Casper Ruud outlasts Alexander Bublik 6-1 4-6 7-6(0) in the 3rd round in Rome on Sunday after conquering a huge battle. Ruud will try to go further in the tournament when playing against Laslo Djere in the 4th round. The battle lasted 2 hours and 5 minutes. His best result in this tournament was reaching the semifinal in 2020 and 2022. Here you can see his history at this event.
Ruud added to his prize money € 36,065 after winning this match. He has already won € 84,900 after this win. If he wins the next match, Casper will add € 76,625 to his earnings to get in total € 161,525 in total.
Highlights Casper Ruud vs. Alexander Bublik Internazionali BNL d’Italia – Rome
Stats: aces, double faults, breaks, winners
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At the end of the match, Ruud scored 99 points vs. Alexander’s 78.
Ruud
Ruud served exceptionally well to win 77% of the points (44/57) behind his first serve, and he won 68% points (19/28) on his second serve. Ruud won this match even if he was far from perfect in converting his break points as he converted only 33% (2/6) of the procured opportunities.
Bublik
On the other side, the Kazakhstani was battling in converting his break points (only 33% – 1/3). That was one of the key issues for his demise.
After this match, the head to head between Ruud and Bublik is 5-1 for Casper.
Draw and next match H2H: Casper Ruud vs. Laslo Djere – stats
Ruud will face Djere in the 4th round.
This will be the 3rd time that Casper Ruud and Laslo Djere square off. The head to head is 2-0 for Djere (see full H2H stats), 1-0 on clay.
The last time that they locked horns, Djere won 3-6 6-3 7-63 in the 2nd round in Auckland back in January 2023.
Live score progression and stats
Ruud was quite dominant at the beginning of the set to break Alexander Bublik in the 2nd game (2-0) before consolidating his break and lead 5-0. Casper managed to strengthen his lead after breaking Bublik in the 4th (4-0) game before winning the set (6-1).
It is worth noting that a key moment of this set was when the Norwegian won 5 consecutive games in the 1st set to convert the scoreline from 0-0 to 5-0.
The Norwegian converted 40% of his break points (2/5). He had 5 break points opportunities in the 2nd (1-0 0-40 and 15-40), the 3rd (3-0 30-40) and the 8th game (6-0 15-40 and 30-40). On the other side, the Norwegian didn’t concede a single break point during this set.
They contested 48 points. Ruud was the one to win the set after conquering 12 more points than the Kazakhstani (30-18). The Norwegian surrendered 5 points on serve (16-5). on the other side of the court, Bublik conceded 14 points on serve (13-14).
The set was even with both players refusing to concede anything to the opposition. Eventually, the only discrepancy was one break that Alexander clinched in the 10th game (6-4) just before eventually winning the set (6-4).
Alexander failed to serve out the set when leading 6-4 to be broken at 30.
Alexander was spot on in converting all his break points in the 8th (4-3 30-40) and the 10th game (5-4 0-40 and 15-40). On the other side, Ruud wasn’t able to convert 1 break point in the 4th game (2-2 30-40).
They played 60 points. The set was a huge battle since finally Bublik won just 2 points more than Ruud (31-29). The Kazakhstani dropped 11 points on serve (22-11). On the other side, the Norwegian conceded 9 points on serve (18-9).
The set went straight to the tiebreak as there were no breaks. Casper had no problems to win the tiebreak 7-0.
Tiebreak
The Norwegian won 4 minibreaks in the 1st (1-0), 4th (4-0), 5th (5-0) and 7th (7-0) point.
This was the tiebreak sequence: 1-0, 2-0, 3-0, 4-0, 5-0, 6-0, 7-0
Neither player conceded a single break point during this set. Furthermore, on the other side, Casper didn’t concede a single break point during this set.
They played 69 points. The Norwegian was the one to win the set after conquering 11 points more than Alexander (40-29). Casper surrendered 8 points on serve (29-8). Regarding the other side of the net, Bublik conceded 11 points on serve (21-11).
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