Anett Kontaveit and Elena Gabriela Ruse will clash against each other in the 2nd round of the Sydney Tennis Classic for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Wednesday at 11:00 am on COURT 5. In this post, we analyze their head to head performance and prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Anett Kontaveit who should win in 2 sets.
As per the initial odds, Anett Kontaveit is the pick to win this match.
Anett Kontaveit -> 1.15
Elena Gabriela Ruse -> 5.8
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Prediction and head to head Anett Kontaveit vs. Elena Gabriela Ruse
There is no head to head record between Anett Kontaveit and Elena Gabriela Ruse since this will be the first time that they will face off in the main tour.
Anett Kontaveit
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 4-8 | 2-4 | 1-3 | 0-0 | 1-1 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 29-16 | 13-9 | 6-4 | 9-2 | 1-1 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 48-17 | 24-12 | 5-3 | 15-0 | 4-2 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 24-11 | 14-7 | 5-3 | 5-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2019 | 27-16 | 17-9 | 4-4 | 3-0 | 3-3 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 7 (career-high), the Estonian got to the 2nd round after defeating Shuai Zhang 6-3 6-3.
In the 1st round, Kontaveit had a good straight sets win against Zhang (6-3 6-3). During the match, Kontaveit scored 65 points vs Zhang’s 44. The Estonian was very aggressive to blast 31 winners.
Regarding the service games, Kontaveit struck 4 aces and she committed only 2 double faults. Anett Kontaveit conceded no breaks for the entire match to save 1 break points. Furthermore, Kontaveit put 63% of her first serves in, winning 89% (31/35) of the points behind her 1st serve and 48% (10/21) on the 2nd serve. The Estonian broke Zhang 3 times after converting 60% of her break points (3/5).
Kontaveit has a solid match record in the last 10 years having won 67% of her matches (327-163). 1-0 on hard in 2022. Talking about her performance on the same surface of this event, Kontaveit has a composed 143-86 record in the last years on hard.
The Estonian has an overall 1-0 win-loss record in 2022, 1-0 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in Sydney
Elena Gabriela Ruse
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 35-18 | 12-5 | 17-8 | 3-3 | 3-2 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 31-20 | 18-10 | 6-6 | 5-2 | 2-2 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 17-23 | 13-10 | 2-7 | 1-3 | 1-3 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 31-16 | 9-5 | 20-8 | 1-1 | 1-2 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 18-10 | 9-3 | 7-4 | 2-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 82 (career-high), Elena reached the 2nd round after beating Alexandra Osborne 6-3 6-0, Fiona Ferro 7-65 6-3 and Magdalena Frech 6-2 3-6 6-4.
In the 1st round, Gabriela Ruse defeated Frech (6-2 3-6 6-4). During the match Gabriela Ruse scored 100 points vs Frech’s 90. Gabriela Ruse was quite aggressive to blast 34 winners.
About the serving games, Gabriela Ruse recorded 2 aces and she committed only 7 double faults. Elena Gabriela Ruse lost the serve 7 times and she saved 5 break points. Furthermore, Gabriela Ruse put 52% of her first serves in, winning 62% (34/55) of the points behind her 1st serve and 40% (20/50) on the 2nd serve. Gabriela Ruse broke Frech 8 times after converting 50% of her break points (8/16).
Elena has a composed 4-1 win-loss record in 2022, 4-1 on hard (See FULL STATS).
H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Kontaveit | Gabriela Ruse |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 1 | 3 |
| Tot Set | 2 | 7 |
| Tot Games | 18 | 64 |
| Pts | 65-44 | 255-215 |
| Total Points | 109 | 470 |
| Winners | 31 | 89 |
| %Winners | 48% | 35% |
Kontaveit played 1 match while Gabriela Ruse competed in 3 matches. Gabriela Ruse started her run from the qualifications while Kontaveit had a direct access to the main draw. At the moment, Elena Gabriela Ruse dropped 1 set while Anett Kontaveit hasn’t dropped a set so far. Kontaveit has played 5 set(s) less than Gabriela Ruse (2 vs 7). Therefore, Kontaveit played 46 games less than Gabriela Ruse. Anett scored 31 winners (48% of the total points). On the other side, Elena blasted 89 winners (35%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Kontaveit | Gabriela Ruse |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 4 | 4 |
| Avg per match | 4 | 1.3 |
| 1st in | 35/56 | 145/237 |
| %1st in | 63% | 61% |
| 1st pts | 31/35 | 89/145 |
| %1st pts | 89% | 61% |
| 2nd pts | 10/21 | 38/92 |
| %2nd pts | 48% | 41% |
Kontaveit fired 4 aces . Gabriela Ruse bagged 4 aces (1.3 per match). Kontaveit won 89% points behind her first serve. She quite strong on her second serve to win 48% of the points. On the other side, Gabriela Ruse won 61% of the points on her first serve. She had a solid display on her second serve to win 41% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Kontaveit | Gabriela Ruse |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 3 | 20 |
| Converted | 3/5 | 20/42 |
| % Converted | 60% | 48% |
| Conceded | 1 | 24 |
| Saved | 1 | 11 |
| % Saved | 100% | 46% |
| Times Broken | 0 | 13 |
The Estonian broke her opponent 3 times with a 60% conversion rate. Anett pretty effective on her serve as she has never surrendered a single service game after saving 1 break points. Elena broke her opponents 20 times with a 48% conversion rate. The Romanian conceded her serve 13 times and she saved 46% of the break points that she conceded.
| Kontaveit | |||
| R1 Zhang |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-3 6-3 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 18 | 18 | |
| pts | 65-44 | 65-44 | |
| Total points | 109 | 109 | |
| Winners | 31 | 31 | |
| %Winners | 48% | 48% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 4 | 4 | |
| Double Faults | 2 | 2 | |
| 1st in | 35/56 | 35/56 | |
| % 1st in | 63% | 63% | |
| 1st pts | 31/35 | 31/35 | |
| % 1st pts | 89% | 89% | |
| 2nd pts | 10/21 | 10/21 | |
| % 2nd pts | 48% | 48% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 3 | 3 | |
| Converted | 3/5 | 3/5 | |
| Converted % | 60% | 60% | |
| Conceded | 1 | 1 | |
| Saved | 1/1 | 1 | |
| Saved % | 100% | 100% | |
| Times Broken | 0 | 0 | |
| Gabriela Ruse | |||||
| Q1 Osborne |
Q3 Ferro |
R1 Frech |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-3 6-0 | 7-65 6-3 | 6-2 3-6 6-4 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | 3 | 7 | |
| Tot Games | 15 | 22 | 27 | 64 | |
| pts | 66-43 | 89-82 | 100-90 | 255-215 | |
| Total points | 109 | 171 | 190 | 470 | |
| Winners | 24 | 31 | 34 | 89 | |
| %Winners | 36% | 35% | 34% | 35% | |
| SERVE | |||||
| Aces | 0 | 2 | 2 | 4 | |
| Double Faults | 1 | 4 | 7 | 12 | |
| 1st in | 35/49 | 55/83 | 55/105 | 145/237 | |
| % 1st in | 71% | 66% | 52% | 61% | |
| 1st pts | 24/35 | 31/55 | 34/55 | 89/145 | |
| % 1st pts | 69% | 56% | 62% | 61% | |
| 2nd pts | 7/14 | 11/28 | 20/50 | 38/92 | |
| % 2nd pts | 50% | 39% | 40% | 41% | |
| Breaks | |||||
| Won | 6 | 6 | 8 | 20 | |
| Converted | 6/15 | 6/11 | 8/16 | 20/42 | |
| Converted % | 40% | 55% | 50% | 48% | |
| Conceded | 1 | 11 | 12 | 24 | |
| Saved | 0/1 | 6/11 | 5/12 | 11 | |
| Saved % | 0% | 55% | 42% | 97% | |
| Times Broken | 1 | 5 | 7 | 13 | |
Head 2 Head
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