Cristina Bucsa

Cristina Bucșa (born 1 January 1998) is a Moldovan-born Spanish professional tennis player. She has career-high rankings of world No. 56 in singles, achieved on 15 January 2024, and of No. 27 in doubles, achieved on 6 May 2024.

Cristina Bucșa was born in Chișinău, Moldova. Her father, Ion Bucșa, is a former biathlete who was Moldova's flag bearer at the 1998 and 2002 Winter Olympics. When she was three years old, her family moved to Cantabria in northern Spain; they originally moved to Las Fraguas before settling in Torrelavega. Bucșa attended the Instituto Marqués De Santillana in Torrelavega, where she was awarded the title of Illustrious Alumna in December 2022. She speaks Spanish, Romanian, English, and French.

Bucșa began playing tennis at the age of five. In 2014, she moved to Barcelona to train at the Centre d'Alt Rendiment de Sant Cugat , but she moved back to Torrelavega in 2016, where she currently lives and trains. She is coached by her father, who is self-taught and also acts as her physiotherapist. Being unsponsored, she buys her own kits and rackets for the tour. She does not have any public social media profiles, only using Facebook to keep in touch with other tennis players.

She received her Spanish passport in 2014 and began representing Spain in 2015.