Jessica Pegula and Kimberly Birrell will square off in the 2^nd round of the Cincinnati Open for the 1^st time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Sunday at 3:00 pm on GRANDSTAND. 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 Jessica Pegula who should win in 2 sets.

As per the initial odds, Jessica Pegula is the pick to win this match.
Jessica Pegula -> 1.171
Kimberly Birrell -> 5.05

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Prediction and head to head Jessica Pegula vs. Kimberly Birrell

There is no head to head record between Jessica Pegula and Kimberly Birrell since this will be the first time that they will play each other in the main tour.

Jessica Pegula

Ranked no. 4, the American will start her run in Cincinnati after she played her last match in Montreal where she lost 3-6 6-4 6-1 to Sevastova in the 3^rd round on the 1^st of August.

The American has a composed 36-15 win-loss record in 2025, 21-8 on hard (See FULL STATS).

Her best result of the current season was conquering the title in Austin where she beat Mccartney Kessler in the final 7-5 6-2 and in Charleston where she beat Sofia Kenin in the final 6-3 7-5 and in Bad Homburg where she beat Iga Swiatek in the final 6-4 7-5.

Talking about her overall career, Jessica has an overall 469-261 record. She has a positive 272-134 record on hard.

Previously in Cincinnati

Previously, her best result was reaching the final in 2024. See her history.

Kimberly Birrell

Ranked no. 82, the Australian reached the 2^nd round after defeating Anna Blinkova 6-2 6-1.

In the 1^st round, Birrell had a good straight sets win against Blinkova (6-2 6-1). During the match Birrell scored 61 points vs Blinkova’s 36. Birrell was very aggressive to blast 16 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 twice and she saved 3 break points. Furthermore, Birrell put 45% of her first serves in, winning 84% (16/19) of the points behind her 1st serve and 43% (10/23) on the 2nd serve. Kimberly broke Blinkova 7 times after converting 50% of her break points (7/14).

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 a composed 29-19 win-loss record in 2025, 19-7 on hard (See FULL STATS).

Previously in Cincinnati

Birrell has never competed in this tournament before.

Tennis Scores in Cincinnati

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• Aoi ItoIto – Anastasia PavlyuchenkovaPavlyuchenkova (6-1 4-6 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Emma RaducanuRaducanu – Olga DanilovicDanilovic (6-3 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Jessica Bouzas ManeiroBouzas Maneiro – Leylah Annie FernandezAnnie Fernandez (6-3 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Taylor TownsendTownsend – Liudmila SamsonovaSamsonova (6-2 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Sorana Cirstea
  Cirstea – Magdalena FrechFrech (7-6⁴ 2-6 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Maya JointJoint – Beatriz Haddad MaiaHaddad Maia (6-4 4-6 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Iga SwiatekSwiatek – Anastasia PotapovaPotapova (6-1 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Yue YuanYuan – Diana ShnaiderShnaider (6-4 1-6 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Ekaterina AlexandrovaAlexandrova – Lulu SunSun (6-4 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Alexey VatutinVatutin – Constant LestienneLestienne (7-6⁵ 1-6 6-1) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Facundo ArguelloArguello – Hugo GrenierGrenier (6-4 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Manuel GuinardGuinard – Pedro Martinez PorteroMartinez Portero (4-6 6-4 6-0) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Maxime JanvierJanvier – Mathias BourgueBourgue (w/o) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Federico GaioGaio – Daniel Elahi Galan
  Elahi Galan (6-4 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Kimmer CoppejansCoppejans – Elliot BenchetritBenchetrit (6-3 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Pedro SousaSousa – Johan Sebastien TatlotSebastien Tatlot (6-1 6-7⁴ 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Pablo AndujarAndujar – Pedro CachinCachin (7-6¹ 2-6 7-5) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Elias YmerYmer – Steve DarcisDarcis (6-1 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Uladzimir IgnatikIgnatik – Arthur De GreefDe Greef (7-6³ 0-6 7-6⁴) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Rudolf MollekerMolleker – Antoine Cornut-ChauvincCornut-Chauvinc (6-1 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Mohamed SafwatSafwat – Enrique Lopez-PerezLopez-Perez (6-4 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Corentin MoutetMoutet – Benjamin BonziBonzi (7-6⁵ 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Sumit NagalNagal – Quentin HalysHalys (6-3 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Albert Ramos-VinolasRamos-Vinolas – Tristan LamasineLamasine (6-1 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Hugo GastonGaston – Tallon GriekspoorGriekspoor (2-6 6-4 ret.) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Elena RybakinaElena – Renata ZarazuaRenata (4-6 6-0 7-5) – See score progression

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