Fabio Fognini and Casper Ruud will clash against each other in the 2nd round of the Hamburg European Open for the 2nd time of their career. They are scheduled to play on Thursday at 6.30 pm on Center Court. 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 -> 1.44
Fabio Fognini -> 2.875
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Prediction and head to head Fabio Fognini vs. Casper Ruud
This will be the 2nd time that Fabio Fognini and Casper Ruud square off. The head to head is 1-0 for Ruud (see full H2H stats), but they have never played each other on clay.
Fabio Fognini
Ranked no. 15, Fabio got to the 2nd round after defeating Philipp Kohlschreiber 4-6 6-1 7-5.
In the 1st round against Kohlschreiber, The Italian recovered from a 1-set down deficit before winning (4-6 6-1 7-5). During the match Fognini scored 103 points vs Kohlschreiber’s 89. Fognini was extremely aggressive to blast 36 winners.
Talking about the service games, Fognini blasted 3 aces and he committed only 2 double faults. Overall, Fabio Fognini was quite efficent on serve to win 80% (36/45) of his 1st serve and 53% (17/32) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve 3 times. Fognini broke Kohlschreiber 5 times after converting 26% of his break points (5/19).
Fognini has a favorable record in the last 10 years having won 57% of his matches (311-238). 2-2 on clay in 2020. Regarding his performance on the same surface of this event, Fognini has a 169-101 record in the last years on clay.
Fabio has a 6-8 win-loss record in 2020, 2-2 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Last year in Hamburg
Fabio lost in the quarter to Pablo Carreno-Busta.
Casper Ruud
Ranked no. 30 (career high), the Norwegian reached the 2nd round after beating Benoit Paire 6-4 2-0 ret..
In the 1st round, Ruud had a good straight sets win against Paire (6-4 2-0 ret.). During the match Ruud scored 41 points vs Paire’s 30. Ruud was extremely aggressive to blast 13 winners.
Talking about serving, Ruud struck 3 aces and he was pretty steady in conceding no double faults for the entire match. Casper Ruud lost the serve twice and he saved 1 break points. Furthermore, Ruud put 64% of his first serves in, winning 72% (13/18) of the points behind his 1st serve and 50% (5/10) on the 2nd serve. The Norwegian broke Paire 4 times after converting 57% of his break points (4/7).
His best result of the current season was conquering the title in Buenos Aires where he defeated Pedro Sousa in the final 6-1 6-4.
Casper has a 18-8 win-loss record in 2020, 13-3 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Last year in Hamburg
Casper lost in the 2nd round to Andrey Rublev.
Head 2 Head
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LWLWLLLLWL Tennis Scores in Hamburg
- Stefanos TsitsipasTsitsipas – Daniel EvansEvans (6-3 6-1) – See score progression
- Casper RuudRuud – Benoit PairePaire (6-4 2-0 ret.) – See score progression
- Yannick HanfmannHanfmann – Gael MonfilsMonfils (6-4 6-3) – See score progression
- Felix Auger AliassimeAuger Aliassime – Lorenzo SonegoSonego (6-2 7-62) – See score progression
- Christian GarinGarin – Kei NishikoriNishikori (6-0 6-3) – See score progression
- Ugo HumbertHumbert – Daniil MedvedevMedvedev (6-4 6-3) – See score progression
- Dominik KoepferKoepfer – Yoshihito NishiokaNishioka (7-60 4-6 6-1) – See score progression
- Karen KhachanovKhachanov – Jan-Lennard StruffStruff (7-65 4-6 7-5) – See score progression
- Fabio FogniniFognini – Philipp KohlschreiberKohlschreiber (4-6 6-1 7-5) – See score progression
- Dusan LajovicLajovic – Adrian MannarinoMannarino (6-4 6-1) – See score progression
- Alexander BublikBublik – Albert Ramos-VinolasRamos-Vinolas (6-2 7-65) – See score progression
- Roberto Bautista AgutBautista Agut – Nikoloz BasilashviliBasilashvili (6-4 6-3) – See score progression
- Jiri VeselyVesely – Gilles SimonSimon (7-5 6-2) – See score progression
- Tommy PaulPaul – Kevin AndersonAnderson (6-4 0-6 6-4) – See score progression
- Andrey RublevRublev – Tennys SandgrenSandgren (6-3 6-3) – See score progression
- Pablo CuevasCuevas – Taylor Harry FritzHarry Fritz (6-4 6-2) – See score progression
Upcoming matches in the draw
- Roberto Bautista AgutBautista Agut – Andrey RublevRublev (2-1) – H2H and prediction
- Pablo CuevasCuevas – Stefanos TsitsipasTsitsipas (0-2) – H2H and prediction
- Alexander BublikBublik – Christian GarinGarin (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Karen KhachanovKhachanov – Dusan LajovicLajovic (0-3) – H2H and prediction
- Casper RuudRuud – Fabio FogniniFognini (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Ugo HumbertHumbert – Jiri VeselyVesely (0-1) – H2H and prediction
