Sofia Kenin and Kimberly Birrell will fight against each other in the 1^st round of the Rothesay International for the 1^st time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Tuesday at 11:00 am on COURT 2. 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 Sofia Kenin who should win in 2 sets.

As per the initial odds, Sofia Kenin is the pick to win this match.
Sofia Kenin -> 1.39
Kimberly Birrell -> 3

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Prediction and head to head Sofia Kenin vs. Kimberly Birrell

There is no head to head record between Sofia Kenin and Kimberly Birrell since this will be the first time that they will square off in the main tour.

Sofia Kenin

Ranked no. 28, Sofia will start her run in Eastbourne after she played her last match in Berlin where she lost 6-3 6-2 to Masarova in the 1^st round on the 16^th of June.

Sofia has a compiled 23-14 win-loss record in 2025, 2-1 on grass (See FULL STATS).

Kenin’s best result of the current season was reaching the final in Charleston.

Talking about her overall career, The American has an overall 296-205 record. She has a positive 23-14 record on grass.

Previously in Eastbourne

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

Kimberly Birrell

Ranked no. 77, Kimberly got to the 1^st round after defeating Katie Volynets 7-5 7-5 and Anna Bondar 6-2 6-3.

In the qualifications, Birrell had a good straight sets win against Bondar (6-2 6-3). During the match Birrell scored 68 points vs Bondar’s 44. Kimberly was extremely aggressive to blast 31 winners.

About the serving games, Birrell couldn’t to score even 1 ace for the entire match and she committed only 6 double faults. Kimberly Birrell lost the serve once and she saved 3 break points. Furthermore, Birrell put 63% of her first serves in, winning 86% (31/36) of the points behind her 1st serve and 38% (8/21) on the 2nd serve. The Australian broke Bondar 4 times after converting 33% of her break points (4/12).

Overall Performance in this tournament

Birrell started her run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, she hasn’t dropped yet a set in this event to win 56% of the points she played.

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

The Australian has an aggregate 27-15 win-loss record in 2025, 5-3 on grass (See FULL STATS)

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Previously in Eastbourne

Previously, her best result was reaching the qualifications in 2018 and 2022. See her history.

Tennis Scores in Eastbourne

• Anastasia PavlyuchenkovaPavlyuchenkova – Viktoriya TomovaTomova (6-1 6-7⁵ 7-6⁷) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Anna BlinkovaBlinkova – Marie BouzkovaBouzkova (6-4 2-6 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Alexandra EalaEala – Lucia BronzettiBronzetti (6-0 6-1) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Lulu SunSun – Daria KasatkinaKasatkina (7-5 2-6 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Francesca JonesJones – Greetje Minnen
  Minnen (6-4 7-5) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Eri Hozumi/Aldila SutjiadiHozumi/Aldila Sutjiadi – Kamilla Rakhimova/Anna SiskovaRakhimova/Anna Siskova (7-5 3-6 10-8) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Mateo Nicolas MartinezNicolas Martinez – Aziz DougazDougaz (6-4 6-1) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Maxime HamouHamou – Anis GhorbelGhorbel (6-3 1-0 ret.) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Ricardo Rodriguez-PaceRodriguez-Pace – Ashwin Ryan SharmaRyan Sharma (6-1 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Mirko MartinezMartinez – Louroi MartinezMartinez (6-1 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Alexis GautierGautier – Tristan BoyerBoyer (6-3 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Jake HerseyHersey – Maik SteinerSteiner (7-5 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Louis TessaTessa – Takashi SaitoSaito (6-0 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Matias ZukasZukas – Aaron SchmidSchmid (6-4 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Nicolas BianchiBianchi – Riccardo PerinPerin (4-6 6-1 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Mariano KestelboimKestelboim – Imanol Lopez MorilloLopez Morillo (6-0 7-6¹) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Michal DembekDembek – Pedro IamachkineIamachkine (3-6 6-1 7-5) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Daniel BatistaBatista – Aziz OuakaaOuakaa (3-6 7-6⁴ 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Damien WengerWenger – Dennis UspenskyUspensky (6-2 6-0) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Genaro Alberto OlivieriAlberto Olivieri – Marco SaffrattiSaffratti (6-2 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Pedro Vives MarcosVives Marcos – Mauricio EchazuEchazu (7-6⁸ 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Nikolas Sanchez-IzquierdoSanchez-Izquierdo – Tomislav JotovskiJotovski (6-3 6-1) – Stats, scores, rankings

Upcoming matches in the draw

• Darya KasatkinaKasatkina – Lulu SunSun (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Ann LiLi – Emma RaducanuRaducanu (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Sofia KeninKenin – Kimberly BirrellBirrell (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Elisabetta CocciarettoCocciaretto – Kamilla RakhimovaRakhimova (0-1) – H2H and prediction
• Magda LinetteLinette – Dayana YastremskaYastremska (1-5) – H2H and prediction
• Rebecca SramkovaSramkova – Jaqueline CristianCristian (3-1) – H2H and prediction
• Varvara GrachevaGracheva – Maria Camila Osorio SerranoCamila Osorio Serrano (0-2) – H2H and prediction
• Jodie Anna BurrageAnna Burrage – Moyuka UchijimaUchijima (0-1) – H2H and prediction
• Harriet DartDart – Barbora KrejcikovaKrejcikova (0-1) – H2H and prediction