of the 2009 season.

Timea Babos had a strong start in doubles too, winning one of two finals that she reached on the ITF Circuit.

Timea Babos started 2010 with mixed results, but her first improvement was at a $25K event in Budapest where she reached her first final in that category, but finished as runner–up.

At the Hungarian Open in July 2011, Timea Babos realized her first WTA match-win, defeating Anna-Giulia Remondina, but lost in the next round to Roberta Vinci.

Timea Babos reached another $50K final in doubles, and reached semifinals in singles.

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Timea Babos won against one qualifier, wildcard and seeded player, before she lost in the semifinal to Alexandra Panova.

Timea Babos reached her first WTA Tour singles final at the Monterrey Open, and won the title.

Timea Babos continued with improvement, making her first Grand Slam debut at the French Open, where she lost to Sesil Karatantcheva in the first round.

Timea Babos finished runner–up at the $75K event Viccourt Cup in Donetsk, and won the $50K Soweto Open in Johannesburg.

Timea Babos then won her first WTA Tour doubles title at the Birmingham Classic alongside Hsieh, defeating Liezel Huber and Lisa Raymond in three sets.

Timea Babos partnered with Hsieh, and they were eliminated by Sara Errani and Roberta Vinci in the second round.

Timea Babos continued with modest results in singles on the WTA Tour, falling mostly in the first round.

Timea Babos reached another Premier final at the Open GdF Suez, but ended runner-up alongside Kristina Mladenovic.

Timea Babos then reached the final at the Morocco Open, losing to Elina Svitolina.

Clay-court season was successful for Timea Babos, winning title at the Morocco Open, and later another Premier 5 title at the Italian Open.

Timea Babos continued, reaching the quarterfinal at the Katowice Open and semifinal at the Morocco Open.

Timea Babos then reached her first Premier 5 quarterfinal at the Cincinnati Open, losing there to fourth seed Garbine Muguruza.

Timea Babos reached two new Premier Mandatory finals, at the Madrid Open and China Open, but these were her others unsuccessful attempts to win her first title in that category.

Timea Babos continued with good results, but this time she made even more remarkable results.

Timea Babos reached the mixed doubles final alongside Rohan Bopanna; they lost to Gabriela Dabrowski and Mate Pavic.

Timea Babos followed this win quarterfinals of the Italian Open and French Open, before she won title at the Premier-level Birmignam Classic.

Timea Babos then continued with two new quarterfinals, at the Canadian Open and Cincinnati Open, before she reached another Grand Slam final at the US Open.

Timea Babos started her 2021 season at the first edition of the Gippsland Trophy.

Timea Babos lost in the second round to 12th seed Caroline Garcia.

Timea Babos lost in the second round at the Australian Open in singles.

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Timea Babos withdrew from the 2022 Australian Open as she was not willing to comply with the COVID rules.

Timea Babos has become the first Hungarian female tennis player to reach the world number one spot.

Timea Babos didn't seem arrogant and was always nice to the junior players at Grand Slams.

Timea Babos has aggressive style of play with a good mix of shots.

Timea Babos's father taught her not to be aggressive player nor defensive but neutral one, where she can hit slice and drop shots sometimes.

Timea Babos has taken part in the MOL Talent Support Programme since 2008, and then in 2011, she became a participant in the MOL professional sponsorship programme.