Anastasia Potapova and Kimberly Birrell will fight against each other in the 1^st round of the Miami Open for the 2^nd time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Wednesday at 11:00 am on COURT 7. In this post, we analyze their head to head performance and prediction.

Prediction, odds and live streaming

The pick for Tennis Tonic is Anastasia Potapova who should win in 3 sets.

As per the initial odds, Anastasia Potapova is the pick to win this match.
Anastasia Potapova -> 1.615
Kimberly Birrell -> 2.31

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Prediction and head to head Anastasia Potapova vs. Kimberly Birrell

This will be the 2^nd time that Anastasia Potapova and Kimberly Birrell fight 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 played each other, Birrell won 7-6(2) 6-2 in the 3^rd round in Brisbane back in January 2025.

Highlights Kimberly Birrell vs Anastasia Potapova – Brisbane 02-January-2025

Anastasia Potapova

Ranked no. 38, the Russian will start her run in Miami after she played her last match in Indian Wells where she lost 6-3 6-0 to Keys in the 2^nd round on the 8^th of March.

Potapova has a compiled 12-5 win-loss record in 2025, 5-4 on hard (See FULL STATS).

Her best result of the current season was conquering the title in Napoca where she overcame Lucia Bronzetti in the final 4-6 6-1 6-2.

Talking about her overall career, Anastasia has an overall 230-160 record. She has a positive 105-89 record on hard.

Previously in Miami

Previously, her best result was reaching the quarter in 2023. See her history.

Kimberly Birrell

Ranked no. 68 (career-high), the Australian got to the 1^st round after defeating Aliaksandra Sasnovich 6-4 6-3 and Harriet Dart 6-4 6-3.

In the qualifications, Birrell had a good straight sets win against Dart (6-4 6-3). During the match Birrell scored 71 points vs Dart’s 61. The Australian was exceptionally aggressive to blast 26 winners.

About the serving games, Birrell blasted 3 aces and she committed only 8 double faults. Kimberly Birrell lost the serve 4 times and she saved 6 break points. Furthermore, Birrell put 59% of her first serves in, winning 57% (26/46) of the points behind her 1st serve and 44% (14/32) on the 2nd serve. The Australian broke Dart 6 times after converting 50% of her break points (6/12).

Overall Performance in this tournament

Kimberly started her run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, she hasn’t lost yet a set in this event to conquer 54% of the points she played.

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

The Australian has a composed 19-5 win-loss record in 2025, 17-4 on hard (See FULL STATS).

Previously in Miami

Previously, her best result was reaching the qualifications in 2023. See her history.

Tennis Scores in Miami

• Viktoriya TomovaTomova – Caty McNallyMcNally (6-3 2-6 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Lucia BronzettiBronzetti – Jessica Bouzas ManeiroBouzas Maneiro (6-4 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Magda LinetteLinette – Anastasia PavlyuchenkovaPavlyuchenkova (7-6³ 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Katerina SiniakovaSiniakova – Yue YuanYuan (6-2 2-6 7-6⁴) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Alycia ParksParks – Varvara GrachevaGracheva (3-6 7-6⁰ 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Ricardo Rodriguez-PaceRodriguez-Pace – Aziz OuakaaOuakaa (6-1 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Skander MansouriMansouri – Francesco LiucciLiucci (6-2 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Imanol Lopez MorilloLopez Morillo – Eric CaleguerCaleguer (6-2 6-1) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Maxime HamouHamou – Nicolas BianchiBianchi (6-3 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Aziz DougazDougaz – Ameur Ben HassenBen Hassen (6-3 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Jake HerseyHersey – Tomislav JotovskiJotovski (6-3 3-0 ret.) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Luca GiacominiGiacomini – Andre Gaspar MurtaGaspar Murta (6-4 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Michal DembekDembek – Mauro De MaioDe Maio (6-4 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Gabriele Maria NoceMaria Noce – Mirko MartinezMartinez (7-6⁴ 7-5) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Mariano KestelboimKestelboim – Gabriel PetitPetit (6-1 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Hugo PonticoPontico – Louroi MartinezMartinez (7-6⁴ 7-6⁵) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Yuichiro InuiInui – Nicolas TepmahcTepmahc (4-6 6-1 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Mateo Nicolas MartinezNicolas Martinez – Sacha ModicaModica (6-2 6-7³ 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Mateus Alves (2001)Alves (2001) – Genaro Alberto OlivieriAlberto Olivieri (7-6⁴ 5-7 7-6³) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Florent DiepDiep – Anis GhorbelGhorbel (6-3 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Sorana CirsteaSorana – Elisabetta CocciarettoElisabetta (6-3 7-6(5)) – See score progression
• Rebecca SramkovaRebecca – Lucrezia StefaniniLucrezia (3-6 6-1 6-3) – See score progression

Upcoming matches in the draw

• Elena Gabriela RuseGabriela Ruse – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Rebeka MasarovaMasarova – Greetje MinnenMinnen (0-4) – H2H and prediction
• Sorana CirsteaCirstea – Elisabetta CocciarettoCocciaretto (1-0) – H2H and prediction
• Lauren DavisDavis – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Taylor TownsendTownsend – Ann LiLi (2-1) – H2H and prediction
• Renata ZarazuaZarazua – (0-1) – H2H and prediction
• Petra KvitovaKvitova – Sofia KeninKenin (2-1) – H2H and prediction
• Claire LiuLiu – (1-0) – H2H and prediction
• Olga DanilovicDanilovic – Hailey BaptisteBaptiste (0-1) – H2H and prediction
• Naomi OsakaOsaka – Yulia StarodubtsewaStarodubtsewa (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Lucrezia StefaniniStefanini – Rebecca SramkovaSramkova (0-1) – H2H and prediction
• Mccartney KesslerKessler – Marie BouzkovaBouzkova (0-1) – H2H and prediction
• Mayar SherifSherif – Lulu SunSun (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Veronika KudermetovaKudermetova – Xin Yu WangYu Wang (1-1) – H2H and prediction
• Kamilla RakhimovaRakhimova – Anna BlinkovaBlinkova (1-1) – H2H and prediction
• Anastasia PotapovaPotapova – Kimberly BirrellBirrell (0-1) – H2H and prediction
• Suzan LamensLamens – Moyuka UchijimaUchijima (1-0) – H2H and prediction
• Ajla TomljanovicTomljanovic – Bernarda PeraPera (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Maria Camila Osorio SerranoCamila Osorio Serrano – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Anhelina KalininaKalinina – Victoria AzarenkaAzarenka (0-2) – H2H and prediction
• Dayana YastremskaYastremska – Belinda BencicBencic (1-3) – H2H and prediction
• Katie BoulterBoulter – Peyton StearnsStearns (0-2) – H2H and prediction
• Caroline GarciaGarcia – Anna BondarBondar (0-1) – H2H and prediction
• Aryna SabalenkaSabalenka – Viktoriya TomovaTomova (0-1) – H2H and prediction
• Leylah Annie FernandezAnnie Fernandez – Alycia ParksParks (0-1) – H2H and prediction
• Lucia BronzettiBronzetti – Maria SakkariSakkari (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Ekaterina AlexandrovaAlexandrova – Magda LinetteLinette (2-3) – H2H and prediction
• Ons JabeurJabeur – Katerina SiniakovaSiniakova (2-5) – H2H and prediction