H2H, PREDICTION Casper Ruud vs Tommy Paul | French Open odds, preview, pick

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Prediction and head to head Casper Ruud vs. Tommy Paul

Casper Ruud and Tommy Paul will face off in the 2nd round of the French Open for the 2nd time of their career. They are scheduled to compete on Wednesday at 2 pm on Court 13. In this post, we analyze their head to head performance and the prediction.

Prediction, odds and live streaming

The pick for Tennis Tonic is Casper Ruud who should win in 4 sets.

See updated oddsAs per the initial odds, Casper Ruud is the pick to win this match.
Casper Ruud -> 1.39
Tommy Paul -> 3.1

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Prediction and head to head Casper Ruud vs. Tommy Paul

This will be the 2nd time that Casper Ruud and Tommy Paul clash against each other. The head to head is 1-0 for Paul (see full H2H stats), but they have never played each other on clay.

Casper Ruud

Ranked no. 25 (career high), Casper got to the 2nd round after defeating Yuichi Sugita 6-1 6-3 6-1.

In the 1st round, Ruud had a good straight sets win against Sugita (6-1 6-3 6-1). During the match Ruud scored 94 points vs Sugita’s 53. Ruud was extremely aggressive to blast 30 winners.

Talking about the service games, Ruud struck 2 aces and he committed only 1 double fault. Casper Ruud lost the serve once and he saved 2 break points. Furthermore, Ruud put 68% of his first serves in, winning 68% (30/44) of the points behind his 1st serve and 86% (18/21) on the 2nd serve. Casper broke Sugita 7 times after converting 44% of his break points (7/16).

Ruud has a solid win-loss record in the last 6 years having won 62% of his matches (213-132). 16-4 on clay in 2020. Regarding his performance on the same surface of this event, Ruud has a 139-75 win-loss record in the last 6 years on clay.

His best result of the current year was winning the title in Buenos Aires where he overcame Pedro Sousa in the final 6-1 6-4.

Casper has a 21-9 win-loss record in 2020, 16-4 on clay (See FULL STATS).

Last year at the French Open

The Norwegian lost in the 3rd round to Roger Federer.

Tommy Paul

Ranked no. 58, Paul got to the 2nd round after defeating James Duckworth 6-2 6-3 6-2.

In the 1st round, Paul had a good straight sets win against Duckworth (6-2 6-3 6-2). During the match Paul scored 97 points vs Duckworth’s 70. Paul was extremely aggressive to blast 29 winners.

Talking about serving, Paul bagged 5 aces and he committed only 1 double fault for the entire match. Overall, Tommy Paul was quite efficent on serve to win 76% (29/38) of his 1st serve and 63% (22/35) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve once. The American broke Duckworth 7 times after converting 50% of his break points (7/14).

The American’s best result of the current season was getting to the semi-finals in Adelaide.

Tommy has a 17-9 win-loss record in 2020, 4-2 on clay (See FULL STATS).

Last year at the French Open

Paul had to surrender in the 1st round to Dominic Thiem.

H2H Performance in the tournament

Matches, sets, games and points

Points Ruud Paul
Match played 1 1
Tot Set 3 3
Tot Games 23 25
Pts 94-53 97-70
Total Points 147 167
Winners 30 29
%Winners 32% 30%

Both Ruud and Paul played 1 match. Both players have not dropped a single set in this event so far. Talking about their workload, Ruud and Paul have played the same amount of sets 3. However, Ruud played 2 games less than Paul. Ruud scored 30 winners (32% of the total points). On the other side, Tommy managed to score 29 winners (30%).

Serve Performance

Serve Ruud Paul
Aces 2 5
Avg per match 2 5
1st in 44/65 38/73
%1st in 68% 52%
1st pts 30/44 29/38
%1st pts 68% 76%
2nd pts 18/21 22/35
%2nd pts 86% 63%

Ruud fired 2 aces . Paul recorded 5 aces . Ruud won 68% points behind his first serve. He quite strong on his second serve to win 86% of the points. On the other side, Paul won 76% of the points behind his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 63% of the points.

How they played the important points

Breaks Ruud Paul
Won 7 7
Converted 7/16 7/14
% Converted 44% 50%
Conceded 3 3
Saved 2 2
% Saved 67% 67%
Times Broken 1 1

Ruud broke his opponent 7 times with a 44% conversion rate. Ruud conceded his serve once and he saved 67% of the break points that he conceded. Tommy broke his opponent 7 times with a 50% conversion rate. Tommy conceded his serve once and he saved 67% of the break points that he conceded.

Ruud
R1
Sugita
Total
Score 6-1 6-3 6-1
Tot Set 3 3
Tot Games 23 23
pts 94-53 94-53
Total points 147 147
Winners 30 30
%Winners 32% 32%
SERVE
Aces 2 2
Double Faults 1 1
1st in 44/65 44/65
% 1st in 68% 68%
1st pts 30/44 30/44
% 1st pts 68% 68%
2nd pts 18/21 18/21
% 2nd pts 86% 86%
Breaks
Won 7 7
Converted 7/16 7/16
Converted % 44% 44%
Conceded 3 3
Saved 2/3 2
Saved % 67% 67%
Times Broken 1 1
Paul
R1
Duckworth
Total
Score 6-2 6-3 6-2
Tot Set 3 3
Tot Games 25 25
pts 97-70 97-70
Total points 167 167
Winners 29 29
%Winners 30% 30%
SERVE
Aces 5 5
Double Faults 1 1
1st in 38/73 38/73
% 1st in 52% 52%
1st pts 29/38 29/38
% 1st pts 76% 76%
2nd pts 22/35 22/35
% 2nd pts 63% 63%
Breaks
Won 7 7
Converted 7/14 7/14
Converted % 50% 50%
Conceded 3 3
Saved 2/3 2
Saved % 67% 67%
Times Broken 1 1

Head 2 Head

Win Loss
Ruud
LWWWWWWWWL
Paul
WWWWWLWLWW
2024 2023 2022
38 - 10
27 - 10
17-5
Hard
10-6
0-0
I Hard
4-0
21-5
Clay
7-3
0-0
Grass
6-1

Tennis Scores at the French Open

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