Jessica Pegula and Cristina Bucsa will fight against each other in the 2nd round of the Toray Pan Pacific Open for the 2nd time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Wednesday at 11:00 am on Center Court. Here the head to head stats and relative prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Jessica Pegula who should win in 2 sets.
As per the initial odds, Jessica Pegula is the pick to win this match.
Jessica Pegula -> 1.119
Cristina Bucsa -> 6.3
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Prediction and head to head Jessica Pegula vs. Cristina Bucsa
This will be the 2nd time that Jessica Pegula and Cristina Bucsa clash against each other. The head to head is 1-0 for Pegula (see full H2H stats), but they have never played each other on hard.
The last time that they competed against each other, Pegula won 6-1 6-4 in the 2nd round in at the Wimbledon back in July 2023.
Jessica Pegula
Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
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2024 | 36-12 | 26-7 | 4-2 | 0-0 | 6-3 | 0-0 |
2023 | 59-18 | 45-12 | 8-4 | 0-0 | 6-2 | 0-0 |
2022 | 42-21 | 28-15 | 11-4 | 1-1 | 2-1 | 0-0 |
2021 | 39-19 | 29-12 | 6-4 | 0-0 | 4-3 | 0-0 |
2020 | 17-9 | 16-7 | 0-1 | 1-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 4, Jessica will start her run in Tokyo after she played her last match at the New York where she lost 6-1 6-3 to Keys in the 4th round on the 4th of September.
Jessica has an aggregate 46-15 win-loss record in 2023, 32-9 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Her best result of the season was winning the title in Australia where she beat Martina Trevisan in the final 6-4 6-2 and in Montreal where she defeated Liudmila Samsonova in the final 6-1 6-0.
Talking about her overall career, Pegula has an overall 381-227 record. She has a positive 209-114 record on hard.
Previously in Tokyo
Jessica has never competed in this tournament before.
Cristina Bucsa
Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
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2024 | 19-25 | 9-14 | 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. 79, Bucsa got to the 2nd round after defeating Rina Saigo 6-1 6-2.
In the 1st round, Bucsa had a good straight sets win against Saigo (6-1 6-2). During the match Bucsa scored 63 points vs Saigo’s 39. The Spaniard was extremely aggressive to blast 26 winners.
About the serving games, Bucsa scored just 1 ace during the entire match and she committed only 2 double faults. Cristina Bucsa lost the serve once and she saved 3 break points. Furthermore, Bucsa put 67% of her first serves in, winning 79% (26/33) of the points behind her 1st serve and 44% (7/16) on the 2nd serve. The Spaniard broke Saigo 5 times after converting 45% of her break points (5/11).
Cristina’s best result of the current season was reaching the semifinal in the Chicago.
The Spaniard has a compiled 26-24 win-loss record in 2023, 16-11 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Head 2 Head
Tennis Scores in Tokyo
- Misaki DoiDoi – Petra MarticMartic (7-5 6-2) – See score progression
- Despina PapamichailPapamichail – Sakura HosogiHosogi (7-63 7-5) – See score progression
- Linda NoskovaNoskova – Himeno SakatsumeSakatsume (6-2 7-5) – See score progression
- Anastasia PavlyuchenkovaPavlyuchenkova – Donna VekicVekic (6-1 6-1) – See score progression
- Ekaterina AlexandrovaAlexandrova – Anna KalinskayaKalinskaya (6-77 6-1 7-5) – See score progression
- Daria KasatkinaKasatkina – Marta KostyukKostyuk (3-6 6-4 6-3) – See score progression
- Veronika KudermetovaKudermetova – Harriet DartDart (6-3 7-64) – See score progression
- Kayla DayDay – Moyuka UchijimaUchijima (6-2 6-2) – See score progression
- Cristina BucsaBucsa – Rina SaigoSaigo (6-1 6-2) – See score progression
- Mai HontamaHontama – Nao HibinoHibino (6-2 6-4) – See score progression
- Liudmila SamsonovaSamsonova – Tatjana MariaMaria (6-0 6-2) – See score progression
- Anhelina KalininaKalinina – Ashlyn KruegerKrueger (6-3 6-1) – See score progression
- Veronika Kudermetova/Anastasia PavlyuchenkovaKudermetova/Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova – Giuliana Olmos/Luisa StefaniOlmos/Luisa Stefani (7-5 6-73 10-8) – See score progression
- Misaki DoiDoi – Petra MarticMartic (7-5 6-2) – See score progression
Upcoming matches in the draw
- Iga SwiatekSwiatek – Mai HontamaHontama (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Kayla DayDay – Veronika KudermetovaKudermetova (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Ekaterina AlexandrovaAlexandrova – Ludmilla SamsonovaSamsonova (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Caroline GarciaGarcia – Anhelina KalininaKalinina (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Misaki DoiDoi – Maria SakkariSakkari (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Darya KasatkinaKasatkina – Despina PapamichailPapamichail (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Cristina BucsaBucsa – Jessica PegulaPegula (0-1) – H2H and prediction