Elena Gabriela Ruse and Ziva Falkner will play each other in the qualifications of the Zavarovalnica Sava Portoroz for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Monday at 1:00 pm on Centre. Here the head to head stats and relative prediction.
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The pick for Tennis Tonic is Elena Gabriela Ruse who should win in 2 sets.
Elena Gabriela Ruse -> 1.062
Ziva Falkner -> 10.00
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Prediction and head to head Elena Gabriela Ruse vs. Ziva Falkner
There is no head to head record between Elena Gabriela Ruse and Ziva Falkner since this will be the first time that they will square off in the main tour.
Elena Gabriela Ruse
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 30-19 | 12-11 | 7-4 | 5-2 | 6-2 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 36-20 | 12-5 | 17-8 | 4-5 | 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 |
Ranked no. 101, Elena reached the qualifications after beating Yana Morderger 6-1 6-4.
In the qualifications, Elena had a good straight sets win against Morderger (6-1 6-4). During the match, Gabriela Ruse scored 73 points vs Morderger’s 52. The Romanian was quite aggressive to blast 18 winners.
Talking about the service games, Gabriela Ruse blasted 5 aces and she committed only 8 double faults. Elena Gabriela Ruse lost the serve 4 times and she saved 7 break points. Furthermore, Gabriela Ruse put 48% of her first serves in, winning 58% (18/31) of the points behind her 1st serve and 41% (14/34) on the 2nd serve. Gabriela Ruse broke Morderger 8 times after converting 57% of her break points (8/14).
Gabriela Ruse has a solid win-loss record in the last 9 years having won 63% of her matches (232-139). 12-7 on hard in 2022. In connection with her performance on the same surface of this competition, Gabriela Ruse has a compiled44-28 match record in the last 9 years on hard.
Gabriela Ruse has an aggregate 15-17 win-loss record in 2022, 12-7 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in Portoroz
Gabriela Ruse has never competed in this tournament before.
Ziva Falkner
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 31-24 | 6-6 | 25-17 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 31-28 | 0-0 | 31-27 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 32-36 | 2-4 | 27-22 | 3-10 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 34-34 | 9-9 | 21-22 | 4-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 42-25 | 5-5 | 30-18 | 7-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 552, the Slovenian reached the qualifications after beating Natalija Stevanovic 3-6 7-61 6-4.
In the qualifications against Kostic, Falkner recovered from a 1-set down deficit before winning (3-6 7-61 6-4). During the match Falkner scored 109 points vs Kostic’s 108. The Slovenian was very aggressive to blast 31 winners.
About the serving games, Falkner wasn’t able to score even 1 ace for the entire match and she committed only 8 double faults. Ziva Falkner lost the serve 8 times and she saved 6 break points. Furthermore, Falkner put 59% of her first serves in, winning 53% (31/59) of the points behind her 1st serve and 46% (19/41) on the 2nd serve. The Slovenian broke Kostic 8 times after converting 53% of her break points (8/15).
Ziva has a composed 22-24 win-loss record in 2022, 4-6 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in Portoroz
Previously, her best result was reaching the 1st round in 2021. See her history.
H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Gabriela Ruse | Falkner |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 1 | 1 |
| Tot Set | 2 | 3 |
| Tot Games | 17 | 32 |
| Pts | 73-52 | 109-108 |
| Total Points | 125 | 217 |
| Winners | 18 | 31 |
| %Winners | 25% | 28% |
Both Gabriela Ruse and Falkner played 1 match. Also both players started their run from the qualifications.At the moment, Ziva Falkner lost 1 set while Elena Gabriela Ruse hasn’t surrendered a set so far. Gabriela Ruse has played 1 set(s) less than Falkner (2 vs 3). Therefore, Gabriela Ruse played 15 games less than Falkner. Gabriela Ruse scored 18 winners (25% of the total points). On the other side, The Slovenian managed to score 31 winners (28%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Gabriela Ruse | Falkner |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 5 | 0 |
| Avg per match | 5 | 0 |
| 1st in | 31/65 | 59/100 |
| %1st in | 48% | 59% |
| 1st pts | 18/31 | 31/59 |
| %1st pts | 58% | 53% |
| 2nd pts | 14/34 | 19/41 |
| %2nd pts | 41% | 46% |
Gabriela Ruse blasted 5 aces . Falkner didn’t manage to fire a single ace to far. Gabriela Ruse won 58% points behind her first serve. She had a solid display on her second serve to win 41% of the points. On the other side, Falkner won 53% of the points on her first serve. She had a solid display on her second serve to win 46% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Gabriela Ruse | Falkner |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 8 | 8 |
| Converted | 8/14 | 8/15 |
| % Converted | 57% | 53% |
| Conceded | 11 | 14 |
| Saved | 7 | 6 |
| % Saved | 64% | 43% |
| Times Broken | 4 | 8 |
The Romanian broke her opponent 8 times with a 57% conversion rate. The Romanian surrendered her serve 4 times and she saved 64% of the break points that she conceded. The Slovenian broke her opponent 8 times with a 53% conversion rate. The Slovenian conceded her serve 8 times and she saved 43% of the break points that she conceded.
| Gabriela Ruse | |||
| Q1 Morderger | Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-1 6-4 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 17 | 17 | |
| pts | 73-52 | 73-52 | |
| Total points | 125 | 125 | |
| Winners | 18 | 18 | |
| %Winners | 25% | 25% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 5 | 5 | |
| Double Faults | 8 | 8 | |
| 1st in | 31/65 | 31/65 | |
| % 1st in | 48% | 48% | |
| 1st pts | 18/31 | 18/31 | |
| % 1st pts | 58% | 58% | |
| 2nd pts | 14/34 | 14/34 | |
| % 2nd pts | 41% | 41% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 8 | 8 | |
| Converted | 8/14 | 8/14 | |
| Converted % | 57% | 57% | |
| Conceded | 11 | 11 | |
| Saved | 7/11 | 7 | |
| Saved % | 64% | 64% | |
| Times Broken | 4 | 4 | |
| Falkner | |||
| Q1 Kostic | Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 3-6 7-61 6-4 | ||
| Tot Set | 3 | 3 | |
| Tot Games | 32 | 32 | |
| pts | 109-108 | 109-108 | |
| Total points | 217 | 217 | |
| Winners | 31 | 31 | |
| %Winners | 28% | 28% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 0 | 0 | |
| Double Faults | 8 | 8 | |
| 1st in | 59/100 | 59/100 | |
| % 1st in | 59% | 59% | |
| 1st pts | 31/59 | 31/59 | |
| % 1st pts | 53% | 53% | |
| 2nd pts | 19/41 | 19/41 | |
| % 2nd pts | 46% | 46% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 8 | 8 | |
| Converted | 8/15 | 8/15 | |
| Converted % | 53% | 53% | |
| Conceded | 14 | 14 | |
| Saved | 6/14 | 6 | |
| Saved % | 43% | 43% | |
| Times Broken | 8 | 8 | |
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