Belinda Bencic and Cristina Bucsa will play each other in the 1^st round of the Western & Southern Open for the 1^st time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Tuesday at 5:00 pm on STADIUM 3. In the following paragraphs, you can find the head to head analysis and prediction.

Prediction, odds and live streaming

The pick for Tennis Tonic is Belinda Bencic who should win in 2 sets.

As per the initial odds, Belinda Bencic is the pick to win this match.
Belinda Bencic -> 1.28
Cristina Bucsa -> 3.68

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Prediction and head to head Belinda Bencic vs. Cristina Bucsa

There is no head to head record between Belinda Bencic and Cristina Bucsa since this will be the first time that they will fight against each other in the main tour.

Belinda Bencic

Ranked no. 14, Belinda will start her run in Cincinnati after she played her last match in Montreal where she lost 6-4 6-4 to Samsonova in the quarter on the 11^th of August.

Bencic has an overall 28-10 win-loss record in 2023, 21-7 on hard (See FULL STATS).

Her best result of the year was conquering the title in Adelaide where she defeated Daria Kasatkina in the final 6-0 6-2 and in Abu Dhabi where she beat Liudmila Samsonova in the final 1-6 7-6(8) 6-4.

Talking about her overall career, Bencic has an overall 385-196 record. She has a positive 185-96 record on hard.

Previously in Cincinnati

Previously, her best result was reaching the quarter in 2021. See her history.

Cristina Bucsa

Ranked no. 84, Bucsa reached the 1^st round after defeating Linda Fruhvirtova 6-0 6-4 and Varvara Gracheva 6-3 6-2.

In the qualifications, The Spaniard had a good straight sets win against Gracheva (6-3 6-2). During the match Bucsa scored 70 points vs Gracheva’s 48. Cristina was pretty aggressive to blast 17 winners.

Talking about serving, Bucsa couldn’t to score even 1 ace for the entire match and she committed only 2 double faults. Cristina Bucsa lost the serve 3 times and she saved 4 break points. Furthermore, Bucsa put 63% of her first serves in, winning 59% (17/29) of the points behind her 1st serve and 59% (10/17) on the 2nd serve. The Spaniard broke Gracheva 7 times after converting 47% of her break points (7/15).

Overall Performance in this tournament

Cristina started her run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, she hasn’t conceded yet a set in this tournament to conquer 61% of the points she played.

Cristina has a composed 21-20 win-loss record in 2023, 11-7 on hard (See FULL STATS).

Previously in Cincinnati

Bucsa has never competed in this tournament before.

Tennis Scores in Cincinnati

• Anastasia PotapovaPotapova – Celine NaefNaef (1-6 6-4 7-5) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Venus WilliamsWilliams – Veronika Kudermetova
  Kudermetova (6-4 7-5) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Anhelina KalininaKalinina – Lin ZhuZhu (6-3 7-5) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Sloane StephensStephens – Elisabetta CocciarettoCocciaretto (7-5 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Jasmine PaoliniPaolini – Marta KostyukKostyuk (6-2 6-1) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Lucas PouillePouille – Ernests GulbisGulbis (6-4 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Evgeny DonskoyDonskoy – Blaz KavcicKavcic (6-3 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Karen KhachanovKhachanov – Denis IstominIstomin (7-6¹ 7-6⁰) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Filip KrajinovicKrajinovic – Thomas FabbianoFabbiano (0-6 6-2 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Jan-Lennard StruffStruff – Andreas Haider-MaurerHaider-Maurer (6-2 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Yuichi Sugita
  Sugita – Ilya IvashkaIvashka (7-5 6-1) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Malek JaziriJaziri – Grigor DimitrovDimitrov (4-6 7-5 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Borna CoricCoric – Richard GasquetGasquet (6-4 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Damir DzumhurDzumhur – Yannick MadenMaden (6-3 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Pierre-Hugues HerbertHerbert – Joao SousaSousa (4-6 6-4 7-6⁸) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Robin HaaseHaase – Quentin HalysHalys (7-5 2-6 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Benoit PairePaire – Yoshihito NishiokaNishioka (5-7 6-4 6-1) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Roberto Bautista AgutBautista Agut – Florian MayerMayer (6-3 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Philipp KohlschreiberKohlschreiber – Gleb SakharovSakharov (6-4 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Damir Dzumhur/Filip KrajinovicDzumhur/Filip Krajinovic – Henri Kontinen/John PeersKontinen/John Peers (7-6⁴ 7-6²) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Marcos BaghdatisBaghdatis – Viktor TroickiTroicki (7-5 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Stefanos TsitsipasTsitsipas – Mikhail KukushkinKukushkin (6-2 6-7⁵ 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings

Upcoming matches in the draw

• Danielle Rose CollinsRose Collins – Anastasia PavlyuchenkovaPavlyuchenkova (2-0) – H2H and prediction
• Qinwen ZhengZheng – Aliaksandra SasnovichSasnovich (1-0) – H2H and prediction
• Marketa VondrousovaVondrousova – Katerina SiniakovaSiniakova (0-1) – H2H and prediction
• Jelena OstapenkoOstapenko – Karolina PliskovaPliskova (4-5) – H2H and prediction
• Cristina BucsaBucsa – Belinda BencicBencic (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Petra KvitovaKvitova – Anna BlinkovaBlinkova (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Xiyu WangWang – Mayar SherifSherif (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Ekaterina AlexandrovaAlexandrova – Sorana CirsteaCirstea (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Petra MarticMartic – Emma NavarroNavarro (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Karolina MuchovaMuchova – Beatriz Haddad MaiaHaddad Maia (2-0) – H2H and prediction
• Madison KeysKeys – Elise MertensMertens (3-0) – H2H and prediction
• Irina-Camelia BeguBegu – Marie BouzkovaBouzkova (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Bernarda PeraPera – Martina TrevisanTrevisan (1-0) – H2H and prediction
• Jennifer BradyBrady – Donna VekicVekic (1-1) – H2H and prediction
• Victoria AzarenkaAzarenka – Barbora KrejcikovaKrejcikova (1-1) – H2H and prediction
• Darya KasatkinaKasatkina – Peyton StearnsStearns (1-0) – H2H and prediction
• Elina SvitolinaSvitolina – Caroline WozniackiWozniacki (4-1) – H2H and prediction
• Magda LinetteLinette – Ann LiLi (1-0) – H2H and prediction
• Sloane StephensStephens – Caroline GarciaGarcia (2-4) – H2H and prediction
• Ons JabeurJabeur – Anhelina KalininaKalinina (1-0) – H2H and prediction