Emiliana Arango and Cristina Bucsa will play each other in the 2^nd round of the Hong Kong Tennis Open for the 3^rd time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Wednesday at 2:00 pm on COURT 1. In this post, we analyze their head to head performance and prediction.

Prediction, odds and live streaming

The pick for Tennis Tonic is Cristina Bucsa who should win in 2 sets.

As per the initial odds, Cristina Bucsa is the pick to win this match.
Cristina Bucsa -> 1.42
Emiliana Arango -> 2.85

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Prediction and head to head Emiliana Arango vs. Cristina Bucsa

This will be the 3^rd time that Emiliana Arango and Cristina Bucsa clash against each other. The head to head is 2-0 for Bucsa (see full H2H stats), but they have never played each other on hard.

The last time that they played, Bucsa won 6-0 6-4 in the qualifications in Nottingham back in June 2025.

Emiliana Arango

Ranked no. 47, Arango got to the 2^nd round after defeating Moyuka Uchijima 6-7(3) 6-1 6-4.

In the 1^st round against Uchijima, The Colombian recovered from a 1-set down deficit before winning (6-7³ 6-1 6-4). During the match, Arango scored 113 points vs Uchijima’s 94. The Colombian was exceptionally aggressive to blast 47 winners.

Regarding the service games, Arango struck 3 aces and she was extremely consistent in conceding no double faults. Emiliana Arango lost the serve 3 times and she saved 1 break points. Furthermore, Arango put 78% of her first serves in, winning 63% (47/75) of the points behind her 1st serve and 67% (14/21) on the 2nd serve. Emiliana broke Uchijima 6 times after converting 43% of her break points (6/14).

Arango has good win-loss record in the last 10 years having won 56% of her matches (236-184). 23-15 on hard in 2025. In connection with her performance on the same surface of this competition, Arango has an aggregate 85-69 win-loss record in the last years on hard.

Her best result of the current season was winning the title the Cancun where she defeated Carson Branstine in the final 6-2 6-1.

Arango has an overall 29-27 win-loss record in 2025, 23-15 on hard (See FULL STATS).

Previously in Hong Kong

Arango has never competed in this tournament before.

Cristina Bucsa

Ranked no. 68, Bucsa reached the 2^nd round after defeating Yexin Ma 6-1 6-2.

In the 1^st round, The Spaniard had a good straight sets win against Ma (6-1 6-2). During the match Bucsa scored 64 points vs Ma’s 39. Bucsa was exceptionally aggressive to blast 25 winners.

Talking about serving, Bucsa scored just 1 ace during the entire match and she was extremely steady in conceding no double faults for the entire match. Cristina Bucsa was very effective on serve to win 74% (25/34) of her 1st serve and 64% (9/14) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. Bucsa broke Ma 4 times after converting 36% of her break points (4/11).

Bucsa has a compiled 32-30 win-loss record in 2025, 22-19 on hard (See FULL STATS).

Previously in Hong Kong

Previously, her best result was reaching the 2^nd

round in 2024. See her history.

H2H Performance in the tournament

Matches, sets, games and points

Points	Arango	Bucsa
Match played	1	1
Tot Set	3	2
Tot Games	30	15
Pts	113-94	64-39
Total Points	207	103
Winners	47	25
%Winners	42%	39%

Both Arango and Bucsa played 1 match. At the moment, Emiliana Arango dropped 1 set while Cristina Bucsa hasn’t dropped a set so far. Arango has played 1 set more than Bucsa (3 vs 2). Therefore, Arango played 15 games more than Bucsa. The Colombian scored 47 winners (42% of the total points). On the other side, Cristina made 25 winners (39%).

Serve Performance

Serve	Arango	Bucsa
Aces	3	1
Avg per match	3	1
1st in	75/96	34/48
%1st in	78%	71%
1st pts	47/75	25/34
%1st pts	63%	74%
2nd pts	14/21	9/14
%2nd pts	67%	64%

Arango bagged 3 aces . Bucsa managed to score 1 ace . Arango won 63% points behind her first serve. She very solid her second serve to win 67% of the points. On the other side, Bucsa won 74% of the points behind her first serve. She had a solid display on her second serve to win 64% of the points.

How they played the important points

Breaks	Arango	Bucsa
Won	6	4
Converted	6/14	4/11
% Converted	43%	36%
Conceded	4	1
Saved	1	1
% Saved	25%	100%
Times Broken	3	0

Arango broke her opponent 6 times with a 43% conversion rate. Arango conceded her serve 3 times and she saved 25% of the break points that she conceded. The Spaniard broke her opponent 4 times with a 36% conversion rate. Bucsa was rock solid on her serve as she has never conceded a single service game after saving 1 break points.

Arango
	R1 Uchijima	Total
Score	6-73 6-1 6-4
Tot Set	3	3
Tot Games	30	30
pts	113-94	113-94
Total points	207	207
Winners	47	47
%Winners	42%	42%
SERVE
Aces	3	3
Double Faults	0	0
1st in	75/96	75/96
% 1st in	78%	78%
1st pts	47/75	47/75
% 1st pts	63%	63%
2nd pts	14/21	14/21
% 2nd pts	67%	67%
Breaks
Won	6	6
Converted	6/14	6/14
Converted %	43%	43%
Conceded	4	4
Saved	1/4	1
Saved %	25%	25%
Times Broken	3	3

Bucsa
	R1 Ma	Total
Score	6-1 6-2
Tot Set	2	2
Tot Games	15	15
pts	64-39	64-39
Total points	103	103
Winners	25	25
%Winners	39%	39%
SERVE
Aces	1	1
Double Faults	0	0
1st in	34/48	34/48
% 1st in	71%	71%
1st pts	25/34	25/34
% 1st pts	74%	74%
2nd pts	9/14	9/14
% 2nd pts	64%	64%
Breaks
Won	4	4
Converted	4/11	4/11
Converted %	36%	36%
Conceded	1	1
Saved	1/1	1
Saved %	100%	100%
Times Broken	0	0

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• Andrew HarrisHarris – Alexander RitschardRitschard (6-1 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Justin BoulaisBoulais – Kaichi UchidaUchida (3-6 6-3 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Maxime CressyCressy – Mikael TorpegaardTorpegaard (6-7¹ 6-3 6-0) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Norbert GombosGombos – Benjamin SigouinSigouin (7-6³ 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Darian KingKing – Brydan KleinKlein (6-0 7-6²) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Enzo CouacaudCouacaud – Toshihide MatsuiMatsui (6-3 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Cem IlkelIlkel – Maxime JanvierJanvier (7-6² 6-1) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Brayden SchnurSchnur – Dennis NovikovNovikov (6-0 7-6¹) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Bernard TomicTomic – Nicaise MuambaMuamba (6-4 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Roberto Ortega-OlmedoOrtega-Olmedo – Dudi SelaSela (6-4 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Zhe LiLi – Joao MenezesMenezes (6-3 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Hiroki MoriyaMoriya – Jeff WolfWolf (6-4 6-0) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Daniel NguyenNguyen – Go SoedaSoeda (6-3 ret.) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Antoine HoangHoang – Shintaro ImaiImai (7-6⁵ 7-5) – Stats, scores, rankings

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