Elise Mertens and Kimberly Birrell will square off in the 2^nd round of the BNP Paribas Open for the 2^nd time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Saturday at 4:00 pm on STADIUM 7. In the following lines you can find the head to head analysis and prediction.

Prediction, odds and live streaming

The pick for Tennis Tonic is Elise Mertens who should win in 2 sets.

As per the initial odds, Elise Mertens is the pick to win this match.
Elise Mertens -> 1.32
Kimberly Birrell -> 3.38

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Prediction and head to head Elise Mertens vs. Kimberly Birrell

This will be the 2^nd time that Elise Mertens and Kimberly Birrell play 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 3-6 7-5 4-1 ret. in the 2^nd round in Osaka back in 2024.

Elise Mertens

Ranked no. 28, Mertens will start her run in Indian Wells after she played her last match in Dubai where she lost 6-2 6-1 to Badosa in the 2^nd round on the 18^th of February.

Mertens has a compiled 13-4 win-loss record in 2025, 8-4 on hard (See FULL STATS).

Her best result of the current year was winning the title in Singapore where she beat Ann Li in the final 6-1 6-4.

Talking about her overall career, The Belgian has an overall 460-264 record. She has a positive 271-140 record on hard.

Previously in Indian Wells

Previously, her best result was reaching the 4^th round in 2024. See her history.

Kimberly Birrell

Ranked no. 76, Kimberly reached the 2^nd round after beating Kristina Penickova 6-3 6-0, Cristina Bucsa 6-4 6-4 and Viktorija Golubic 6-4 6-4.

In the 1^st round, Birrell had a good straight sets win against Golubic (6-4 6-4). During the match Birrell scored 69 points vs Golubic’s 62. The Australian was extremely aggressive to blast 24 winners.

Talking about serving, Birrell scored just 1 ace during the entire match and she was not very steady on her 2nd serve to score 12 double faults. Kimberly Birrell lost the serve 4 times and she saved 2 break points. Furthermore, Birrell put 51% of her first serves in, winning 69% (24/35) of the points behind her 1st serve and 35% (12/34) on the 2nd serve. Birrell broke Golubic 6 times after converting 75% of her break points (6/8).

Her best result of the season was winning the title the W75 Brisbane where she defeated Maddison Inglis in the final 6-2 4-6 7-6(2).

Kimberly has an overall 17-4 win-loss record in 2025, 15-3 on hard (See FULL STATS).

Previously in Indian Wells

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

Tennis Scores in Indian Wells

• Clara Tauson
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• Katerina SiniakovaSiniakova – Yulia PutintsevaPutintseva (6-2 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Karolina MuchovaMuchova – Elisabetta CocciarettoCocciaretto (6-4 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Xinyu WangWang – Jelena OstapenkoOstapenko (6-4 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Katie BoulterBoulter – Irina-Camelia BeguBegu (6-7² 6-3 6-0) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Elena RybakinaRybakina – Suzan LamensLamens (6-3 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Lulu SunSun – Linda NoskovaNoskova (6-1 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Dayana YastremskaYastremska – Ons JabeurJabeur (6-3 6-1) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Marta KostyukKostyuk – Robin MontgomeryMontgomery (6-1 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Bogdan Ionut ApostolIonut Apostol – Calin MandaManda (6-4 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Albert Alcaraz IvorraAlcaraz Ivorra – Nicolae FrunzaFrunza (6-4 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Alexander IgoshinIgoshin – Joao Lucas Reis Da SilvaLucas Reis Da Silva (7-5 7-5) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Maxime ChazalChazal – Matvey MininMinin (6-4 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Alexandar LazarovLazarov – Mats RosenkranzRosenkranz (6-1 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Thomas FancuttFancutt – Alexandru Vasile ManoleVasile Manole (6-4 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Giovanni FonioFonio – Justin ButschButsch (6-7⁴ 7-6⁴ 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Matheus Pucinelle De AlmeidaPucinelle De Almeida – Tomas Lipovsek PuchesLipovsek Puches (6-1 0-6 6-0) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Caroline DolehideCaroline – Eva LysEva (7-6(3) 6-4) – See score progression
• Iga SwiatekIga – Caroline GarciaCaroline (6-2 6-0) – See score progression

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