Elena Gabriela Ruse and Aoi Ito will face off in the 1st round of the Cincinnati Open for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Thursday at 4:00 pm on COURT 10. 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 3 sets.
As per the initial odds, Elena Gabriela Ruse is the pick to win this match.
Elena Gabriela Ruse -> 1.57
Aoi Ito -> 2.4
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Prediction and head to head Elena Gabriela Ruse vs. Aoi Ito
There is no head to head record between Elena Gabriela Ruse and Aoi Ito since this will be the first time that they will fight against each other in the main tour.
Elena Gabriela Ruse
23 - 14win/loss
83
51
WWWWWLWLWL | Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 31-19 | 12-11 | 7-4 | 6-2 | 6-2 | 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. 58, Elena will start her run in Cincinnati after she played her last match in Montreal where she lost 6-2 6-4 to Raducanu in the 1st round on the 28th of July.
The Romanian has an overall 23-13 win-loss record in 2025, 10-6 on hard (See FULL STATS).
The Romanian’s best result of the season was getting to the final in Hertogenbosch.
Talking about her overall career, Gabriela Ruse has an overall 324-198 record. She has a positive 85-52 record on hard.
Previously in Cincinnati
Previously, her best result was reaching the qualifications in 2021. See her history.
Aoi Ito
25 - 19win/loss
136
82
LWWLWWWWLW | Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 28-21 | 28-15 | 0-4 | 0-1 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 67-25 | 55-22 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 12-3 |
| 2023 | 50-29 | 44-22 | 0-0 | 0-1 | 3-2 | 3-4 |
| 2022 | 26-11 | 17-6 | 0-0 | 0-2 | 5-1 | 4-2 |
| 2021 | 7-3 | 0-0 | 7-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 110, the Japanese reached the 1st round after defeating Aleksandra Krunic 4-6 6-4 6-2 and Dalma Galfi 6-3 6-4.
In the qualifications, The Japanese had a good straight sets win against Galfi (6-3 6-4). During the match Ito scored 68 points vs Galfi’s 53. Ito was exceptionally aggressive to blast 29 winners.
Talking about serving, Ito was unable to score even 1 ace for the entire match and she committed only 2 double faults. Aoi Ito lost the serve twice and she saved 3 break points. Furthermore, Ito put 74% of her first serves in, winning 67% (29/43) of the points behind her 1st serve and 53% (8/15) on the 2nd serve. Aoi broke Galfi 4 times after converting 27% of her break points (4/15).
Overall Performance in this tournament
The Japanese started her run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, she has conceded 1 set in the tournament to win 53% of the points she played.
Her best result of the year was winning the title the Canberra where she beat Sijia Wei in the final 6-4 6-3.
Ito has a composed 24-19 win-loss record in 2025, 24-13 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Head 2 Head
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