Yulia Putintseva and Kimberly Birrell will square off in the qualifications of the Hobart International for the 3rd time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Sunday at 11:00 am on Centre Court. In this post, we analyze their head to head performance and prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Yulia Putintseva who should win in 3 sets.
As per the initial odds, Yulia Putintseva is the pick to win this match.
Yulia Putintseva -> 1.55
Kimberly Birrell -> 2.35
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Prediction and head to head Yulia Putintseva vs. Kimberly Birrell
This will be the 3rd time that Yulia Putintseva and Kimberly Birrell play each other. The head to head is 1-1 (see full H2H stats), 1-0 on hard.
The last time that they played each other, Putintseva won 6-0 7-5 in the Rubber 2 in Billie Jean King Cup, Finals back in 2023.
Yulia Putintseva
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 25-27 | 17-17 | 5-5 | 2-1 | 1-4 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 40-22 | 22-15 | 9-4 | 1-2 | 8-1 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 34-27 | 19-17 | 13-8 | 2-0 | 0-2 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 26-21 | 9-11 | 15-7 | 1-1 | 1-2 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 32-24 | 14-12 | 12-8 | 5-2 | 1-2 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 63, Putintseva got to the qualifications after defeating Nao Hibino 6-2 6-2.
In the qualifications, Yulia had a good straight sets win against Hibino (6-2 6-2). During the match, Putintseva scored 57 points vs Hibino’s 34. The Kazakhstani was pretty aggressive to blast 22 winners.
Talking about the service games, Putintseva was unable to score even 1 ace during the match and she committed only 1 double fault. Yulia Putintseva lost the serve twice. Furthermore, Putintseva put 76% of her first serves in, winning 69% (22/32) of the points behind her 1st serve and 50% (5/10) on the 2nd serve. Putintseva broke Hibino 6 times after converting 67% of her break points (6/9).
Putintseva has good match record in the last 10 years having won 54% of her matches (265-222). 1-1 on hard in 2024. Regarding her performance on the same surface of this event, Putintseva has a composed 141-134 match record in the last years on hard.
Yulia has an aggregate 1-1 win-loss record in 2024, 1-1 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in Hobart
Kimberly Birrell
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| 2021 | 2-4 | 2-4 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 115, the Australian reached the qualifications after defeating Jaqueline Cristian 6-4 6-4.
In the qualifications, Birrell had a good straight sets win against Cristian (6-4 6-4). During the match Birrell scored 67 points vs Cristian’s 49. The Australian was pretty aggressive to blast 31 winners.
About the serving games, Birrell scored just 1 ace during the entire match and she committed only 2 double faults. Kimberly Birrell lost the serve twice and she saved 4 break points. Furthermore, Birrell put 65% of her first serves in, winning 79% (31/39) of the points behind her 1st serve and 48% (10/21) on the 2nd serve. Birrell broke Cristian 4 times after converting 57% of her break points (4/7).
Kimberly has a composed 1-1 win-loss record in 2024, 1-1 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in Hobart
Previously, her best result was reaching the 2nd round in 2016. See her history.
H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Putintseva | Birrell |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 1 | 1 |
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 |
| Tot Games | 16 | 20 |
| Pts | 57-34 | 67-49 |
| Total Points | 91 | 116 |
| Winners | 22 | 31 |
| %Winners | 39% | 46% |
Both Putintseva and Birrell played 1 match. Also both players started their run from the qualifications.Both players have not dropped a single set in this event so far. Talking about their workload, Putintseva and Birrell have played the same amount of sets 2. However, Putintseva played 4 games less than Birrell. Putintseva scored 22 winners (39% of the total points). On the other side, Birrell scored 31 winners (46%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Putintseva | Birrell |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 0 | 1 |
| Avg per match | 0 | 1 |
| 1st in | 32/42 | 39/60 |
| %1st in | 76% | 65% |
| 1st pts | 22/32 | 31/39 |
| %1st pts | 69% | 79% |
| 2nd pts | 5/10 | 10/21 |
| %2nd pts | 50% | 48% |
Putintseva didn’t manage to fire a single ace to far. Birrell managed to score 1 ace . Putintseva won 69% points on her first serve. She very solid her second serve to win 50% of the points. On the other side, Birrell won 79% of the points on her first serve. She had a solid display on her second serve to win 48% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Putintseva | Birrell |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 6 | 4 |
| Converted | 6/9 | 4/7 |
| % Converted | 67% | 57% |
| Conceded | 2 | 6 |
| Saved | 0 | 4 |
| % Saved | 0% | 67% |
| Times Broken | 2 | 2 |
The Kazakhstani broke her opponent 6 times with a 67% conversion rate. Putintseva dropped her serve twice and she saved 0% of the break points that she conceded. Kimberly broke her opponent 4 times with a 57% conversion rate. Kimberly conceded her serve twice and she saved 67% of the break points that she conceded.
| Putintseva | |||
| Q1 Hibino |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-2 6-2 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 16 | 16 | |
| pts | 57-34 | 57-34 | |
| Total points | 91 | 91 | |
| Winners | 22 | 22 | |
| %Winners | 39% | 39% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 0 | 0 | |
| Double Faults | 1 | 1 | |
| 1st in | 32/42 | 32/42 | |
| % 1st in | 76% | 76% | |
| 1st pts | 22/32 | 22/32 | |
| % 1st pts | 69% | 69% | |
| 2nd pts | 5/10 | 5/10 | |
| % 2nd pts | 50% | 50% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 6 | 6 | |
| Converted | 6/9 | 6/9 | |
| Converted % | 67% | 67% | |
| Conceded | 2 | 2 | |
| Saved | 0/2 | 0 | |
| Saved % | 0% | 0% | |
| Times Broken | 2 | 2 | |
| Birrell | |||
| Q1 Cristian |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-4 6-4 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 20 | 20 | |
| pts | 67-49 | 67-49 | |
| Total points | 116 | 116 | |
| Winners | 31 | 31 | |
| %Winners | 46% | 46% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 1 | 1 | |
| Double Faults | 2 | 2 | |
| 1st in | 39/60 | 39/60 | |
| % 1st in | 65% | 65% | |
| 1st pts | 31/39 | 31/39 | |
| % 1st pts | 79% | 79% | |
| 2nd pts | 10/21 | 10/21 | |
| % 2nd pts | 48% | 48% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 4 | 4 | |
| Converted | 4/7 | 4/7 | |
| Converted % | 57% | 57% | |
| Conceded | 6 | 6 | |
| Saved | 4/6 | 4 | |
| Saved % | 67% | 67% | |
| Times Broken | 2 | 2 | |
Head 2 Head
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