Casper Ruud and Gianluca Mager will square off in the 1st round of the Rio Open for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Tuesday at 7:00 pm on QUADRA 1. In the following lines you can find the head to head analysis and the 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 -> 1.25
Gianluca Mager -> 3.75
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Casper Ruud
Ranked no. 34 (career high), the Norwegian will start his run in Rio de Janeiro after he won the title in Buenos Aires after beating 6-1 6-4 Sousa in the final.
Casper has a 7-3 win-loss record in 2020, 5-0 on clay (See FULL STATS).
His best result of the year was managing to win the title in Buenos Aires where he overcame Pedro Sousa in the final 6-1 6-4.
Ruud won his last 5 matches.
Talking about his overall career, The Norwegian has an overall 138-106 record. He has positive 88-61 record on clay.
Last year in Rio de Janeiro
The Norwegian didn’t compete in Rio de Janeiro in 2019.
Gianluca Mager
Ranked no. 128, the Italian reached the 1st round after beating Andrea Collarini 6-1 6-2 and Attila Balazs 6-0 6-2.
In the qualifications, Gianluca had a good straight sets win against Balazs (6-0 6-2). During the match Mager scored 59 points vs Balazs’s 27. Gianluca was extremely aggressive to blast 22 winners.
Talking about serving, Mager blasted 5 aces and he committed only 2 double faults. Gianluca Mager was extremely effective on serve to win 92% (22/24) of his 1st serve and 67% (6/9) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. The Italian broke Balazs 5 times after converting 50% of his break points (5/10).
Overall Performance in this tournament
Gianluca hasn’t dropped yet a set in the tournament to win 68% of the points he played.
Mager has a winning record in the last 7 years having won 57% of his matches (469-355). 3-3 on clay in 2020. Regarding his performance on the same surface of this tournament, Mager has a 106-104 win-loss record in the last 7 years on clay.
Gianluca has a 4-5 win-loss record in 2020, 3-3 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Last year in Rio de Janeiro
The Italian didn’t play in Rio de Janeiro in 2019.
Head 2 Head
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LLWWWWLWWW Tennis Scores in Rio De Janeiro
- Federico CoriaCoria – Corentin MoutetMoutet (1-6 7-61 7-63) – See score progression
- Pedro Martinez PorteroMartinez Portero – Hugo DellienDellien (3-6 6-2 7-5) – See score progression
- Federico DelbonisDelbonis – Roberto Carballes BaenaCarballes Baena (6-2 6-4) – See score progression
- Pablo AndujarAndujar – Fernando VerdascoVerdasco (6-3 6-3) – See score progression
- Christian GarinGarin – Andrej MartinMartin (4-6 7-5 7-65) – See score progression
- Thiago Seyboth WildSeyboth Wild – Alejandro Davidovich FokinaDavidovich Fokina (5-7 7-63 7-5) – See score progression
- Carlos Alcaraz GarfiaAlcaraz Garfia – Albert Ramos-VinolasRamos-Vinolas (7-62 4-6 7-62) – See score progression
Upcoming matches
- Leonardo MayerMayer – Lorenzo SonegoSonego (1-0) – See H2H details
- Attila BalazsBalazs – Pablo CuevasCuevas (1-0) – See H2H details
- Guido PellaPella – Thiago Moura MonteiroMoura Monteiro (3-1) – See H2H details
- Federico DelbonisDelbonis – Christian GarinGarin (1-2) – See H2H details
- Joao DominguesDomingues – Pedro SousaSousa (2-4) – See H2H details
- Marco CecchinatoCecchinato – Dusan LajovicLajovic (2-2) – See H2H details
- Gianluca MagerMager – Casper RuudRuud (0-0) – See H2H details
- Dominic ThiemThiem – Felipe Meligeni Rodrigues AlvesMeligeni Rodrigues Alves (0-0) – See H2H details
- Borna CoricCoric – Juan Ignacio LonderoIgnacio Londero (1-0) – See H2H details
- Pedro Martinez PorteroMartinez Portero – Pablo AndujarAndujar (0-2) – See H2H details
- Jaume Antoni Munar ClarAntoni Munar Clar – Salvatore CarusoCaruso (0-2) – See H2H details
- Carlos Alcaraz GarfiaAlcaraz Garfia – Federico CoriaCoria (0-0) – See H2H details
