Cristina Bucsa and Rina Saigo will clash against each other in the 1st round of the Toray Pan Pacific Open for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Monday at 3:00 pm on Center Court. Here the head to head stats and relative prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Cristina Bucsa who should win in 2 sets.
As per the initial odds, Cristina Bucsa is the pick to win this match.
Cristina Bucsa -> 1.102
Rina Saigo -> 6.9
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Prediction and head to head Cristina Bucsa vs. Rina Saigo
There is no head to head record between Cristina Bucsa and Rina Saigo since this will be the first time that they will square off in the main tour.
Cristina Bucsa
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| 2020 | 14-13 | 4-3 | 8-5 | 2-5 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 87, Cristina will start her run in Tokyo after she played her last match in Guadalajara where she lost 6-1 6-2 to Giorgi in the 2nd round on the 19th of September.
Cristina has a compiled 25-24 win-loss record in 2023, 15-11 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Cristina’s best result of the current year was getting to the semifinal in the Chicago.
Talking about her overall career, Bucsa has an overall 260-171 record. She has a positive 84-42 record on hard.
Previously in Tokyo
Cristina has never competed in this tournament before.
Rina Saigo
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 47-34 | 47-32 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-2 |
| 2023 | 24-27 | 14-15 | 3-8 | 0-0 | 1-1 | 6-3 |
| 2022 | 45-29 | 5-4 | 34-20 | 0-2 | 0-1 | 6-2 |
| 2021 | 14-17 | 14-17 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 7-4 | 6-3 | 0-0 | 1-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 353, Saigo got to the 1st round after defeating Giuliana Olmos 7-68 6-3 and Sakura Hosogi 6-1 6-3.
In the qualifications, Saigo had a good straight sets win against Hosogi (6-1 6-3). During the match Saigo scored 64 points vs Hosogi’s 41. Rina was quite aggressive to blast 25 winners.
About the serving games, Saigo managed to score 2 aces and she committed only 2 double faults. Rina Saigo lost the serve twice and she saved 3 break points. Furthermore, Saigo put 71% of her first serves in, winning 61% (25/41) of the points behind her 1st serve and 59% (10/17) on the 2nd serve. Rina broke Hosogi 6 times after converting 67% of her break points (6/9).
Overall Performance in this tournament
Saigo started her run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, she hasn’t surrendered yet a set in this event to conquer 56% of the points she played.
Rina has an overall 18-21 win-loss record in 2023, 13-11 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in Tokyo
Previously, her best result was reaching the 1st round in 2022. See her history.
Head 2 Head
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- Despina PapamichailPapamichail – Ellen PerezPerez (6-4 6-3) – See score progression
- Rina SaigoSaigo – Sakura HosogiHosogi (6-1 6-3) – See score progression
- Misaki DoiDoi – Ashlyn KruegerKrueger (w/o) – See score progression
- Natsumi KawaguchiKawaguchi – Himeno SakatsumeSakatsume (7-62 6-4) – See score progression
- Mai HontamaHontama – Sara SaitoSaito (6-2 6-2) – See score progression
- Harriet DartDart – Oksana KalashnikovaKalashnikova (6-0 6-4) – See score progression
Upcoming matches in the draw
- Mai HontamaHontama – Nao HibinoHibino (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Kayla DayDay – Moyuka UchijimaUchijima (1-1) – H2H and prediction
- Harriet DartDart – Veronika KudermetovaKudermetova (0-3) – H2H and prediction
- Elena RybakinaRybakina – (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Anastasia PavlyuchenkovaPavlyuchenkova – Donna VekicVekic (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Anna KalinskayaKalinskaya – Ekaterina AlexandrovaAlexandrova (0-4) – H2H and prediction
- Tatjana MariaMaria – Ludmilla SamsonovaSamsonova (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Petra MarticMartic – Misaki DoiDoi (1-1) – H2H and prediction
- Darya KasatkinaKasatkina – Marta KostyukKostyuk (1-2) – H2H and prediction
- Cristina BucsaBucsa – Rina SaigoSaigo (0-0) – H2H and prediction
