Kimberly Birrell and Yue Yuan will clash against each other in the 2^nd round of the Libema Open for the 2^nd time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Thursday at 6:00 pm on COURT 1. 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 Kimberly Birrell who should win in 3 sets.

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

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Prediction and head to head Kimberly Birrell vs. Yue Yuan

This will be the 2^nd time that Kimberly Birrell and Yue Yuan play each other. The head to head is 1-0 for Birrell (see full H2H stats), but they have never competed against each other on grass.

The last time that they played, Birrell won 7-6(5) 7-6(5) in the 1^st round in Austin back in February 2025.

Highlights Kimberly Birrell vs Yue Yuan – Austin 24-February-2025

Kimberly Birrell

Ranked no. 69, the Australian reached the 2^nd round after defeating Xinyu Wang 7-5 6-7(2) 6-1.

In the 1^st round, Kimberly defeated Wang (7-5 6-7² 6-1). During the match, Birrell scored 107 points vs Wang’s 102. Birrell was very aggressive to blast 56 winners.

Regarding the service games, Birrell scored 6 aces and she committed only 7 double faults. Kimberly Birrell was exceptionally efficient on serve to win 75% (56/75) of her 1st serve and 53% (18/34) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. The Australian broke Wang 3 times after converting 33% of her break points (3/9).

Birrell has winning record in the last 10 years having won 55% of her matches (215-177). 3-1 on grass in 2025. Talking about her performance on the same surface of this event, Birrell has an overall 25-24 win-loss record in the last years on grass.

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

Kimberly has a composed 25-13 win-loss record in 2025, 3-1 on grass (See FULL STATS).

Previously in ‘s-Hertogenbosch

Yue Yuan

Ranked no. 84, the Chinese got to the 2^nd round after beating Joy De Zeeuw 7-6(4) 6-4, Carson Branstine 6-4 6-4 and Anastasija Sevastova 6-3 6-3.

In the 1^st round, The Chinese had a good straight sets win against Sevastova (6-3 6-3). During the match Yuan scored 66 points vs Sevastova’s 49. The Chinese was pretty aggressive to blast 28 winners.

Talking about serving, Yuan scored just 1 ace during the entire match and she was very steady in conceding no double faults for the entire match. Yue Yuan lost the serve once and she saved 1 break points. Furthermore, Yuan put 74% of her first serves in, winning 80% (28/35) of the points behind her 1st serve and 50% (6/12) on the 2nd serve. Yue broke Sevastova 4 times after converting 27% of her break points (4/15).

Her best result of the current season was winning the title the W100 Oeiras where she defeated Greetje Minnen in the final 4-6 6-4 6-2.

Yue has an aggregate 10-14 win-loss record in 2025, 2-1 on grass (See FULL STATS).

Previously in ‘s-Hertogenbosch

Previously, her best result was reaching the 2^nd round in 2024. See her history.

H2H Performance in the tournament

Matches, sets, games and points

Points	Birrell	Yuan
Match played	1	2
Tot Set	3	4
Tot Games	32	41
Pts	107-102	135-106
Total Points	209	241
Winners	56	64
%Winners	52%	47%

Birrell played 1 match while Yuan competed in 2 matches. Yuan started her run from the qualifications while Birrell had a direct access to the main draw. At the moment, Kimberly Birrell dropped 1 set while Yue Yuan hasn’t surrendered a set so far. Birrell has played 1 set(s) less than Yuan (3 vs 4). Therefore, Birrell played 9 games less than Yuan. Kimberly scored 56 winners (52% of the total points). On the other side, The Chinese scored 64 winners (47%).

Serve Performance

Serve	Birrell	Yuan
Aces	6	2
Avg per match	6	1
1st in	75/109	79/108
%1st in	69%	73%
1st pts	56/75	64/79
%1st pts	75%	81%
2nd pts	18/34	18/29
%2nd pts	53%	62%

Birrell managed to score 6 aces . Yuan scored 2 aces (1 per match). Birrell won 75% points behind her first serve. She very solid her second serve to win 53% of the points. On the other side, Yuan won 81% of the points behind her first serve. She had a solid display on her second serve to win 62% of the points.

How they played the important points

Breaks	Birrell	Yuan
Won	3	5
Converted	3/9	5/19
% Converted	33%	26%
Conceded	4	2
Saved	4	1
% Saved	100%	50%
Times Broken	0	1

Kimberly broke her opponent 3 times with a 33% conversion rate. Birrell pretty effective on her serve as she has never surrendered a single service game after saving 4 break points. The Chinese broke her opponents 5 times with a 26% conversion rate. The Chinese conceded her serve once and she saved 50% of the break points that she conceded.

Birrell
	R1 Wang	Total
Score	7-5 6-72 6-1
Tot Set	3	3
Tot Games	32	32
pts	107-102	107-102
Total points	209	209
Winners	56	56
%Winners	52%	52%
SERVE
Aces	6	6
Double Faults	7	7
1st in	75/109	75/109
% 1st in	69%	69%
1st pts	56/75	56/75
% 1st pts	75%	75%
2nd pts	18/34	18/34
% 2nd pts	53%	53%
Breaks
Won	3	3
Converted	3/9	3/9
Converted %	33%	33%
Conceded	4	4
Saved	4/4	4
Saved %	100%	100%
Times Broken	0	0

Yuan
	Q1 De	Q3 Branstine	R1 Sevastova	Total
Score	7-64 6-4	6-4 6-4	6-3 6-3
Tot Set	2	2	2	6
Tot Games	23	20	18	61
pts	69-57	–	66-49	135-106
Total points	126	0	115	241
Winners	36		28	64
%Winners	52%	0%	42%	47%
SERVE
Aces	1	0	1	2
Double Faults	0		0	0
1st in	44/61	/	35/47	79/108
% 1st in	72%	0%	74%	73%
1st pts	36/44	/	28/35	64/79
% 1st pts	82%	0%	80%	81%
2nd pts	12/17	/	6/12	18/29
% 2nd pts	71%	0%	50%	62%
Breaks
Won	1		4	5
Converted	1/4	/	4/15	5/19
Converted %	25%	0%	27%	26%
Conceded	0		2	2
Saved	0/0	0/	1/2	1
Saved %	–	–	50%	50%
Times Broken	0		1	1

Tennis Scores in ‘s Hertogenbosch

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• Elisabetta CocciarettoCocciaretto – Bernarda PeraPera (6-1 7-6⁴) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Gengo KikuchiKikuchi – Ren NakamuraNakamura (6-2 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Soichiro MoritaniMoritani – Daisuke SumizawaSumizawa (6-2 4-6 7-6⁴) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Ko SuzukiSuzuki – Jordi Samper-MontanaSamper-Montana (6-4 0-6 7-6⁶) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Kento TakeuchiTakeuchi – Takuya KumasakaKumasaka (5-7 6-2 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Yuki MochizukiMochizuki – Shunrou TakeshimaTakeshima (6-1 7-6⁴) – Stats, scores, rankings

Upcoming matches in the draw

• Carson BranstineBranstine – Elena Gabriela RuseGabriela Ruse (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Bianca Vanessa AndreescuVanessa Andreescu – Lulu SunSun (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Suzan LamensLamens – Ann LiLi (0-1) – H2H and prediction
• Kimberly BirrellBirrell – Yue YuanYuan (1-0) – H2H and prediction
• Maria SakkariSakkari – Elise MertensMertens (6-4) – H2H and prediction
• Veronika KudermetovaKudermetova – Greetje MinnenMinnen (1-0) – H2H and prediction