Yue Yuan and Elena Gabriela Ruse will clash against each other in the 1st round of the Korea Open for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Monday at 12:00 pm on Centre Court. 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 Yue Yuan who should win in 3 sets.
Yue Yuan -> 1.68
Elena Gabriela Ruse -> 2.19
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Prediction and head to head Yue Yuan vs. Elena Gabriela Ruse
There is no head to head record between Yue Yuan and Elena Gabriela Ruse since this will be the first time that they will face off in the main tour.
Yue Yuan
25 - 21win/loss
38
36
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 25-21 | 20-11 | 3-6 | 0-0 | 2-4 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 41-29 | 27-17 | 8-7 | 1-2 | 5-3 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 44-25 | 33-16 | 9-7 | 0-0 | 2-2 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 24-17 | 6-7 | 3-6 | 15-4 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 1-4 | 1-4 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 38, the Chinese will start her run in Seoul after she played her last match at the New York where she lost 6-3 7-6(7) to Andreeva in the 1st round on the 26th of August.
Yuan has an overall 25-21 win-loss record in 2024, 20-11 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Her best result of the current year was conquering the title in Austin where she beat Xiyu Wang in the final 6-4 7-6(4).
Talking about her overall career, Yuan has an overall 253-180 record. She has a positive 191-129 record on hard.
Previously in Seoul
Previously, her best result was reaching the final in 2023. See her history.
Elena Gabriela Ruse
32 - 15win/loss
100
51
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 32-15 | 9-2 | 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. 100, Elena got to the 1st round after beating Eri Hozumi 6-2 6-3 and Kyoka Okamura 6-3 2-6 6-2.
In the qualifications, Elena defeated Okamura (6-3 2-6 6-2). During the match Gabriela Ruse scored 90 points vs Okamura’s 79. Gabriela Ruse was extremely aggressive to blast 29 winners.
About the serving games, Gabriela Ruse blasted 3 aces and she was not very solid on her 2nd serve to score 10 double faults. Elena Gabriela Ruse lost the serve 4 times and she saved 8 break points. Furthermore, Gabriela Ruse put 49% of her first serves in, winning 60% (29/48) of the points behind her 1st serve and 58% (29/50) on the 2nd serve. Gabriela Ruse was clinical in her return game without wasting any break point and break Okamura 5 times.
Overall Performance in this tournament
Elena started her run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, she has conceded 1 set in the tournament to win 55% of the points she played.
Elena’s best result of the season was getting to the semifinal in the Paris and the Hamburg.
Gabriela Ruse has a compiled 32-15 win-loss record in 2024, 9-2 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in Seoul
The Romanian has never competed in this tournament before.
Tennis Scores in Seoul
- Giorgio PortaluriPortaluri – Marco BortolottiBortolotti (7-5 5-7 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Riccardo BellottiBellotti – Filip DudaDuda (6-1 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Luca GiacominiGiacomini – Michael VrbenskyVrbensky (6-3 7-64) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Manuel Pena LopezPena Lopez – Calin MandaManda (6-4 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Matthias HaimHaim – Kirill KivattsevKivattsev (6-3 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Mario Vilella MartinezVilella Martinez – Alexander WeisWeis (6-1 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Luca StaeheliStaeheli – Sven LahLah (7-5 3-2 ret.) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Bruno Sant’AnnaSant’Anna – Neil OberleitnerOberleitner (6-2 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Mike UrbanijaUrbanija – Alexander ErlerErler (6-1 4-6 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Bogdan BobrovBobrov – Bjorn NareykaNareyka (6-2 7-65) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Mick VeldheerVeldheer – Laurin AerneAerne (6-4 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Petr NouzaNouza – Adrian BodmerBodmer (7-62 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
Upcoming matches in the draw
- Sloane StephensStephens – Hailey BaptisteBaptiste (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Peyton StearnsStearns – Emma RaducanuRaducanu (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Elena Gabriela RuseGabriela Ruse – Yue YuanYuan (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Dayeon BackBack – Carol ZhaoZhao (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Heather WatsonWatson – Jia-Jing LuLu (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Arantxa RusRus – Marta KostyukKostyuk (1-1) – H2H and prediction
- Ekaterina AlexandrovaAlexandrova – Varvara LepchenkoLepchenko (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Magdalena FrechFrech – Priscilla HonHon (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Ajla TomljanovicTomljanovic – Su Jeong JangJeong Jang (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Yulia PutintsevaPutintseva – Amanda AnisimovaAnisimova (1-1) – H2H and prediction
- Tatjana MariaMaria – Viktoriya TomovaTomova (0-2) – H2H and prediction
- Veronika KudermetovaKudermetova – Shuai ZhangZhang (0-1) – H2H and prediction