World No. 194, Çağla Büyükakçay of Turkey will face Slovakia’s Kristína Kučová, the world number 113 and number eight seed, in the first round of the 2021 Romania Open on Monday, August 2. Get the live streaming options of this Çağla Büyükakçay v Kristína Kučová match along with its preview, head to head, and tips here.
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Çağla Büyükakçay v Kristína Kučová Head to Head
The pair have played each other once before, and that was in this tournament five years ago, the Turk winning their first round match in straight sets. last year.
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ranking of 60th in the world. She won gold at the Mediterranean Games in 2013 in both singles and doubles, and represented her country at the Rio Olympics – although she did not make the trip to Japan this time.
In 2016, she won the Istanbul Cup on home soil, having lost in the final of the doubles event the previous year.
And, in Bucharest in 2014, she was also a beaten finalist in the doubles.
However, her world ranking has fallen dramatically in recent years, and this will be a rare appearance in the main draw of a senior WTA event these days.
Her last appearance at this stage was in Istanbul where she was given a wildcard. However, she was beaten in the first round by the French Open Champion Barbora Krejcikova.
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Kučová, Beaten Finalist in Poland
The younger of two tennis playing siblings – elder sister Zuzana retired in 2013 – Kučová reached a career high singles ranking in 2016 of 71 in the world.
However, after several years of indifferent form and performances, she has recently shown signs of a revival, winning her first senior final, the Prague Open, last September, where she beat the Italian Elisabetta Cocciaretto in the final.
That was a 125k series event, and she went one better last week by reaching the final of the WTA 250 Poland Open, before eventually losing tit the Belgian Maryna Zanevska.
Earlier this year she came through qualifying in Miami and reached the second round before losing to Ashleigh Barty, but took the world number one to three sets.
And more recently in Hamburg, she again qualified, suffering another second round defeat at the hands of the American Danielle Collins.
Büyükakçay v Kučová Prediction and Tip
The Turk won their previous match in this same tournament, but that was five years ago, and the two players are in different stages of their career now. Büyükakçay seems to be in terminal decline, whereas Kučová is enjoying something of a career revival. She will begin the favourite to make the second round.
Tip: Kučová to win in straight sets: 3/4 (Click Here to Bet with bet365)
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