Jaqueline Cristian and Elena Gabriela Ruse will play each other in the 2^nd round of the UniCredit Iasi Open for the 4^th time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Tuesday at 5:00 pm on Center Court. In this post, we analyze their head to head performance and prediction.

Prediction, odds and live streaming

The pick for Tennis Tonic is Jaqueline Cristian who should win in 3 sets.

As per the initial odds, Jaqueline Cristian is the pick to win this match.
Jaqueline Cristian -> 1.68
Elena Gabriela Ruse -> 2.19

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Prediction and head to head Jaqueline Cristian vs. Elena Gabriela Ruse

This will be the 4^th time that Jaqueline Cristian and Elena Gabriela Ruse play each other. The head to head is 2-1 for Cristian (see full H2H stats),but they are 1-1 on clay.

The last time that they locked horns, Gabriela Ruse won 6-3 6-4 in the qualifications in at the French Open back in 2023.

Jaqueline Cristian

Ranked no. 61,she will start her run in Iasi after she played her last match in Iasi where she overcame 6-2 6-4 to Brancaccio in the 1^st round on the 22^nd of July.

The Romanian has an overall 21-21 win-loss record in 2024, 14-9 on clay (See FULL STATS).

The Romanian’s best result of the current year was getting to the semifinal in Napoca.

Talking about her overall career, Jaqueline has an overall 308-209 record. She has a positive 154-94 record on clay.

Previously in Iasi

Jaqueline has never competed in this tournament before.

Elena Gabriela Ruse

Ranked no. 147, Gabriela Ruse reached the 2^nd round after beating Anastasia Tikhonova 6-3 5-7 6-1.

In the 1^st round, The Romanian defeated Tikhonova (6-3 5-7 6-1). During the match Gabriela Ruse scored 95 points vs Tikhonova’s 78. Elena was pretty aggressive to blast 34 winners.

About the serving games, Gabriela Ruse bagged 2 aces and she committed only 3 double faults. Elena Gabriela Ruse lost the serve 4 times and she saved 1 break points. Furthermore, Gabriela Ruse put 65% of her first serves in, winning 69% (34/49) of the points behind her 1st serve and 54% (14/26) on the 2nd serve. Gabriela Ruse broke Tikhonova 7 times after converting 44% of her break points (7/16).

The Romanian’s best result of the current year was reaching the semifinal in the Paris.

Elena has a compiled 22-12 win-loss record in 2024, 14-6 on clay (See FULL STATS).

Previously in Iasi

Gabriela Ruse has never competed in this tournament before.

H2H Performance in the tournament

Matches, sets, games and points

Points	Cristian	Gabriela Ruse
Match played	1	1
Tot Set	2	3
Tot Games	18	28
Pts	66-49	95-78
Total Points	115	173
Winners	20	34
%Winners	30%	36%

Both Cristian and Gabriela Ruse played 1 match. At the moment, Elena Gabriela Ruse conceded 1 set while Jaqueline Cristian hasn’t conceded a set so far. Cristian has played 1 set(s) less than Gabriela Ruse (2 vs 3). Therefore, Cristian played 10 games less than Gabriela Ruse. Cristian scored 20 winners (30% of the total points). On the other side, Gabriela Ruse bagged 34 winners (36%).

Serve Performance

Serve	Cristian	Gabriela Ruse
Aces	2	2
Avg per match	2	2
1st in	28/50	49/75
%1st in	56%	65%
1st pts	20/28	34/49
%1st pts	71%	69%
2nd pts	15/22	14/26
%2nd pts	68%	54%

Cristian struck 2 aces . Gabriela Ruse fired 2 aces . Cristian won 71% points on her first serve. She extremely effective on her second serve to win 68% of the points. On the other side, Gabriela Ruse won 69% of the points on her first serve. She had a solid display on her second serve to win 54% of the points.

How they played the important points

Breaks	Cristian	Gabriela Ruse
Won	4	7
Converted	4/9	7/16
% Converted	44%	44%
Conceded	2	5
Saved	1	1
% Saved	50%	20%
Times Broken	1	4

Jaqueline broke her opponent 4 times with a 44% conversion rate. The Romanian surrendered her serve once and she saved 50% of the break points that she conceded. Elena broke her opponent 7 times with a 44% conversion rate. Elena conceded her serve 4 times and she saved 20% of the break points that she conceded.

Cristian
	Total
Score
Tot Set	0
Tot Games	0
pts	0-0
Total points	0
Winners	0
%Winners	0%
SERVE
Aces	0
Double Faults	0
1st in	0/0
% 1st in	0%
1st pts	0/0
% 1st pts	%
2nd pts	0/0
% 2nd pts	0%
Breaks
Won	0
Converted	0/0
Converted %	0%
Conceded	0
Saved	0
Saved %	0%
Times Broken	0

Gabriela Ruse
	R1 Tikhonova	Total
Score	6-3 5-7 6-1
Tot Set	3	3
Tot Games	28	28
pts	95-78	95-78
Total points	173	173
Winners	34	34
%Winners	36%	36%
SERVE
Aces	2	2
Double Faults	3	3
1st in	49/75	49/75
% 1st in	65%	65%
1st pts	34/49	34/49
% 1st pts	69%	69%
2nd pts	14/26	14/26
% 2nd pts	54%	54%
Breaks
Won	7	7
Converted	7/16	7/16
Converted %	44%	44%
Conceded	5	5
Saved	1/5	1
Saved %	20%	0%
Times Broken	4	4

Tennis Scores in Iasi

• Norbert GombosGombos – Adrian MannarinoMannarino (6-4 7-6⁹) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Benoit PairePaire – Marc PolmansPolmans (6-3 6-7⁵ 7-6⁵) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Peter GojowczykGojowczyk – Alex De MinaurDe Minaur (6-3 7-6⁶) – Stats, scores, rankings
• John IsnerIsner – Hubert HurkaczHurkacz (6-4 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Stefanos TsitsipasTsitsipas – Tommy PaulPaul (6-3 7-5) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Yoshihito NishiokaNishioka – David GoffinGoffin (6-7⁵ 6-2 7-6⁵) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Miomir KecmanovicKecmanovic – Pierre-Hugues HerbertHerbert (3-6 6-4 7-6⁵) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Milos RaonicRaonic – Tim SmyczekSmyczek (6-1 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Felix Auger AliassimeAuger Aliassime – Reilly OpelkaOpelka (6-4 3-6 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Nick KyrgiosKyrgios – Gilles SimonSimon (6-4 7-6⁵) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Jordan ThompsonThompson – Jan-Lennard StruffStruff (6-7⁸ 6-4 7-5) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Daniil MedvedevMedvedev – Bjorn FratangeloFratangelo (6-3 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Marin CilicCilic – Marius CopilCopil (7-6⁴ 7-6⁴) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Kyle EdmundEdmund – Lloyd HarrisHarris (6-1 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Frances TiafoeTiafoe – Alexander BublikBublik (6-1 7-6⁵) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Jo-Wilfried TsongaTsonga – Karen KhachanovKhachanov (6-4 2-6 7-5) – Stats, scores, rankings

Upcoming matches in the draw

• Lea BoskovicBoskovic – Varvara LepchenkoLepchenko (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Olga DanilovicDanilovic – (1-1) – H2H and prediction
• Marina Bassols RiberaBassols Ribera – Anna BondarBondar (0-2) – H2H and prediction
• Elina AvanesyanAvanesyan – Petra MarticMartic (1-0) – H2H and prediction
• Elena Gabriela RuseGabriela Ruse – Jaqueline CristianCristian (1-2) – H2H and prediction
• Chloe PaquetPaquet – Simona WaltertWaltert (3-1) – H2H and prediction