Irina-Camelia Begu and Elena Gabriela Ruse will square off in the 1^st round of the Australian Open for the 1^st time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Tuesday at 2:00 pm on Court 12. Here the head to head stats and relative prediction.

Prediction, odds and live streaming

The pick for Tennis Tonic is Irina-Camelia Begu who should win in 3 sets.

As per the initial odds, Irina-Camelia Begu is the pick to win this match.
Irina-Camelia Begu -> 1.65
Elena Gabriela Ruse -> 2.24

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Prediction and head to head Irina-Camelia Begu vs. Elena Gabriela Ruse

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

Irina-Camelia Begu

Ranked no. 83, the Romanian will start her run at the Australian Open after she played her last match in Adelaide where she lost 6-3 6-1 to Annie in the qualifications on the 5^th of January.

Begu has an aggregate 1-1 win-loss record in 2025, 1-1 on hard (See FULL STATS).

Talking about her overall career, Irina-Camelia has an overall 442-320 record. She has a positive 142-141 record on hard.

Previously at the Australian Open

Previously, her best result was reaching the 4^th round in 2015. See her history.

Elena Gabriela Ruse

Ranked no. 125, Elena reached the 1^st round after defeating Leonie Kung 6-1 6-1, Anna-Lena Friedsam 3-6 6-3 6-4 and Emina Bektas 6-2 7-5.

In the qualifications, The Romanian had a good straight sets win against Bektas (6-2 7-5). During the match Gabriela Ruse scored 80 points vs Bektas’s 67. Gabriela Ruse was very aggressive to blast 31 winners.

Talking about serving, Gabriela Ruse fired 7 aces and she committed only 4 double faults. Elena Gabriela Ruse was very efficient on serve to win 76% (31/41) of her 1st serve and 58% (18/31) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. The Romanian broke Bektas 3 times after converting 33% of her break points (3/9).

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 56% of the points she played.

Elena has a composed 3-0 win-loss record in 2025, 3-0 on hard (See FULL STATS).

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