Kimberly Birrell and Sachia Vickery will square off in the 1st round of the Hana Bank Korea Open for the 2nd time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Tuesday at 2:00 pm on Court 13. In this post, we analyze their head to head performance and prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Kimberly Birrell who should win in 3 sets.
As per the initial odds, Kimberly Birrell is the pick to win this match.
Kimberly Birrell -> 1.77
Sachia Vickery -> 2.05
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Prediction and head to head Kimberly Birrell vs. Sachia Vickery
This will be the 2nd time that Kimberly Birrell and Sachia Vickery fight against each other. The head to head is 1-0 for Birrell (see full H2H stats), 1-0 on hard.
The last time that they competed against each other, Birrell won 5-7 6-1 6-2 in the quarter in the W60 Orlando back in February 2023.
Kimberly Birrell
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 8-11 | 3-8 | 0-0 | 0-3 | 0-0 | 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 |
| 2020 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 102, Kimberly will start her run in Seoul after she played her last match in Beijing where she lost 6-3 6-4 to Andreeva in the qualifications on the 29th of September.
Kimberly has an overall 36-27 win-loss record in 2023, 26-16 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Her best result of the season was winning the title the W60 Orlando where she beat Rebecca Peterson in the final 6-3 6-0 and the W25 Cantanhede where she beat Arina Rodionova in the final 4-6 6-3 6-1.
Talking about her overall career, The Australian has an overall 173-152 record. She has a positive 132-99 record on hard.
Previously in Seoul
Previously, her best result was reaching the 2nd round in 2022. See her history.
Sachia Vickery
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 16-11 | 9-5 | 7-5 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 36-23 | 19-12 | 13-7 | 0-0 | 4-4 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 36-26 | 25-16 | 7-7 | 3-2 | 1-1 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 15-17 | 10-10 | 3-5 | 1-1 | 1-1 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 15-9 | 15-7 | 0-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 144, Sachia got to the 1st round after beating Boyoung Jeong 6-2 6-3 and Ksenia Zaytseva 7-610 2-6 6-2.
In the qualifications, Vickery defeated Zaytseva (7-610 2-6 6-2).During the match Vickery scored less points (11) than Zaytseva. In fact, the world no. 102 won 96 points vs Zaytseva’s. That means that Vickery was more focused during the important points. Sachia was very aggressive to blast 34 winners.
About the serving games, Vickery was unable to score even 1 ace for the entire match and she committed only 4 double faults. Sachia Vickery lost the serve 6 times and she saved 4 break points. Furthermore, Vickery put 52% of her first serves in, winning 62% (34/55) of the points behind her 1st serve and 36% (18/50) on the 2nd serve. Vickery broke Zaytseva 6 times after converting 50% of her break points (6/12).
Overall Performance in this tournament
Vickery started her run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, she has conceded 1 set in the tournament to win 51% of the points she played.
The American’s best result of the year was reaching the semifinal in the W25 Boca Raton.
The American has a composed 33-21 win-loss record in 2023, 18-10 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in Seoul
The American has never competed in this tournament before.
Head 2 Head
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- Yue YuanYuan – Arianne HartonoHartono (6-1 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Kathinka Von DeichmannVon Deichmann – Irina KhromachevaKhromacheva (5-7 6-4 3-0 ret.) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Yanina WickmayerWickmayer – En Shuo LiangShuo Liang (6-3 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Polina KudermetovaKudermetova – Alycia ParksParks (3-6 6-1 6-0) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Ekaterina AlexandrovaAlexandrova – Mai HontamaHontama (6-3 6-1) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Claire LiuLiu – Yeon Woo KuWoo Ku (6-3 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Arantxa RusRus – Na-Lae HanHan (6-1 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Kaja JuvanJuvan – Katie BoulterBoulter (6-4 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Eri Hozumi/Makoto NinomiyaHozumi/Makoto Ninomiya – Quinn Gleason/Laura PigossiGleason/Laura Pigossi (3-6 6-4 10-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
Upcoming matches in the draw
- Jessica PegulaPegula – Viktoria KuzmovaKuzmova (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Nadia PodoroskaPodoroska – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Eva LysLys – Anna SchmiedlovaSchmiedlova (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Kayla DayDay – Marie BouzkovaBouzkova (1-2) – H2H and prediction
- Sofia KeninKenin – Su Jeong JangJeong Jang (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Laura PigossiPigossi – Emina BektasBektas (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Sachia VickeryVickery – Kimberly BirrellBirrell (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Dayeon BackBack – Jelena OstapenkoOstapenko (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Claire LiuLiu – Arantxa RusRus (0-2) – H2H and prediction
- Ekaterina AlexandrovaAlexandrova – Yanina WickmayerWickmayer (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Kathinka Von DeichmannVon Deichmann – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Kaja JuvanJuvan – Yue YuanYuan (0-0) – H2H and prediction
