Hailey Baptiste and Elena Gabriela Ruse will face off in the 1^st round of the Tennis in the Land for the 2^nd time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Monday at 11:00 am on COURT 1. In this post, we analyze their head to head performance and prediction.

Prediction, odds and live streaming

The pick for Tennis Tonic is Hailey Baptiste who should win in 3 sets.

As per the initial odds, Hailey Baptiste is the pick to win this match.
Hailey Baptiste -> 1.9
Elena Gabriela Ruse -> 1.9

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Prediction and head to head Hailey Baptiste vs. Elena Gabriela Ruse

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

The last time that they fought against each other, Baptiste won 6-3 6-0 in the 1^st round in Charleston back in 2022.

Hailey Baptiste

Ranked no. 51, Hailey will start her run in Cleveland after she played her last match in Cincinnati where she lost 6-1 4-6 6-1 to Ngounoue in the 1^st round on the 7^th of August.

The American has an overall 25-19 win-loss record in 2025, 8-9 on hard (See FULL STATS).

Talking about her overall career, Baptiste has an overall 222-153 record. She has a positive 111-82 record on hard.

Previously in Cleveland

Hailey has never competed in this tournament before.

Elena Gabriela Ruse

Ranked no. 66, Gabriela Ruse will start her run in Cleveland after she played her last match in Cincinnati where she lost 6-2 7-6(6) to Ito in the 1^st round on the 7^th of August.

Gabriela Ruse has a compiled 23-14 win-loss record in 2025, 10-7 on hard (See FULL STATS).

The Romanian’s best result of the year was getting to the final in Hertogenbosch.

In terms of her career, The Romanian has an overall 324-199 record. She has a positive 85-53 record on hard.

Tennis Scores in Cleveland

• Anastasia ZakharovaZakharova – Kimberly BirrellBirrell (5-7 6-4 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Iva JovicJovic – Anastasia PotapovaPotapova (7-5 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Alexander SarkissianSarkissian – Vincent MillotMillot (6-2 4-1 ret.) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Alejandro GonzalezGonzalez – Nicolas MejiaMejia (6-2 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Francisco CerundoloCerundolo – Facundo MenaMena (6-4 6-1) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Matias Franco DescotteFranco Descotte – Ryan ShaneShane (7-6⁴ 7-6³) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Raymond SarmientoSarmiento – Nicolas AlvarezAlvarez (7-6⁶ 7-6⁵) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Carlos Gomez-HerreraGomez-Herrera – Illya MarchenkoMarchenko (6-1 7-6⁴) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Dennis NovikovNovikov – Michael RedlickiRedlicki (6-4 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
• John McnallyMcnally – Orlando LuzLuz (7-5 6-7⁴ 7-5) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Zsombor PirosPiros – Makoto OchiOchi (6-4 7-5) – Stats, scores, rankings
• James Kent TrotterKent Trotter – Roy SmithSmith (7-6³ 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Ji Sung NamSung Nam – Cannon KingsleyKingsley (7-5 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Alexis GalarneauGalarneau – Justin BoulaisBoulais (6-7⁴ 6-4 6-0) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Evan SongSong – Jared HiltzikHiltzik (6-3 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Thiago Seyboth WildSeyboth Wild – Maxime CressyCressy (0-6 6-3 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Daniel NguyenNguyen – Gijs BrouwerBrouwer (6-4 6-7⁵ 7-5) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Zhizhen ZhangZhang – Harri HeliovaaraHeliovaara (6-3 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings

Upcoming matches in the draw

• Ludmilla SamsonovaSamsonova – Caroline DolehideDolehide (1-0) – H2H and prediction
• Peyton StearnsStearns – Yafan WangWang (2-0) – H2H and prediction
• Sorana CirsteaCirstea – Moyuka UchijimaUchijima (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Jil TeichmannTeichmann – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Elena Gabriela RuseGabriela Ruse – Hailey BaptisteBaptiste (0-1) – H2H and prediction
• Lin ZhuZhu – Elsa JacquemotJacquemot (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Yulia StarodubtsewaStarodubtsewa – Ann LiLi (1-1) – H2H and prediction
• Katie BoulterBoulter – Yue YuanYuan (2-0) – H2H and prediction
• Lucia BronzettiBronzetti – Viktorija GolubicGolubic (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Suzan LamensLamens – Xin Yu WangYu Wang (0-0) – H2H and prediction