Nao Hibino and Elena Gabriela Ruse will clash against each other in the 1st round of the Open Capfinances Rouen Metropole for the 2nd time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Wednesday at 11:30 am on Court 1. In the following lines 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 3 sets.

As per the initial odds, Elena Gabriela Ruse is the pick to win this match.
Elena Gabriela Ruse -> 1.615
Nao Hibino -> 2.31

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Prediction and head to head Nao Hibino vs. Elena Gabriela Ruse

This will be the 2nd time that Nao Hibino and Elena Gabriela Ruse square off. The head to head is 1-0 for Gabriela Ruse (see full H2H stats), but they have never competed against each other on clay.

The last time that they fought against each other, Gabriela Ruse won 6-2 6-2 in the 2nd round in the Poitiers back in 2016.

Nao Hibino

Nao Hibino

14 - 10win/loss

Hard
12-10
I Hard
2-0
Rank
152
High
56
LWLLWLWWLL
Year Total Hard Clay I.hard Grass Carpet
2024 27-31 21-21 2-7 2-0 2-3 0-0
2023 40-30 26-19 9-7 1-1 4-3 0-0
2022 36-29 26-19 7-8 3-2 0-0 0-0
2021 7-21 1-9 5-8 0-0 1-4 0-0
2020 13-10 9-7 4-3 0-0 0-0 0-0

Ranked no. 85,she will start her run in Rouen after she played her last match in 1 where she defeated 6-4 3-6 7-6(7) to Putintseva in the Rubber 3 on the 13th of April.

Hibino has an aggregate 14-10 win-loss record in 2024, 0-0 on clay (See FULL STATS).

This will be the first match of the year on clay.

Talking about her overall career, Nao has an overall 368-292 record. She has a negative 43-48 record on clay.

Previously in Rouen

Hibino has never competed in this tournament before.

Rouen
Hibino's Record

Elena Gabriela Ruse

Elena Gabriela Ruse

10 - 7win/loss

Hard
2-1
I Hard
3-3
Clay
5-3
Rank
129
High
51
LWLWWLWWLW
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. 162, the Romanian got to the 1st round after beating Nuria Brancaccio 7-65 6-4 and Martyna Kubka 6-4 6-0.

In the qualifications, Elena had a good straight sets win against Kubka (6-4 6-0). During the match Gabriela Ruse scored 61 points vs Kubka’s 43. Elena was extremely aggressive to blast 17 winners.

About the serving games, Gabriela Ruse managed to score 6 aces and she committed only 3 double faults. Elena Gabriela Ruse lost the serve once. Furthermore, Gabriela Ruse put 57% of her first serves in, winning 63% (17/27) of the points behind her 1st serve and 70% (14/20) on the 2nd serve. Elena broke Kubka 5 times after converting 63% of her break points (5/8).

Overall Performance in this tournament

The Romanian started her run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, she hasn’t conceded yet a set in this event to win 55% of the points she played.

The Romanian has a composed 10-7 win-loss record in 2024, 5-3 on clay (See FULL STATS).

Rouen
Gabriela Ruse's Record

Tennis Scores in Rouen

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