Elena Gabriela Ruse and Erin Routliffe will square off in the 1st round of the ASB Classic for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Tuesday at 3:30 pm on Grandstand. In the following paragraphs, you can find the head to head analysis and prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Elena Gabriela Ruse who should win in 2 sets.
Elena Gabriela Ruse -> 1.043
Erin Routliffe -> 10.75
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Prediction and head to head Elena Gabriela Ruse vs. Erin Routliffe
There is no head to head record between Elena Gabriela Ruse and Erin Routliffe since this will be the first time that they will play each other in the main tour.
Elena Gabriela Ruse
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 25-18 | 12-11 | 7-4 | 0-1 | 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. 117, the Romanian reached the 1st round after defeating Aliona Bolsova 7-5 6-4 and Moyuka Uchijima 6-4 6-1.
In the qualifications, Gabriela Ruse had a good straight sets win against Uchijima (6-4 6-1). During the match, Gabriela Ruse scored 69 points vs Uchijima’s 52. The Romanian was extremely aggressive to blast 31 winners.
Talking about the service games, Gabriela Ruse made 2 aces and she committed only 2 double faults. Elena Gabriela Ruse lost the serve once and she saved 3 break points. Furthermore, Gabriela Ruse put 61% of her first serves in, winning 82% (31/38) of the points behind her 1st serve and 38% (9/24) on the 2nd serve. The Romanian broke Uchijima 4 times after converting 44% of her break points (4/9).
Overall Performance in this tournament
Gabriela Ruse started her run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, she hasn’t dropped yet a set in this tournament to win 54% of the points she played.
Gabriela Ruse has a solid win-loss record in the last 10 years having won 62% of her matches (236-145). 2-0 on hard in 2023. Regarding her performance on the same surface of this competition, Gabriela Ruse has an aggregate 47-31 win-loss record in the last years on hard.
Elena has a compiled 2-0 win-loss record in 2023, 2-0 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in Auckland
The Romanian has never competed in this tournament before.
Erin Routliffe
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 2-5 | 0-3 | 2-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 3-2 | 3-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 1-3 | 1-2 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 4-9 | 4-7 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
| 2019 | 8-7 | 6-4 | 2-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Currently unranked, Routliffe will start her run in Auckland after she played her last match in the W25 Tauranga where she lost 6-1 6-2
to Sebov in the quarter on the 22nd of December.This will be the first match of the season on hard.
In terms of her career, The Canadian has an overall 82-86 record. She has a positive 71-61 record on hard.
Tennis Scores in Auckland
- Lin ZhuZhu – Madison BrengleBrengle (4-6 7-66 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Rebecca MarinoMarino – Dalma GalfiGalfi (6-3 7-63) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Daniele CapecchiCapecchi – Marco BortolottiBortolotti (0-6 6-3 7-63) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Giovanni FonioFonio – Andrea BorroniBorroni (6-4 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Davide GaloppiniGaloppini – Nicolo TurchettiTurchetti (6-4 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Andrea BassoBasso – Andrea GolaGola (6-1 6-0) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Filippo BaldiBaldi – Stefano BattaglinoBattaglino (6-3 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Andres Gabriel CiurlettiGabriel Ciurletti – Stefano ReitanoReitano (7-64 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Riccardo BalzeraniBalzerani – Marco MiceliMiceli (6-4 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Kirill KivattsevKivattsev – Antonio ZuccaZucca (6-1 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Fabrizio OrnagoOrnago – Filippo BorellaBorella (6-3 7-5) – Stats, scores, rankings
Upcoming matches in the draw
- Cori GauffGauff – Tatjana MariaMaria (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Xin Yu WangYu Wang – Sofia KeninKenin (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Katie VolynetsVolynets – Venus WilliamsWilliams (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Bernarda PeraPera – Viktoria KuzmovaKuzmova (1-1) – H2H and prediction
- Emma RaducanuRaducanu – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Tamara ZidansekZidansek – Lauren DavisDavis (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Nao HibinoHibino – Danka KovinicKovinic (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Ysaline BonaventureBonaventure – Caty McNallyMcNally (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Julia GrabherGrabher – Tereza MartincovaMartincova (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Xiyu WangWang – Karolina MuchovaMuchova (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Erin RoutliffeRoutliffe – Elena Gabriela RuseGabriela Ruse (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Elisabetta CocciarettoCocciaretto – Anna BlinkovaBlinkova (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Rebeka MasarovaMasarova – Sloane StephensStephens (0-0) – H2H and prediction