Barbora Krejcikova and Cristina Bucsa will clash against each other in the 1^st round of the Rothesay Classic for the 2^nd time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Wednesday at 1:00 pm on Ann Jones Centre Court. Here the head to head stats and relative prediction.

Prediction, odds and live streaming

The pick for Tennis Tonic is Barbora Krejcikova who should win in 2 sets.

As per the initial odds, Barbora Krejcikova is the pick to win this match.
Barbora Krejcikova -> 1.29
Cristina Bucsa -> 3.6

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Prediction and head to head Barbora Krejcikova vs. Cristina Bucsa

This will be the 2^nd time that Barbora Krejcikova and Cristina Bucsa fight against each other. The head to head is 1-0 for Bucsa (see full H2H stats), but they have never played each other on grass.

The last time that they played each other, Bucsa won 6-3 7-5 in the qualifications in Doha back in 2021.

Barbora Krejcikova

Ranked no. 12, Barbora will start her run in Birmingham after she played her last match at the Paris where she lost 6-2 6-4 to Tsurenko in the 1^st round on the 30^th of May.

Krejcikova has an aggregate 20-11 win-loss record in 2023, 0-0 on grass (See FULL STATS).

This will be the first match of the season on grass.

Her best result of the current season was winning the title in Dubai where she beat Iga Swiatek in the final 6-4 6-2.

Talking about her overall career, Krejcikova has an overall 377-200 record. She has a negative 6-7 record on grass.

Previously in Birmingham

Barbora has never competed in this tournament before.

Cristina Bucsa

Ranked no. 76, Cristina got to the 1^st round after defeating Margarita Betova 6-0 6-4 and Daria Saville 6-4 3-6 6-1.

In the qualifications, The Spaniard defeated Gavrilova (6-4 3-6 6-1). During the match Bucsa scored 97 points vs Gavrilova’s 83. The Spaniard was extremely aggressive to blast 41 winners.

Talking about serving, Bucsa blasted 4 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 69% of her first serves in, winning 76% (41/54) of the points behind her 1st serve and 46% (11/24) on the 2nd serve. Bucsa broke Gavrilova 4 times after converting 33% of her break points (4/12).

Overall Performance in this tournament

The Spaniard started her run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, she has conceded 1 set in the tournament to win 56% of the points she played.

The Spaniard has a composed 14-13 win-loss record in 2023, 2-1 on grass (See FULL STATS).

Previously in Birmingham

Previously, her best result was reaching the qualifications in 2022. See her history.

Tennis Scores in Birmingham

• Magdalena FrechFrech – Barbora StrycovaStrycova (7-6³ 6-1) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Sorana CirsteaCirstea – Ana BogdanBogdan (6-4 2-6 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Anastasia PotapovaPotapova – Marta KostyukKostyuk (6-7⁶ 7-5 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Harriet DartDart – Jodie Anna BurrageAnna Burrage (4-6 6-2 7-5) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Lin ZhuZhu – Katie BoulterBoulter (7-5 7-5) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Ulrikke Eikeri/Alexandra PanovaEikeri/Alexandra Panova – Alicia Barnett/Olivia NichollsBarnett/Olivia Nicholls (2-6 6-2 10-5) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Jelena OstapenkoOstapenko – Linda NoskovaNoskova (6-2 5-7 6-1) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Anhelina KalininaKalinina – Alycia ParksParks (6-4 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Magda LinetteLinette – Jasmine PaoliniPaolini (3-6 7-5 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Caty McNallyMcNally – Lauren DavisDavis (6-1 7-5) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Lidziya Marozava/Ingrid MartinsMarozava/Ingrid Martins – Miriam Kolodziejova/Tereza MihalikovaKolodziejova/Tereza Mihalikova (7-6² 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Bernarda PeraPera – Marie BouzkovaBouzkova (6-4 7-6³) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Venus WilliamsWilliams – Camila GiorgiGiorgi (7-6⁵ 4-6 7-6⁶) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Freya Christie/Ali CollinsChristie/Ali Collins – Cristina Bucsa/Makoto NinomiyaBucsa/Makoto Ninomiya (7-6⁶ 4-6 10-7) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Linda FruhvirtovaFruhvirtova – Elina SvitolinaSvitolina (6-2 6-0) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Su-Wei Hsieh/Barbora StrycovaHsieh/Barbora Strycova – Eri Hozumi/Shuai ZhangHozumi/Shuai Zhang (6-4 6-1) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Vitaliy SachkoSachko – Nikita MashtakovMashtakov (5-7 6-1 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Yan SabaninSabanin – Roman KhassanovKhassanov (6-3 ret.) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Ivan NedelkoNedelko – Yuriy KryvoyKryvoy (6-2 6-0) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Francesco VilardoVilardo – Daniil ZarichanskyyZarichanskyy (6-2 6-0) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Denys MolchanovMolchanov – Sagadat AyapAyap (6-1 7-5) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Oleg PrihodkoPrihodko – Edoardo LambertiLamberti (7-5 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Vitalii ShcherbaShcherba – Oleg KhotkovKhotkov (6-3 1-6 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Baptiste CrepatteCrepatte – Vladyslav GorodynskyiGorodynskyi (6-1 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Vladyslav OrlovOrlov – Vladyslav ManafovManafov (6-2 1-6 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Stanislav PoplavskyyPoplavskyy – Olexiy KolisnykKolisnyk (6-4 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Dmytro KamyninKamynin – Illya BeloborodkoBeloborodko (6-4 6-0) – Stats, scores, rankings

Upcoming matches in the draw

• Barbora KrejcikovaKrejcikova – Cristina BucsaBucsa (0-1) – H2H and prediction
• Tereza MartincovaMartincova – Viktoriya TomovaTomova (2-1) – H2H and prediction
• Rebecca MarinoMarino – Xiyu WangWang (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Emina BektasBektas – Shuai ZhangZhang (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Magda LinetteLinette – Lin ZhuZhu (0-1) – H2H and prediction
• Anhelina KalininaKalinina – Harriet DartDart (0-1) – H2H and prediction
• Caty McNallyMcNally – Anastasia PotapovaPotapova (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Sorana CirsteaCirstea – Magdalena FrechFrech (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Venus WilliamsWilliams – Jelena OstapenkoOstapenko (2-0) – H2H and prediction