Cristina Bucsa and Claire Liu will play each other in the 1st round of the U.S. Open for the 2nd time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Monday at 2:00 pm on Court 13. 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 Cristina Bucsa who should win in 3 sets.
Cristina Bucsa -> 1.59
Claire Liu -> 2.36
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Prediction and head to head Cristina Bucsa vs. Claire Liu
This will be the 2nd time that Cristina Bucsa and Claire Liu fight against each other. The head to head is 1-0 for Liu (see full H2H stats), 1-0 on hard.
The last time that they squared off, Liu won 2-1 ret. in the semifinal in the Chicago back in 2023.
Cristina Bucsa
23 - 25win/loss
54
54
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 34-31 | 24-20 | 2-6 | 2-1 | 6-4 | 0-0 |
| 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 |
Ranked no. 93, Cristina will start her run at the U.S. Open after she played her last match in Monterrey where she lost 6-2 6-1 to Parks in the 1st round on the 19th of August.
Cristina has an overall 23-25 win-loss record in 2025, 13-14 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Talking about her overall career, Cristina has an overall 317-231 record. She has a positive 113-78 record on hard.
Previously at the U.S. Open
Previously, her best result was reaching the 2nd round in 2022. See her history.
Claire Liu
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 24-19 | 20-13 | 4-6 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 18-12 | 11-7 | 7-5 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 27-29 | 19-19 | 7-8 | 0-0 | 1-2 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 29-22 | 15-14 | 12-4 | 0-1 | 2-3 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 39-17 | 17-11 | 17-4 | 0-0 | 5-2 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 374, Liu got to the 1st round after defeating Katarzyna Kawa 6-1 6-3, Maddison Inglis 6-3 7-5 and Veronika Erjavec 7-5 6-4.
In the qualifications, Liu had a good straight sets win against Erjavec (7-5 6-4). During the match Liu scored 74 points vs Erjavec’s 64. The American was extremely aggressive to blast 28 winners.
About the serving games, Liu scored just 1 ace during the entire match and she committed only 2 double faults. Claire Liu lost the serve twice and she saved 6 break points. Furthermore, Liu put 61% of her first serves in, winning 65% (28/43) of the points behind her 1st serve and 57% (16/28) on the 2nd serve. The American broke Erjavec 4 times after converting 67% of her break points (4/6).
Overall Performance in this tournament
The American 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.
Claire has an aggregate 15-13 win-loss record in 2025, 11-7 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously at the U.S. Open
Previously, her best result was reaching the 2nd round in 2018. See her history.
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- Cristina BucsaBucsa – Claire LiuLiu (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Elena RybakinaRybakina – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
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