Elina Svitolina and Elena Gabriela Ruse will play each other in the 3rd round of the Chicago Fall Tennis Classic for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Thursday at 1:00 pm on Stadium. In this post, we analyze their head to head performance and prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Elina Svitolina who should win in 2 sets.
As per the initial odds, Elina Svitolina is the pick to win this match.
Elina Svitolina -> 1.157
Elena Gabriela Ruse -> 5.65
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Prediction and head to head Elina Svitolina vs. Elena Gabriela Ruse
There is no head to head record between Elina Svitolina and Elena Gabriela Ruse since this will be the first time that they will clash against each other in the main tour.
Elina Svitolina
Ranked no. 6, Svitolina reached the 3rd round after beating Amanda Anisimova 6-4 6-3.
In the 2nd round, The Ukrainian had a good straight sets win against Anisimova (6-4 6-3). During the match, Svitolina scored 63 points vs Anisimova’s 51. The Ukrainian was extremely aggressive to blast 17 winners.
Talking about the service games, Svitolina struck 2 aces and she committed only 3 double faults. Elina Svitolina lost the serve twice and she saved 1 break points. Furthermore, Svitolina put 45% of her first serves in, winning 68% (17/25) of the points behind her 1st serve and 58% (18/31) on the 2nd serve. The Ukrainian broke Anisimova 5 times after converting 71% of her break points (5/7).
Svitolina has a solid match record in the last 10 years having won 66% of her matches (385-194). 28-10 on hard in 2021. In connection with her performance on the same surface of this event, Svitolina has an aggregate 235-106 match record in the last years on hard.
Her best result of the current season was winning the title in in Chicago where she overcame Alize Cornet in the final 7-5 6-4.
Elina has an aggregate 38-17 win-loss record in 2021, 28-10 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in Chicago
The Ukrainian has never competed in this tournament before.
Elena Gabriela Ruse
Ranked no. 98 (career-high), the Romanian got to the 3rd round after beating Camila Giorgi 6-4 6-2 and Kateryna Kozlova 7-5 6-2.
In the 2nd round, Elena had a good straight sets win against Kozlova (7-5 6-2). During the match Gabriela Ruse scored 81 points vs Kozlova’s 65. The Romanian was pretty aggressive to blast 26 winners.
Talking about serving, Gabriela Ruse blasted 3 aces and she committed only 4 double faults. Elena Gabriela Ruse lost the serve 3 times and she saved 11 break points. Furthermore, Gabriela Ruse put 51% of her first serves in, winning 65% (26/40) of the points behind her 1st serve and 49% (19/39) on the 2nd serve. Gabriela Ruse broke Kozlova 6 times after converting 43% of her break points (6/14).
Overall Performance in this tournament
Gabriela Ruse started her run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, she hasn’t surrendered yet a set in this tournament to conquer 55% of the points she played.
Her best result of the current season was conquering the title in in Hamburg where she defeated Andrea Petkovic in the final 7-6(6) 6-4.
Gabriela Ruse has an overall 29-13 win-loss record in 2021, 7-3 on hard (See FULL STATS).
H2H Performance in the tournament (main draw)
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Svitolina | Gabriela Ruse |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 1 | 2 |
| Tot Set | 2 | 4 |
| Tot Games | 19 | 38 |
| Pts | 63-51 | 150-121 |
| Total Points | 114 | 271 |
| Winners | 17 | 53 |
| %Winners | 27% | 35% |
Svitolina played 1 match while Gabriela Ruse competed in 2 matches. Both players have not lost a single set in this event so far. Svitolina has played 2 set(s) less than Gabriela Ruse (2 vs 4). Therefore, Svitolina played 19 games less than Gabriela Ruse. The Ukrainian scored 17 winners (27% of the total points). On the other side, Elena managed to score 53 winners (35%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Svitolina | Gabriela Ruse |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 2 | 5 |
| Avg per match | 2 | 2.5 |
| 1st in | 25/56 | 77/148 |
| %1st in | 45% | 52% |
| 1st pts | 17/25 | 53/77 |
| %1st pts | 68% | 69% |
| 2nd pts | 18/31 | 32/71 |
| %2nd pts | 58% | 45% |
Svitolina struck 2 aces . Gabriela Ruse scored 5 aces (2.5 per match). Svitolina won 68% points behind her first serve. She quite strong on her second serve to win 58% of the points. On the other side, Gabriela Ruse won 69% of the points on her first serve. She had a solid display on her second serve to win 45% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Svitolina | Gabriela Ruse |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 5 | 11 |
| Converted | 5/7 | 11/24 |
| % Converted | 71% | 46% |
| Conceded | 3 | 23 |
| Saved | 1 | 18 |
| % Saved | 33% | 78% |
| Times Broken | 2 | 5 |
The Ukrainian broke her opponent 5 times with a 71% conversion rate. Elina dropped her serve twice and she saved 33% of the break points that she conceded. The Romanian broke her opponents 11 times with a 46% conversion rate. The Romanian conceded her serve 5 times and she saved 78% of the break points that she conceded.
| Svitolina | |||
| R2 Anisimova |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-4 6-3 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 19 | 19 | |
| pts | 63-51 | 63-51 | |
| Total points | 114 | 114 | |
| Winners | 17 | 17 | |
| %Winners | 27% | 27% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 2 | 2 | |
| Double Faults | 3 | 3 | |
| 1st in | 25/56 | 25/56 | |
| % 1st in | 45% | 45% | |
| 1st pts | 17/25 | 17/25 | |
| % 1st pts | 68% | 68% | |
| 2nd pts | 18/31 | 18/31 | |
| % 2nd pts | 58% | 58% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 5 | 5 | |
| Converted | 5/7 | 5/7 | |
| Converted % | 71% | 71% | |
| Conceded | 3 | 3 | |
| Saved | 1/3 | 1 | |
| Saved % | 33% | 33% | |
| Times Broken | 2 | 2 | |
| Gabriela Ruse | ||||
| R1 Giorgi |
R2 Kozlova |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-4 6-2 | 7-5 6-2 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | 4 | |
| Tot Games | 18 | 20 | 38 | |
| pts | 69-56 | 81-65 | 150-121 | |
| Total points | 125 | 146 | 271 | |
| Winners | 27 | 26 | 53 | |
| %Winners | 39% | 32% | 35% | |
| SERVE | ||||
| Aces | 2 | 3 | 5 | |
| Double Faults | 5 | 4 | 9 | |
| 1st in | 37/69 | 40/79 | 77/148 | |
| % 1st in | 54% | 51% | 52% | |
| 1st pts | 27/37 | 26/40 | 53/77 | |
| % 1st pts | 73% | 65% | 69% | |
| 2nd pts | 13/32 | 19/39 | 32/71 | |
| % 2nd pts | 41% | 49% | 45% | |
| Breaks | ||||
| Won | 5 | 6 | 11 | |
| Converted | 5/10 | 6/14 | 11/24 | |
| Converted % | 50% | 43% | 46% | |
| Conceded | 9 | 14 | 23 | |
| Saved | 7/9 | 11/14 | 18 | |
| Saved % | 78% | 79% | 157% | |
| Times Broken | 2 | 3 | 5 | |
Head 2 Head
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LWLWWLWWLW Tennis Scores in Chicago
- Elena RybakinaRybakina – Aliaksandra SasnovichSasnovich (6-4 6-4) – See score progression
- Jil TeichmannTeichmann – Magda LinetteLinette (6-2 6-4) – See score progression
- Marketa VondrousovaVondrousova – Anastasia PavlyuchenkovaPavlyuchenkova (6-3 6-2) – See score progression
- Mai HontamaHontama – Anett KontaveitKontaveit (w/o) – See score progression
- Belinda BencicBencic – Maddison InglisInglis (5-7 6-1 6-0) – See score progression
- Shelby RogersRogers – Bianca Vanessa AndreescuVanessa Andreescu (6-4 7-5) – See score progression
- Veronika KudermetovaKudermetova – Harriet DartDart (6-3 6-4) – See score progression
- Victoria AzarenkaAzarenka – Hailey BaptisteBaptiste (6-2 4-6 6-3) – See score progression
- Jessica PegulaPegula – Andrea PetkovicPetkovic (6-2 7-5) – See score progression
- Elina SvitolinaSvitolina – Amanda AnisimovaAnisimova (6-4 6-3) – See score progression
- Elena Gabriela RuseGabriela Ruse – Kateryna KozlovaKozlova (7-5 6-2) – See score progression
- Tereza MartincovaMartincova – Tamara ZidansekZidansek (6-2 7-5) – See score progression
- Ons JabeurJabeur – Su-Wei HsiehHsieh (6-1 6-0) – See score progression
- Elise MertensMertens – Dayana YastremskaYastremska (6-1 6-3) – See score progression
- Danielle Rose CollinsRose Collins – Misaki DoiDoi (4-6 6-3 7-5) – See score progression
- Garbine MuguruzaMuguruza – Ann LiLi (6-4 6-4) – See score progression
- Nam Hoang LyHoang Ly – Ken OnishiOnishi (6-1 6-3) – See score progression
- Elina SvitolinaSvitolina – Amanda AnisimovaAnisimova (6-4 6-3) – See score progression
- Jessica PegulaPegula – Andrea PetkovicPetkovic (6-2 7-5) – See score progression
- Tereza MartincovaMartincova – Tamara ZidansekZidansek (6-2 7-5) – See score progression
- Veronika KudermetovaKudermetova – Harriet DartDart (6-3 6-4) – See score progression
- Jil TeichmannTeichmann – Magda LinetteLinette (6-2 6-4) – See score progression
- Marketa VondrousovaVondrousova – Anastasia PavlyuchenkovaPavlyuchenkova (6-3 6-2) – See score progression
- Shelby RogersRogers – Bianca Vanessa AndreescuVanessa Andreescu (6-4 7-5) – See score progression
- Mai HontamaHontama – Anett KontaveitKontaveit (w/o) – See score progression
- Victoria AzarenkaAzarenka – Hailey BaptisteBaptiste (6-2 4-6 6-3) – See score progression
Upcoming matches in the draw
- Elina SvitolinaSvitolina – Elena Gabriela RuseGabriela Ruse (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Jessica PegulaPegula – Ons JabeurJabeur (2-0) – H2H and prediction
- Belinda BencicBencic – Tereza MartincovaMartincova (2-0) – H2H and prediction
- Veronika KudermetovaKudermetova – Elena RybakinaRybakina (0-2) – H2H and prediction
- Elise MertensMertens – Danielle Rose CollinsRose Collins (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Jil TeichmannTeichmann – Marketa VondrousovaVondrousova (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Shelby RogersRogers – Mai HontamaHontama (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Victoria AzarenkaAzarenka – Garbine MuguruzaMuguruza (2-3) – H2H and prediction
