Karolina Pliskova and Elena Gabriela Ruse will face off in the 1st round of the U.S. Open for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Tuesday at 4:00 pm on Court 14. Here the head to head stats and relative prediction.

Prediction, odds and live streaming

The pick for Tennis Tonic is Karolina Pliskova who should win in 2 sets.

As per the initial odds, Karolina Pliskova is the pick to win this match.
Karolina Pliskova -> 1.42
Elena Gabriela Ruse -> 2.875

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Prediction and head to head Karolina Pliskova vs. Elena Gabriela Ruse

There is no head to head record between Karolina Pliskova and Elena Gabriela Ruse since this will be the first time that they will fight against each other in the main tour.

Karolina Pliskova

Karolina Pliskova

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Rank
600
High
1
Year Total Hard Clay I.hard Grass Carpet
2025 1-2 1-2 0-0 0-0 0-0 0-0
2024 20-16 10-10 1-3 5-0 4-3 0-0
2023 22-19 19-13 2-3 0-0 1-3 0-0
2022 21-21 12-9 6-6 0-3 3-3 0-0
2021 37-19 23-12 8-4 0-0 6-3 0-0

Ranked no. 25, the Czech will start her run at the U.S. Open after she played her last match in Cincinnati where she lost 1-6 6-3 6-4 to Ostapenko in the 1st round on the 15th of August.

Karolina has a composed 20-16 win-loss record in 2023, 17-10 on hard (See FULL STATS).

Talking about her overall career, Karolina has an overall 601-329 record. She has a positive 316-163 record on hard.

Previously at the U.S. Open

Previously, her best result was reaching the final in 2016. See her history.

U.S. Open
Pliskova's Record

Elena Gabriela Ruse

Elena Gabriela Ruse

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Rank
99
High
51
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Year Total Hard Clay I.hard Grass Carpet
2025 26-19 12-11 7-4 1-2 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. 167, Gabriela Ruse reached the 1st round after defeating Kristina Mladenovic 6-2 6-2, Dalma Galfi 4-6 6-1 7-5 and Dayana Yastremska 7-65 6-3.

In the qualifications, Gabriela Ruse had a good straight sets win against Yastremska (7-65 6-3). During the match Gabriela Ruse scored 84 points vs Yastremska’s 70. The Romanian was very aggressive to blast 33 winners.

Talking about serving, Gabriela Ruse fired 3 aces and she committed only 3 double faults. Elena Gabriela Ruse lost the serve 4 times and she saved 5 break points. Furthermore, Gabriela Ruse put 64% of her first serves in, winning 65% (33/51) of the points behind her 1st serve and 38% (11/29) on the 2nd serve. The Romanian broke Yastremska 5 times after converting 71% of her break points (5/7).

Overall Performance in this tournament

Gabriela Ruse started her run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, she has conceded 1 set in the tournament to win 56% of the points she played.

Elena has a composed 23-17 win-loss record in 2023, 15-8 on hard (See FULL STATS).

Previously at the U.S. Open

Previously, her best result was reaching the 2nd round in 2022. See her history.

U.S. Open
Gabriela Ruse's Record

Tennis Scores – U.S. Open

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