Casper Ruud and Lorenzo Sonego will clash against each other in the quarter of the San Diego Open for the 2nd time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Friday at 5:30 pm on BARNES STADIUM. 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.
Casper Ruud -> 1.56
Lorenzo Sonego -> 2.56
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Prediction and head to head Casper Ruud vs. Lorenzo Sonego
This will be the 2nd time that Casper Ruud and Lorenzo Sonego square off. The head to head is 1-0 for Ruud (see full H2H stats), but they have never competed against each other on hard.
The last time that they squared off, Ruud won 6-3 6-4 in the 2nd round in Rome back in 2020.
Casper Ruud
Ranked no. 10 (career-high), Casper reached the quarter after defeating Andy Murray 7-5 6-4.
In the 2nd round, Ruud had a good straight sets win against Murray (7-5 6-4). During the match, Ruud scored 74 points vs Murray’s 59. The Norwegian was very aggressive to blast 30 winners.
Regarding the service games, Ruud struck 3 aces and he was quite steady in conceding no double faults. Casper Ruud lost the serve 3 times and he saved 2 break points. Furthermore, Ruud put 69% of his first serves in, winning 67% (30/45) of the points behind his 1st serve and 55% (11/20) on the 2nd serve. The Norwegian broke Murray 5 times after converting 83% of his break points (5/6).
Ruud has a solid record in the last 7 years having won 64% of his matches (252-143). 11-5 on hard in 2021. In connection with his performance on the same surface of this event, Ruud has a composed50-40 win-loss record in the last 7 years on hard.
His best result of the year was conquering the title in in Geneva where he beat 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 beat Hugo Gaston in the final 6-3 6-2 and in in Kitzbuhel where he overcame Pedro Martinez Portero in the final 6-1 4-6 6-3.
Casper has an overall 44-12 win-loss record in 2021, 11-5 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in San Diego
Ruud has never competed in this tournament before.
Lorenzo Sonego
Ranked no. 23 (career-high), Sonego got to the quarter after defeating Nikoloz Basilashvili 6-3 6-4 and Sebastian Korda 6-4 6-3.
In the 2nd round, Lorenzo had a good straight sets win against Korda (6-4 6-3). During the match Sonego scored 65 points vs Korda’s 54. The Italian was pretty aggressive to blast 34 winners.
About the serving games, Sonego blasted 7 aces and he was pretty steady in conceding no double faults for the entire match. Lorenzo Sonego lost the serve once and he saved 6 break points. Furthermore, Sonego put 60% of his first serves in, winning 79% (34/43) of the points behind his 1st serve and 48% (14/29) on the 2nd serve. Lorenzo was clinical in his return game without wasting any break point and break Korda 3 times.
Overall Performance in this tournament
Lorenzo started his run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, he hasn’t surrendered yet a set in this tournament to conquer 57% of the points he played.
His best result of the current season was conquering the title in in Cagliari where he beat Laslo Djere in the final 2-6 7-6(5) 6-4.
Lorenzo has a compiled 27-19 win-loss record in 2021, 9-9 on hard (See FULL STATS).
H2H Performance in the tournament (main draw)
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Ruud | Sonego |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 1 | 2 |
| Tot Set | 2 | 4 |
| Tot Games | 22 | 38 |
| Pts | 74-59 | 133-102 |
| Total Points | 133 | 235 |
| Winners | 30 | 65 |
| %Winners | 41% | 49% |
Ruud played 1 match while Sonego competed in 2 matches. Both players have not lost a single set in this event so far. Ruud has played 2 set(s) less than Sonego (2 vs 4). Therefore, Ruud played 16 games less than Sonego. Ruud scored 30 winners (41% of the total points). On the other side, Lorenzo bagged 65 winners (49%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Ruud | Sonego |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 3 | 19 |
| Avg per match | 3 | 9.5 |
| 1st in | 45/65 | 80/128 |
| %1st in | 69% | 63% |
| 1st pts | 30/45 | 65/80 |
| %1st pts | 67% | 81% |
| 2nd pts | 11/20 | 26/48 |
| %2nd pts | 55% | 54% |
Ruud fired 3 aces . Sonego bagged 19 aces (9.5 per match). Ruud won 67% points on his first serve. He very solid his second serve to win 55% of the points. On the other side, Sonego won 81% of the points on his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 54% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Ruud | Sonego |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 5 | 5 |
| Converted | 5/6 | 5/7 |
| % Converted | 83% | 71% |
| Conceded | 5 | 9 |
| Saved | 2 | 8 |
| % Saved | 40% | 89% |
| Times Broken | 3 | 1 |
Ruud broke his opponent 5 times with a 83% conversion rate. Casper dropped his serve 3 times and he saved 40% of the break points that he conceded. Sonego broke his opponents 5 times with a 71% conversion rate. Sonego conceded his serve once and he saved 89% of the break points that he conceded.
| Ruud | |||
| R2 Murray | Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 7-5 6-4 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 22 | 22 | |
| pts | 74-59 | 74-59 | |
| Total points | 133 | 133 | |
| Winners | 30 | 30 | |
| %Winners | 41% | 41% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 3 | 3 | |
| Double Faults | 0 | 0 | |
| 1st in | 45/65 | 45/65 | |
| % 1st in | 69% | 69% | |
| 1st pts | 30/45 | 30/45 | |
| % 1st pts | 67% | 67% | |
| 2nd pts | 11/20 | 11/20 | |
| % 2nd pts | 55% | 55% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 5 | 5 | |
| Converted | 5/6 | 5/6 | |
| Converted % | 83% | 83% | |
| Conceded | 5 | 5 | |
| Saved | 2/5 | 2 | |
| Saved % | 40% | 40% | |
| Times Broken | 3 | 3 | |
| Sonego | ||||
| R1 Basilashvili | R2 Korda | Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-3 6-4 | 6-4 6-3 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | 4 | |
| Tot Games | 19 | 19 | 38 | |
| pts | 68-48 | 65-54 | 133-102 | |
| Total points | 116 | 119 | 235 | |
| Winners | 31 | 34 | 65 | |
| %Winners | 46% | 52% | 49% | |
| SERVE | ||||
| Aces | 12 | 7 | 19 | |
| Double Faults | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| 1st in | 37/56 | 43/72 | 80/128 | |
| % 1st in | 66% | 60% | 63% | |
| 1st pts | 31/37 | 34/43 | 65/80 | |
| % 1st pts | 84% | 79% | 81% | |
| 2nd pts | 12/19 | 14/29 | 26/48 | |
| % 2nd pts | 63% | 48% | 54% | |
| Breaks | ||||
| Won | 2 | 3 | 5 | |
| Converted | 2/4 | 3/3 | 5/7 | |
| Converted % | 50% | 100% | 71% | |
| Conceded | 2 | 7 | 9 | |
| Saved | 2/2 | 6/7 | 8 | |
| Saved % | 100% | 86% | 186% | |
| Times Broken | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
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