Elena Gabriela Ruse and Anna-Lena Friedsam will face off in the qualifications of the Australian Open for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Wednesday at 11:30 pm on Court 6. In this post, we analyze their head to head performance and prediction.
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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 -> 1.44
Anna-Lena Friedsam -> 2.71
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Prediction and head to head Elena Gabriela Ruse vs. Anna-Lena Friedsam
There is no head to head record between Elena Gabriela Ruse and Anna-Lena Friedsam since this will be the first time that they will face off in the main tour.
Elena Gabriela Ruse
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 1-0 | 1-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 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. 125, Gabriela Ruse got to the qualifications after beating Leonie Kung 6-1 6-1.
In the qualifications, The Romanian had a good straight sets win against Kung (6-1 6-1). During the match, Gabriela Ruse scored 53 points vs Kung’s 22. Elena was pretty aggressive to blast 14 winners.
Talking about the service games, Gabriela Ruse was unable to score even 1 ace during the match and she committed only 2 double faults. Overall, Elena Gabriela Ruse was pretty effective on serve to win 74% (14/19) of her 1st serve and 75% (12/16) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent her to concede the serve once. The Romanian broke Kung 6 times after converting 75% of her break points (6/8).
Gabriela Ruse has a solid match record in the last 10 years having won 62% of her matches (275-168). 1-0 on hard in 2025. Talking about her performance on the same surface of this competition, Gabriela Ruse has a compiled 73-43 match record in the last years on hard.
Gabriela Ruse has an overall 1-0 win-loss record in 2025, 1-0 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously at the Australian Open
Anna-Lena Friedsam
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 3-1 | 3-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 9-12 | 0-3 | 0-3 | 6-5 | 0-0 | 3-1 |
| 2023 | 31-27 | 8-9 | 10-8 | 13-8 | 0-2 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 30-27 | 7-9 | 10-9 | 12-6 | 1-2 | 0-1 |
| 2021 | 18-23 | 3-6 | 9-8 | 5-7 | 1-2 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 480, Friedsam got to the qualifications after beating Aliona Bolsova 6-4 6-1.
In the qualifications, Anna-Lena had a good straight sets win against Bolsova (6-4 6-1). During the match Friedsam scored 64 points vs Bolsova’s 47. Anna-Lena was quite aggressive to blast 24 winners.
About the serving games, Friedsam was unable to score even 1 ace for the entire match and she committed only 2 double faults. Anna-Lena Friedsam lost the serve twice and she saved 3 break points. Furthermore, Friedsam put 67% of her first serves in, winning 63% (24/38) of the points behind her 1st serve and 53% (10/19) on the 2nd serve. Friedsam broke Bolsova 5 times after converting 56% of her break points (5/9).
Friedsam has a compiled 3-1 win-loss record in 2025, 3-1 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously at the Australian Open
Previously, her best result was reaching the 4th round in 2016. See her history.
H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Gabriela Ruse | Friedsam |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 1 | 1 |
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 |
| Tot Games | 14 | 17 |
| Pts | 53-22 | 64-47 |
| Total Points | 75 | 111 |
| Winners | 14 | 24 |
| %Winners | 26% | 38% |
Both Gabriela Ruse and Friedsam played 1 match. Also both players started their run from the qualifications.Both players have not dropped a single set in this event so far. Talking about their workload, Gabriela Ruse and Friedsam have played the same amount of sets 2. However, Gabriela Ruse played 3 games less than Friedsam. Elena scored 14 winners (26% of the total points). On the other side, Anna-Lena recorded 24 winners (38%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Gabriela Ruse | Friedsam |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 0 | 0 |
| Avg per match | 0 | 0 |
| 1st in | 19/35 | 38/57 |
| %1st in | 54% | 67% |
| 1st pts | 14/19 | 24/38 |
| %1st pts | 74% | 63% |
| 2nd pts | 12/16 | 10/19 |
| %2nd pts | 75% | 53% |
Gabriela Ruse didn’t manage to fire a single ace to far. Friedsam also didn’t manage to fire a single ace to far. Gabriela Ruse won 74% points behind her first serve. She pretty effective on her second serve to win 75% of the points. On the other side, Friedsam won 63% of the points on her first serve. She had a solid display on her second serve to win 53% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Gabriela Ruse | Friedsam |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 6 | 5 |
| Converted | 6/8 | 5/9 |
| % Converted | 75% | 56% |
| Conceded | 1 | 5 |
| Saved | 0 | 3 |
| % Saved | 0% | 60% |
| Times Broken | 1 | 2 |
The Romanian broke her opponent 6 times with a 75% conversion rate. The Romanian lost her serve once and she saved 0% of the break points that she conceded. Friedsam broke her opponent 5 times with a 56% conversion rate. The German conceded her serve twice and she saved 60% of the break points that she conceded.
| Gabriela Ruse | |||
| Q1 Kung |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-1 6-1 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 14 | 14 | |
| pts | 53-22 | 53-22 | |
| Total points | 75 | 75 | |
| Winners | 14 | 14 | |
| %Winners | 26% | 26% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 0 | 0 | |
| Double Faults | 2 | 2 | |
| 1st in | 19/35 | 19/35 | |
| % 1st in | 54% | 54% | |
| 1st pts | 14/19 | 14/19 | |
| % 1st pts | 74% | 74% | |
| 2nd pts | 12/16 | 12/16 | |
| % 2nd pts | 75% | 75% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 6 | 6 | |
| Converted | 6/8 | 6/8 | |
| Converted % | 75% | 75% | |
| Conceded | 1 | 1 | |
| Saved | 0/1 | 0 | |
| Saved % | 0% | 0% | |
| Times Broken | 1 | 1 | |
| Friedsam | |||
| Q1 Bolsova |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-4 6-1 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 17 | 17 | |
| pts | 64-47 | 64-47 | |
| Total points | 111 | 111 | |
| Winners | 24 | 24 | |
| %Winners | 38% | 38% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 0 | 0 | |
| Double Faults | 2 | 2 | |
| 1st in | 38/57 | 38/57 | |
| % 1st in | 67% | 67% | |
| 1st pts | 24/38 | 24/38 | |
| % 1st pts | 63% | 63% | |
| 2nd pts | 10/19 | 10/19 | |
| % 2nd pts | 53% | 53% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 5 | 5 | |
| Converted | 5/9 | 5/9 | |
| Converted % | 56% | 56% | |
| Conceded | 5 | 5 | |
| Saved | 3/5 | 3 | |
| Saved % | 60% | 60% | |
| Times Broken | 2 | 2 | |
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