Casper Ruud bests Salvatore Caruso 6-3 6-4 in the 2nd round in St. Petersburg on Thursday. Ruud will clash against Borna Coric in the quarter.
Score, report, and key facts
1st set.
The Norwegian won the set after he broke Salvatore in the 6th (4-2) and in the 8th (5-3) game. Caruso tried to stage a comeback breaking in the 7th (4-3) game. Notwithstanding, Casper kept the focus before winning the set 6-3.
2nd set.
Ruud was pretty sharp at the beginning of the set after breaking Caruso in the 1st game (1-0). Yet, the set was not over yet and there was more work to do for Ruud to win the set since Salvatore found the way to break back in the 4th (2-2) game. Casper kept his focus to break Salvatore in the 9th (5-4) game before winning the set (6-4).
Statistics
At the end of the match, the Norwegian scored 59 points vs. Salvatore’s 47 points.
Casper didn’t lose the focus when converting 50% of the break points that he conquered (4/8). On the other side, the Italian was pretty effective in converting 67% of the break points that he procured points (2/3). Yet, that was not enough to win the contest.
After this encounter, the head to head between Ruud and Caruso is 1-0 for Casper.
Next Match: Casper Ruud vs. Borna Coric – stats
Ruud will square off with Coric in the quarter.
There is no head to head record between Casper Ruud and Borna Coric since this will be the first time that they will fight against each other in the main tour.
Tennis Scores in St. Petersburg
- Matteo BerrettiniBerrettini – Roberto Carballes BaenaCarballes Baena (6-1 6-2) – See score progression
- Joao SousaSousa – Karen KhachanovKhachanov (7-62 6-4) – See score progression
- Borna CoricCoric – Marton FucsovicsFucsovics (6-75 7-5 3-0 ret.) – See score progression
- Andrey RublevRublev – Richard BerankisBerankis (6-4 6-75 6-1) – See score progression
- Casper RuudRuud – Salvatore CarusoCaruso (6-3 6-4) – See score progression
- Daniil MedvedevMedvedev – Evgeny DonskoyDonskoy (7-5 6-3) – See score progression
- Mikhail KukushkinKukushkin – Damir DzumhurDzumhur (7-62 6-2) – See score progression
- Egor GerasimovGerasimov – Adrian MannarinoMannarino (6-3 6-1) – See score progression
Upcoming matches
- Mikhail KukushkinKukushkin – Joao SousaSousa (2-1) – See H2H details
- Daniil MedvedevMedvedev – Andrey RublevRublev (1-0) – See H2H details
- Matteo BerrettiniBerrettini – Egor GerasimovGerasimov (0-0) – See H2H details
- Casper RuudRuud – Borna CoricCoric (0-0) – See H2H details