Emma Navarro and Elena Gabriela Ruse will clash against each other in the 2nd round of the China Open for the 2nd time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Saturday at 11:00 am on BRAD DREWETT. In this post, we analyze their head to head performance and prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Emma Navarro who should win in 2 sets.
Emma Navarro -> 1.38
Elena Gabriela Ruse -> 3.04
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Prediction and head to head Emma Navarro vs. Elena Gabriela Ruse
This will be the 2nd time that Emma Navarro and Elena Gabriela Ruse face off. The head to head is 1-0 for Navarro (see full H2H stats), but they have never competed against each other on hard.
The last time that they competed against each other, Navarro won 6-0 6-2 in the semifinal in the Paris back in 2024.
Emma Navarro
29 - 23win/loss
15
8
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 32-25 | 17-14 | 6-6 | 2-1 | 7-4 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 54-24 | 33-14 | 14-7 | 0-0 | 7-3 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 64-24 | 17-9 | 37-11 | 3-1 | 7-3 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 31-18 | 8-8 | 23-10 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 19-13 | 6-6 | 13-7 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 17, Navarro will start her run in Beijing after she played her last match in Billie Jean King Cup, Finals where she lost 6-4 6-4 to Cocciaretto in the Rubber 1 on the 21st of September.
Navarro has a compiled 29-23 win-loss record in 2025, 14-12 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Her best result of the year was winning the title in Merida where she beat Emiliana Arango in the final 6-0 6-0.
Talking about her overall career, The American has an overall 232-134 record. She has a positive 85-62 record on hard.
Previously in Beijing
Previously, her best result was reaching the 2nd round in 2024. See her history.
Elena Gabriela Ruse
24 - 16win/loss
101
51
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 26-19 | 12-11 | 7-4 | 1-2 | 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. 98, the Romanian reached the 2nd round after beating Rebecca Sramkova 6-2 6-2.
In the 1st round, Elena had a good straight sets win against Sramkova (6-2 6-2). During the match Gabriela Ruse scored 61 points vs Sramkova’s 44. Gabriela Ruse was very aggressive to blast 28 winners.
Talking about serving, Gabriela Ruse managed to score 2 aces and she committed only 5 double faults. Elena Gabriela Ruse conceded no breaks for the entire match to save 5 break points. Furthermore, Gabriela Ruse put 67% of her first serves in, winning 78% (28/36) of the points behind her 1st serve and 50% (9/18) on the 2nd serve. Elena broke Sramkova 4 times after converting 57% of her break points (4/7).
Gabriela Ruse’s best result of the season was getting to the final in Hertogenbosch.
Gabriela Ruse has an overall 24-16 win-loss record in 2025, 11-9 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in Beijing
Previously, her best result was reaching the 1st round in 2024. See her history.
Tennis Scores in Beijing
- Paula BadosaBadosa – Antonia RuzicRuzic (6-3 7-62) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Sofia KeninKenin – Polina KudermetovaKudermetova (6-4 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Paula BadosaBadosa – Antonia RuzicRuzic (6-3 7-6(2)) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Eva LysLys – Iva JovicJovic (6-3 4-6 7-5) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Leylah Annie FernandezAnnie Fernandez – Maria SakkariSakkari (6-2 6-0) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Elena RybakinaRybakina – Caty McNallyMcNally (7-5 4-6 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Cori GauffGauff – Kamilla RakhimovaRakhimova (6-4 6-0) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Jasmine PaoliniPaolini – Anastasija SevastovaSevastova (6-1 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Veronika KudermetovaKudermetova – Anna BondarBondar (7-5 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Marie BouzkovaBouzkova – Magda LinetteLinette (7-5 7-5) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Danilo PetrovicPetrovic – Duckhee LeeLee (6-2 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Renzo OlivoOlivo – Scott GriekspoorGriekspoor (6-2 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Alexandre MullerMuller – Elliot BenchetritBenchetrit (6-3 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Tommy RobredoRobredo – Alex MolcanMolcan (6-4 6-1) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Nino SerdarusicSerdarusic – Tristan LamasineLamasine (6-2 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Frederico Ferreira SilvaFerreira Silva – Filip PeliwoPeliwo (6-2 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Sebastian FanselowFanselow – Paolo LorenziLorenzi (6-4 7-5) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Marcelo ArevaloArevalo – Maverick BanesBanes (6-1 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Aslan KaratsevKaratsev – Gian Marco MoroniMarco Moroni (7-5 6-1) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Riccardo BalzeraniBalzerani – Dimitar KuzmanovKuzmanov (2-6 6-2 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Pedro SousaSousa – Julian OcleppoOcleppo (6-3 7-5) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Hugo DellienDellien – Riccardo BonadioBonadio (6-4 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Sumit NagalNagal – Laurynas GrigelisGrigelis (6-2 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Martin CuevasCuevas – Mario Vilella MartinezVilella Martinez (6-3 2-6 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Jose Hernandez-FernandezHernandez-Fernandez – Francesco FortiForti (6-4 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Lorenzo MusettiMusetti – Taro DanielDaniel (6-1 6-0) – Stats, scores, rankings
Upcoming matches in the draw
- Iga SwiatekSwiatek – Yue YuanYuan (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Maria Camila Osorio SerranoCamila Osorio Serrano – Anna KalinskayaKalinskaya (1-1) – H2H and prediction
- Ludmilla SamsonovaSamsonova – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Elena Gabriela RuseGabriela Ruse – Emma NavarroNavarro (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Naomi OsakaOsaka – Aliaksandra SasnovichSasnovich (4-0) – H2H and prediction
- Emma RaducanuRaducanu – Cristina BucsaBucsa (1-1) – H2H and prediction
- Ajla TomljanovicTomljanovic – Jessica PegulaPegula (1-3) – H2H and prediction
- Jessica Bouzas ManeiroBouzas Maneiro – Dayana YastremskaYastremska (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Clara TausonTauson – Zeynep SonmezSonmez (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Anastasia PotapovaPotapova – (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Emiliana ArangoArango – Qinwen ZhengZheng (0-2) – H2H and prediction
- Jasmine PaoliniPaolini – Anastasija SevastovaSevastova (3-0) – H2H and prediction
- Karolina MuchovaMuchova – Sorana CirsteaCirstea (6-1) – H2H and prediction
- Xin Yu WangYu Wang – Shuai ZhangZhang (3-0) – H2H and prediction
- Katie BoulterBoulter – Amanda AnisimovaAnisimova (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Elise MertensMertens – Mccartney KesslerKessler (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Barbora KrejcikovaKrejcikova – Ekaterina AlexandrovaAlexandrova (2-3) – H2H and prediction
- Belinda BencicBencic – Katie VolynetsVolynets (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Priscilla HonHon – Jelena OstapenkoOstapenko (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Veronika KudermetovaKudermetova – Marie BouzkovaBouzkova (4-3) – H2H and prediction
- Elena RybakinaRybakina – Eva LysLys (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Leylah Annie FernandezAnnie Fernandez – Cori GauffGauff (0-2) – H2H and prediction