Emil Ruusuvuori and Prajnesh Gunneswaran will clash against each other in the 1st round of the Citi Open for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Tuesday at 2:00 pm on COURT 4. In the following paragraphs, you can find the head to head analysis and prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Emil Ruusuvuori who should win in 2 sets.
Emil Ruusuvuori -> 1.36
Prajnesh Gunneswaran -> 3.26
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Prediction and head to head Emil Ruusuvuori vs. Prajnesh Gunneswaran
There is no head to head record between Emil Ruusuvuori and Prajnesh Gunneswaran since this will be the first time that they will square off in the main tour.
Emil Ruusuvuori
Ranked no. 69 (career-high), Ruusuvuori will start his run in Washington after he played his last match in Atlanta where he lost 3-6 6-4 6-3 to Nakashima in the semifinal on the 31st of July.
The Finn has a compiled 16-16 win-loss record in 2021, 12-6 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Emil’s best result of the current season was reaching the semifinal in Atlanta.
Talking about his overall career, Ruusuvuori has an overall 176-89 record. He has a positive 74-27 record on hard.
Previously in Washington
The Finn has never competed in this tournament before.
Prajnesh Gunneswaran
Ranked no. 158, the Indian reached the 1st round after defeating Luke Saville 6-2 6-2 and Go Soeda 6-3 6-1.
In the qualifications, The Indian had a good straight sets win against Soeda (6-3 6-1). During the match Gunneswaran scored 63 points vs Soeda’s 40. Prajnesh was extremely aggressive to blast 22 winners.
Talking about serving, Gunneswaran fired 6 aces and he was exceptionally consistent in conceding no double faults for the entire match. Prajnesh Gunneswaran was very effective on serve to win 79% (22/28) of his 1st serve and 67% (12/18) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. Prajnesh broke Soeda 4 times after converting 67% of his break points (4/6).
Overall Performance in this tournament
Prajnesh 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 60% of the points he played.
The Indian’s best result of the season was getting to the semifinal in the Sultan 1 Challenger and the Sultan 2 Challenger.
Gunneswaran has a composed 13-19 win-loss record in 2021, 7-8 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Tennis Scores in Washington
- Jenson BrooksbyBrooksby – Kevin AndersonAnderson (7-64 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Andreas SeppiSeppi – Yasutaka UchiyamaUchiyama (3-6 7-5 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Richard BerankisBerankis – Mitchell KruegerKrueger (7-64 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Ilya IvashkaIvashka – Egor GerasimovGerasimov (7-5 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Daniel Elahi GalanElahi Galan – Tommy PaulPaul (6-4 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Marcos GironMarcos – Illya MarchenkoIllya (4-6 6-4 7-6(1)) – See score progression
Upcoming matches in the draw
- Andreas SeppiSeppi – Felix Auger AliassimeAuger Aliassime (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Kei NishikoriNishikori – Sam QuerreyQuerrey (6-4) – H2H and prediction
- Emilio GomezGomez – Vasek PospisilPospisil (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Steve JohnsonJohnson – Ramkumar RamanathanRamanathan (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Grigor DimitrovDimitrov – Ilya IvashkaIvashka (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Prajnesh GunneswaranGunneswaran – Emil RuusuvuoriRuusuvuori (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Tennys SandgrenSandgren – James DuckworthDuckworth (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Denis KudlaKudla – Feliciano LopezLopez (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Jack SockSock – Yoshihito NishiokaNishioka (2-1) – H2H and prediction
- Mackenzie McdonaldMcdonald – Nick KyrgiosKyrgios (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Marcos GironGiron – Cameron NorrieNorrie (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Elias YmerYmer – Jordan ThompsonThompson (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Reilly OpelkaOpelka – Daniel Elahi GalanElahi Galan (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Frances TiafoeTiafoe – Jenson BrooksbyBrooksby (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Miomir KecmanovicKecmanovic – Richard BerankisBerankis (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Brandon NakashimaNakashima – Alexei PopyrinPopyrin (0-0) – H2H and prediction