Liudmila Samsonova and Cristina Bucsa will fight against each other in the 2nd round of the China Open for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Saturday at 11:00 am on MOON. 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 Liudmila Samsonova who should win in 2 sets.
As per the initial odds, Liudmila Samsonova is the pick to win this match.
Liudmila Samsonova -> 1.177
Cristina Bucsa -> 4.9
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Prediction and head to head Liudmila Samsonova vs. Cristina Bucsa
There is no head to head record between Liudmila Samsonova and Cristina Bucsa since this will be the first time that they will fight against each other in the main tour.
Liudmila Samsonova
26 - 21win/loss
25
12
LLLLWWWLWW | Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 26-23 | 12-15 | 6-5 | 0-0 | 8-3 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 34-24 | 25-15 | 4-4 | 1-1 | 4-4 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 30-17 | 26-10 | 3-4 | 0-0 | 1-3 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 39-22 | 15-9 | 6-9 | 8-3 | 10-1 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 20-12 | 10-6 | 4-4 | 6-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 15, the Russian will start her run in Beijing after she played her last match in Seoul where she lost 6-4 6-2 to Kudermetova in the 2nd round on the 18th of September.
The Russian has an overall 26-21 win-loss record in 2024, 12-13 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Her best result of the current season was winning the title in Hertogenbosch where she overcame Bianca Vanessa Andreescu in the final 4-6 6-3 7-5.
Talking about her overall career, Samsonova has an overall 294-173 record. She has a positive 110-67 record on hard.
Previously in Beijing
Previously, her best result was reaching the final in 2023. See her history.
Cristina Bucsa
19 - 25win/loss
71
56
LWLLWWLWWW | 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. 79, the Spaniard got to the 2nd round after defeating Xinxin Yao 6-3 6-2.
In the 1st round, Cristina had a good straight sets win against Yao (6-3 6-2). During the match Bucsa scored 74 points vs Yao’s 51. Cristina was exceptionally aggressive to blast 19 winners.
Talking about serving, Bucsa scored just 1 ace during the entire match and she committed only 4 double faults. Cristina Bucsa lost the serve 3 times and she saved 1 break points. Furthermore, Bucsa put 60% of her first serves in, winning 66% (19/29) of the points behind her 1st serve and 47% (9/19) on the 2nd serve. Bucsa broke Yao 7 times after converting 41% of her break points (7/17).
Bucsa has a compiled 19-25 win-loss record in 2024, 9-14 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in Beijing
Previously, her best result was reaching the qualifications in 2023. See her history.
Head 2 Head
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- Paula BadosaBadosa – Viktoriya TomovaTomova (6-3 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Yuliia StarodubtsevaStarodubtseva – Katerina SiniakovaSiniakova (6-2 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Peyton StearnsStearns – Leylah Annie FernandezAnnie Fernandez (7-5 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Shuai ZhangZhang – Emma NavarroNavarro (6-4 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Diana ShnaiderShnaider – Sofia KeninKenin (6-2 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Anna KalinskayaKalinskaya – Hailey BaptisteBaptiste (3-6 7-62 7-65) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Jessica PegulaPegula – Diane ParryParry (6-1 7-64) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Katie BoulterBoulter – Taylor TownsendTownsend (6-4 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Greetje MinnenMinnen – Anastasia PotapovaPotapova (7-5 2-6 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Naomi OsakaOsaka – Yulia PutintsevaPutintseva (3-6 6-4 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Rebecca SramkovaSramkova – Ekaterina AlexandrovaAlexandrova (5-7 6-4 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Katie VolynetsVolynets – Marta KostyukKostyuk (7-5 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Veronika KudermetovaKudermetova – Xinyu WangWang (3-6 6-4 7-5) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Patrik RiklRikl – Pavel NejedlyNejedly (6-3 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Vit KoprivaKopriva – Michal FranekFranek (3-6 6-1 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Alexander VasilenkoVasilenko – Tadeas ParoulekParoulek (6-2 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
- David PoljakPoljak – Mikalai HaliakHaliak (6-2 5-2 ret.) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Jan MertlMertl – Pavel KotovKotov (7-63 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Oscar Jose GutierrezJose Gutierrez – Robin StanekStanek (6-2 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Tomas MachacMachac – Roman SafiullinSafiullin (6-1 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
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- Peyton StearnsStearns – Anna KalinskayaKalinskaya (0-0) – H2H and prediction
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- Paula Badosa GibertBadosa Gibert – Rebecca SramkovaSramkova (1-0) – H2H and prediction
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