Casper Ruud overcomes Diego Sebastian Schwartzman 5-7 6-2 6-3 in the final in Buenos Aires on Sunday. The battle lasted 2 hours and 34 minutes. This is second time that the Norwegian wins the tournament. Here you can see his history at this event.
Ruud added $ 38,165 to his prize money after conquering this final. He has earned $ 91,600 in total after conquering this tournament.
Highlights Casper Ruud vs. Diego Sebastian Schwartzman Argentina Open – Buenos Aires
Stats: aces, double faults, breaks, winners
At the end of the match, Casper scored 96 points vs. the Argentine’s 77.
Ruud
Casper fired 10 aces and he committed 1 double fault. Casper won this match even if he was not so effective in converting his break points after he converted only 24% (4/17) of the procured opportunities.
Schwartzman
On the other side, Diego was pretty effective at converting 50% of the break points that he conquered points (2/4). Nonetheless, that was not enough to win the match.
After this encounter, the head to head between Ruud and Schwartzman is 3-5 for Diego.
This was the 7th career title for Casper. (see list of titles and finals). Schwartzman remains with 4th titles after he conquered the tournament in Istanbul 2016, in Rio De Janeiro 2018, in Los Cabos 2019 and in Buenos Aires 2021. (see list of titles and finals)
Live score progression and stats
Both players managed to hold their serve for the entire set. The only difference was just 1 break that Diego snatched in the 11th game (6-5) before finally conquering the set (7-5).
Diego was exemplary in converting all his break points in the 7th (3-3 15-40 and 30-40) and the 11th game (5-5 15-40). Moreover, on the other side, Casper was spot on in converting all his break points in the 2nd (1-1 15-40 and 30-40), the 4th (2-1 30-40) and the 10th game (5-4 30-40).
They played 70 points. Diego was the winner of the set after clinching 6 points more than Casper (38-32). The Argentine dropped 10 points on serve (27-10). on the other side of the net, Casper conceded 11 points on serve (22-11).
Ruud in this set stepped up in a great fashion to overplay Schwartzman and without too much struggle he won 6-2 after breaking the Argentine in the 6th (4-2) and in the 8th (6-2) game.
The Argentine was not able to offer any resistance in the last 4 games of the set when the scoreline went from 2-2 to 6-2.
Ruud converted 28% of his break points (2/7). He had 7 break points opportunities in the 2nd (1-0 30-40, 40-A, 40-A and 40-A), the 6th (3-2 15-40 and 30-40) and the 8th game (5-2 40-A). On the other side, the Norwegian didn’t concede a single break point during this set.
They played 55 points. The Norwegian was the winner of the set after clinching 11 more points than Diego (33-22). Casper was extremely solid on serve to concede just 4 points (17-4). In addition, on the other side, the Argentine conceded 16 points on serve (18-16).
Ruud had a racing start in this set after breaking Diego Sebastian Schwartzman in the 2nd game (2-0). Nonetheless, there was more work to do for Ruud to win the set as Diego found the way to break back in the 3rd (1-2) game. Ruud kept his focus to break Schwartzman in the 4th (3-1) game before winning the set (6-3).
Ruud lost a big opportunity to break Diego in the 6th game when he had 3 consecutive chances (0-40).
Casper converted 33% of his break points (2/6). He had 6 break points opportunities in the 2nd (1-0 0-40), the 4th (2-1 0-40) and the 6th game (4-1 0-40, 15-40, 30-40 and 40-A). On the other side, the Argentine was clinical in converting the only break point that he conquered in the 3rd game (0-2 15-40).
They contested 48 points. Ruud was the winner of the set after clinching 14 more points than Diego (31-17). Casper surrendered 6 points on serve (17-6). on the other side of the net, Schwartzman conceded 14 points on serve (11-14).
