Casper Ruud and Mikael Ymer will play each other in the quarter of the Generali Open for the 3rd time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Thursday 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.
As per the initial odds, Casper Ruud is the pick to win this match.
Casper Ruud -> 1.192
Mikael Ymer -> 5.2
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Prediction and head to head Casper Ruud vs. Mikael Ymer
This will be the 3rd time that Casper Ruud and Mikael Ymer face off. The head to head is 1-1 for Ruud and Ymer (see full H2H stats), but they have never competed against each other on clay.
The last time that they played each other, Ruud won 6-4 3-6 6-4 in the qualifications in Paris back in 2019.
Casper Ruud
Ranked no. 14 (career-high), the Norwegian reached the quarter after defeating Mario Vilella Martinez 7-5 5-7 6-4.
In the 2nd round, Ruud defeated Vilella Martinez (7-5 5-7 6-4). During the match, Ruud scored 98 points vs Vilella Martinez’s 90. Casper was very aggressive to blast 38 winners.
Regarding the service games, Ruud scored 4 aces and he committed only 7 double faults. Overall, Casper Ruud was very effective on serve to win 76% (38/50) of his 1st serve and 65% (26/40) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve twice. Ruud broke Vilella Martinez 3 times after converting 43% of his break points (3/7).
Ruud has a solid win-loss record in the last 7 years having won 63% of his matches (240-140). 25-5 on clay in 2021. In connection with his performance on the same surface of this event, Ruud has a compiled162-80 match record in the last 7 years on clay.
His best result of the current year was conquering the title in in Geneva where he overcame Denis Shapovalov in the final 7-6(6) 6-4 and in in Bastad where he overcame 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.
The Norwegian has a compiled 32-9 win-loss record in 2021, 25-5 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Previously in Kitzbuhel
Previously, his best result was reaching the semifinal in 2019. See his history.
Mikael Ymer
Ranked no. 99, Mikael got to the quarter after beating Pablo Cuevas 6-3 7-5 and Alexander Erler 6-2 6-3.
In the 2nd round, The Swede had a good straight sets win against Erler (6-2 6-3). During the match Ymer scored 70 points vs Erler’s 53. Mikael was extremely aggressive to blast 23 winners.
Talking about serving, Ymer struck 2 aces and he committed only 4 double faults. Mikael Ymer lost the serve once and he saved 3 break points. Furthermore, Ymer put 63% of his first serves in, winning 64% (23/36) of the points behind his 1st serve and 67% (14/21) on the 2nd serve. Mikael broke Erler 4 times after converting 36% of his break points (4/11).
Overall Performance in this tournament
Ymer started his run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, he hasn’t surrendered yet a set in this tournament to win 55% of the points he played.
Mikael has an aggregate 17-13 win-loss record in 2021, 10-6 on clay (See FULL STATS).
H2H Performance in the tournament (main draw)
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Ruud | Ymer |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 1 | 2 |
| Tot Set | 3 | 4 |
| Tot Games | 34 | 38 |
| Pts | 98-90 | 148-120 |
| Total Points | 188 | 268 |
| Winners | 38 | 58 |
| %Winners | 39% | 39% |
Ruud played 1 match while Ymer competed in 2 matches. At the moment, Casper Ruud dropped 1 set while Mikael Ymer hasn’t surrendered a set so far. Ruud has played 1 set(s) less than Ymer (3 vs 4). Therefore, Ruud played 4 games less than Ymer. Casper scored 38 winners (39% of the total points). On the other side, The Swede recorded 58 winners (39%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Ruud | Ymer |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 4 | 3 |
| Avg per match | 4 | 1.5 |
| 1st in | 50/90 | 85/132 |
| %1st in | 56% | 64% |
| 1st pts | 38/50 | 58/85 |
| %1st pts | 76% | 68% |
| 2nd pts | 26/40 | 27/47 |
| %2nd pts | 65% | 57% |
Ruud bagged 4 aces . Ymer struck 3 aces (1.5 per match). Ruud won 76% points behind his first serve. He pretty effective on his second serve to win 65% of the points. On the other side, Ymer won 68% of the points on his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 57% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Ruud | Ymer |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 3 | 7 |
| Converted | 3/7 | 7/23 |
| % Converted | 43% | 30% |
| Conceded | 2 | 10 |
| Saved | 0 | 8 |
| % Saved | 0% | 80% |
| Times Broken | 2 | 2 |
Ruud broke his opponent 3 times with a 43% conversion rate. Ruud lost his serve twice and he saved 0% of the break points that he conceded. Mikael broke his opponents 7 times with a 30% conversion rate. The Swede conceded his serve twice and he saved 80% of the break points that he conceded.
| Ruud | |||
| R2 Vilella Martinez |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 7-5 5-7 6-4 | ||
| Tot Set | 3 | 3 | |
| Tot Games | 34 | 34 | |
| pts | 98-90 | 98-90 | |
| Total points | 188 | 188 | |
| Winners | 38 | 38 | |
| %Winners | 39% | 39% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 4 | 4 | |
| Double Faults | 7 | 7 | |
| 1st in | 50/90 | 50/90 | |
| % 1st in | 56% | 56% | |
| 1st pts | 38/50 | 38/50 | |
| % 1st pts | 76% | 76% | |
| 2nd pts | 26/40 | 26/40 | |
| % 2nd pts | 65% | 65% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 3 | 3 | |
| Converted | 3/7 | 3/7 | |
| Converted % | 43% | 43% | |
| Conceded | 2 | 2 | |
| Saved | 0/2 | 0 | |
| Saved % | 0% | 0% | |
| Times Broken | 2 | 2 | |
| Ymer | ||||
| R1 Cuevas |
R2 Erler |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-3 7-5 | 6-2 6-3 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | 4 | |
| Tot Games | 21 | 17 | 38 | |
| pts | 78-67 | 70-53 | 148-120 | |
| Total points | 145 | 123 | 268 | |
| Winners | 35 | 23 | 58 | |
| %Winners | 45% | 33% | 39% | |
| SERVE | ||||
| Aces | 1 | 2 | 3 | |
| Double Faults | 3 | 4 | 7 | |
| 1st in | 49/75 | 36/57 | 85/132 | |
| % 1st in | 65% | 63% | 64% | |
| 1st pts | 35/49 | 23/36 | 58/85 | |
| % 1st pts | 71% | 64% | 68% | |
| 2nd pts | 13/26 | 14/21 | 27/47 | |
| % 2nd pts | 50% | 67% | 57% | |
| Breaks | ||||
| Won | 3 | 4 | 7 | |
| Converted | 3/12 | 4/11 | 7/23 | |
| Converted % | 25% | 36% | 30% | |
| Conceded | 6 | 4 | 10 | |
| Saved | 5/6 | 3/4 | 8 | |
| Saved % | 83% | 75% | 158% | |
| Times Broken | 1 | 1 | 2 | |
Head 2 Head
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