Casper Ruud dispatches Dennis Novak 6-4 7-6(5) in the 2nd round in Gstaad on Thursday. Ruud will clash against Benoit Paire in the quarter. The match lasted 1 hour and 36 minutes.
Casper added to his prize money € 5,000 after conquering this match. He has won already € 14,000 after this win. If he wins the next match, the Norwegian will add € 7,000 to his earnings to get in total € 21,000 in total.
Highlights Casper Ruud vs. Dennis Novak Swiss Open – Gstaad
Stats: aces, double faults, breaks, winners
1h:36
At the end of the match, the Norwegian scored 75 points vs. the Austrian’s 65.
Ruud
The Norwegian served exceptionally well to win 92% of the points (35/38) behind his first serve, and he won 65% points (15/23) on his second serve. Casper won this match even if he was not so effective in converting his break points since he converted only 25% (1/4) of the procured opportunities.
Novak
On the other side, Novak wasn’t able to conquer any break point. However, The Norwegian was just to good and Dennis had no opportunity to win this match.
After this match, the head to head between Ruud and Novak is 2-0 for Casper.
Draw and next match H2H: Casper Ruud vs. Benoit Paire – stats
Ruud will come up against Paire in the quarter.
This will be the 4th time that Casper Ruud and Benoit Paire square off. The head to head is 3-0 for Ruud (see full H2H stats), 3-0 on clay.
The last time that they competed against each other, Ruud won 5-7 6-2 6-1 7-64 in the 1st round in Roland garros back in May 2021.
Live score progression and stats
There was not much difference between the 2 players in this set with the exception of 1 break that Casper conquered in the 10th game (6-4).
Casper wasted a good opportunity to break the Austrian in the 6th game when he had 3 consecutive chances (0-40).
They contested 70 points. Casper won 12 points more than the Austrian (41-29). Casper was extremely solid on serve to drop just 4 points (21-4). on the other side of the court, Novak conceded 20 points on serve (25-20).
The set went straight to the tiebreak as there were no breaks. Eventually, Ruud won the breaker at 7-5.
Tiebreak
The Norwegian won 2 minibreaks in the 2nd (2-0) and 12th (7-5) point.
The Norwegian won the tiebreak 7-5 after he conquered a decisive 4-2 lead.
This was the tiebreak sequence: 1-0, 2-0, 2-1, 3-1, 4-1, 4-2, 4-3, 5-3, 6-3, 6-4, 6-5, 7-5
Neither player conceded a single break point during this set. In addition on the other side, Casper didn’t concede a single break point during this set.
They played 70 points. It’s worth to point out that, The Norwegian won this set even if he scored less points 2 than the Austrian (34-36). The Norwegian dropped 6 points on serve (29-6). In addition, on the other side, Novak conceded 5 points on serve (30-5).
Tennis Scores in Gstaad
- Casper RuudRuud – Dennis NovakNovak (6-4 7-65) – Stats and score progression
- Mikael YmerYmer – Feliciano LopezLopez (6-76 7-67 6-4) – Stats and score progression
- Benoit PairePaire – Tallon GriekspoorGriekspoor (6-4 0-0 ret.) – Stats and score progression
- Vit KoprivaKopriva – Denis ShapovalovShapovalov (2-6 6-3 6-2) – Stats and score progression
- Cristian GarinGarin – Marc PolmansPolmans (6-3 6-0) – Stats and score progression
- Hugo GastonGaston – Federico DelbonisDelbonis (6-0 6-72 7-63) – Stats and score progression
- Arthur RinderknechRinderknech – Roberto Bautista AgutBautista Agut (6-2 6-4) – Stats and score progression
- Laslo DjereDjere – Zizou BergsBergs (6-2 4-6 6-2) – Stats and score progression
Upcoming matches
- Laslo DjereDjere – Arthur RinderknechRinderknech (0-0) – H2H details and stats
- Casper RuudRuud – Benoit PairePaire (3-0) – H2H details and stats
- Vit KoprivaKopriva – Mikael YmerYmer (0-0) – H2H details and stats
- Hugo GastonGaston – Christian GarinGarin (0-0) – H2H details and stats
