After a strong performance at the Citi DC Open,\u00a0Emma Raducanu will look to continue her form at the Canadian Open.<\/p>\n
In Washington, Raducanu<\/a>\u00a0delivered strong displays to defeat Marta Kostyuk 7-6(4), 6-4, Naomi Osaka 6-4, 6-2, and Maria Sakkari 6-4, 7-5.<\/p>\n A 4-6, 3-6 loss to Anna Kalinskaya ended Raducanu\u2019s run at the WTA 500 event at the semi-final stage.<\/p>\n The world No 46 will begin her campaign at the WTA 1000 event in Montreal with a first round clash against\u00a0Elena-Gabriela Ruse<\/a>.<\/p>\n Elena-Gabriela Ruse was born in\u00a0Bucharest, Romania on\u00a0November 6, 1997. Her father was a footballer, while her mother is a former gymnast.\u00a0She has named her compatriot Simona Halep, a two-time major champion and former world No 1, as her idol.<\/p>\n In her maiden WTA Tour final, Ruse defeated Andrea Petkovic at the WTA 250 clay-court event in Hamburg in 2021 to\u00a0claim her only WTA singles title to date.<\/p>\n Ruse has since been a runner-up at three WTA 250 events: to Danielle Collins at the 2021 Palermo Open (clay), to Tamara Korpatsch at the 2023 Transylvania Open (indoor hard), and to Elise Mertens at the 2025 Libema Open (grass).<\/p>\n Emma Raducanu dealt honest verdict on her US Open chances after Citi DC Open run<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n Emma Raducanu prize money and points earned for singles and doubles campaign in Washington DC<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n The Romanian\u2019s best Grand Slam result is reaching the third round at the 2024 US Open, with her overall record at majors 6-12.<\/p>\n Ruse\u2019s career win-loss record at WTA Tour level is 49-62 (12-10 in 2025), while she reached a career-high ranking of 51st in May 2022.<\/p>\n The 27-year-old, who is currently ranked 56th, has lost her last three matches since her semi-final win at the Libema Open final in June.<\/p>\n Raducanu, whose father Ion is Romanian, has been good friends with Ruse since 2021.<\/p>\n \u201cWe started to be friends, she\u2019s a nice person,\u201d Ruse told the Guardian in 2021. \u201cI enjoy the time with her so much. She is speaking really good Romanian but she\u2019s so shy to do it.\u201d<\/p>\n After training and going for dinner together during the 2021\u00a0Transylvania Open in the Romanian city of Cluj-Napoca, Raducanu and Ruse played an exhibition match at London\u2019s\u00a0Royal Albert Hall later that year.<\/p>\n In the pair\u2019s only previous meeting, Raducanu defeated Ruse 6-3, 4-6, 7-5 in the opening round of the 2024 Auckland Open.<\/p>\n It was Raducanu\u2019s first match in eight months after she had undergone three surgeries \u2014 on both wrists and her left ankle \u2014 in 2023.<\/p>\n The winner of their match in Montreal will face 32nd seed Peyton Stearns in the second round.<\/p>\n READ NEXT:\u00a0Emma Raducanu\u2019s worrying confession before retiring from Washington doubles with Elena Rybakina<\/a> The post Who is\u00a0Emma Raducanu\u2019s first Canadian Open opponent?\u00a0Elena-Gabriela Ruse is friends with the Brit<\/a> appeared first on Tennis365<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" After a strong performance at the Citi DC Open,\u00a0Emma Raducanu will look to continue her form at the Canadian Open. In Washington, Raducanu\u00a0delivered strong displays to defeat Marta Kostyuk 7-6(4), 6-4, Naomi Osaka 6-4, 6-2, and Maria Sakkari 6-4, 7-5. A 4-6, 3-6 loss to Anna Kalinskaya ended Raducanu\u2019s run at the WTA 500 event […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-787","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/787","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=787"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/787\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=787"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=787"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Elena-Gabriela Ruse<\/h2>\n
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