Daniil Medvedev beats Casper Ruud 6-4 6-2 in the semifinal at the Nitto ATP Finals on Saturday. Medvedev will face off with Alexander Zverev in the final. The match lasted 1 hour and 19 minutes. The Russian won this tournament once in 2020. Here you can see his history at this event.
Highlights Daniil Medvedev vs. Casper Ruud Nitto ATP Finals – Turin
Stats: aces, double faults, breaks, winners
At the end of the match, Daniil scored 62 points vs. the Norwegian’s 47.
Medvedev
The Russian served exceptionally well to win 82% of the points (23/28) behind his first serve, and he won 74% points (14/19) on his second serve. The Russian won this match even if he was battling in converting his break points as he converted only 33% (3/9) of the procured opportunities.
Ruud
On the other side, Casper wasn’t able to conquer any break point. However, Medvedev was just to good and Ruud had no opportunity to win this match.
After this encounter, the head to head between Medvedev and Ruud is 3-0 for Daniil.
Draw and next match H2H: Daniil Medvedev vs. Alexander Zverev – stats
Medvedev will square off with Zverev in the final.
This will be the 12th time that Daniil Medvedev and Alexander Zverev face off. The head to head is 6-5 for Medvedev (see full H2H stats), 4-2 on I.hard.
The last time that they competed against each other, Medvedev won 6-3 6-73 7-66 in the R in Nitto atp finals back in November 2021.
Live score progression and stats
The set was even with both players refusing to concede anything to the opposition. Eventually, the only discrepancy was one break that Medvedev conquered in the 3rd game (2-1) prior to ultimately winning the set (6-4).
They played 57 points. Medvedev conquered the set after winning 7 points more than the Norwegian (32-25). The Russian was extremely solid on serve to concede just 4 points (22-4). In addition, on the other side, Ruud conceded 10 points on serve (21-10).
Medvedev in this set stepped up in great fashion to overplay Ruud and without too much struggle he won 6-2 after breaking Ruud in the 5th (3-2) and in the 7th (5-2) game.
The Norwegian couldn’t stop the opposition in the last 5 games of the set when the scoreline went from 1-2 to 6-2.
They contested 55 points. Medvedev conquered the set after winning 13 points more than Casper (34-21). Medvedev dropped 7 points on serve (17-7). Regarding the other side of the net, Casper conceded 17 points on serve (14-17).
Tennis Scores in Nitto ATP Finals
- Alexander ZverevZverev – Novak DjokovicDjokovic (7-64 4-6 6-3) – Stats and score progression
- Daniil MedvedevMedvedev – Casper RuudRuud (6-4 6-2) – Stats and score progression
Upcoming matches
- Alexander ZverevZverev – Daniil MedvedevMedvedev (5-6) – H2H details and stats