Casper Ruud topples Pablo Carreno-Busta 7-6(4) 5-7 7-5 in the 3rd round in Carlo Rolex Masters on Thursday. Ruud will play against Fabio Fognini in the quarter. The battle lasted 2 hours and 52 minutes. This will be his most significant achievement in this event. In the past, the best he could do in the past was reaching the 1st round in 2017. Here you can see his history at this event.
Casper added to his prize money € 17,500 after conquering this match. He has won already € 46,500 after this win. If he wins the next match, the Norwegian will add € 38,500 to his earnings to get in total € 85,000 in total.
Stats: aces, double faults, breaks, winners
At the end of the match, Ruud scored 117 points vs. the Spaniard’s 111.
Ruud
Casper served exceptionally well to win 77% of the points (54/70) behind his first serve, and he won 50% points (18/36) on his second serve. Ruud won this match even if he wasn’t that great in converting his break points since he converted only 27% (3/11) of the procured opportunities.
Carreno-Busta
On the other side, the Spaniard was pretty good at converting 60% of the break points that he conquered points (3/5). Nevertheless, that was not enough to win the match.
After this match, the head to head between Ruud and Carreno-Busta is 2-1 for Casper.
Draw and next match H2H: Casper Ruud vs. Fabio Fognini – stats
Ruud will square off with Fognini in the quarter.
This will be the 3rd time that Casper Ruud and Fabio Fognini play each other. The head to head is 2-0 for Ruud (see full H2H stats), 1-0 on clay.
Live score progression and stats
Ruud conquered a leading position at the beginning of the set after breaking Fognini in the 2nd game (2-0) before consolidating his break and lead 3-0. Nevertheless, that was not enough for the Norwegian to win the set as Carreno-Busta found the way to break back in the 9th (4-5) game. Ruud maintained his focus before winning the set at the breaker at 4.
Tiebreak
Casper won 4 minibreaks in the 6th (3-3), 7th (4-3), 9th (6-3) and 11th (7-4) point. On the other side, Carreno-Busta won a minibreak in the 5th (3-2) point.
This was the tiebreak sequence: 1-0, 1-1, 1-2, 2-2, 2-3, 3-3, 4-3, 5-3, 6-3, 6-4, 7-4
Ruud converted 50% of his break points (1/2). He had 2 break points opportunities in the 2nd game (1-0 15-40 and 30-40). On the other side, Carreno-Busta was clinical in converting the only break point that he conquered in the 9th game (3-5 0-40).
They contested 73 points. The set was a huge battle since finally Casper won just 3 more points than Carreno-Busta (38-35). Ruud surrendered 11 points on serve (23-11). Regarding the other side of the net, the Spaniard conceded 15 points on serve (24-15).
Both players managed to hold their service games for the entire set. The only difference was just 1 break that Pablo conquered in the 12th game (7-5).
The Spaniard wasn’t able to convert 1 break point in the 12th game (6-5 30-40). On the other side, Ruud was perfect in converting all his break points in the 7th game (3-3 0-40, 15-40 and 30-40).
They contested 70 points. The Spaniard was the one to win the set after conquering 4 more points than Ruud (37-33). The Spaniard lost 11 points on serve (28-11). On the other side, Ruud conceded 9 points on serve (22-9).
Fognini conquered a leading position at the beginning of the set after breaking Ruud in the 2nd game (2-0) before consolidating his break and lead 3-0. Anyhow, the Norwegian managed to stage a great comeback to break the Spaniard in the 9th (4-5) and in the 11th (6-5) game before winning the set (7-5).
The Spaniard couldn’t stop the opposition in the last 5 games of the set when the score went from 2-5 to 7-5.
Casper converted 33% of his break points (2/6). He had 6 break points opportunities in the 9th (3-5 40-A, 40-A, 40-A and 40-A) and the 11th game (5-5 0-40 and 15-40). Furthermore, on the other side, the Spaniard converted 33% of his break points (1/3). He had his opportunities in the 2nd (1-0 30-40 and 40-A) and the 6th game (4-1 40-A).
They contested 85 points. Ruud was the one to win the set after conquering 5 more points than Pablo (45-40). The Norwegian conceded 16 points on serve (26-16). Regarding the other side of the net, Carreno-Busta conceded 19 points on serve (24-19).
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- Fabio FogniniFognini – Filip KrajinovicKrajinovic (6-2 7-61) – Stats and score progression
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