Casper Ruud and Mario Vilella Martinez will play each other in the 2nd round of the Generali Open for the 2nd time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Wednesday at 5:30 pm on CENTER COURT. In the following lines you can find the head to head analysis and prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Casper Ruud who should win in 2 sets.
Casper Ruud -> 1.11
Mario Vilella Martinez -> 6.50
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Prediction and head to head Casper Ruud vs. Mario Vilella Martinez
This will be the 2nd time that Casper Ruud and Mario Vilella Martinez 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 squared off, Ruud won 7-5 6-7(2) 6-4 in the quarter in Spain F3 back in 2016.
Casper Ruud
Ranked no. 14 (career-high), the Norwegian will start his run in Kitzbuhel after he won the title in Gstaad after beating 6-3 6-2 Gaston in the final.
Ruud has a compiled 31-9 win-loss record in 2021, 24-5 on clay (See FULL STATS).
His best result of the current year was winning the title in in Geneva where he overcame Denis Shapovalov in the final 7-6(6) 6-4 and in in Bastad where he defeated Federico Coria in the final 6-3 6-3 and in in Gstaad where he overcame Hugo Gaston in the final 6-3 6-2.
Casper won his last 7 matches.
Talking about his overall career, Ruud has an overall 239-140 record. He has a positive 161-80 record on clay.
Previously in Kitzbuhel
Previously, his best result was reaching the semifinal in 2019. See his history.
Mario Vilella Martinez
Ranked no. 167, Mario reached the 2nd round after beating Lucas Miedler 6-3 6-4 and Lukas Neumayer 6-74 7-5 6-4.
In the 1st round against Neumayer, The Spaniard recovered from a 1-set down deficit before winning (6-74 7-5 6-4). During the match Vilella Martinez and Neumayer scored the same amount of points (114). However, the world no. 14 was stronger during the important points and that was the most significant difference in the match. The Spaniard was exceptionally aggressive to blast 47 winners.
Talking about serving, Vilella Martinez bagged 7 aces and he was not very steady on his 2nd serve to score 10 double faults. Mario Vilella Martinez lost the serve 3 times and he saved 7 break points. Furthermore, Vilella Martinez put 51% of his first serves in, winning 78% (47/60) of the points behind his 1st serve and 46% (26/57) on the 2nd serve. Mario broke Neumayer 5 times after converting 50% of his break points (5/10).
The Spaniard’s best result of the year was reaching the final in the Todi Challenger.
Vilella Martinez has a composed 26-16 win-loss record in 2021, 21-10 on clay (See FULL STATS)
.Tennis Scores in Kitzbuhel
- Daniel AltmaierAltmaier – Laslo DjereDjere (4-6 6-3 6-3) – See score progression
- Mario Vilella MartinezVilella Martinez – Lukas NeumayerNeumayer (6-74 7-5 6-4) – See score progression
- Holger Vitus Nodskov RuneVitus Nodskov Rune – Stefano TravagliaTravaglia (6-3 6-4) – See score progression
- Alexander ErlerErler – Carlos Alcaraz GarfiaAlcaraz Garfia (7-5 1-6 6-2) – See score progression
- Marco CecchinatoCecchinato – Radu AlbotAlbot (6-3 7-67) – See score progression
- Gianluca MagerMager – Dennis NovakNovak (6-4 6-0) – See score progression
- Arthur RinderknechRinderknech – Federico DelbonisDelbonis (6-2 6-4) – See score progression
- Carlos TabernerTaberner – Thiago Seyboth WildSeyboth Wild (3-6 6-3 6-2) – See score progression
- Jozef KovalikKovalik – Jaume Antoni Munar ClarAntoni Munar Clar (6-4 6-4) – See score progression
- Pedro Martinez PorteroMartinez Portero – Lucas PouillePouille (6-3 6-74 6-4) – See score progression
- Jiri VeselyVesely – Ernests GulbisGulbis (6-4 6-1) – See score progression
- Mikael YmerYmer – Pablo CuevasCuevas (6-3 7-5) – See score progression
Upcoming matches in the draw
- Jozef KovalikKovalik – Jiri VeselyVesely (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Filip KrajinovicKrajinovic – Carlos TabernerTaberner (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Gianluca MagerMager – Albert Ramos-VinolasRamos-Vinolas (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Pedro Martinez PorteroMartinez Portero – Roberto Bautista AgutBautista Agut (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Daniel AltmaierAltmaier – Marco CecchinatoCecchinato (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Casper RuudRuud – Mario Vilella MartinezVilella Martinez (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Mikael YmerYmer – Alexander ErlerErler (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Holger Vitus Nodskov RuneVitus Nodskov Rune – Arthur RinderknechRinderknech (0-0) – H2H and prediction