Yuliia Starodubtseva and Cristina Bucsa will fight against each other in the 1^st round of the Rothesay Open for the 2^nd time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Tuesday at 4:00 pm on COURT 2. 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 Cristina Bucsa who should win in 3 sets.

As per the initial odds, Cristina Bucsa is the pick to win this match.
Cristina Bucsa -> 1.68
Yuliia Starodubtseva -> 2.19

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Prediction and head to head Yuliia Starodubtseva vs. Cristina Bucsa

This will be the 2^nd time that Yuliia Starodubtseva and Cristina Bucsa clash against each other. The head to head is 1-0 for Bucsa (see full H2H stats), but they have never competed against each other on grass.

The last time that they fought against each other, Bucsa won 6-4 6-1 in the 1^st round in at the French Open back in 2024.

Yuliia Starodubtseva

Ranked no. 68, the Ukrainian reached the 1^st round after defeating Diane Parry 7-6(2) 6-1 and Kamilla Rakhimova 5-7 7-5 6-2.

Starodubtseva has a solid win-loss record in the last 7 years having won 60% of her matches (126-83). 1-2 on grass in 2025. Talking about her performance on the same surface of this tournament, Starodubtseva has a compiled6-4 match record in the last 7 years on grass.

The Ukrainian has a compiled 13-19 win-loss record in 2025, 1-2 on grass (See FULL STATS).

Previously in Nottingham

Yuliia has never competed in this tournament before.

Cristina Bucsa

Ranked no. 107, Bucsa got to the 1^st round after beating Emiliana Arango 6-0 6-4 and Aliaksandra Sasnovich 6-3 6-4.

Cristina has an aggregate 16-18 win-loss record in 2025, 3-2 on grass (See FULL STATS).

Previously in Nottingham

Previously, her best result was reaching the 1^st round in 2022, 2023 and 2024. See her history.

H2H Performance in the tournament

Matches, sets, games and points

Points	Starodubtseva	Bucsa
Match played	1	1
Tot Set	2	2
Tot Games	20	16
Pts	67-49	63-44
Total Points	116	107
Winners	23	25
%Winners	34%	40%

Both Starodubtseva and Bucsa played 1 match. 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, Starodubtseva and Bucsa have played the same amount of sets 2. However, Starodubtseva played 4 games more than Bucsa. Yuliia scored 23 winners (34% of the total points). On the other side, Bucsa struck 25 winners (40%).

Serve Performance

Serve	Starodubtseva	Bucsa
Aces	1	0
Avg per match	1	0
1st in	30/56	37/57
%1st in	54%	65%
1st pts	23/30	25/37
%1st pts	77%	68%
2nd pts	15/26	11/20
%2nd pts	58%	55%

Starodubtseva blasted 1 ace . Bucsa didn’t manage to fire a single ace to far. Starodubtseva won 77% points behind her first serve. She was rock solid on her second serve to win 58% of the points. On the other side, Bucsa won 68% of the points behind her first serve. She had a solid display on her second serve to win 55% of the points.

How they played the important points

Breaks	Starodubtseva	Bucsa
Won	4	5
Converted	4/4	5/11
% Converted	100%	45%
Conceded	5	4
Saved	3	3
% Saved	60%	75%
Times Broken	2	1

Yuliia broke her opponent 4 times with a 100% conversion rate. Starodubtseva lost her serve twice and she saved 60% of the break points that she conceded. Bucsa broke her opponent 5 times with a 45% conversion rate. The Spaniard conceded her serve once and she saved 75% of the break points that she conceded.

Starodubtseva
	Q1 Parry	Q3 Rakhimova	Total
Score	7-62 6-1	5-7 7-5 6-2
Tot Set	2	3	5
Tot Games	20	32	52
pts	67-49	–	67-49
Total points	116	0	116
Winners	23		23
%Winners	34%	0%	34%
SERVE
Aces	1	0	1
Double Faults	3		3
1st in	30/56	/	30/56
% 1st in	54%	0%	54%
1st pts	23/30	/	23/30
% 1st pts	77%	0%	77%
2nd pts	15/26	/	15/26
% 2nd pts	58%	0%	58%
Breaks
Won	4		4
Converted	4/4	/	4/4
Converted %	100%	0%	100%
Conceded	5		5
Saved	3/5	0/	3
Saved %	60%	–	30%
Times Broken	2		2

Bucsa
	Q1 Arango	Q3 Sasnovich	Total
Score	6-0 6-4	6-3 6-4
Tot Set	2	2	4
Tot Games	16	19	35
pts	63-44	–	63-44
Total points	107	0	107
Winners	25		25
%Winners	40%	0%	40%
SERVE
Aces	0	0	0
Double Faults	1		1
1st in	37/57	/	37/57
% 1st in	65%	0%	65%
1st pts	25/37	/	25/37
% 1st pts	68%	0%	68%
2nd pts	11/20	/	11/20
% 2nd pts	55%	0%	55%
Breaks
Won	5		5
Converted	5/11	/	5/11
Converted %	45%	0%	45%
Conceded	4		4
Saved	3/4	0/	3
Saved %	75%	–	38%
Times Broken	1		1

Tennis Scores in Nottingham

• Leylah Annie FernandezAnnie Fernandez – Suzan LamensLamens (6-3 4-6 7-5) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Lin ZhuZhu – Aliaksandra SasnovichSasnovich (6-4 6-1) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Yulia PutintsevaPutintseva – Hannah KlugmanKlugman (6-2 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Antonia RuzicRuzic – Lucia BronzettiBronzetti (6-0 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Linda NoskovaNoskova – Anca Alexia TodoniAlexia Todoni (6-4 3-6 7-6⁶) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Dayana YastremskaYastremska – Olga DanilovicDanilovic (6-4 7-6⁴) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Clara TausonTauson – Kimberly BirrellBirrell (7-5 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Anna BlinkovaBlinkova – Kamilla RakhimovaRakhimova (6-2 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Jonathan GrayGray – Roy HobbsHobbs (6-3 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Manish SureshkumarSureshkumar – Shaheed AlamAlam (6-4 6-1) – Stats, scores, rankings
• David Agung SusantoAgung Susanto – Anthony SusantoSusanto (7-5 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Takuto NikiNiki – Jatin DahiyaDahiya (6-1 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Rimpei KawakamiKawakami – Shamirul Shahril Mohd Adam DasShahril Mohd Adam Das (6-1 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Maksim TikhomirovTikhomirov – Kazuki NishiwakiNishiwaki (6-3 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Kelsey StevensonStevenson – Apuroop Patlolla ReddyPatlolla Reddy (6-1 6-0) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Siddhant BanthiaBanthia – Digvijaypratap SinghSingh (6-7⁵ 6-2 6-1) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Kazuma KawachiKawachi – Timothy LimLim (6-0 6-1) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Ryota TanumaTanuma – Dusty H. BoyerH. Boyer (6-4 6-1) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Harry BourchierBourchier – Jesse RossRoss (6-1 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings

Upcoming matches in the draw

• Beatriz Haddad MaiaHaddad Maia – Mccartney KesslerKessler (0-1) – H2H and prediction
• Lulu SunSun – Katie BoulterBoulter (1-0) – H2H and prediction
• Laura SiegemundSiegemund – Rebecca SramkovaSramkova (0-2) – H2H and prediction
• Francesca JonesJones – Harriet DartDart (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Yulia StarodubtsewaStarodubtsewa – Cristina BucsaBucsa (0-1) – H2H and prediction
• Magda LinetteLinette – (1-0) – H2H and prediction
• Anna BlinkovaBlinkova – Clara TausonTauson (1-2) – H2H and prediction