Elena Rybakina and Cristina Bucsa will square off in the 2nd round of the Adelaide International for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Wednesday at 3:30 pm on Centre Court. In this post, we analyze their head to head performance and prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Elena Rybakina who should win in 2 sets.
As per the initial odds, Elena Rybakina is the pick to win this match.
Elena Rybakina -> 1.061
Cristina Bucsa -> 9.1
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Prediction and head to head Elena Rybakina vs. Cristina Bucsa
There is no head to head record between Elena Rybakina and Cristina Bucsa since this will be the first time that they will play each other in the main tour.
Elena Rybakina
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 41-9 | 23-5 | 12-2 | 0-0 | 6-2 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 47-15 | 31-11 | 11-2 | 0-0 | 5-2 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 40-21 | 18-12 | 9-5 | 5-2 | 8-2 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 33-23 | 18-14 | 6-4 | 2-2 | 7-3 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 29-10 | 18-5 | 7-3 | 4-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 3 (career-high), Elena will start her run in Adelaide after she won the title in Brisbane after beating 6-0 6-3 Sabalenka in the final.
Rybakina has an overall 5-0 win-loss record in 2024, 5-0 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Her best result of the season was conquering the title in Brisbane where she beat Aryna Sabalenka in the final 6-0 6-3.
Rybakina won her last 5 matches.
Talking about her overall career, Elena has an overall 294-132 record. She has a positive 132-66 record on hard.
Previously in Adelaide
Previously, her best result was reaching the final in 2022. See her history.
Cristina Bucsa
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 23-27 | 13-16 | 8-7 | 0-0 | 2-4 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 35-30 | 17-15 | 7-8 | 8-3 | 3-4 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 49-31 | 17-8 | 15-12 | 10-6 | 5-4 | 2-1 |
| 2021 | 31-27 | 9-7 | 9-11 | 6-6 | 5-2 | 2-1 |
| 2020 | 14-13 | 4-3 | 8-5 | 2-5 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 61 (career-high), the Spaniard got to the 2nd round after beating Tahlia Kokkinis 6-0 6-1 and Jasmine Paolini 6-3 6-3.
In the 1st round, Bucsa had a good straight sets win against Paolini (6-3 6-3). During the match Bucsa scored 73 points vs Paolini’s 61. Cristina was extremely aggressive to blast 20 winners.
Talking about serving, Bucsa couldn’t to score even 1 ace for the entire match and she committed only 2 double faults. Cristina Bucsa lost the serve 3 times and she saved 1 break points. Furthermore, Bucsa put 62% of her first serves in, winning 51% (20/39) of the points behind her 1st serve and 58% (14/24) on the 2nd serve. The Spaniard broke Paolini 6 times after converting 60% of her break points (6/10).
Bucsa has an overall 3-2 win-loss record in 2024, 3-2 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in Adelaide
Cristina has never competed in this tournament before.
Head 2 Head
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Upcoming matches in the draw
- Katie BoulterBoulter – Ana BogdanBogdan (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Elena RybakinaRybakina – Cristina BucsaBucsa (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Ekaterina AlexandrovaAlexandrova – Veronika KudermetovaKudermetova (2-2) – H2H and prediction
- Taylor TownsendTownsend – Marta KostyukKostyuk (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Caroline GarciaGarcia – Jelena OstapenkoOstapenko (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Darya KasatkinaKasatkina – Anna KalinskayaKalinskaya (3-1) – H2H and prediction
- Anastasia PavlyuchenkovaPavlyuchenkova – Katerina SiniakovaSiniakova (3-2) – H2H and prediction
- Bernarda PeraPera – Jessica PegulaPegula (0-1) – H2H and prediction
