Casper Ruud and Holger Vitus Nodskov Rune will clash against each other in the 2nd round of the Nordea Open for the 2nd time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Thursday at 4:00 pm on CENTRE COURT. In this post, we analyze their head to head performance and 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 -> 1.23
Holger Vitus Nodskov Rune -> 4.4
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Prediction and head to head Casper Ruud vs. Holger Vitus Nodskov Rune
This will be the 2nd time that Casper Ruud and Holger Vitus Nodskov Rune play each other. The head to head is 1-0 for Ruud (see full H2H stats), 1-0 on clay.
The last time that they played each other, Ruud won 6-2 6-1 in the 1st round in Monte carlo back in April 2021.
Casper Ruud
Ranked no. 16, Casper will start his run in Bastad after he played his last match at Wimbledon where he lost 7-6(6) 7-6(3) 2-6 2-6 6-2 to Thompson in the 1st round on the 30th of June.
Casper has an aggregate 24-9 win-loss record in 2021, 17-5 on clay (See FULL STATS).
His best result of the season was winning the title in in Geneva where he overcame Denis Shapovalov in the final 7-6(6) 6-4.
Talking about his overall career, Ruud has an overall 232-140 record. He has a positive 154-80 record on clay.
Previously in Bastad
Previously, his best result was reaching the quarter in 2018. See his history.
Holger Vitus Nodskov Rune
Ranked no. 211 (career-high), the Dane got to the 2nd round after defeating Radu Albot 4-6 6-3 6-0.
In the 1st round against Albot, Holger recovered from a 1-set down deficit before winning (4-6 6-3 6-0). During the match Vitus Nodskov Rune scored 82 points vs Albot’s 57. The Dane was quite aggressive to blast 33 winners.
About the serving games, Vitus Nodskov Rune bagged 4 aces and he was quite solid in conceding no double faults for the entire match. Overall, Holger Vitus Nodskov Rune was pretty effective on serve to win 73% (33/45) of his 1st serve and 62% (16/26) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve twice. Holger broke Albot 5 times after converting 42% of his break points (5/12).
The Dane’s best result of the current season was reaching the final in M15 Manacor,M15+H Bressuire,M25 Villena,the Oeiras 4 Challenger and the Biella 7 Challenger.
The Dane has a composed 39-14 win-loss record in 2021, 26-12 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Head 2 Head
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Tennis Scores in Bastad
- Yannick HanfmannHanfmann – Jiri VeselyVesely (6-4 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Federico CoriaCoria – Marco CecchinatoCecchinato (4-6 6-4 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Arthur RinderknechRinderknech – John MillmanMillman (6-3 3-6 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Cristian GarinGarin – Pedro Martinez PorteroMartinez Portero (6-3 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
Upcoming matches in the draw
- Fabio FogniniFognini – Roberto Carballes BaenaCarballes Baena (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Yannick HanfmannHanfmann – Arthur RinderknechRinderknech (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Norbert GombosGombos – Emil RuusuvuoriRuusuvuori (2-0) – H2H and prediction
- Federico CoriaCoria – Christian GarinGarin (0-2) – H2H and prediction
- Elias YmerYmer – Henri LaaksonenLaaksonen (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Casper RuudRuud – Holger Vitus Nodskov RuneVitus Nodskov Rune (1-0) – H2H and prediction
