Kucova vs Bara: chances are even

The best years of 31-year old Slovakian player Kristina Kucova's career are far behind her. She is currently on a 150th position in the rankings and she is not showing good results on a consistent basis. Since the start of the year Kristina's only achievement is a quarter-final of a low prestigious tournament in Bol, Croatia.

In the first round Kucova played against Urszula Radwanska. Polish player is playing even worse than Kristina in the recent years, so she wasn't ready for this clash (6:2, 6:1).

Representative of Romanian tennis Irina Bara is having a great record of wins and losses on clay surface: 23 wins and 8 losses. But most of her successful matches were played on a low-prestigious tournaments. Nonetheless, we should mention that Romanian player reached the final of ITF tournament in USA and also the semi-final of tournament in Bol, Croatia.

In the first round Bara played against a dangerous opponent, Italian player Di Sarra. In an intensive match Irina managed to clinch a victory in the third set (6:3, 1:6, 7:5).