Shuai Zhang and Cristina Bucsa will play each other in the 1st round of the National Bank Open for the 3rd time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Tuesday at 1:00 pm on Court 1. In this post, we analyze their head to head performance and prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Shuai Zhang who should win in 2 sets.
As per the initial odds, Shuai Zhang is the pick to win this match.
Shuai Zhang -> 1.41
Cristina Bucsa -> 2.91
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Prediction and head to head Shuai Zhang vs. Cristina Bucsa
This will be the 3rd time that Shuai Zhang and Cristina Bucsa fight against each other. The head to head is 2-0 for Zhang (see full H2H stats), but they have never played each other on hard.
The last time that they competed against each other, Zhang won 7-6(4) 6-3 in the 1st round in Nottingham back in June 2022.
Shuai Zhang
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 41-17 | 31-9 | 4-4 | 2-2 | 4-2 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 6-14 | 6-12 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 4-19 | 3-10 | 0-4 | 1-1 | 0-4 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 39-31 | 17-14 | 4-7 | 10-7 | 8-3 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 23-28 | 8-11 | 4-8 | 5-5 | 6-4 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 45, the Chinese will start her run in Montreal after she played her last match in San Jose where she lost 6-4 6-2 to Keys in the 1st round on the 1st of August.
Shuai has a compiled 23-19 win-loss record in 2022, 6-8 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Her best result of the current year was winning the title in in Lyon where she beat Dayana Yastremska in the final 3-6 6-3 6-4.
Talking about her overall career, The Chinese has an overall 483-359 record. She has a positive 326-215 record on hard.
Previously in Montreal
Previously, her best result was reaching the 2nd round in 2018 and 2019. See her history.
Cristina Bucsa
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| 2021 | 31-27 | 9-7 | 9-11 | 6-6 | 5-2 | 2-1 |
Ranked no. 122, the Spaniard reached the 1st round after defeating Rebecca Peterson 6-3 6-3 and Nuria Parrizas-Diaz 6-4 6-3.
In the qualifications, Cristina had a good straight sets win against Parrizas-Diaz (6-4 6-3). During the match Bucsa scored 66 points vs Parrizas-Diaz’s 55. Bucsa was very aggressive to blast 29 winners.
Talking about serving, Bucsa scored 3 aces and she committed only 1 double fault for the entire match. Cristina Bucsa lost the serve twice and she saved 2 break points. Furthermore, Bucsa put 63% of her first serves in, winning 64% (29/45) of the points behind her 1st serve and 54% (14/26) on the 2nd serve. Cristina broke Parrizas-Diaz 4 times after converting 57% of her break points (4/7).
Overall Performance in this tournament
The Spaniard started her run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, she hasn’t conceded yet a set in this competition to conquer 56% of the points she played.
The Spaniard’s best result of the year was getting to the semifinal in the W25 Le Havre and the Contrexeville.
Bucsa has an aggregate 34-21 win-loss record in 2022, 8-4 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in Montreal
The Spaniard has never competed in this tournament before.
Head 2 Head
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