The entry list copied to the Hungarian Tennis Association’s Facebook page shows the duo of Tímea Babos and Kristina Mladenovic, who played together again earlier this month after a year-and-a-half break, and she also won the ITF Dubai tournament with a total prize pool of $100,000.
A week and a half ago, Babos could not say for sure about the joint continuation, but the Hungarian double member of the two-time WTA world champion and four-time winner of the Grand Slam tournament emphasized on the association’s website that at that time she did not he had been in a fight with his partner, they had been in constant touch for the past year and a half. She suggested several times to play some tournaments together, but somehow it never worked out, until she entered the Dubai tournament.
And they have also been registered in Melbourne, we learned from the Facebook page of the Hungarian Tennis Association:
Tímea Babos and Kristina Mladenovic won the 2018 and 2020 Australian Open and 2019 and 2020 Roland Garros together, and appeared in the Grand Slam final three more times: in 2014 at Wimbledon, in 2018 at They lost to their opponents at the US Open and the Australian Open in 2019. They won the WTA World Championship in 2018 and 2019.
Tímea Babos is currently 82nd in the world doubles rankings
After the couple split, in 2021 and 2022 Tímea Babos couldn’t even get close to the heights she had reached before. In May this year she won a $100,000 ITF tournament, similar to the one in Dubai, then with Japan’s Hibino Nao, then in November she won a $60,000 tournament with Ukraine’s Katerina Volodko. 29-year-old Tímea Babos is currently 82nd in the world doubles rankings, but in singles she is only 338. Kristina Mladenovic, also 29, is 17th in singles – she really wanted to focus on singles, this also contributed to the doubles break – in doubles 125 And the duo of Babos and Mladenovic can still have imagination.
Tímea Babos also shared a photo of Dubai on Instagram, and now we can see what her new hairstyle looks like on her page. And if not from him, we also now know that the pairing of Babos and Mladenovic will reunite at the site of their previous big success, the Australian Open.
Cover photo: Tímea Babos and Kristina Mladenovic won the Australian Open in 2020 (Photo: AFP/David Gray)
