Elena Gabriela Ruse surprises Kaja Juvan 6-2 6-76 6-1 in the 1st round in the W100+H Dubai on Tuesday. Gabriela Ruse will fight against Kristina Mladenovic in the 2nd round.
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Elena in this set played a much better tennis than Juvan and without struggling too much she won 6-2 after breaking the Slovenian in the 5th (3-2) and in the 7th (5-2) game.
Kaja couldn’t stop the opposition in the last 5 games of the set when the scoreline went from 1-2 to 6-2.
The Romanian converted 50% of her break points (2/4). She had 4 break points opportunities in the 1st (0-0 30-40), the 4th (2-2 0-40 and 15-40) and the 7th game (4-2 15-40). On the other side, the Slovenian was unable to convert any of her 2 break points. She had 2 break points opportunities in the 8th game (2-5 40-A and 40-A).
They contested 56 points. Gabriela Ruse conquered the set after winning 10 points more than Kaja (33-23). Elena conceded 12 points on serve (20-12). on the other side of the court, the Slovenian conceded 13 points on serve (11-13).
Juvan won the set after recovering 3 times from a break down. In fact, after conceding her serve 3 times in the 7th (3-4), in the 9th (4-5) and in the 11th (5-6) game, Kaja broke back 3 times in the 8th (4-4), in the 10th (5-5) and in the 12th (6-6) game before bringing the set at the tiebreak that she won 8-6.
Kaja failed to serve out the set when leading 5-5 to be broken at 30.
Tiebreak
Kaja won 4 minibreaks in the 6th (2-4), 10th (4-6), 11th (5-6) and 14th (8-6) point. On the other side, Gabriela Ruse won 3 minibreaks in the 1st (1-0), 4th (3-1) and 8th (5-3) point.
This was the tiebreak sequence: 0-1, 0-2, 0-3, 1-3, 2-3, 2-4, 2-5, 3-5, 4-5, 4-6, 5-6, 6-6, 7-6, 8-6
The Slovenian converted 37% of her break points (3/8). She had 8 break points opportunities in the 8th (3-4 30-40), the 10th (4-5 30-40, 40-A, 40-A and 40-A) and the 12th game (5-6 0-40, 15-40 and 30-40). The Slovenian saved 5 set points when she was 2-5, 3-5, 4-5, 4-6 and 5-6 down. In addition on the other side, the Romanian converted 60% of her break points (3/5). She had her opportunities in the 3rd (1-1 40-A), the 7th (3-3 30-40), the 9th (4-4 40-A) and the 11th game (5-5 15-40 and 30-40).
They contested 101 points. It’s worth to point out that, The Slovenian won this set even if she scored less points 1 than Elena (50-51). Kaja dropped 24 points on serve (30-24). In addition, on the other side, Elena conceded 20 points on serve (27-20).
Gabriela Ruse won the set after she broke the Slovenian in the 4th (3-1) and in the 6th (5-1) game.
The Slovenian was not able to offer any resistance in the last 5 games of the set when the score went from 1-1 to 6-1.
The Romanian converted 33% of her break points (2/6). She had 6 break points opportunities in the 2nd (1-0 40-A), the 4th (2-1 15-40, 30-40, 40-A and 40-A) and the 6th game (4-1 0-40). On the other side, Gabriela Ruse didn’t concede a single break point during this set.
They played 48 points. Elena was the winner of the set after clinching 18 more points than Kaja (33-15). Elena was extremely solid on serve to concede just 2 points (16-2). on the other side of the court, Juvan conceded 17 points on serve (13-17).
Stats: aces, double faults, breaks, winners
At the end of the match, Elena scored 117 points vs. the Slovenian’s 88.
Elena won this match even if she was not so effective in converting her break points since she converted only 47% (7/15) of the procured opportunities. On the other side, Kaja was battling in converting her break points (only 30% – 3/10). That was one of the key issues for her defeat.
After this match, the head to head between Gabriela Ruse and Juvan is 1-0.
Draw and next match H2H: Elena Gabriela Ruse vs. Kristina Mladenovic – stats
Gabriela Ruse will fight against Mladenovic in the 2nd round.
There is no head to head record between Elena Gabriela Ruse and Kristina Mladenovic since this will be the first time that they will square off in the main tour.
Tennis Scores in W100+H Dubai
- Elena Gabriela RuseGabriela Ruse – Kaja JuvanJuvan (6-2 6-76 6-1) – Stats and score progression
- Anna SchmiedlovaSchmiedlova – Ekaterine GorgodzeGorgodze (4-6 6-2 6-3) – Stats and score progression
- Sorana CirsteaCirstea – Anna BlinkovaBlinkova (6-2 6-1) – Stats and score progression
- Danka KovinicKovinic – Jaqueline CristianCristian (6-1 6-3) – Stats and score progression
- Heather WatsonWatson – Aleksandra KrunicKrunic (6-0 7-63) – Stats and score progression
- Kirsten FlipkensFlipkens – Amina AnshbaAnshba (6-2 6-2) – Stats and score progression
- Kristina MladenovicMladenovic – Magdalena FrechFrech (6-4 7-5) – Stats and score progression
- Polona HercogHercog – Viktoria KuzmovaKuzmova (7-5 6-3) – Stats and score progression
- Elisabetta CocciarettoCocciaretto – Jasmine PaoliniPaolini (5-7 6-2 7-5) – Stats and score progression
- Barbora KrejcikovaKrejcikova – Viktorija GolubicGolubic (6-1 6-2) – Stats and score progression
- Xiyu WangWang – Timea BabosBabos (6-3 2-6 6-1) – Stats and score progression
- Aliona BolsovaBolsova – Oceane DodinDodin (6-2 6-4) – Stats and score progression
- Lesley KerkhoveKerkhove – Jodie Anna BurrageAnna Burrage (6-4 6-2) – Stats and score progression
- Dalma GalfiGalfi – Mika Dagan FruchtmanDagan Fruchtman (6-3 6-1) – Stats and score progression
- Katerina SiniakovaSiniakova – Ankita RainaRaina (1-6 6-2 6-2) – Stats and score progression
- Arantxa RusRus – Ana KonjuhKonjuh (6-1 6-2) – Stats and score progression
Upcoming matches
- Kristina MladenovicMladenovic – Elena Gabriela RuseGabriela Ruse (0-0) – H2H details and stats
- Lesley KerkhoveKerkhove – Danka KovinicKovinic (0-0) – H2H details and stats
- Heather WatsonWatson – Kirsten FlipkensFlipkens (1-3) – H2H details and stats
- Anna SchmiedlovaSchmiedlova – Katerina SiniakovaSiniakova (1-1) – H2H details and stats
- Barbora KrejcikovaKrejcikova – Dalma GalfiGalfi (0-0) – H2H details and stats
- Elisabetta CocciarettoCocciaretto – Sorana CirsteaCirstea (0-0) – H2H details and stats
- Arantxa RusRus – Xiyu WangWang (0-0) – H2H details and stats
- Aliona BolsovaBolsova – Polona HercogHercog (0-0) – H2H details and stats