Casper Ruud and Reilly Opelka will square off in the 2^nd round of the Western & Southern Open for the 3^rd time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Wednesday at 1:00 pm on Porsche Court 10. In the following paragraphs, you can find the head to head analysis and prediction.

Prediction, odds and live streaming

The pick for Tennis Tonic is Casper Ruud who should win in 3 sets.

As per the initial odds, Casper Ruud is the pick to win this match.
Casper Ruud -> 1.71
Reilly Opelka -> 2.19

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Prediction and head to head Casper Ruud vs. Reilly Opelka

This will be the 3^rd time that Casper Ruud and Reilly Opelka square off. The head to head is 1-1 (see full H2H stats), 1-0 on hard.

The last time that they competed against each other, Ruud won 4-6 6-4 6-4 in the 2^nd round in Houston back in 2019.

Casper Ruud

Ranked no. 11 (career-high), the Norwegian will start his run in Cincinnati after he played his last match in Toronto where he lost 6-1 6-4 to Tsitsipas in the quarter on the 13^th of August.

Ruud has a compiled 37-10 win-loss record in 2021, 7-3 on hard (See FULL STATS).

His best result of the current year was conquering the title in in Geneva where he defeated Denis Shapovalov in the final 7-6(6) 6-4 and in in Bastad where he overcame Federico Coria in the final 6-3 6-3 and in in Gstaad where he defeated Hugo Gaston in the final 6-3 6-2 and in in Kitzbuhel where he beat Pedro Martinez Portero in the final 6-1 4-6 6-3.

Talking about his overall career, Ruud has an overall 245-141 record. He has a positive 46-38 record on hard.

Previously in Cincinnati

Previously, his best result was reaching the 1^st round in 2019 and 2020. See his history.

Cincinnati

Ruud's Record

Reilly Opelka

Ranked no. 23 (career-high), Reilly reached the 2^nd round after beating Corentin Moutet 7-6³ 4-6 6-4.

In the 1^st round, The American defeated Moutet (7-6³ 4-6 6-4). During the match Opelka scored 97 points vs Moutet’s 89. Opelka was quite aggressive to blast 56 winners.

Talking about serving, Opelka bagged 14 aces and he committed only 7 double faults. Overall, Reilly Opelka was exceptionally effective on serve to win 85% (56/66) of his 1st serve and 52% (12/23) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve once. Reilly broke Moutet once after converting 33% of his break points (1/3).

The American’s best result of the current season was getting to the final in Toronto.

The American has a composed 16-15 win-loss record in 2021, 10-8 on hard (See FULL STATS).

Cincinnati

Opelka's Record

Head 2 Head

• 0Slam
• 12Main
• 1Chall
• 2Minor

• 0Slam
• 4Main
• 4Chall
• 0Minor

Casper
Ruud

4:1

Reilly
Opelka

Rank

9

High

2

1Hard1

2Clay0

1I.hard0

Rank

306

High

17

Win Loss

Ruud

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Opelka

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46 - 17

5 - 8

21-8

Hard

2-7

24-7

Clay

0-0

1-1

Grass

3-1

Tennis Scores in Cincinnati

• Benoit PairePaire – Denis ShapovalovShapovalov (6-3 4-6 7-5) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Matteo BerrettiniBerrettini – Albert Ramos-VinolasRamos-Vinolas (6-7⁵ 6-3 7-5) – Stats, scores, rankings

Upcoming matches in the draw

• Gael MonfilsMonfils – Alex De MinaurDe Minaur (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Guido PellaPella – Fabio FogniniFognini (2-4) – H2H and prediction
• Daniil MedvedevMedvedev – Mackenzie McdonaldMcdonald (4-0) – H2H and prediction
• Alexander BublikBublik – Grigor DimitrovDimitrov (2-0) – H2H and prediction
• Karen KhachanovKhachanov – Felix Auger AliassimeAuger Aliassime (1-0) – H2H and prediction
• Hubert HurkaczHurkacz – Andy MurrayMurray (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Andrey RublevRublev – Marin CilicCilic (3-1) – H2H and prediction
• Tommy PaulPaul – Lorenzo SonegoSonego (2-0) – H2H and prediction
• Frances TiafoeTiafoe – Diego Sebastian SchwartzmanSebastian Schwartzman (0-1) – H2H and prediction
• Casper RuudRuud – Reilly OpelkaOpelka (1-1) – H2H and prediction
• Dominik KoepferKoepfer – Pablo Carreno-BustaCarreno-Busta (0-2) – H2H and prediction
• Lloyd HarrisHarris – Alexander ZverevZverev (0-1) – H2H and prediction
• Sebastian KordaKorda – Stefanos TsitsipasTsitsipas (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Jannik SinnerSinner – John IsnerIsner (0-0) – H2H and prediction

Ruud

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Opelka