Marie Bouzkova and Kimberly Birrell will face off in the 2nd round of the China Open for the 2nd time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Saturday at 6:30 pm on Court 4. Here the head to head stats and relative prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Marie Bouzkova who should win in 3 sets.
As per the initial odds, Marie Bouzkova is the pick to win this match.
Marie Bouzkova -> 1.51
Kimberly Birrell -> 2.54
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Prediction and head to head Marie Bouzkova vs. Kimberly Birrell
This will be the 2nd time that Marie Bouzkova and Kimberly Birrell play each other. The head to head is 1-0 for Birrell (see full H2H stats), 1-0 on hard.
The last time that they played, Birrell won 2-6 7-6(3) 6-2 in the qualifications in Tokyo back in 2025.
Marie Bouzkova
32 - 20win/loss
27
21
WLWWLWWLLW | Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 32-20 | 12-13 | 9-4 | 2-1 | 9-2 | 0-0 |
| 2025 | 31-21 | 20-12 | 9-6 | 1-1 | 1-2 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 27-22 | 17-16 | 7-3 | 1-0 | 2-3 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 28-24 | 19-16 | 5-5 | 1-0 | 3-3 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 42-14 | 33-10 | 5-2 | 0-0 | 4-2 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 27,she will start her run in Beijing after she played her last match in Billie Jean King Cup, Finals where she beat 7-6(2) 4-6 6-4 to Kartal in the Rubber 1 on the 22nd of September.
Bouzkova has an aggregate 32-20 win-loss record in 2026, 12-13 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Her best result of the current season was conquering the title in Bogota where she overcame Panna Udvardy in the final 6-7(7) 6-2 6-2 and in Nottingham where she defeated Emma Navarro in the final 7-6(5) 4-6 6-2.
Talking about her overall career, Bouzkova has an overall 420-248 record. She has a positive 275-147 record on hard.
Previously in Beijing
Previously, her best result was reaching the 4th round in 2025. See her history.
Kimberly Birrell
29 - 24win/loss
41
41
WWWWWWLWLL | Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 29-24 | 23-15 | 1-4 | 0-0 | 5-5 | 0-0 |
| 2025 | 41-29 | 31-17 | 1-5 | 3-2 | 6-5 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 41-30 | 22-19 | 1-1 | 1-6 | 12-4 | 5-0 |
| 2023 | 42-33 | 32-21 | 4-7 | 0-1 | 1-4 | 5-0 |
| 2022 | 41-25 | 38-20 | 3-2 | 0-0 | 0-3 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 41 (career-high), Birrell reached the 2nd round after defeating Aoi Ito 6-1 6-1.
In the 1st round, Kimberly had a good straight sets win against Ito (6-1 6-1). During the match Birrell scored 59 points vs Ito’s 29. The Australian was quite aggressive to blast 18 winners.
About the serving games, Birrell scored just 1 ace during the entire match and she committed only 1 double fault for the entire match. Kimberly Birrell conceded no breaks for the entire match to put 65% of her first serves in, win 69% (18/26) of the points behind her 1st serve and 86% (12/14) on the 2nd serve. Kimberly broke Ito 5 times after converting 56% of her break points (5/9).
Her best result of the season was winning the title in Seoul where she defeated Maya Joint in the final 6-4 6-2.
Kimberly has an aggregate 29-24 win-loss record in 2026, 23-15 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in Beijing
Previously, her best result was reaching the 1st round in 2024 and 2025. See her history.
Head 2 Head
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- Sara BejlekBejlek – Maddison InglisInglis (6-3 7-5) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Daria SnigurSnigur – Jasmine PaoliniPaolini (3-6 7-65 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Taylah PrestonPreston – Diane ParryParry (7-64 6-1) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Diana ShnaiderShnaider – Janice TjenTjen (6-0 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Linda NoskovaNoskova – Elena Gabriela RuseGabriela Ruse (6-4 6-1) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Aryna SabalenkaSabalenka – Renata ZarazuaZarazua (6-1 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Polina KudermetovaKudermetova – Clara TausonTauson (6-4 4-6 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Karolina MuchovaMuchova – Katie BoulterBoulter (7-63 6-1) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Ekaterina AlexandrovaAlexandrova – Aliaksandra SasnovichSasnovich (6-1 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Viktorija GolubicGolubic – Peyton StearnsStearns (6-4 3-6 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Mirra AndreevaAndreeva – Yue YuanYuan (3-6 6-0 6-0) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Dayana YastremskaYastremska – Maja ChwalinskaChwalinska (6-3 6-1) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Naomi OsakaOsaka – Maria TimofeevaTimofeeva (6-3 3-6 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Nikola BartunkovaBartunkova – Magdalena FrechFrech (6-2 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Sinja KrausKraus – Anastasia PotapovaPotapova (4-1 ret.) – Stats, scores, rankings
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