Head-to-Head

Kimberly Birrell vs Lesley Pattinama KerkhovePrediction, Head-to-Head Results, and Stats

🇦🇺Kimberly Birrell

#40 · 28 yrs · Right-Handed

TitleWon Korea Open - Seoul

1–0

1 meeting · sets 2–0

🇳🇱Lesley Pattinama Kerkhove

Unranked · 34 yrs · Right-Handed

174wBack after 174w off

Kimberly Birrell and Lesley Pattinama Kerkhove have met 1 time since 2023; Kimberly Birrell leads 1–0. Across all meetings Birrell has taken 2 sets to Kerkhove's 0. Their most recent meeting: Kimberly Birrell won at Libema Open - 's-Hertogenbosch (2023).

Spread & Straight-Sets Form

Completed best-of-3 matches · Last 12 months

Indicator	Birrell	Pattinama Kerkhove
Indicator	Kimberly Birrell		Lesley Pattinama Kerkhove
Wins in straight sets	59%	22/37	—
Wins a set when losing	42%	11/26	—
Goes to a deciding set	41%	26/63	—
Covers −1.5 sets as favorite	44%	14/32	—
Covers +1.5 sets as underdog	62%	18/29	—
Tiebreak sets won	45%	9/20	—
Wins after taking set 1	88%	29/33	—
Wins 2-0 after taking set 1	67%	22/33	—

Colored rows are higher-is-better: green above 50%, red below. Favorite/underdog set by book odds; cover rows count only matches with odds on record. Small sample — read with care. Head-to-head: 1 of 1 completed meetings ended in straight sets (Birrell 1, Pattinama Kerkhove 0).

Style Matchup

Playing styles and historical archetype record

Birrell

🏹 Frontrunner

Fast startsAggressive openersMomentum-drivenStrong holds

Kerkhove

⚙️ Grinder

Relentless consistencyDeep court positioningHigh rally toleranceMental fortitude

Matchup analysis

The 🏹 Frontrunner archetype wins about 66% vs ⚙️ Grinder across 215 matches in our dataset: a stylistic lean toward Kimberly Birrell.

Frontrunner players often use fast starts and aggressive openers to pressure the grinder's relentless consistency.

Previous meetings

1 career meeting, newest first

Jun 13, 2023

Libema Open - 's-Hertogenbosch

G Grass · 1st Round

Birrell

Player ROI

Hypothetical if you put 1u on each player to win every one of their matches · Last 90 days

Metric	Birrell	Kerkhove
W-L	7–6	-
Avg odds	2.12	-
ROI %	+4.8%	-
Units P/L	+0.63u	-

Travel

Last 30 days

Metric	Birrell	Kerkhove
Countries	2	—
Events	2	—
Matches	7	—
Distance	592 mi · 952 km	—
Route	POR → ROU	—

Host country from each tournament in the last 30 days, including the current event even when a player arrived on a bye. Route is the order of countries visited; consecutive stops in the same country are shown once. Distance is the great-circle total between host cities, shown only when every stop in the window is geocoded. A rough fatigue signal, not a headline stat.

Recent Form

Last five matches per player

Birrell

LWWWWWWL

Marie Bouzkova

China Open - Beijing · 2nd Round

Oct 3

Aoi Ito

China Open - Beijing · 1st Round

Oct 1

Maya Joint

Korea Open - Seoul · Final

Sep 27

Katie Volynets

Korea Open - Seoul · Quarterfinals

Sep 26

Anna Bondar

Korea Open - Seoul · Semifinals

Sep 26

Ye Xin Ma

Korea Open - Seoul · 2nd Round

Sep 24

Tamara Zidansek

Korea Open - Seoul · 1st Round

76²

Sep 22

Ekaterina Alexandrova

U.S. Open - New York · 2nd Round

Sep 3

Kerkhove

LLLWLWLL

Kimberly Birrell

Libema Open - 's-Hertogenbosch · 1st Round

Jun 13

Olga Danilovic