Kimberly Birrell and Sijia Wei will play each other in the 1st round of the Jiangxi Open for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Monday at 4:00 pm on Court 1. In the following paragraphs, you can find the head to head analysis and prediction.
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The pick for Tennis Tonic is Kimberly Birrell who should win in 2 sets.
As per the initial odds, Kimberly Birrell is the pick to win this match.
Kimberly Birrell -> 1.24
Sijia Wei -> 4.05
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Prediction and head to head Kimberly Birrell vs. Sijia Wei
There is no head to head record between Kimberly Birrell and Sijia Wei since this will be the first time that they will square off in the main tour.
Kimberly Birrell
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 23-17 | 5-9 | 1-1 | 0-3 | 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 |
| 2020 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 102, the Australian will start her run in Nanchang after she played her last match in Seoul where she lost 4-6 6-3 6-2 to Bektas in the quarter on the 13th of October.
The Australian has an overall 38-28 win-loss record in 2023, 28-17 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Her best result of the year was conquering the title the W60 Orlando where she defeated Rebecca Peterson in the final 6-3 6-0 and the W25 Cantanhede where she overcame Arina Rodionova in the final 4-6 6-3 6-1.
Talking about her overall career, Birrell has an overall 175-153 record. She has a positive 134-100 record on hard.
Previously in Nanchang
Birrell has never competed in this tournament before.
Sijia Wei
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 17-10 | 15-7 | 1-1 | 0-0 | 1-2 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 42-22 | 29-18 | 6-3 | 7-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 78-28 | 78-28 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 300, the Chinese got to the 1st round after defeating Amina Anshba 6-3 6-3.
In the qualifications, Sijia had a good straight sets win against Anshba (6-3 6-3). During the match Wei scored 75 points vs Anshba’s 59. The Chinese was exceptionally aggressive to blast 19 winners.
About the serving games, Wei scored just 1 ace during the entire match and she committed only 3 double faults. Sijia Wei was pretty efficient on serve to win 73% (19/26) of her 1st serve and 67% (20/30) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. Sijia broke Anshba 3 times after converting 33% of her break points (3/9).
Her best result of the current year was conquering the title the W25 Joue les Tours where she beat Zhuoxuan Bai in the final 6-4 7-6(5).
Wei has a compiled 29-18 win-loss record in 2023, 16-14 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Head 2 Head
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LWLLWLWWLW Tennis Scores in Nanchang
- Yexin MaMa – Tereza MihalikovaMihalikova (5-7 6-2 6-0) – See score progression
- Sijia WeiWei – Amina AnshbaAnshba (6-3 6-3) – See score progression
- Kathinka Von DeichmannVon Deichmann – Ulrikke EikeriEikeri (6-3 7-5) – See score progression
- Xiaodi YouYou – Jessy RompiesRompies (6-3 6-1) – See score progression
Upcoming matches in the draw
- Beatriz Haddad MaiaHaddad Maia – Nao HibinoHibino (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Sijia WeiWei – Kimberly BirrellBirrell (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Vera ZvonarevaZvonareva – Arianne HartonoHartono (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Marie BouzkovaBouzkova – Xiyu WangWang (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Elina AvanesyanAvanesyan – Amina AnshbaAnshba (1-2) – H2H and prediction
- Maria Camila Osorio SerranoCamila Osorio Serrano – Yexin MaMa (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Xinyu JiangJiang – Sara Sorribes TormoSorribes Tormo (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Varvara GrachevaGracheva – Kamilla RakhimovaRakhimova (1-1) – H2H and prediction
- Laura SiegemundSiegemund – Xin Yu WangYu Wang (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Leylah Annie FernandezAnnie Fernandez – Hanyu GuoGuo (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Viktoria KuzmovaKuzmova – Aliaksandra SasnovichSasnovich (2-0) – H2H and prediction
- Valeria SavinykhSavinykh – Magda LinetteLinette (1-2) – H2H and prediction
