Elena Gabriela Ruse will be hoping to get back to winning on clay, where she holds an 141-78 record as a
professional. She also has her first WTA Tour title (last year in Hamburg). But it's been a difficult year
for the Romanian who is 13-14 in the past yearwhich includes a 2-5 record on clay. She also has
lost six of her last seven matches. However, her recent performance doesn't reveal the full story.
In her four previous matches, all played on grass, she's beat Qiang Wang, snatched an unbeaten set against
grass court player Shuai Zhang and pushed Coco Gauff to 7-5 in the third. Ruse has a powerful power at the
center and has a the right amount of aggression on both sides. She's patient and knows when is the appropriate
moment to release the trigger. Kamilla Rakhimova is having an unlucky season since making the Bogota
semi-finals. Since the clay court run, Rakhimova has gone 5-10 with a clay-court record of 2-8. In every single
one of her clay defeats since Bogota the last time, she's not won the set. Rakhimova has a record of 47-31 on clay throughout her career