Polina Kudermetova and Elena Gabriela Ruse will fight against each other in the 1^st round of the Internazionali BNL d’Italia for the 2^nd time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Wednesday at 1:30 pm on COURT 1. Here the head to head stats and relative prediction.

Prediction, odds and live streaming

The pick for Tennis Tonic is Elena Gabriela Ruse who should win in 2 sets.

As per the initial odds, Elena Gabriela Ruse is the pick to win this match.
Elena Gabriela Ruse -> 1.39
Polina Kudermetova -> 2.99

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Prediction and head to head Polina Kudermetova vs. Elena Gabriela Ruse

This will be the 2^nd time that Polina Kudermetova and Elena Gabriela Ruse play each other. The head to head is 1-0 for Gabriela Ruse (see full H2H stats), but they have never played each other on clay.

The last time that they locked horns, Gabriela Ruse won 6-1 6-7(5) 6-2 in the 1^st round in Miami back in March 2025.

Highlights Elena Gabriela Ruse vs Polina Kudermetova – Miami 18-March-2025

Polina Kudermetova

Ranked no. 57, the Russian will start her run in Rome after she played her last match in Madrid where she lost 6-2 6-2 to Kudermetova in the 1^st round on the 23^rd of April.

Kudermetova has a composed 14-10 win-loss record in 2025, 1-2 on clay (See FULL STATS).

Polina’s best result of the year was reaching the final in Brisbane.

Talking about her overall career, Polina has an overall 194-111 record. She has a positive 61-42 record on clay.

Previously in Rome

Previously, her best result was reaching the qualifications in 2023. See her history.

Elena Gabriela Ruse

Ranked no. 88, Gabriela Ruse got to the 1^st round after defeating Solana Sierra 6-2 7-5 and Laura Siegemund 7-5 6-2.

In the qualifications, The Romanian had a good straight sets win against Siegemund (7-5 6-2). During the match Gabriela Ruse scored 74 points vs Siegemund’s 61. Elena was very aggressive to blast 29 winners.

Talking about serving, Gabriela Ruse recorded 2 aces and she committed only 3 double faults. Elena Gabriela Ruse lost the serve 3 times and she saved 4 break points. Furthermore, Gabriela Ruse put 62% of her first serves in, winning 62% (29/47) of the points behind her 1st serve and 45% (13/29) on the 2nd serve. Elena broke Siegemund 6 times after converting 67% of her break points (6/9).

Overall Performance in this tournament

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

The Romanian’s best result of the current season was getting to the semifinal in Rouen.

The Romanian has an overall 15-7 win-loss record in 2025, 5-2 on clay (See FULL STATS).

Tennis Scores in Rome

• Jaqueline CristianCristian – Alycia ParksParks (6-2 6-0) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Peyton StearnsStearns – Nuria BrancaccioBrancaccio (6-3 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Rebecca SramkovaSramkova – Mccartney KesslerKessler (6-3 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Suzan LamensLamens – Renata ZarazuaZarazua (6-1 1-6 6-1) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Jessica Bouzas ManeiroBouzas Maneiro – Ann Li
  Li (6-3 5-7 7-6³) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Lulu SunSun – Georgia PedonePedone (3-6 6-1 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Marie BouzkovaBouzkova – Mayar SherifSherif (6-2 7-5) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Lucia BronzettiBronzetti – Anastasija SevastovaSevastova (6-3 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Sonay KartalKartal – Kimberly BirrellBirrell (4-6 6-3 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Petra KvitovaKvitova – Irina-Camelia BeguBegu (7-5 6-1) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Tadeas ParoulekParoulek – Zdenek DerkasDerkas (6-1 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Dan AddedAdded – Michal KonecnyKonecny (6-4 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Julian LenzLenz – Krystof ZapskyZapsky (6-2 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Evan FurnessFurness – Sekou BangouraBangoura (7-5 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Dominik RecekRecek – Tobias SimonSimon (7-5 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Ondrej StylerStyler – Tomas JirousekJirousek (6-3 3-6 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Petr NouzaNouza – Marek GengelGengel (1-6 7-5 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Vaclav SafranekSafranek – Antonin BolardtBolardt (6-1 3-2 ret.) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Patrik RiklRikl – Alex SolankiSolanki (6-1 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Jacob GrillsGrills – Jiri BarnatBarnat (6-3 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Colin SinclairSinclair – Jiri LeheckaLehecka (6-3 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Ondrej KrstevKrstev – Daniel Dutra Da SilvaDutra Da Silva (6-4 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Lucas GerchGerch – Jan SilhavySilhavy (6-1 6-0) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Maxime ChazalChazal – Tomas MachacMachac (6-1 6-1) – Stats, scores, rankings

Upcoming matches in the draw

• Dayana YastremskaYastremska – Anastasia PotapovaPotapova (2-1) – H2H and prediction
• Anastasia PavlyuchenkovaPavlyuchenkova – Katie BoulterBoulter (1-0) – H2H and prediction
• Moyuka UchijimaUchijima – Eva LysLys (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Bianca Vanessa AndreescuVanessa Andreescu – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Victoria AzarenkaAzarenka – Maria Camila Osorio SerranoCamila Osorio Serrano (1-0) – H2H and prediction
• Katerina SiniakovaSiniakova – Olga DanilovicDanilovic (0-1) – H2H and prediction
• Maria SakkariSakkari – Belinda BencicBencic (1-1) – H2H and prediction
• Lucrezia StefaniniStefanini – Veronika KudermetovaKudermetova (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Marketa VondrousovaVondrousova – Xin Yu WangYu Wang (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Katie VolynetsVolynets – Arantxa RusRus (2-0) – H2H and prediction
• Emiliana ArangoArango – Viktoriya TomovaTomova (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Caroline DolehideDolehide – Sorana CirsteaCirstea (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Varvara GrachevaGracheva – Ajla TomljanovicTomljanovic (4-0) – H2H and prediction
• Sara ErraniErrani – Naomi OsakaOsaka (0-2) – H2H and prediction
• Hailey BaptisteBaptiste – Anna BlinkovaBlinkova (1-0) – H2H and prediction
• Elena Gabriela RuseGabriela Ruse – (1-0) – H2H and prediction
• Elisabetta CocciarettoCocciaretto – Elina AvanesyanAvanesyan (2-1) – H2H and prediction
• Jasmine PaoliniPaolini – Lulu SunSun (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Petra KvitovaKvitova – Ons JabeurJabeur (4-2) – H2H and prediction
• Jelena OstapenkoOstapenko – Rebecca SramkovaSramkova (2-1) – H2H and prediction
• Lucia BronzettiBronzetti – Karolina MuchovaMuchova (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Jaqueline CristianCristian – Yulia PutintsevaPutintseva (0-1) – H2H and prediction
• Elise MertensMertens – Suzan LamensLamens (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Peyton StearnsStearns – Anna KalinskayaKalinskaya (0-1) – H2H and prediction
• Beatriz Haddad MaiaHaddad Maia – Marie BouzkovaBouzkova (4-0) – H2H and prediction
• Elina SvitolinaSvitolina – Jessica Bouzas ManeiroBouzas Maneiro (2-0) – H2H and prediction