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

Yulia Putintseva

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Rank
71
High
20
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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
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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

Hobart
Putintseva's Record

Kimberly Birrell

Kimberly Birrell

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Rank
98
High
60
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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
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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.

Hobart
Birrell's Record

H2H Performance in the tournament

Y.Putintseva
K.Birrell
1h:08
1h:08
Time on court​
1h:23
1h:23
1h:08
1h:08
Last match​
1h:23
1h:23
1
1
Match played
1
1
16
16
Games Played​
20
20
2
2
Set played​​
2
2
57
57
Total points​
67
67
57
57
Avg point​
67
67
22
22
Winners
31
31
22
22
Avg Winners​
31
31
39%
39%
Ratio winners
46%
46%
-- Serve --
0
0
Aces
1
1
0
0
Avg Aces
1
1
1
1
Double Faults
2
2
1
1
Avg Double Faults
2
2
22/32
22/32
1st won total​
31/39
31/39
69%
69%
1st won %
!
79%
79%
5/10
5/10
2nd won total​
10/21
10/21
50%
50%
2nd won %
48%
48%
-- Break Points --
6/9
6/9
BP won
4/7
4/7
6/9
6/9
Avg BP won
4/7
4/7
!
67%
67%
Won
!
57%
57%
2
2
Conceded
6
6
2
2
Avg Conceded
6
6
2
2
Broken
2
2
2
2
Avg Broken
2
2
0
0
Saved
4
4
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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

Tennis Scores in Hobart

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