Casper Ruud and Francisco Cerundolo will face off in the 3rd round of the Barcelona Open Banc Sabadell for the 3rd time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Thursday at 6:30 pm on Pista Rafa Nadal. 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 2 sets.
As per the initial odds, Casper Ruud is the pick to win this match.
Casper Ruud -> 1.33
Francisco Cerundolo -> 3.32
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Prediction and head to head Casper Ruud vs. Francisco Cerundolo
This will be the 3rd time that Casper Ruud and Francisco Cerundolo clash against each other. The head to head is 1-1 (see full H2H stats), 1-0 on clay.
The last time that they played, Cerundolo won 6-4 3-6 7-5 in the 2nd round in Bastad back in 2022.
Highlights Francisco Cerundolo vs Casper Ruud – Bastad 13-July-2022
Casper Ruud
Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
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2024 | 48-19 | 21-9 | 24-7 | 2-2 | 1-1 | 0-0 |
2023 | 37-23 | 12-12 | 22-8 | 2-2 | 1-1 | 0-0 |
2022 | 51-22 | 18-8 | 25-7 | 7-5 | 1-2 | 0-0 |
2021 | 57-17 | 16-6 | 28-5 | 11-4 | 2-2 | 0-0 |
2020 | 22-13 | 4-5 | 17-6 | 1-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 3, the Norwegian got to the 3rd round after defeating Ben Shelton 6-2 7-61.
In the 2nd round, Casper had a good straight sets win against Shelton (6-2 7-61). During the match, Ruud scored 77 points vs Shelton’s 61. Ruud was pretty aggressive to blast 39 winners.
Regarding the service games, Ruud couldn’t to score even 1 ace and he committed only 2 double faults. Casper Ruud lost the serve once and he saved 4 break points. Furthermore, Ruud put 74% of his first serves in, winning 76% (39/51) of the points behind his 1st serve and 44% (8/18) on the 2nd serve. Casper broke Shelton 3 times after converting 38% of his break points (3/8).
Ruud has a solid win-loss record in the last 9 years having won 65% of his matches (327-177). 6-1 on clay in 2023. Talking about his performance on the same surface of this tournament, Ruud has a composed196-88 record in the last 9 years on clay.
His best result of the season was winning the title in Estoril where he beat Miomir Kecmanovic in the final 6-2 7-6(3).
The Norwegian has a composed 11-7 win-loss record in 2023, 6-1 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Previously in Barcelona
Francisco Cerundolo
Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
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2024 | 29-27 | 5-10 | 21-13 | 3-1 | 0-3 | 0-0 |
2023 | 39-26 | 10-10 | 19-12 | 4-2 | 6-2 | 0-0 |
2022 | 36-28 | 7-8 | 25-10 | 3-7 | 1-3 | 0-0 |
2021 | 44-24 | 3-2 | 39-21 | 0-0 | 2-1 | 0-0 |
2020 | 36-11 | 5-0 | 31-11 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 32, Francisco got to the 3rd round after beating Francesco Passaro 6-2 6-2.
In the 2nd round, Francisco had a good straight sets win against Passaro (6-2 6-2). During the match Cerundolo scored 65 points vs Passaro’s 45. Cerundolo was pretty aggressive to blast 32 winners.
Talking about serving, Cerundolo was unable to score even 1 ace for the entire match and he committed only 3 double faults. Francisco Cerundolo conceded no breaks for the entire match to save 3 break points. Furthermore, Cerundolo put 73% of his first serves in, winning 84% (32/38) of the points behind his 1st serve and 36% (5/14) on the 2nd serve. Francisco broke Passaro 4 times after converting 44% of his break points (4/9).
Francisco has an overall 13-10 win-loss record in 2023, 6-5 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Previously in Barcelona
Cerundolo has never competed in this tournament before.
H2H Performance in the tournament (main draw)
Matches, sets, games and points
Points | Ruud | Cerundolo |
---|---|---|
Match played | 1 | 1 |
Tot Set | 2 | 2 |
Tot Games | 21 | 16 |
Pts | 77-61 | 65-45 |
Total Points | 138 | 110 |
Winners | 39 | 32 |
%Winners | 51% | 49% |
Both Ruud and Cerundolo played 1 match. Both players have not dropped a single set in this event so far. Talking about their workload, Ruud and Cerundolo have played the same amount of sets 2. However, Ruud played 5 games more than Cerundolo. Casper scored 39 winners (51% of the total points). On the other side, Francisco fired 32 winners (49%).
Serve Performance
Serve | Ruud | Cerundolo |
---|---|---|
Aces | 0 | 0 |
Avg per match | 0 | 0 |
1st in | 51/69 | 38/52 |
%1st in | 74% | 73% |
1st pts | 39/51 | 32/38 |
%1st pts | 76% | 84% |
2nd pts | 8/18 | 5/14 |
%2nd pts | 44% | 36% |
Ruud didn’t manage to fire a single ace to far. Cerundolo also didn’t manage to fire a single ace to far. Ruud won 76% points on his first serve. He pretty effective on his second serve to win 44% of the points. On the other side, Cerundolo won 84% of the points behind his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 36% of the points.
How they played the important points
Breaks | Ruud | Cerundolo |
---|---|---|
Won | 3 | 4 |
Converted | 3/8 | 4/9 |
% Converted | 38% | 44% |
Conceded | 5 | 3 |
Saved | 4 | 3 |
% Saved | 80% | 100% |
Times Broken | 1 | 0 |
Casper broke his opponent 3 times with a 38% conversion rate. Casper surrendered his serve once and he saved 80% of the break points that he conceded. Francisco broke his opponent 4 times with a 44% conversion rate. Francisco was rock solid on his serve as he has never conceded a single service game after saving 3 break points.
Ruud | |||
R2 Shelton |
Total | ||
---|---|---|---|
Score | 6-2 7-61 | ||
Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
Tot Games | 21 | 21 | |
pts | 77-61 | 77-61 | |
Total points | 138 | 138 | |
Winners | 39 | 39 | |
%Winners | 51% | 51% | |
SERVE | |||
Aces | 0 | 0 | |
Double Faults | 2 | 2 | |
1st in | 51/69 | 51/69 | |
% 1st in | 74% | 74% | |
1st pts | 39/51 | 39/51 | |
% 1st pts | 76% | 76% | |
2nd pts | 8/18 | 8/18 | |
% 2nd pts | 44% | 44% | |
Breaks | |||
Won | 3 | 3 | |
Converted | 3/8 | 3/8 | |
Converted % | 38% | 38% | |
Conceded | 5 | 5 | |
Saved | 4/5 | 4 | |
Saved % | 80% | 80% | |
Times Broken | 1 | 1 |
Cerundolo | |||
R2 Passaro |
Total | ||
---|---|---|---|
Score | 6-2 6-2 | ||
Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
Tot Games | 16 | 16 | |
pts | 65-45 | 65-45 | |
Total points | 110 | 110 | |
Winners | 32 | 32 | |
%Winners | 49% | 49% | |
SERVE | |||
Aces | 0 | 0 | |
Double Faults | 3 | 3 | |
1st in | 38/52 | 38/52 | |
% 1st in | 73% | 73% | |
1st pts | 32/38 | 32/38 | |
% 1st pts | 84% | 84% | |
2nd pts | 5/14 | 5/14 | |
% 2nd pts | 36% | 36% | |
Breaks | |||
Won | 4 | 4 | |
Converted | 4/9 | 4/9 | |
Converted % | 44% | 44% | |
Conceded | 3 | 3 | |
Saved | 3/3 | 3 | |
Saved % | 100% | 100% | |
Times Broken | 0 | 0 |
Head 2 Head
Tennis Scores in Barcelona
- Alex De MinaurDe Minaur – Alexander ShevchenkoShevchenko (6-0 6-1) – See score progression
- Cameron NorrieNorrie – Pavel KotovKotov (6-1 6-2) – See score progression
- Daniel EvansEvans – Matteo ArnaldiArnaldi (6-4 6-3) – See score progression
- Grigor DimitrovDimitrov – Emilio GomezGomez (6-3 6-1) – See score progression
- Jannik SinnerSinner – Diego SchwartzmanSchwartzman (6-2 6-4) – See score progression
- Karen KhachanovKhachanov – Nicolas JarryJarry (6-4 6-4) – See score progression
- Francisco CerundoloCerundolo – Francesco PassaroPassaro (6-2 6-2) – See score progression
- Lorenzo MusettiMusetti – Jason Murray KublerMurray Kubler (6-3 6-1) – See score progression
- Stefanos TsitsipasTsitsipas – Pedro CachinCachin (6-4 6-2) – See score progression
- Denis ShapovalovShapovalov – Jozef KovalikKovalik (6-4 6-3) – See score progression
- Yoshihito NishiokaNishioka – David GoffinGoffin (6-1 7-5) – See score progression
- Alejandro Davidovich FokinaDavidovich Fokina – Tomas Martin EtcheverryMartin Etcheverry (6-3 6-3) – See score progression
- Carlos AlcarazAlcaraz – Nuno BorgesBorges (6-3 6-1) – See score progression
- Casper RuudRuud – Ben SheltonShelton (6-2 7-61) – See score progression
- Emil RuusuvuoriRuusuvuori – Frances TiafoeTiafoe (6-4 6-73 6-4) – See score progression
- Roberto Bautista AgutBautista Agut – Bernabe Zapata MirallesZapata Miralles (6-2 6-2) – See score progression
- Francisco CerundoloCerundolo – Francesco PassaroPassaro (6-2 6-2) – See score progression
- Daniel EvansEvans – Matteo ArnaldiArnaldi (6-4 6-3) – See score progression
- Karen KhachanovKhachanov – Nicolas JarryJarry (6-4 6-4) – See score progression
- Cameron NorrieNorrie – Pavel KotovKotov (6-1 6-2) – See score progression
- Lorenzo MusettiMusetti – Jason Murray KublerMurray Kubler (6-3 6-1) – See score progression
- Yoshihito NishiokaNishioka – David GoffinGoffin (6-1 7-5) – See score progression
- Jannik SinnerSinner – Diego Sebastian SchwartzmanSebastian Schwartzman (6-2 6-4) – See score progression
- Alex De MinaurDe Minaur – Alexander ShevchenkoShevchenko (6-0 6-1) – See score progression
- Grigor DimitrovDimitrov – Emilio GomezGomez (6-3 6-1) – See score progression
- Denis ShapovalovShapovalov – Jozef KovalikKovalik (6-4 6-3) – See score progression
- Stefanos TsitsipasTsitsipas – Pedro CachinCachin (6-4 6-2) – See score progression
Upcoming matches in the draw
- Daniel EvansEvans – Karen KhachanovKhachanov (3-0) – H2H and prediction
- Yoshihito NishiokaNishioka – Jannik SinnerSinner (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Cameron NorrieNorrie – Lorenzo MusettiMusetti (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Denis ShapovalovShapovalov – Stefanos TsitsipasTsitsipas (3-1) – H2H and prediction
- Casper RuudRuud – Francisco CerundoloCerundolo (1-1) – H2H and prediction
- Alejandro Davidovich FokinaDavidovich Fokina – Emil RuusuvuoriRuusuvuori (1-1) – H2H and prediction
- Alex De MinaurDe Minaur – Grigor DimitrovDimitrov (2-2) – H2H and prediction
- Carlos Alcaraz GarfiaAlcaraz Garfia – Roberto Bautista AgutBautista Agut (1-0) – H2H and prediction