Lucija Ciric Bagaric and Sara Saito will face off in the qualifications of the French Open for the 1^st time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Thursday at 3:00 pm on Court 7. In the following lines you can find the head to head analysis and prediction.

Prediction, odds and live streaming

The pick for Tennis Tonic is Lucija Ciric Bagaric who should win in 3 sets.

As per the initial odds, Lucija Ciric Bagaric is the pick to win this match.
Lucija Ciric Bagaric -> 1.5
Sara Saito -> 2.52

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Prediction and head to head Lucija Ciric Bagaric vs. Sara Saito

There is no head to head record between Lucija Ciric Bagaric and Sara Saito since this will be the first time that they will face off in the main tour.

Lucija Ciric Bagaric

Ranked no. 185 (career-high), Ciric Bagaric got to the qualifications after beating Arina Rodionova 6-4 6-3 and Rebecca Marino 6-2 6-3.

In the qualifications, Ciric Bagaric had a good straight sets win against Marino (6-2 6-3). During the match, Ciric Bagaric scored 65 points vs Marino’s 43. The Croatian was extremely aggressive to blast 19 winners.

Talking about the service games, Ciric Bagaric couldn’t to score even 1 ace in the match and she was extremely steady in conceding no double faults. Overall, Lucija Ciric Bagaric was extremely effective on serve to win 79% (19/24) of her 1st serve and 65% (11/17) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent her to concede the serve once. Lucija broke Marino 5 times after converting 33% of her break points (5/15).

Overall Performance in this tournament

Ciric Bagaric started her run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, she hasn’t surrendered yet a set in this competition to conquer 59% of the points she played.

Ciric Bagaric has a solid win-loss record in the last 4 years having won 68% of her matches (112-53). 19-5 on clay in 2024. Regarding her performance on the same surface of this tournament, Ciric Bagaric has a composed70-37 win-loss record in the last 4 years on clay.

Her best result of the current year was winning the title the W35 Monastir where she beat Polina Iatcenko in the final 7-5 6-2 and the W35 Hammamet where she beat Marie Benoit in the final 6-2 7-5 and the W35 Hammamet where she defeated Francesca Jones in the final 2-1 ret. and the W35 Alaminos where she defeated Lina Gjorcheska in the final 6-2 6-3.

Lucija has an aggregate 27-5 win-loss record in 2024, 19-5 on clay (See FULL STATS).

Previously at the French Open

Ciric Bagaric has never competed in this tournament before.

Sara Saito

Ranked no. 251, Saito got to the qualifications after beating Francisca Jorge 6-4 6-1 and Alycia Parks 6-2 6-2.

In the qualifications, Sara had a good straight sets win against Parks (6-2 6-2). During the match Saito scored 52 points vs Parks’s 30. The Japanese was extremely aggressive to blast 21 winners.

Talking about serving, Saito wasn’t able to score even 1 ace for the entire match and she was very solid in conceding no double faults for the entire match. Sara Saito lost the serve once. Furthermore, Saito put 73% of her first serves in, winning 70% (21/30) of the points behind her 1st serve and 82% (9/11) on the 2nd serve. Saito broke Parks 5 times after converting 83% of her break points (5/6).

Overall Performance in this tournament

Sara started her run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, she hasn’t surrendered yet a set in this tournament to conquer 62% of the points she played.

Sara’s best result of the year was getting to the final in the W50 Nonthaburi and the W75 Burnie.

The Japanese has a compiled 22-9 win-loss record in 2024, 2-0 on clay (See FULL STATS).

H2H Performance in the tournament

Matches, sets, games and points

Points	Ciric Bagaric	Saito
Match played	2	2
Tot Set	4	4
Tot Games	36	33
Pts	131-92	113-70
Total Points	223	183
Winners	44	42
%Winners	34%	37%

Both Ciric Bagaric and Saito played 2 matches. Also both players started their run from the qualifications.Both players have not surrendered a single set in this event so far. Talking about their workload, Ciric Bagaric and Saito have played the same amount of sets 4. However, Ciric Bagaric played 3 games more than Saito. The Croatian scored 44 winners (34% of the total points). On the other side, Saito made 42 winners (37%).

Serve Performance

Serve	Ciric Bagaric	Saito
Aces	5	0
Avg per match	2.5	0
1st in	62/109	61/90
%1st in	57%	68%
1st pts	44/62	42/61
%1st pts	71%	69%
2nd pts	29/47	20/29
%2nd pts	62%	69%

Ciric Bagaric made 5 aces (2.5 per match). Saito didn’t manage to fire a single ace to far. Ciric Bagaric won 71% points behind her first serve. She had a solid display on her second serve to win 62% of the points. On the other side, Saito won 69% of the points on her first serve. She had a solid display on her second serve to win 69% of the points.

How they played the important points

Breaks	Ciric Bagaric	Saito
Won	9	10
Converted	9/21	10/13
% Converted	43%	77%
Conceded	6	4
Saved	3	2
% Saved	50%	50%
Times Broken	3	2

The Croatian broke her opponents 9 times with a 43% conversion rate. Lucija conceded her serve 3 times and she saved 50% of the break points that she conceded. Sara broke her opponents 10 times with a 77% conversion rate. Saito conceded her serve twice and she saved 50% of the break points that she conceded.

Ciric Bagaric
	Q1 Rodionova	Q2 Marino	Total
Score	6-4 6-3	6-2 6-3
Tot Set	2	2	4
Tot Games	19	17	36
pts	66-49	65-43	131-92
Total points	115	108	223
Winners	25	19	44
%Winners	38%	29%	34%
SERVE
Aces	5	0	5
Double Faults	3	0	3
1st in	38/68	24/41	62/109
% 1st in	56%	59%	57%
1st pts	25/38	19/24	44/62
% 1st pts	66%	79%	71%
2nd pts	18/30	11/17	29/47
% 2nd pts	60%	65%	62%
Breaks
Won	4	5	9
Converted	4/6	5/15	9/21
Converted %	67%	33%	43%
Conceded	5	1	6
Saved	3/5	0/1	3
Saved %	60%	0%	30%
Times Broken	2	1	3

Saito
	Q1 Jorge	Q2 Parks	Total
Score	6-4 6-1	6-2 6-2
Tot Set	2	2	4
Tot Games	17	16	33
pts	61-40	52-30	113-70
Total points	101	82	183
Winners	21	21	42
%Winners	34%	40%	37%
SERVE
Aces	0	0	0
Double Faults	0	0	0
1st in	31/49	30/41	61/90
% 1st in	63%	73%	68%
1st pts	21/31	21/30	42/61
% 1st pts	68%	70%	69%
2nd pts	11/18	9/11	20/29
% 2nd pts	61%	82%	69%
Breaks
Won	5	5	10
Converted	5/7	5/6	10/13
Converted %	71%	83%	77%
Conceded	3	1	4
Saved	2/3	0/1	2
Saved %	67%	0%	34%
Times Broken	1	1	2

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