Coco Gauff vs Cristina BucsaPrediction, Head-to-Head Results, and Stats
🇺🇸Coco Gauff
#4 · 22 yrs · Right-Handed
8Title1 meeting · sets 2–0
🇪🇸Cristina Bucsa
#40 · 28 yrs · Right-Handed
Coco Gauff and Cristina Bucsa have met 1 time since 2023; Coco Gauff leads 1–0. Across all meetings Gauff has taken 2 sets to Bucsa's 0. Their most recent meeting: Coco Gauff won at BNP Paribas Open - Indian Wells (2023).
Upcoming match
- Tournament
- U.S. Open - New York
- Level
- Grand Slam
- Round
- 3rd Round
- Surface
- Hard
- Date & time
- September 5 · 3:30 PM ET
Cristina Bucsa meets Coco Gauff in the 3rd Round of the U.S. Open on September 5 under hard court conditions in New York. Gauff, ranked 4th, has won her last eight straight matches and all five of her contests over the past fortnight. Bucsa, ranked 40th, has won two in a row but stands at 4-6 over her last ten outings.
The two have faced once before, with Gauff winning that meeting. In recent hard court play, Gauff has posted a 17-3 record while Bucsa holds a 10-10 mark on the surface. Both players have been active throughout the fortnight, with Gauff competing five times in the last 14 days and Bucsa four times.
Bucsa plays her best tennis when dictating points from the baseline and holding the momentum of a match, a style that can unravel when an opponent seizes control early. Gauff's game spans the court; she attacks without abandoning consistency, moves fluidly between speeds, and surfaces winning patterns from both wings and the net. The test for Bucsa is applying her baseline intensity against a player who converts pressure into breaks and holds serve at a high rate. Gauff must manage Bucsa's willingness to run down balls and stay aggressive through stretches where points stay undecided.
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Spread & Straight-Sets Form
Completed best-of-3 matches · Last 12 months
| Indicator | Gauff | Bucsa | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Indicator | Coco Gauff | Cristina Bucsa | ||
| Wins in straight sets | 65% | 34/52 | 72% | 13/18 |
| Wins a set when losing | 73% | 11/15 | 37% | 7/19 |
| Goes to a deciding set | 43% | 29/67 | 32% | 12/37 |
| Covers −1.5 sets as favorite | 57% | 33/58 | 38% | 6/16 |
| Covers +1.5 sets as underdog | 88% | 7/8 | 60% | 12/20 |
| Tiebreak sets won | 67% | 10/15 | 46% | 6/13 |
| Wins after taking set 1 | 93% | 40/43 | 85% | 17/20 |
| Wins 2-0 after taking set 1 | 79% | 34/43 | 65% | 13/20 |
Colored rows are higher-is-better: green above 50%, red below. Favorite/underdog set by book odds; cover rows count only matches with odds on record. Head-to-head: 1 of 1 completed meetings ended in straight sets (Gauff 1, Bucsa 0).
Style Matchup
Playing styles and historical archetype record
Gauff
👑 The Complete Package
Bucsa
🏹 Frontrunner
Matchup analysis
👑 The Complete Package vs 🏹 Frontrunner is historically tight (49% vs 51%, 941 matches). Neither style has a clear edge, so form, surface, and the head-to-head matter most.
Previous meetings
1 career meeting, newest first
Mar 10, 2023
BNP Paribas Open - Indian Wells
H Hard · 2nd Round
Prop Research
Hit rates on common betting markets · Last 90 days
| Outcome | Gauff | Bucsa | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Outcome | Coco Gauff | Cristina Bucsa | ||
| 1 or more | 100% | 19/19 | 75% | 6/8 |
| 3 or more | 79% | 15/19 | 25% | 2/8 |
| 5 or more | 42% | 8/19 | 13% | 1/8 |
| 10 or more | 16% | 3/19 | 0% | 0/8 |
| 15 or more | 0% | 0/19 | 0% | 0/8 |
| 20 or more | 0% | 0/19 | 0% | 0/8 |
Player ROI
Hypothetical if you put 1u on each player to win every one of their matches · Last 90 days
| Metric | Gauff | Bucsa |
|---|---|---|
| W-L | 15–3 | 4–4 |
| Avg odds | 1.41 | 2.14 |
| ROI % | +13.7% | +15.8% |
| Units P/L | +2.47u | +1.26u |
Small sample: ROI stabilizes with more matches; fewer than 10 in the window is noisy.
Travel
Last 30 days
| Metric | Gauff | Bucsa |
|---|---|---|
| Countries | 3 | 3 |
| Events | 3 | 3 |
| Matches | 11 | 6 |
| Distance | 979 mi · 1,576 km | 3,134 mi · 5,043 km |
| Route | CAN → POL → NED | POL → AUT → NED |
Host country from the tournament each match was played in, over the last 30 days. Route is the order of countries visited; consecutive stops in the same country are shown once. Distance is the great-circle total between host cities, shown only when every stop in the window is geocoded. A rough fatigue signal, not a headline stat.
Common opponents
Results vs. opponents both players faced · Last 12 months
Gauff has a higher win rate against shared opponents (75% vs Bucsa's 25%).
| Opponent | Gauff | Bucsa |
|---|---|---|
| Zeynep Sonmez | W 63 64 | L 16 76 26 |
| Sara Bejlek | W 64 61 | W 75 46 61 |
| Moyuka Uchijima | W 61 60 | L 36 46 |
| Shuai Zhang | W 63 62 | L 62 67 57 |
| Elina Svitolina | L 46 76 26 | L 46 16 |
| Aryna Sabalenka | L 26 64 36 | L 06 16 |
| Elise Mertens | W 26 76 63 | L 26 16 |
| Jasmine Paolini | W 63 62 | W 75 64 |
Recent Form
Last five matches per player
Paula Badosa
U.S. Open - New York · 2nd Round
Sep 4
Zeynep Sonmez
U.S. Open - New York · 1st Round
Sep 2
Jessica Pegula
Cincinnati Open - Cincinnati · Final
Aug 24
Sara Bejlek
Cincinnati Open - Cincinnati · Semifinals
Aug 23
Marta Kostyuk
Cincinnati Open - Cincinnati · Quarterfinals
Aug 22
Marie Bouzkova
Cincinnati Open - Cincinnati · 4th Round
Aug 20
Ann Li
Cincinnati Open - Cincinnati · 3rd Round
Aug 18
Liudmila Samsonova
Cincinnati Open - Cincinnati · 2nd Round
Aug 17
Himeno Sakatsume
U.S. Open - New York · 2nd Round
Sep 3
Sara Bejlek
U.S. Open - New York · 1st Round
Aug 31
Darja Vidmanova
Abierto GNP Seguros - Monterrey · 2nd Round
Aug 27
Anna Bondar
Abierto GNP Seguros - Monterrey · 1st Round
Aug 26
Maja Chwalinska
Cincinnati Open - Cincinnati · 2nd Round
Aug 15
Panna Udvardy
Cincinnati Open - Cincinnati · 1st Round
Aug 13
Moyuka Uchijima
National Bank Open - Toronto · 1st Round
Aug 3
Polina Kudermetova
Mubadala DC Open - Washington · 1st Round
Jul 28
Win rate
Matches, sets and games won · Last 12 months · 37–67 matches
| Metric | Gauff | Bucsa |
|---|---|---|
| Matches won | 78% | 49% |
| Sets won | 71% | 50% |
| Games won | 58% | 51% |
Record by tier
Head-to-head record by tournament tier
| Stage | Gauff | Bucsa |
|---|---|---|
| WTA 1000 | 1 | 0 |
By surface
Head-to-head record per surface
| Surface | Gauff | Bucsa |
|---|---|---|
| Hard | 1 | 0 |