Nao Hibino (日比野 菜緒, Hibino Nao, born 28 November 1994) is a Japanese professional tennis player. She has been ranked as high as No. 56 in singles and No. 43 in doubles by the Women’s Tennis Association (WTA). Hibino has won two singles and two doubles titles on the WTA Tour. Along with that, she has won eight singles and eight doubles on the ITF Women’s Circuit. Hibino made her breakthrough in 2015, when she won her first WTA title in singles at the Tashkent Open. As a result, she debuted in the top 100. Since then, she spent all weeks inside top 150 and several years in the top 100. She has represented Japan at national competitions, debuting at the Billie Jean King Cup in 2016 and at the Summer Olympics in 2021.
Katarzyna Kawa was born in Krynica-Zdrój, but moved in 2013 to Poznań, Poland, where she currently resides. She started tennis at age seven and is coached by Grzegorz Garczyński. Parents are Anna and Jacek, two sisters are Monika and Weronika, and brother is Radomir. Hobbies include reading and traveling. Idolizes Justine Henin and Novak Djokovic. Favorite shot is her backhand and her favorite surfaces to compete on are both clay and grass. In July, Kawa made it through the qualifying rounds at the Baltic Open to book her spot in the final with a straight-sets victory over Bernarda Pera. Kawa reached the semifinal after beating Anna Danilina, Naiktha Bains, Ysaline Bonaventure, Jana Fett, Chloe Paquet. In the final, she lost to the top seed Anastasija Sevastova, in three sets.