Casper Ruud and Reilly Opelka will square off in the 2nd round of the Western & Southern Open for the 3rd time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Wednesday at 1:00 pm on Porsche Court 10. 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 Casper Ruud who should win in 3 sets.
As per the initial odds, Casper Ruud is the pick to win this match.
Casper Ruud -> 1.71
Reilly Opelka -> 2.19
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Prediction and head to head Casper Ruud vs. Reilly Opelka
This will be the 3rd time that Casper Ruud and Reilly Opelka square off. The head to head is 1-1 (see full H2H stats), 1-0 on hard.
The last time that they competed against each other, Ruud won 4-6 6-4 6-4 in the 2nd round in Houston back in 2019.
Casper Ruud
Ranked no. 11 (career-high), the Norwegian will start his run in Cincinnati after he played his last match in Toronto where he lost 6-1 6-4 to Tsitsipas in the quarter on the 13th of August.
Ruud has a compiled 37-10 win-loss record in 2021, 7-3 on hard (See FULL STATS).
His best result of the current year was conquering the title in in Geneva where he defeated 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 defeated Hugo Gaston in the final 6-3 6-2 and in in Kitzbuhel where he beat Pedro Martinez Portero in the final 6-1 4-6 6-3.
Talking about his overall career, Ruud has an overall 245-141 record. He has a positive 46-38 record on hard.
Previously in Cincinnati
Previously, his best result was reaching the 1st round in 2019 and 2020. See his history.
Reilly Opelka
Ranked no. 23 (career-high), Reilly reached the 2nd round after beating Corentin Moutet 7-63 4-6 6-4.
In the 1st round, The American defeated Moutet (7-63 4-6 6-4). During the match Opelka scored 97 points vs Moutet’s 89. Opelka was quite aggressive to blast 56 winners.
Talking about serving, Opelka bagged 14 aces and he committed only 7 double faults. Overall, Reilly Opelka was exceptionally effective on serve to win 85% (56/66) of his 1st serve and 52% (12/23) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve once. Reilly broke Moutet once after converting 33% of his break points (1/3).
The American’s best result of the current season was getting to the final in Toronto.
The American has a composed 16-15 win-loss record in 2021, 10-8 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Head 2 Head
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- Matteo BerrettiniBerrettini – Albert Ramos-VinolasRamos-Vinolas (6-75 6-3 7-5) – Stats, scores, rankings
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