Iga Swiatek obliterates Elena Gabriela Ruse 6-3 6-0 in the 2nd round in Rome on Wednesday after playing a marvellous match to clash against Victoria Azarenka in the 3rd round. The match lasted 1 hour and 8 minutes. The Pole won this tournament once in 2021. Here you can see her history at this event.
Highlights Iga Swiatek vs. Elena Gabriela Ruse Internazionali BNL d’Italia – Rome
Stats: aces, double faults, breaks, winners
At the end of the match, Swiatek scored 55 points vs. Elena’s 30.
Swiatek
Swiatek was effective when converting 58% of the break points that she conquered (7/12).
Gabriela Ruse
On the other side, the Romanian was great in converting all her break points (2/2). Yet, that was not enough to win the match.
After this encounter, the head to head between Swiatek and Gabriela Ruse is 2-0 for Iga.
Draw and next match H2H: Iga Swiatek vs. Victoria Azarenka – stats
Swiatek will take on Azarenka in the 3rd round.
This will be the 3rd time that Iga Swiatek and Victoria Azarenka play each other. The head to head is 1-1 for Swiatek and Azarenka (see full H2H stats), but they have never competed against each other on clay.
The last time that they played, Swiatek won 6-3 2-6 6-1 in the quarter in Adelaide back in January 2022.
Live score progression and stats
Swiatek was in a great position at the beginning of the set to break Elena Gabriela Ruse in the 1st game (1-0). Nevertheless, that wasn’t sufficient for Iga to win the set because Elena found the way to break back in the 6th (2-4) and in the 8th (3-5) game. Iga kept her cool to break Gabriela Ruse in the 7th (5-2) and in the 9th (6-3) game.
The Pole failed to serve out the set when leading 5-2 to be broken at 30.
Swiatek converted 57% of her break points (4/7). She had 7 break points opportunities in the 1st (0-0 30-40), the 3rd (2-0 30-40), the 5th (3-1 0-40), the 7th (4-2 15-40) and the 9th game (5-3 0-40, 15-40 and 30-40). On the other side, the Romanian was exemplary in converting all her break points in the 5th (1-4 15-40) and the 8th game (2-5 30-40).
They contested 52 points. Iga conquered the set after winning 10 more points than Elena (31-21). Swiatek conceded 10 points on serve (11-10). on the other side of the net, the Romanian conceded 20 points on serve (11-20).
Gabriela Ruse lost her way in this set and the Pole won the set 6-0.
They contested 34 points. Iga won 14 points more than the Romanian (24-10). The Pole was extremely solid on serve to concede just 4 points (12-4). on the other side of the net, Gabriela Ruse conceded 12 points on serve (6-12).
Tennis Scores in Rome
- Jessica PegulaPegula – Anhelina KalininaKalinina (w/o) – Stats and score progression
- Iga SwiatekSwiatek – Elena Gabriela RuseGabriela Ruse (6-3 6-0) – Stats and score progression
- Maria SakkariSakkari – Ekaterina AlexandrovaAlexandrova (6-3 6-2) – Stats and score progression
- Amanda AnisimovaAnisimova – Belinda BencicBencic (7-65 6-1) – Stats and score progression
- Yulia PutintsevaPutintseva – Garbine MuguruzaMuguruza (3-6 7-64 6-1) – Stats and score progression
- Daria KasatkinaKasatkina – Leylah Annie FernandezAnnie Fernandez (4-6 6-3 7-62) – Stats and score progression
- Victoria AzarenkaAzarenka – Maria Camila Osorio SerranoCamila Osorio Serrano (6-2 6-4) – Stats and score progression
- Elena RybakinaRybakina – Lauren DavisDavis (6-4 6-3) – Stats and score progression
- Petra MarticMartic – Anett KontaveitKontaveit (6-2 6-3) – Stats and score progression
- Jil TeichmannTeichmann – Karolina PliskovaPliskova (6-2 4-6 6-4) – Stats and score progression
- Bianca Vanessa AndreescuVanessa Andreescu – Nuria Parrizas-DiazParrizas-Diaz (6-3 7-64) – Stats and score progression
- Aryna SabalenkaSabalenka – Shuai ZhangZhang (6-2 6-0) – Stats and score progression
- Cori GauffGauff – Madison BrengleBrengle (6-2 6-4) – Stats and score progression
- Danielle Rose CollinsRose Collins – Simona HalepHalep (7-61 6-3) – Stats and score progression
- Paula Badosa GibertBadosa Gibert – Aliaksandra SasnovichSasnovich (6-2 6-1) – Stats and score progression
- Ons JabeurJabeur – Ajla TomljanovicTomljanovic (7-5 6-2) – Stats and score progression
Upcoming matches
- Iga SwiatekSwiatek – Victoria AzarenkaAzarenka (1-1) – H2H details and stats
- Bianca Vanessa AndreescuVanessa Andreescu – Petra MarticMartic (0-0) – H2H details and stats
- Aryna SabalenkaSabalenka – Jessica PegulaPegula (2-1) – H2H details and stats
- Amanda AnisimovaAnisimova – Danielle Rose CollinsRose Collins (0-0) – H2H details and stats
- Yulia PutintsevaPutintseva – Ons JabeurJabeur (0-2) – H2H details and stats
- Cori GauffGauff – Maria SakkariSakkari (1-3) – H2H details and stats
- Jil TeichmannTeichmann – Elena RybakinaRybakina (1-0) – H2H details and stats
- Darya KasatkinaKasatkina – Paula Badosa GibertBadosa Gibert (0-1) – H2H details and stats