Donna Vekic and Kimberly Birrell will face off in the 1st round of the U.S. Open for the 2nd time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Monday at 11:00 am on Court 12. In the following paragraphs, you can find the head to head analysis and prediction.

Prediction, odds and live streaming

The pick for Tennis Tonic is Donna Vekic who should win in 2 sets.

As per the initial odds, Donna Vekic is the pick to win this match.
Donna Vekic -> 1.36
Kimberly Birrell -> 3.16

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Prediction and head to head Donna Vekic vs. Kimberly Birrell

This will be the 2nd time that Donna Vekic and Kimberly Birrell clash 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 fought against each other, Birrell won 6-4 4-6 6-1 in the 2nd round in Melbourne back in 2019.

Donna Vekic

Donna Vekic

27 - 17win/loss

Hard
7-7
I Hard
2-1
Clay
8-5
Grass
10-4
Rank
25
High
19
LLWWWWWLWW
Year Total Hard Clay I.hard Grass Carpet
2024 27-17 7-7 8-5 2-1 10-4 0-0
2023 29-20 16-9 4-5 2-3 7-3 0-0
2022 28-20 10-9 9-6 2-1 7-4 0-0
2021 19-16 10-12 0-1 5-0 4-3 0-0
2020 8-11 6-6 1-3 1-2 0-0 0-0

Ranked no. 25, Vekic will start her run at the U.S. Open after she played her last match in Cincinnati where she lost 5-7 7-6(4) 6-2 to Krueger in the 1st round on the 13th of August.

The Croatian has a compiled 27-17 win-loss record in 2024, 7-7 on hard (See FULL STATS).

Donna’s best result of the season was reaching the final in Bad Homburg and Paris.

Talking about her overall career, The Croatian has an overall 389-280 record. She has a positive 216-148 record on hard.

Previously at the U.S. Open

Previously, her best result was reaching the quarter in 2019. See her history.

U.S. Open
Vekic's Record

Kimberly Birrell

Kimberly Birrell

26 - 20win/loss

Hard
8-12
I Hard
0-3
Clay
1-1
Grass
12-4
Carpet
5-0
Rank
147
High
100
WWWLLLLWLW
Year Total Hard Clay I.hard Grass Carpet
2024 26-20 8-12 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. 147, the Australian got to the 1st round after beating Robin Montgomery 7-6(4) 4-6 6-2, Veronika Erjavec 6-4 6-4 and Julieta Pareja 6-3 6-3.

In the qualifications, Kimberly had a good straight sets win against Pareja (6-3 6-3). During the match Birrell scored 65 points vs Pareja’s 47. Birrell was pretty aggressive to blast 25 winners.

About the serving games, Birrell scored 2 aces and she committed only 7 double faults. Kimberly Birrell lost the serve 3 times. Furthermore, Birrell put 68% of her first serves in, winning 78% (25/32) of the points behind her 1st serve and 27% (4/15) on the 2nd serve. The Australian broke Pareja 6 times after converting 67% of her break points (6/9).

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 W75 Fukuoka where she beat Emina Bektas in the final 6-2 6-4.

Kimberly has a composed 26-20 win-loss record in 2024, 8-12 on hard (See FULL STATS).

Previously at the U.S. Open

Previously, her best result was reaching the 1st round in 2023. See her history.

U.S. Open
Birrell's Record

Tennis Scores – U.S. Open

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