Cristina Bucsa and Donna Vekic will fight against each other in the 1st round of the China Open for the 3rd time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Thursday at 4:00 pm on CAPITAL GROUP DIAMOND. Here the head to head stats and relative prediction.

Prediction, odds and live streaming

The pick for Tennis Tonic is Donna Vekic who should win in 3 sets.

As per the initial odds, Donna Vekic is the pick to win this match.
Donna Vekic -> 1.62
Cristina Bucsa -> 2.3

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Prediction and head to head Cristina Bucsa vs. Donna Vekic

This will be the 3rd time that Cristina Bucsa and Donna Vekic play each other. The head to head is 1-1 for Bucsa and Vekic (see full H2H stats), but they have never competed against each other on hard.

The last time that they played each other, Bucsa won 6-1 6-3 in the 2nd round in at the Wimbledon back in July 2025.

Cristina Bucsa

Cristina Bucsa

28 - 26win/loss

Hard
18-15
I Hard
2-1
Clay
2-6
Grass
6-4
Rank
54
High
54
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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. 67, Bucsa reached the 1st round after beating Clervie Ngounoue 6-2 6-3 and Maria Lourdes Carle 7-5 6-4.

In the qualifications, The Spaniard had a good straight sets win against Lourdes Carle (7-5 6-4). During the match, Bucsa scored 73 points vs Lourdes Carle’s 59. Bucsa was extremely aggressive to blast 25 winners.

Regarding the service games, Bucsa wasn’t able to score even 1 ace in the match and she committed only 2 double faults. Cristina Bucsa lost the serve 4 times and she saved 1 break points. Furthermore, Bucsa put 64% of her first serves in, winning 66% (25/38) of the points behind her 1st serve and 48% (10/21) on the 2nd serve. Bucsa broke Lourdes Carle 6 times after converting 46% of her break points (6/13).

Overall Performance in this tournament

Bucsa started her run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, she hasn’t lost yet a set in this event to conquer 57% of the points she played.

Bucsa has winning match record in the last 10 years having won 58% of her matches (322-232). 18-15 on hard in 2025. In connection with her performance on the same surface of this tournament, Bucsa has an overall 118-79 win-loss record in the last years on hard.

Cristina has an aggregate 28-26 win-loss record in 2025, 18-15 on hard (See FULL STATS).

Previously in Beijing

Beijing
Bucsa's Record

Donna Vekic

Donna Vekic

12 - 20win/loss

Hard
7-12
I Hard
0-0
Clay
3-4
Grass
2-4
Rank
72
High
17
LWWLLLWLWL
Year Total Hard Clay I.hard Grass Carpet
2025 14-23 9-15 3-4 0-0 2-4 0-0
2024 32-20 12-10 8-5 2-1 10-4 0-0
2023 29-20 16-9 4-5 2-3 7-3 0-0
2022 28-20 10-9 9-6 2-1 7-4 0-0
2021 19-16 10-12 0-1 5-0 4-3 0-0

Ranked no. 69, Donna will start her run in Beijing after she played her last match at the New York where she lost 7-6(5) 6-2 to Gauff in the 2nd round on the 28th of August.

Vekic has an overall 12-20 win-loss record in 2025, 7-12 on hard (See FULL STATS).

In terms of her career, Donna has an overall 406-303 record. She has a positive 228-163 record on hard.

Previously in Beijing

Previously, her best result was reaching the 3rd round in 2018 and 2024. See her history.

Beijing
Vekic's Record

Tennis Scores in Beijing

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