Sorana Cirstea and Kimberly Birrell will play each other in the 1st round of the BNP Paribas Open for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Thursday at 1:30 pm on STADIUM 9. Here the head to head stats and relative prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Sorana Cirstea who should win in 3 sets.
As per the initial odds, Sorana Cirstea is the pick to win this match.
Sorana Cirstea -> 1.73
Kimberly Birrell -> 2.11
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Prediction and head to head Sorana Cirstea vs. Kimberly Birrell
There is no head to head record between Sorana Cirstea and Kimberly Birrell since this will be the first time that they will fight against each other in the main tour.
Sorana Cirstea
Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
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2025 | 1-2 | 0-2 | 0-0 | 1-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
2024 | 12-16 | 9-8 | 3-5 | 0-0 | 0-3 | 0-0 |
2023 | 31-22 | 21-14 | 7-4 | 0-1 | 3-3 | 0-0 |
2022 | 22-21 | 10-10 | 4-6 | 4-2 | 4-3 | 0-0 |
2021 | 24-18 | 11-10 | 11-3 | 0-2 | 2-3 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 83, Sorana will start her run in Indian Wells after she played her last match in Dubai where she lost 6-4 7-6(4) to Muchova in the 2nd round on the 21st of February.
The Romanian has an overall 4-6 win-loss record in 2023, 4-6 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Talking about her overall career, Sorana has an overall 502-396 record. She has a positive 227-185 record on hard.
Previously in Indian Wells
Previously, her best result was reaching the 4th round in 2022. See her history.
Kimberly Birrell
Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
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2025 | 7-2 | 6-2 | 0-0 | 1-0 | 0-0 | 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 |
2021 | 2-4 | 2-4 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 115 (career-high), Kimberly reached the 1st round after defeating Jodie Anna Burrage 6-2 6-4 and Nao Hibino 6-1 2-6 6-3.
In the qualifications, Kimberly defeated Hibino (6-1 2-6 6-3). During the match Birrell scored 88 points vs Hibino’s 77. Kimberly was exceptionally aggressive to blast 28 winners.
Talking about serving, Birrell scored just 1 ace during the entire match and she committed only 6 double faults. Kimberly Birrell lost the serve 5 times and she saved 8 break points. Furthermore, Birrell put 51% of her first serves in, winning 64% (28/44) of the points behind her 1st serve and 43% (18/42) on the 2nd serve. Kimberly broke Hibino 7 times after converting 70% of her break points (7/10).
Overall Performance in this tournament
Kimberly started her run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, she has conceded 1 set in the tournament to win 55% of the points she played.
Her best result of the current year was conquering the title the W60 Orlando where she defeated Rebecca Peterson in the final 6-3 6-0.
Kimberly has an overall 17-6 win-loss record in 2023, 17-6 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in Indian Wells
Birrell has never competed in this tournament before.
Head 2 Head
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