Gabriela Ruse missed the qualification on the main panel from Osaka »Romania will be represented by 2 players
Article by David Istrate – published Monday, October 13, 2025, 09:33 / Updated Monday, October 13, 2025 09:38
Gabriela Ruse (27 years old, 99 WTA) was eliminated in the second round of qualifications for the WTA tournament in Osaka. The Romanian was defeated with 6-7 (2), 2-6 by French Varvara Gracheva (25 years, 83 WTA).
On Sunday, October 12, Gabriela Ruse had succeeded in returning after a first set lost in the tiebreak in front of the Czech Dominika Salkova (21 years, 146 WTA) and to adjudicate their victory, score 6-7 (3), 6-0, 6-1, qualifying in the second preliminary round.
After a first set lost in the tiebreak, Gabriela Ruse did not find solutions and was removed
On Monday, October 13, the first set of confrontation with Varvara Gracheva from Osaka sowed very hard with the inaugural sequence of the match with Salkova. Ruse and Gracheva offered a very balanced duel and, after an hour of play, the Frenchman awarded his set first: 7-6 (2).
This time, the Romanian did not succeed in returning and playing his game and the athlete who, in the first qualifying round, had passed 6-3, 7-5 by the Japanese Himeno Sakatsume (24 years, 197 WTA) Obtained Victoria: 7-6 (2), 6-2.
Therefore, Gracheva obtained access on the main panel of the WTA tournament in Osaka. Romania will be represented in Japan by Jaqueline Cristian (27 years old, 47 WTA)which will take place in the inaugural round with a player from qualifications, and by Sorana Cîrstea (35 years, 51 WTA)who plays against the Japanese Moyuka Uchijima (24 years, 81 WTA).
After reaching in the final of the S'Hertogenbosch tournament in the middle of June, Ruse lost 8 of the next 10 matchesthe best performance being the presence in the second round in Beijing.
After a success against Rebecca Sramkova (28 years, 65 WTA), score 6-2, 6-2, the 27-year-old athlete was defeated by Emma Navarro (24 years, 15 WTA), score 3-6, 6-7 (0).
