Simona Halep and Cristina Bucsa will face off in the 1st round of the Citi Open for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Monday at 12:00 pm on STADIUM. 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 Simona Halep who should win in 2 sets.
Simona Halep -> 1.10
Cristina Bucsa -> 7.00
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Prediction and head to head Simona Halep vs. Cristina Bucsa
There is no head to head record between Simona Halep and Cristina Bucsa since this will be the first time that they will fight against each other in the main tour.
Simona Halep
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 1-4 | 1-3 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 39-11 | 23-6 | 5-3 | 0-0 | 11-2 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 24-10 | 12-5 | 4-3 | 8-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 16, Halep will start her run in Washington after she played her last match at the London where she lost 6-3 6-3 to Rybakina in the semifinal on the 7th of July.
The Romanian has an overall 31-9 win-loss record in 2022, 15-4 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Her best result of the current season was winning the title in in Melbourne where she beat Veronika Kudermetova in the final 6-2 6-3.
Talking about her overall career, Halep has an overall 581-238 record. She has a positive 257-113 record on hard.
Previously in Washington
Previously, her best result was reaching the quarter in 2017. See her history.
Cristina Bucsa
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 34-31 | 24-20 | 2-6 | 2-1 | 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 |
| 2021 | 31-27 | 9-7 | 9-11 | 6-6 | 5-2 | 2-1 |
Ranked no. 120 (career-high), Cristina got to the 1st round after defeating Kimberly Birrell 6-3 3-6 7-5 and Caty McNally 1-6 6-4 7-5.
In the qualifications against McNally, Cristina recovered from a 1-set down deficit before winning (1-6 6-4 7-5). During the match Bucsa scored 95 points vs McNally’s 94. Bucsa was extremely aggressive to blast 38 winners.
Talking about serving, Bucsa managed to score 2 aces and she committed only 4 double faults. Cristina Bucsa lost the serve 5 times and she saved 6 break points. Furthermore, Bucsa put 67% of her first serves in, winning 58% (38/66) of the points behind her 1st serve and 56% (18/32) on the 2nd serve. The Spaniard broke McNally 5 times after converting 42% of her break points (5/12).
Overall Performance in this tournament
The Spaniard started her run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, she has conceded 2 set in the tournament to win 50% of the points she played.
Cristina’s best result of the current year was getting to the semifinal in the W25 Le Havre and the Contrexeville.
The Spaniard has an overall 32-20 win-loss record in 2022, 6-3 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Tennis Scores in Washington
- Danilo PetrovicPetrovic – Maxime TabatruongTabatruong (6-3 6-1) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Mario Vilella MartinezVilella Martinez – Maxim RatniukRatniuk (6-1 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Zdenek KolarKolar – Ivan DavydovDavydov (6-3 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Ivan NedelkoNedelko – Dimitriy VoroninVoronin (6-1 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Manuel GuinardGuinard – Hyun-Woo NamNam (6-4 3-6 6-1) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Pavel KotovKotov – George TsivadzeTsivadze (6-2 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Oleksandr BielinskyiBielinskyi – Denys KlokKlok (3-6 7-5 6-1) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Nino SerdarusicSerdarusic – Boris ButulijaButulija (6-1 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Jonathan MridhaMridha – Roman KhassanovKhassanov (6-2 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Libor SalabaSalaba – Denis YevseyevYevseyev (6-3 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Ivan GakhovGakhov – Danylo KalenichenkoKalenichenko (6-1 7-63) – Stats, scores, rankings
Upcoming matches in the draw
- Jessica PegulaPegula – Hailey BaptisteBaptiste (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Daria GavrilovaGavrilova – Mirjam BjorklundBjorklund (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Rebecca MarinoMarino – Venus WilliamsWilliams (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Andrea PetkovicPetkovic – Clara TausonTauson (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Simona HalepHalep – Cristina BucsaBucsa (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Madison BrengleBrengle – Anna KalinskayaKalinskaya (0-2) – H2H and prediction
- Lin ZhuZhu – Harriet DartDart (1-1) – H2H and prediction
- Greetje MinnenMinnen – Kaia KanepiKanepi (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Mayar SherifSherif – Donna VekicVekic (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Xin Yu WangYu Wang – Tatjana MariaMaria (1-1) – H2H and prediction
- Tereza MartincovaMartincova – Xin Yu WangYu Wang (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Dayana YastremskaYastremska – Victoria AzarenkaAzarenka (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Elise MertensMertens – Ludmilla SamsonovaSamsonova (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Ajla TomljanovicTomljanovic – Sloane StephensStephens (0-6) – H2H and prediction
- Sofia KeninKenin – Maria Camila Osorio SerranoCamila Osorio Serrano (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Louisa ChiricoChirico – Emma RaducanuRaducanu (0-0) – H2H and prediction