Elena Gabriela Ruse

Elena Gabriela Ruse (born 6 November 1997 in Bucharest) is a Romanian tennis player.
Ruse has a career high WTA singles ranking of 370 and doubles ranking of 374, both achieved on 11 April 2016. Ruse had a career high ITF juniors ranking of 7 achieved on 18 May 2015. She made the semifinals of the 2014 Wimbledon girls' singles event.
Ruse made her WTA main draw debut at the 2015 BRD Bucharest Open in the doubles event partnering Jaqueline Cristian.

Ruse won two junior singles titles and eight junior doubles titles. The biggest title of her junior career was the Grade 1 Canadian Open Junior Championships, where she beat Katie Swan in the final. Ruse also reached the semifinals of Junior Wimbledon in 2014 and the final of Eddie Herr.

When Ruse finished her junior career, she still did not have a professional ranking. In July 2015, she received a wildcard into the qualifying draw of the 2015 BRD Bucharest Open and beat Alexandra Cadantu in the first round. She lost her next match to Maria Sakkari. She reached semifinals at $10,000 ITF events in Bucharest and Antalya and finished 2015 with a year-end ranking of 642 in singles and 575 in doubles.

In November 2015, Ruse won her first professional singles title at a $10,000 event in Antalya, beating Ekaterine Gorgodze in the final. In January 2016, Ruse qualified for the $25,000 ITF event in Sunrise, beating former top-30 player Laura Robson along the way, and reached the quarterfinals. After that event, she won 10 singles matches and 8 doubles matches in a row and won two singles and two doubles titles at $10,000 events in Antalya. In March, Ruse reached two straight finals at $10,000 events in Hammamet, Tunisia. She lost the first one to Claudia Giovine in straight sets, snapping her 14-match winning streak in singles, and in the second one she beat Julia Grabher. At the end of April, Ruse qualified for a $25,000 event in Chiasso, Switzerland and reached the semifinals, where she lost to fellow qualifier Amanda Carreras.

After taking time off for her high school graduation, Ruse returned to competition in June at a $50,000 ITF event in Essen, Germany. As the last direct acceptance, Ruse shocked top seed Aliaksandra Sasnovich in three sets for her first win over a top-100 player. Due to rain delays in Essen, Ruse had to play her second round match the same day and lost in straight sets to Spanish qualifier Olga Saez Larra. She is currently ranked 327 in singles and 345 in doubles.

Singles (4–2)

Result	Date	Category	Tournament	Surface	Opponent	Score
Winner	13 December 2015	10,000	Antalya, Turkey	Clay	Ekaterine Gorgodze	1–6, 7–6(7–3), 6–2
Winner	21 February 2016	10,000	Antalya, Turkey	Clay	Josephine Boualem	7–6(7–3), 0–6, 6–1
Winner	28 February 2016	10,000	Antalya, Turkey	Clay	Nina Potočnik	7–5, 4–6, 6–2
Runner–up	27 March 2016	10,000	Hammamet, Tunisia	Clay	Claudia Giovine	4–6, 0–6
Winner	3 April 2016	10,000	Hammamet, Tunisia	Clay	Julia Grabher	6–4, 6–1
Runner–up	23 October 2016	50,000	Joué-lès-Tours, France	Hard (i)	Maryna Zanevska	3–6, 3–6

Doubles (4–3)

Result	Date	Category	Tournament	Surface	Partner	Opponents	Score
Winner	14 August 2015	10,000	Arad, Romania	Clay	Jaqueline Cristian	Andreea Ghițescu Katarína Strešnáková	6–3, 6–4
Runner–up	22 August 2015	10,000	Bucharest, Romania	Clay	Oana Georgeta Simion	Diana Buzean Cristina Dinu	0–6, 2–6
Runner–up	12 December 2015	10,000	Antalya, Turkey	Clay	Julie Noe	Alona Fomina Christina Shakovets	6–7(4–7), 2–6
Winner	20 February 2016	10,000	Antalya, Turkey	Clay	Petia Arshinkova	Eleni Daniilidou Arina Folts	7–6(7–0), 6–4
Winner	27 February 2016	10,000	Antalya, Turkey	Clay	Dasha Ivanova	Adrijana Lekaj Viktoriya Tomova	7–6(7–1), 6–1
Winner	3 April 2016	10,000	Hammamet. Tunisia	Clay	Katharina Hobgarski	Ola Abou Zekry Snehadevi Reddy	6–4, 6–4
Runner–up	6 June 2016	50,000	Essen, Germany	Clay	Elyne Boeykens	Laura Pous Tió Anne Schäfer	2–6, 3–6