Emil Ruusuvuori surprises Hubert Hurkacz 6-4 7-6(3) in the 2nd round in Washington on Wednesday. Ruusuvuori will have to play Mikael Ymer in the 3rd round. The match lasted 1 hour and 43 minutes. This will be his best achievement in this competition. In the past, the best he could do in the past was reaching the 2nd round in 2021. Here you can see his history at this event.
The Finn added to his prize money $ 11,815 after winning this match. He has won already $ 26,095 after this win. If he wins the next match, the Finn will add $ 23,420 to his earnings to get in total $ 49,515 in total.
Highlights Emil Ruusuvuori vs. Hubert Hurkacz Citi Open – Washington
Stats: aces, double faults, breaks, winners
At the end of the match, Emil scored 73 points vs. the Pole’s 65.
Ruusuvuori
The Finn served extremely well to win 77% of the points (37/48) behind his first serve, and he won 68% points (17/25) on his second serve. The Finn was exceptional in converting the only break point that he conquered.
Hurkacz
On the other side, Hurkacz wasn’t able to conquer any break point (0/4). That was one of the key issues for his demise.
After this match, the head to head between Ruusuvuori and Hurkacz is 1-0 for Emil.
Draw and next match H2H: Emil Ruusuvuori vs. Mikael Ymer – stats
Ruusuvuori will come up against Ymer in the 3rd round.
This will be the 3rd time that Emil Ruusuvuori and Mikael Ymer square off. The head to head is 2-0 for Ruusuvuori (see full H2H stats), 1-0 on hard.
Live score progression and stats
There was not much difference between the 2 players in this set with the exception of 1 break that the Finn conquered in the 5th game (3-2) prior to ultimately winning the set (6-4).
Ruusuvuori was clinical in converting the only break point that he conquered in the 5th game (2-2 40-A). On the other side, Hurkacz wasn’t able to convert 1 break point in the 3rd game (2-1 30-40).
They contested 56 points. Ruusuvuori was the winner of the set after clinching 8 more points than Hubert (32-24). Emil dropped 5 points on serve (21-5). on the other side of the court, Hurkacz conceded 11 points on serve (19-11).
The set went straight to the tiebreak as there were no breaks. Finally, the Finn won the tiebreak at 7-3.
Tiebreak
The Finn won 3 minibreaks in the 8th (5-3), 9th (6-3) and 10th (7-3) point.
This was the tiebreak sequence: 0-1, 1-1, 2-1, 2-2, 2-3, 3-3, 4-3, 5-3, 6-3, 7-3
Neither player conceded a single break point during this set. On the other side, Hurkacz was unable to convert any of his 3 break points. He had 3 break points opportunities in the 6th game (3-2 40-A, 40-A and 40-A).
They played 82 points. This set was so close that, Emil won this set even if he scored the same amount of points as his opponent. The Finn surrendered 14 points on serve (32-14). Regarding the other side of the net, the Pole conceded 9 points on serve (27-9).
Tennis Scores in Washington
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- Frances TiafoeTiafoe – Christopher EubanksEubanks (6-3 7-62) – Stats and score progression
- Mikael YmerYmer – Aslan KaratsevKaratsev (6-4 3-6 6-4) – Stats and score progression
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- Daniel EvansEvans – Kyle EdmundEdmund (6-1 6-2) – Stats and score progression
- Botic Van De ZandschulpVan De Zandschulp – Borna GojoGojo (7-66 6-75 6-4) – Stats and score progression
- Andrey RublevRublev – Jack DraperDraper (6-4 6-2) – Stats and score progression
Upcoming matches
- Grigor DimitrovDimitrov – Sebastian KordaKorda (0-0) – H2H details and stats
- Nick KyrgiosKyrgios – Reilly OpelkaOpelka (0-2) – H2H details and stats
- Yoshihito NishiokaNishioka – Karen KhachanovKhachanov (0-2) – H2H details and stats
- Botic Van De ZandschulpVan De Zandschulp – Frances TiafoeTiafoe (0-0) – H2H details and stats
- Andrey RublevRublev – Maxime CressyCressy (0-0) – H2H details and stats
- Taylor Harry FritzHarry Fritz – Daniel EvansEvans (1-0) – H2H details and stats
- Mikael YmerYmer – Emil RuusuvuoriRuusuvuori (0-2) – H2H details and stats
- Holger Vitus Nodskov RuneVitus Nodskov Rune – Jeff WolfWolf (0-0) – H2H details and stats