Nao Hibino

Nao Hibino is one of those athletes you quietly root for without quite knowing all the stats, and that's kind of the whole vibe she gives off. Born in Ichinomiya, Aichi in 1994 — not exactly a city you'd peg as a hotbed of professional tennis — she went ahead and built a legit pro career on the WTA circuit anyway. At 163 cm she's not towering over opponents, but watching compact players grind through matches with pure tenacity is honestly more entertaining than just watching someone serve bombs from six feet up. She's been the kind of steady, quietly determined presence on tour that doesn't always make headlines but keeps showing up in draws year after year, which takes more grit than people realize. With three WTA singles titles behind her and her early thirties still ahead of her, I'm genuinely curious where she takes it from here.

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Nao Hibino is a Japanese professional tennis player born on November 28, 1994, in Ichinomiya, Aichi Prefecture. Standing 163 cm tall, she competes as a professional on the international circuit. She has won three WTA Tour singles titles and three doubles titles, with career-high rankings of No. 56 in singles and No. 43 in doubles.

Name (English)

Nao Hibino

Name (Japanese)

日比野菜緒

Reading

ひびの なお

Born

November 28, 1994 (age 31)

Origin

Ichinomiya, Aichi Prefecture, Japan

Height

163cm

Occupation

Tennis player

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Sagittarius / Dog

• Official sitehttps://nao-hibino.com/
• Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/naohibino_1128/
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%97%A5%E6%AF%94%E9%87%8E%E8%8F%9C%E7%B7%92
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q18210941

Tags

• From Aichi Prefecture
• Tennis player

Last updated

November 2, 2026

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