H2H, PREDICTION Emil Ruusuvuori vs Max Purcell | Australian Open odds, preview, pick

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Prediction and head to head Emil Ruusuvuori vs. Max Purcell

Emil Ruusuvuori and Max Purcell will clash against each other in the 1st round of the Australian Open for the 2nd time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Wednesday at 1:00 pm on Court 7. In the following lines you can find the head to head analysis and prediction.

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The pick for Tennis Tonic is Emil Ruusuvuori who should win in 4 sets.

See updated oddsAs per the initial odds, Emil Ruusuvuori is the pick to win this match.
Emil Ruusuvuori -> 1.444
Max Purcell -> 2.77

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Prediction and head to head Emil Ruusuvuori vs. Max Purcell

This will be the 2nd time that Emil Ruusuvuori and Max Purcell play each other. The head to head is 1-0 for Ruusuvuori (see full H2H stats), but they have never played each other on hard.

The last time that they played, Ruusuvuori won 6-1 6-2 in the qualifications in Nur sultan back in 2020.

Emil Ruusuvuori

Emil Ruusuvuori
Emil Ruusuvuori

0 - 0win/loss

Rank
549
High
37
LLWLWLLWWL
Year Total Hard Clay I.hard Grass Carpet
2025 11-17 1-5 2-2 8-10 0-0 0-0
2024 17-16 8-6 2-5 4-2 3-3 0-0
2023 31-30 13-11 6-7 9-8 3-4 0-0
2022 41-32 15-12 10-9 10-7 6-4 0-0
2021 30-26 21-12 1-5 6-6 2-3 0-0

Ranked no. 46, the Finn will start his run at the Australian Open after he played his last match in Adelaide where he lost 6-4 4-6 6-3 to Ymer in the 1st round on the 10th of January.

Ruusuvuori has a composed 0-2 win-loss record in 2023, 0-2 on hard (See FULL STATS).

Talking about his overall career, Emil has an overall 231-133 record. He has a positive 98-47 record on hard.

Previously at the Australian Open

Previously, his best result was reaching the 2nd round in 2021. See his history.

Ruusuvuori
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Max Purcell

Max Purcell
Max Purcell

0 - 0win/loss

Rank
105
High
40
LWLWLLLWWL
Year Total Hard Clay I.hard Grass Carpet
2024 21-24 10-16 2-3 1-1 8-4 0-0
2023 52-28 45-17 2-3 5-5 0-3 0-0
2022 36-29 21-15 5-8 2-2 8-4 0-0
2021 21-14 13-9 0-1 4-1 4-3 0-0
2020 5-12 3-5 1-2 1-5 0-0 0-0

Ranked no. 205, Purcell got to the 1st round after defeating Marco Cecchinato 6-2 3-2 ret., Damir Dzumhur 6-4 7-5 and Matteo Arnaldi 6-4 6-3.

In the qualifications, Max had a good straight sets win against Arnaldi (6-4 6-3). During the match Purcell scored 70 points vs Arnaldi’s 52. Purcell was very aggressive to blast 34 winners.

About the serving games, Purcell fired 11 aces and he committed only 1 double fault for the entire match. Max Purcell lost the serve once and he saved 6 break points. Furthermore, Purcell put 75% of his first serves in, winning 77% (34/44) of the points behind his 1st serve and 40% (6/15) on the 2nd serve. Purcell broke Arnaldi 4 times after converting 40% of his break points (4/10).

Overall Performance in this tournament

Purcell started his run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, he hasn’t surrendered yet a set in this competition to win 56% of the points he played.

Purcell has a compiled 5-1 win-loss record in 2023, 5-1 on hard (See FULL STATS).

Previously at the Australian Open

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

Purcell
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Head 2 Head

Win Loss
Ruusuvuori
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Purcell
2025 2024 2023
10 - 16
0 - 0
1-5
Hard
0-0
8-10
I Hard
0-0
1-1
Clay
0-0

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