Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova and Kimberly Birrell will fight against each other in the 2^nd round of the Rothesay International for the 1^st time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Wednesday at 11:00 am on COURT 4. In this post, we analyze their head to head performance 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
Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova -> 2.31

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Prediction and head to head Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova vs. Kimberly Birrell

There is no head to head record between Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova and Kimberly Birrell since this will be the first time that they will clash against each other in the main tour.

Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova

Ranked no. 53, Anastasia reached the 2^nd round after defeating Viktoriya Tomova 6-1 6-7(5) 7-6(7).

In the 1^st round, Pavlyuchenkova defeated Tomova (6-1 6-7⁵ 7-6⁷). During the match, Pavlyuchenkova scored 116 points vs Tomova’s 94. Pavlyuchenkova was extremely aggressive to blast 48 winners.

Talking about the service games, Pavlyuchenkova scored 3 aces and she committed only 6 double faults. Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova lost the serve 4 times and she saved 2 break points. Furthermore, Pavlyuchenkova put 66% of her first serves in, winning 68% (48/71) of the points behind her 1st serve and 56% (20/36) on the 2nd serve. Anastasia broke Tomova 6 times after converting 86% of her break points (6/7).

Pavlyuchenkova has positive match record in the last 10 years having won 56% of her matches (213-167). 1-0 on grass in 2025. Regarding her performance on the same surface of this competition, Pavlyuchenkova has a compiled 11-14 record in the last years on grass.

The Russian has an overall 7-8 win-loss record in 2025, 1-0 on grass (See FULL STATS).

Previously in Eastbourne

Kimberly Birrell

Ranked no. 77, Birrell reached the 2^nd round after beating Katie Volynets 7-5 7-5, Anna Bondar 6-2 6-3 and Sofia Kenin 6-4 6-4.

In the 1^st round, Birrell had a good straight sets win against Kenin (6-4 6-4). During the match Birrell scored 73 points vs Kenin’s 58. The Australian was very aggressive to blast 29 winners.

Talking about serving, Birrell bagged 6 aces and she committed only 4 double faults. Kimberly Birrell was pretty efficient on serve to win 91% (29/32) of her 1st serve and 54% (13/24) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. The Australian broke Kenin twice after converting 40% of her break points (2/5).

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

Kimberly has a composed 28-15 win-loss record in 2025, 6-3 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.

H2H Performance in the tournament

Matches, sets, games and points

Points	Pavlyuchenkova	Birrell
Match played	1	3
Tot Set	3	6
Tot Games	33	61
Pts	116-94	225-179
Total Points	210	404
Winners	48	90
%Winners	41%	40%

Pavlyuchenkova played 1 match while Birrell competed in 3 matches. Birrell started her run from the qualifications while Pavlyuchenkova had a direct access to the main draw. At the moment, Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova surrendered 1 set while Kimberly Birrell hasn’t conceded a set so far. Pavlyuchenkova has played 3 set(s) less than Birrell (3 vs 6). Therefore, Pavlyuchenkova played 28 games less than Birrell. Pavlyuchenkova scored 48 winners (41% of the total points). On the other side, Birrell struck 90 winners (40%).

Serve Performance

Serve	Pavlyuchenkova	Birrell
Aces	3	11
Avg per match	3	3.7
1st in	71/107	117/194
%1st in	66%	60%
1st pts	48/71	90/117
%1st pts	68%	77%
2nd pts	20/36	38/77
%2nd pts	56%	49%

Pavlyuchenkova struck 3 aces . Birrell recorded 11 aces (3.7 per match). Pavlyuchenkova won 68% points on her first serve. She quite strong on her second serve to win 56% of the points. On the other side, Birrell won 77% of the points behind her first serve. She had a solid display on her second serve to win 49% of the points.

How they played the important points

Breaks	Pavlyuchenkova	Birrell
Won	6	11
Converted	6/7	11/31
% Converted	86%	35%
Conceded	6	14
Saved	2	10
% Saved	33%	71%
Times Broken	4	4

The Russian broke her opponent 6 times with a 86% conversion rate. Anastasia lost her serve 4 times and she saved 33% of the break points that she conceded. Kimberly broke her opponents 11 times with a 35% conversion rate. The Australian conceded her serve 4 times and she saved 71% of the break points that she conceded.

Pavlyuchenkova
	R1 Tomova	Total
Score	6-1 6-75 7-67
Tot Set	3	3
Tot Games	33	33
pts	116-94	116-94
Total points	210	210
Winners	48	48
%Winners	41%	41%
SERVE
Aces	3	3
Double Faults	6	6
1st in	71/107	71/107
% 1st in	66%	66%
1st pts	48/71	48/71
% 1st pts	68%	68%
2nd pts	20/36	20/36
% 2nd pts	56%	56%
Breaks
Won	6	6
Converted	6/7	6/7
Converted %	86%	86%
Conceded	6	6
Saved	2/6	2
Saved %	33%	33%
Times Broken	4	4

Birrell
	Q1 Volynets	Q3 Bondar	R1 Kenin	Total
Score	7-5 7-5	6-2 6-3	6-4 6-4
Tot Set	2	2	2	6
Tot Games	24	17	20	61
pts	84-77	68-44	73-58	225-179
Total points	161	112	131	404
Winners	30	31	29	90
%Winners	36%	46%	40%	40%
SERVE
Aces	5	0	6	11
Double Faults	4	6	4	14
1st in	49/81	36/57	32/56	117/194
% 1st in	60%	63%	57%	60%
1st pts	30/49	31/36	29/32	90/117
% 1st pts	61%	86%	91%	77%
2nd pts	17/32	8/21	13/24	38/77
% 2nd pts	53%	38%	54%	49%
Breaks
Won	5	4	2	11
Converted	5/14	4/12	2/5	11/31
Converted %	36%	33%	40%	35%
Conceded	10	4	0	14
Saved	7/10	3/4	0/0	10
Saved %	70%	75%	–	145%
Times Broken	3	1	0	4

Tennis Scores in Eastbourne

• Damien WengerWenger – Ricardo Rodriguez-PaceRodriguez-Pace (6-1 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Mariano KestelboimKestelboim – Matias ZukasZukas (6-3 6-0) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Michal DembekDembek – Louis TessaTessa (6-4 4-6 6-0) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Genaro Alberto OlivieriAlberto Olivieri – Mirko MartinezMartinez (3-6 6-3 6-1) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Maxime HamouHamou – Nicolas BianchiBianchi (6-3 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Nikolas Sanchez-IzquierdoSanchez-Izquierdo – Daniel BatistaBatista (6-0 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Mateo Nicolas MartinezNicolas Martinez – Alexis GautierGautier (6-3 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Pedro Vives MarcosVives Marcos – Jake HerseyHersey (6-2 6-0) – Stats, scores, rankings

Upcoming matches in the draw

• Lulu SunSun – Anna BlinkovaBlinkova (1-0) – H2H and prediction
• Kimberly BirrellBirrell – Anastasia PavlyuchenkovaPavlyuchenkova (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Kamilla RakhimovaRakhimova – Peyton StearnsStearns (0-1) – H2H and prediction
• Dayana YastremskaYastremska – Francesca JonesJones (1-0) – H2H and prediction
• Rebecca SramkovaSramkova – Varvara GrachevaGracheva (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Jodie Anna BurrageAnna Burrage – Barbora KrejcikovaKrejcikova (0-0) – H2H and prediction