Cristina Bucsa and Tatjana Maria will face off in the qualifications of the Open 6 Sens for the 2^nd time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Sunday at 12:30 pm on Court Central. In this post, we analyze their head to head performance and prediction.

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The pick for Tennis Tonic is Tatjana Maria who should win in 3 sets.

As per the initial odds, Tatjana Maria is the pick to win this match.
Tatjana Maria -> 1.68
Cristina Bucsa -> 2.19

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Prediction and head to head Cristina Bucsa vs. Tatjana Maria

This will be the 2^nd time that Cristina Bucsa and Tatjana Maria square off. The head to head is 1-0 for Bucsa (see full H2H stats), 1-0 on indoor hard courts.

The last time that they played, Bucsa won 6-4 3-0 ret. in the quarter in the W60 Nantes back in 2019.

Cristina Bucsa

Ranked no. 138 (career-high), Bucsa got to the qualifications after beating Lucrezia Stefanini 1-6 6-2 6-1.

In the qualifications against Stefanini, Bucsa recovered from a 1-set down deficit before winning (1-6 6-2 6-1). During the match, Bucsa scored 80 points vs Stefanini’s 67. The Spaniard was pretty aggressive to blast 27 winners.

Talking about the service games, Bucsa was unable to score even 1 ace and she committed only 1 double fault. Cristina Bucsa lost the serve 3 times and she saved 1 break points. Furthermore, Bucsa put 67% of her first serves in, winning 64% (27/42) of the points behind her 1st serve and 52% (11/21) on the 2nd serve. The Spaniard broke Stefanini 5 times after converting 36% of her break points (5/14).

Bucsa has a solid record in the last 7 years having won 62% of her matches (193-120). 1-1 on indoor hard courts in 2022. Regarding her performance on the same surface of this event, Bucsa has a compiled38-24 win-loss record in the last 7 years on indoor hard courts.

The Spaniard has an overall 7-4 win-loss record in 2022, 1-1 on indoor hard courts (See FULL STATS).

Previously in Lyon

Tatjana Maria

Ranked no. 212, Tatjana got to the qualifications after beating Anastasia Gasanova 6-4 6-1.

In the qualifications, The German had a good straight sets win against Gasanova (6-4 6-1). During the match Maria scored 80 points vs Gasanova’s 62. The German was pretty aggressive to blast 23 winners.

Talking about serving, Maria scored 2 aces and she committed only 4 double faults. Overall, Tatjana Maria was pretty effective on serve to win 72% (23/32) of her 1st serve and 55% (21/38) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent her to concede the serve once. Tatjana broke Gasanova 4 times after converting 57% of her break points (4/7).

Maria has a composed 13-4 win-loss record in 2022, 4-1 on indoor hard courts (See FULL STATS).

H2H Performance in the tournament

Matches, sets, games and points

Points	Bucsa	Maria
Match played	1	1
Tot Set	3	2
Tot Games	22	17
Pts	80-67	80-62
Total Points	147	142
Winners	27	23
%Winners	34%	29%

Both Bucsa and Maria played 1 match. Also both players started their run from the qualifications.At the moment, Cristina Bucsa dropped 1 set while Tatjana Maria hasn’t conceded a set so far. Bucsa has played 1 set more than Maria (3 vs 2). Therefore, Bucsa played 5 games more than Maria. The Spaniard scored 27 winners (34% of the total points). On the other side, Tatjana recorded 23 winners (29%).

Serve Performance

Serve	Bucsa	Maria
Aces	0	2
Avg per match	0	2
1st in	42/63	32/70
%1st in	67%	46%
1st pts	27/42	23/32
%1st pts	64%	72%
2nd pts	11/21	21/38
%2nd pts	52%	55%

Bucsa didn’t manage to fire a single ace to far. Maria fired 2 aces . Bucsa won 64% points behind her first serve. She pretty solid on her second serve to win 52% of the points. On the other side, Maria won 72% of the points on her first serve. She had a solid display on her second serve to win 55% of the points.

How they played the important points

Breaks	Bucsa	Maria
Won	5	4
Converted	5/14	4/7
% Converted	36%	57%
Conceded	4	7
Saved	1	6
% Saved	25%	86%
Times Broken	3	1

Bucsa broke her opponent 5 times with a 36% conversion rate. Cristina conceded her serve 3 times and she saved 25% of the break points that she conceded. The German broke her opponent 4 times with a 57% conversion rate. Maria conceded her serve once and she saved 86% of the break points that she conceded.

Bucsa
	Q1 Stefanini	Total
Score	1-6 6-2 6-1
Tot Set	3	3
Tot Games	22	22
pts	80-67	80-67
Total points	147	147
Winners	27	27
%Winners	34%	34%
SERVE
Aces	0	0
Double Faults	1	1
1st in	42/63	42/63
% 1st in	67%	67%
1st pts	27/42	27/42
% 1st pts	64%	64%
2nd pts	11/21	11/21
% 2nd pts	52%	52%
Breaks
Won	5	5
Converted	5/14	5/14
Converted %	36%	36%
Conceded	4	4
Saved	1/4	1
Saved %	25%	25%
Times Broken	3	3

Maria
	Q1 Gasanova	Total
Score	6-4 6-1
Tot Set	2	2
Tot Games	17	17
pts	80-62	80-62
Total points	142	142
Winners	23	23
%Winners	29%	29%
SERVE
Aces	2	2
Double Faults	4	4
1st in	32/70	32/70
% 1st in	46%	46%
1st pts	23/32	23/32
% 1st pts	72%	72%
2nd pts	21/38	21/38
% 2nd pts	55%	55%
Breaks
Won	4	4
Converted	4/7	4/7
Converted %	57%	57%
Conceded	7	7
Saved	6/7	6
Saved %	86%	86%
Times Broken	1	1

Tennis Scores in Lyon

• Simone BolelliBolelli – Pedro SousaSousa (6-2 6-3 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Christian GarinGarin – John-Patrick SmithSmith (4-6 7-6⁷ 6-4 4-6 12-10) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Stefanos TsitsipasTsitsipas – Joris De LooreDe Loore (6-3 3-6 6-3 3-6 7-5) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Andrew WhittingtonWhittington – Denis KudlaKudla (4-6 2-6 7-6⁷ 7-6³ 6-0) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Taylor Harry FritzHarry Fritz – Vincent MillotMillot (6-3 7-5 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Peter GojowczykGojowczyk – Lukas LackoLacko (7-5 6-2 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Illya MarchenkoMarchenko – Marcus WillisWillis (6-4 6-1 7-6⁴) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Stefano TravagliaTravaglia – Peter PolanskyPolansky (6-4 4-6 3-6 6-4 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Sergiy StakhovskyStakhovsky – Tatsuma ItoIto (6-3 6-7¹ 6-7⁶ 6-4 8-6) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Daniel BrandsBrands – Alexander BublikBublik (6-3 3-6 4-6 6-2 12-10) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Lukas RosolRosol – Darian KingKing (6-4 3-6 6-3 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Alexander WardWard – Teimuraz GabashviliGabashvili (6-7³ 6-4 7-6⁶ 6-1) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Ruben BemelmansBemelmans – Gerald MelzerMelzer (6-4 7-5 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Nicolas JarryJarry – Dennis NovikovNovikov (4-6 6-3 6-4 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Sebastian OfnerOfner – Jay ClarkeClarke (2-6 6-7⁹ 6-4 6-4 6-1) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Andrey RublevRublev – Paul-Henri MathieuMathieu (6-4 1-6 7-6¹¹ 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings

Upcoming matches in the draw

• Ekaterine GorgodzeGorgodze – Stefanie VoegeleVoegele (0-1) – H2H and prediction
• Mai HontamaHontama – Mariam BolkvadzeBolkvadze (0-1) – H2H and prediction
• Katie BoulterBoulter – Laura SiegemundSiegemund (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Cristina BucsaBucsa – Tatjana MariaMaria (1-0) – H2H and prediction
• Lesley KerkhoveKerkhove – Yuriko MiyazakiMiyazaki (2-0) – H2H and prediction
• Tamara KorpatschKorpatsch – Ylena In-AlbonIn-Albon (1-0) – H2H and prediction
• Camila GiorgiGiorgi – Caroline GarciaGarcia (1-2) – H2H and prediction
• Elisabetta CocciarettoCocciaretto – Martina TrevisanTrevisan (0-1) – H2H and prediction
• Varvara GrachevaGracheva – Kristina KucovaKucova (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Vera ZvonarevaZvonareva – Alison Van UytvanckVan Uytvanck (0-3) – H2H and prediction
• Viktorija GolubicGolubic – Greetje MinnenMinnen (2-0) – H2H and prediction
• Anna-Lena FriedsamFriedsam – Vitalia DiatchenkoDiatchenko (2-0) – H2H and prediction
• Danka KovinicKovinic – Arantxa RusRus (1-1) – H2H and prediction
• Kristina MladenovicMladenovic – Shuai ZhangZhang (4-3) – H2H and prediction
• Jasmine PaoliniPaolini – Irina Maria BaraMaria Bara (1-1) – H2H and prediction
• Dayana YastremskaYastremska – Ana BogdanBogdan (1-0) – H2H and prediction