Sara Bejlek and Cristina Bucsa will face off in the quarter of the Guadalajara Open Akron for the 2nd time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Thursday at 1:00 pm on Court 1. 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 Sara Bejlek who should win in 3 sets.
As per the initial odds, Sara Bejlek is the pick to win this match.
Sara Bejlek -> 1.51
Cristina Bucsa -> 2.54
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Prediction and head to head Sara Bejlek vs. Cristina Bucsa
This will be the 2nd time that Sara Bejlek and Cristina Bucsa clash against each other. The head to head is 1-0 for Bucsa (see full H2H stats), 1-0 on hard.
The last time that they locked horns, Bucsa won 7-5 4-6 6-1 in the 1st round in at the U.S. Open back in August 2026.
Highlights Cristina Bucsa vs Sara Bejlek – U.S. Open 31-August-2026
Sara Bejlek
23 - 16win/loss
28
28
WLLWWWWWLW | Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 23-16 | 20-8 | 2-5 | 0-0 | 1-3 | 0-0 |
| 2025 | 41-17 | 10-7 | 31-10 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 25-13 | 5-3 | 19-8 | 0-0 | 1-2 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 42-19 | 6-5 | 36-13 | 0-0 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 34-15 | 7-5 | 27-9 | 0-0 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 28 (career-high), the Czech got to the quarter after beating Alycia Parks 6-4 6-3.
In the 2nd round, Sara had a good straight sets win against Parks (6-4 6-3). During the match, Bejlek scored 63 points vs Parks’s 52. Bejlek was extremely aggressive to blast 26 winners.
Regarding the service games, Bejlek wasn’t able to score even 1 ace during the match and she committed only 2 double faults. Overall, Sara Bejlek was very effective on serve to win 76% (26/34) of her 1st serve and 53% (8/15) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent her to concede the serve once. The Czech broke Parks 4 times after converting 50% of her break points (4/8).
WTA Guadalajara - Sara Bejlek's projected path
Bejlek has a solid win-loss record in the last 6 years having won 67% of her matches (183-89). 20-8 on hard in 2026. In connection with her performance on the same surface of this competition, Bejlek has an overall48-28 record in the last 6 years on hard.
Her best result of the current season was winning the title in Abu Dhabi where she overcame Ekaterina Alexandrova in the final 7-6(5) 6-1.
Bejlek has a composed 23-16 win-loss record in 2026, 20-8 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in Guadalajara
Sara has never competed in this tournament before.
Cristina Bucsa
13 - 16win/loss
44
30
WWLWWLWLWL | Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 13-16 | 13-12 | 0-4 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2025 | 37-32 | 24-20 | 2-6 | 5-2 | 6-4 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 24-29 | 14-18 | 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 |
Ranked no. 44, Cristina reached the quarter after defeating Bianca Vanessa Andreescu 6-4 6-3 and Panna Udvardy 6-4 6-4.
In the 2nd round, Cristina had a good straight sets win against Udvardy (6-4 6-4). During the match Bucsa scored 65 points vs Udvardy’s 57. Bucsa was very aggressive to blast 24 winners.
Talking about serving, Bucsa wasn’t able to score even 1 ace for the entire match and she committed only 1 double fault for the entire match. Cristina Bucsa lost the serve once and she saved 3 break points. Furthermore, Bucsa put 56% of her first serves in, winning 69% (24/35) of the points behind her 1st serve and 67% (18/27) on the 2nd serve. Cristina broke Udvardy 3 times after converting 50% of her break points (3/6).
Overall Performance in this tournament
Cristina hasn’t dropped yet a set in the tournament to win 53% of the points she played.
WTA Guadalajara - Cristina Bucsa's projected path
Her best result of the current season was conquering the title in Merida where she defeated Magdalena Frech in the final 6-1 4-6 6-4.
Bucsa has an overall 13-16 win-loss record in 2026, 13-12 on hard (See FULL STATS).
H2H Performance in the tournament (main draw)
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Bejlek | Bucsa |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 1 | 2 |
| Tot Set | 2 | 4 |
| Tot Games | 19 | 39 |
| Pts | 63-52 | 132-117 |
| Total Points | 115 | 249 |
| Winners | 26 | 43 |
| %Winners | 41% | 33% |
Bejlek played 1 match while Bucsa competed in 2 matches. Both players have not dropped a single set in this event so far. Bejlek has played 2 set(s) less than Bucsa (2 vs 4). Therefore, Bejlek played 20 games less than Bucsa. The Czech scored 26 winners (41% of the total points). On the other side, Cristina struck 43 winners (33%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Bejlek | Bucsa |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 0 | 1 |
| Avg per match | 0 | 0.5 |
| 1st in | 34/49 | 65/115 |
| %1st in | 69% | 57% |
| 1st pts | 26/34 | 43/65 |
| %1st pts | 76% | 66% |
| 2nd pts | 8/15 | 31/50 |
| %2nd pts | 53% | 62% |
Bejlek didn’t manage to fire a single ace to far. Bucsa made 1 ace (0.5 per match). Bejlek won 76% points behind her first serve. She very solid her second serve to win 53% of the points. On the other side, Bucsa won 66% of the points behind her first serve. She had a solid display on her second serve to win 62% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Bejlek | Bucsa |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 4 | 8 |
| Converted | 4/8 | 8/20 |
| % Converted | 50% | 40% |
| Conceded | 1 | 6 |
| Saved | 0 | 3 |
| % Saved | 0% | 50% |
| Times Broken | 1 | 3 |
Bejlek broke her opponent 4 times with a 50% conversion rate. The Czech dropped her serve once and she saved 0% of the break points that she conceded. Cristina broke her opponents 8 times with a 40% conversion rate. Bucsa conceded her serve 3 times and she saved 50% of the break points that she conceded.
| Bejlek | |||
| R2 Parks |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-4 6-3 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 19 | 19 | |
| pts | 63-52 | 63-52 | |
| Total points | 115 | 115 | |
| Winners | 26 | 26 | |
| %Winners | 41% | 41% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 0 | 0 | |
| Double Faults | 2 | 2 | |
| 1st in | 34/49 | 34/49 | |
| % 1st in | 69% | 69% | |
| 1st pts | 26/34 | 26/34 | |
| % 1st pts | 76% | 76% | |
| 2nd pts | 8/15 | 8/15 | |
| % 2nd pts | 53% | 53% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 4 | 4 | |
| Converted | 4/8 | 4/8 | |
| Converted % | 50% | 50% | |
| Conceded | 1 | 1 | |
| Saved | 0/1 | 0 | |
| Saved % | 0% | 0% | |
| Times Broken | 1 | 1 | |
| Bucsa | ||||
| R1 Andreescu |
R2 Udvardy |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-4 6-3 | 6-4 6-4 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | 4 | |
| Tot Games | 19 | 20 | 39 | |
| pts | 67-60 | 65-57 | 132-117 | |
| Total points | 127 | 122 | 249 | |
| Winners | 19 | 24 | 43 | |
| %Winners | 28% | 37% | 33% | |
| SERVE | ||||
| Aces | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
| Double Faults | 2 | 1 | 3 | |
| 1st in | 30/53 | 35/62 | 65/115 | |
| % 1st in | 57% | 56% | 57% | |
| 1st pts | 19/30 | 24/35 | 43/65 | |
| % 1st pts | 63% | 69% | 66% | |
| 2nd pts | 13/23 | 18/27 | 31/50 | |
| % 2nd pts | 57% | 67% | 62% | |
| Breaks | ||||
| Won | 5 | 3 | 8 | |
| Converted | 5/14 | 3/6 | 8/20 | |
| Converted % | 36% | 50% | 40% | |
| Conceded | 2 | 4 | 6 | |
| Saved | 0/2 | 3/4 | 3 | |
| Saved % | 0% | 75% | 75% | |
| Times Broken | 2 | 1 | 3 | |
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