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Arantxa Rus vs Sarah Van EmstPrediction, Head-to-Head Results, and Stats

🇳🇱Arantxa Rus

#203 · 35 yrs · Left-Handed

1–0

1 meeting · sets 2–0

🇳🇱Sarah Van Emst

#529 · 21 yrs · Right-Handed

4w3Back after 4w offBeat 3 favorites

Arantxa Rus and Sarah Van Emst have met 1 time since 2026; Arantxa Rus leads 1–0. Across all meetings Rus has taken 2 sets to Emst's 0. Their most recent meeting: Arantxa Rus won at W75 The Hague (2026).

Spread & Straight-Sets Form

Completed best-of-3 matches · Last 12 months

Indicator	Rus	Van Emst
Indicator	Arantxa Rus		Sarah Van Emst
Wins in straight sets	67%	20/30	59%	13/22
Wins a set when losing	37%	11/30	53%	10/19
Goes to a deciding set	35%	21/60	46%	19/41
Covers −1.5 sets as favorite	46%	18/39	30%	8/27
Covers +1.5 sets as underdog	38%	6/16	77%	10/13
Tiebreak sets won	14%	2/14	70%	7/10
Wins after taking set 1	78%	25/32	68%	13/19
Wins 2-0 after taking set 1	63%	20/32	68%	13/19

Colored rows are higher-is-better: green above 50%, red below. Favorite/underdog set by book odds; cover rows count only matches with odds on record. Head-to-head: 1 of 1 completed meetings ended in straight sets (Rus 1, Van Emst 0).

Style Matchup

Playing styles and historical archetype record

Rus

🏹 Frontrunner

Fast startsAggressive openersMomentum-drivenStrong holds

Emst

🪃 Counterpuncher

Elite BP conversionStrong return gameDefensive consistencyRally tolerance

Matchup analysis

The 🏹 Frontrunner archetype wins about 55% vs 🪃 Counterpuncher across 1,501 matches in our dataset: a stylistic lean toward Arantxa Rus.

Frontrunner players often use fast starts and aggressive openers to pressure the counterpuncher's elite bp conversion.

Previous meetings

1 career meeting, newest first

Jul 8, 2026

W75 The Hague

C Clay · 1st Round

Rus

Prop Research

Hit rates on common betting markets · Last 90 days

Outcome	Rus	Emst
Outcome	Arantxa Rus		Sarah Van Emst
1 or more	62%	8/13	75%	6/8
3 or more	23%	3/13	0%	0/8
5 or more	0%	0/13	0%	0/8
10 or more	0%	0/13	0%	0/8
15 or more	0%	0/13	0%	0/8
20 or more	0%	0/13	0%	0/8

Player ROI

Hypothetical if you put 1u on each player to win every one of their matches · Last 90 days

Metric	Rus	Emst
W-L	5–8	4–4
Avg odds	2.06	1.90
ROI %	-37.5%	-13.0%
Units P/L	-4.87u	-1.04u

Small sample: ROI stabilizes with more matches; fewer than 10 in the window is noisy.

Travel

Last 30 days

Metric	Rus	Emst
Countries	2	1
Events	2	1
Matches	3	1
Distance	—	—
Route	ESP → ITA	KAZ

Host country from the tournament each match was played in, over the last 30 days. Route is the order of countries visited; consecutive stops in the same country are shown once. Distance is the great-circle total between host cities, shown only when every stop in the window is geocoded. A rough fatigue signal, not a headline stat.

Common opponents

Results vs. opponents both players faced · Last 12 months

Across 2 shared opponents, both Rus and Emst posted a 0% win rate.

Opponent	Rus	Emst
Britt Du Pree	L 64 46 67	L 26 16
Isis Louise Van Den Broek	L 26 36	L 62 46 26

Recent Form

Last five matches per player

Rus

LWLLWWLL

Britt Du Pree

W35 Vigo · 2nd Round

6³7

Aug 13

Anna Kubareva

W35 Vigo · 1st Round

Aug 12

Oceane Dodin

W75 Ourense · 1st Round

Aug 4

Dominika Salkova

W100 Gran Canaria-Maspalomas · Quarterfinals

Jul 31

Isabella Maria Serban

W100 Gran Canaria-Maspalomas · 2nd Round

Jul 30

Ane Mintegi Del Olmo

W100 Gran Canaria-Maspalomas · 1st Round

Jul 29

Elina Avanesyan

MSC Hamburg Ladies Open - Hamburg · 1st Round

Jul 21

Marina Bassols Ribera

Generali Open Ladies - Kitzbuhel · 2nd Round

Jul 16

Emst

LWWWLLWL

Jule Niemeier

W50 Knokke-Heist · Semifinals

Aug 1

Margaux Maquet

W50 Knokke-Heist · Quarterfinals

Jul 31

Anouck Vrancken Peeters

W50 Knokke-Heist · 2nd Round

Jul 30

Maria Martinez Vaquero

W50 Knokke-Heist · 1st Round

Jul 28

Arantxa Rus

W75 The Hague · 1st Round

Jul 8

Eva Marie Voracek

W35 Amstelveen · 2nd Round

6⁴7

Jul 1

Lavinia Tanasie

W35 Amstelveen · 1st Round

Jun 30

Camilla Zanolini

W35 Ystad · 1st Round

Jun 16

Win rate

Matches, sets and games won · Last 12 months · 41–60 matches

Metric	Rus	Emst
Matches won	50%	54%
Sets won	50%	53%
Games won	52%	52%

Record by tier

Head-to-head record by tournament tier

Stage	Rus	Emst
ITF W75	1	0

By surface

Head-to-head record per surface

Surface	Rus	Emst
Clay	1	0

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Arantxa Rus vs Sarah Van Emst FAQ

Arantxa Rus leads the head-to-head 1–0 over 1 meetings.