Casper Ruud victorious over Botic Van De Zandschulp 7-5 7-6(1) in the 2nd round in Monte-Carlo Rolex Masters on Wednesday. Ruud will square off with Jan-Lennard Struff in the 3rd round. The battle lasted 2 hours and 15 minutes. His best achievement in this competition was reaching the semifinal in 2021. Here you can see his history at this event.
Casper added to his prize money € 36,060 after winning this match. He has already won € 77,760 after this win. If he wins the next match, Ruud will add € 67,620 to his earnings to get in total € 145,380 in total.
Highlights Casper Ruud vs. Botic Van De Zandschulp Monte-Carlo Rolex Masters – Monte-Carlo
Ruud’s Interview
Stats: aces, double faults, breaks, winners
2h:15
At the end of the match, the Norwegian scored 90 points vs. Van De Zandschulp’s 75.
Ruud
Casper won this match even if he had some problems converting his break points since he converted only 38% (5/13) of the procured opportunities.
Van De Zandschulp
On the other side, the Dutch was effective when converting 50% of the break points that he procured points (4/8). However, that was not enough to win the contest.
After this match, the head to head between Ruud and Van De Zandschulp is 2-3 for Botic.
Draw and next match H2H: Casper Ruud vs. Jan-Lennard Struff – stats
Ruud will fight against Struff in the 3rd round.
This will be the 3rd time that Casper Ruud and Jan-Lennard Struff play each other. The head to head is 2-0 for Struff (see full H2H stats), 1-0 on clay.
The last time that they locked horns, Struff won 6-4 6-4 in the 1st round in Carlo back in 2017.
Live score progression and stats
Ruud won the set after he broke Botic in the 5th (3-2) and in the 11th (6-5) game. Van De Zandschulp tried to stage a comeback breaking in the 8th (4-4) game. Notwithstanding, the Norwegian kept the situation under control to conquer the set 7-5.
The Dutch was completely wiped out in the last 4 games of the set when the game count went from 4-5 to 7-5.
Ruud converted 18% of his break points (2/11). He had 11 break points opportunities in the 1st (0-0 15-40, 30-40 and 40-A), the 5th (2-2 30-40 and 40-A), the 11th (5-5 30-40) and the 13th game (7-4 15-40, 30-40, 40-A, 40-A and 40-A). Moreover, on the other side, Van De Zandschulp converted 50% of his break points (1/2). He had his opportunities in the 8th (3-4 40-A) and the 12th game (5-6 30-40).
They contested 93 points. Ruud was the one to win the set after conquering 7 points more than Van De Zandschulp (50-43). Casper dropped 14 points on serve (26-14). on the other side of the court, Van De Zandschulp conceded 24 points on serve (29-24).
Ruud won the set after recovering 2 times from a break down. In fact, after dropping his serve in the 4th (1-3) and in the 12th (6-6) game, Ruud broke back in the 7th (3-4) and in the 11th (6-5) game before bringing the set at the tiebreak that he won 7-1.
Casper failed to serve out the set when leading 6-5 to be broken at 30.
Tiebreak
Ruud won 4 minibreaks in the 1st (1-0), 4th (4-0), 5th (5-0) and 8th (7-1) point. On the other side, the Dutch won a minibreak in the 6th (1-5) point.
Casper won the tiebreak 7-1 after he conquered a decisive 4-0 lead.
This was the tiebreak sequence: 1-0, 2-0, 3-0, 4-0, 5-0, 5-1, 6-1, 7-1
Ruud was unerring in converting all his break points in the 7th (2-4 0-40) and the 10th game (5-5 0-40). On the other side, Botic converted 33% of his break points (2/6). He had his opportunities in the 1st (0-0 30-40 and 40-A), the 4th (2-1 15-40 and 30-40), the 10th (5-4 30-40) and the 12th game (5-6 30-40).
They contested 72 points. Casper was the winner of the set after clinching 8 points more than Botic (40-32). Casper dropped 20 points on serve (24-20). Regarding the other side of the net, Botic conceded 16 points on serve (12-16).
Tennis Scores in Monte Carlo Rolex Masters
- Casper RuudRuud – Botic Van De ZandschulpVan De Zandschulp (7-5 7-61) – Stats and score progression
- Alexander ZverevZverev – Roberto Bautista AgutBautista Agut (6-4 6-4) – Stats and score progression
- Jiri LeheckaLehecka – Grigor DimitrovDimitrov (7-64 6-4) – Stats and score progression
- Nicolas JarryJarry – Alexei PopyrinPopyrin (3-6 7-5 6-4) – Stats and score progression
- Jannik SinnerSinner – Diego SchwartzmanSchwartzman (6-0 3-1 ret.) – Stats and score progression
- Lorenzo MusettiMusetti – Luca NardiNardi (6-0 6-0) – Stats and score progression
- Jan-Lennard StruffStruff – Alex De MinaurDe Minaur (6-3 6-2) – Stats and score progression
- Stefanos TsitsipasTsitsipas – Benjamin BonziBonzi (4-1 ret.) – Stats and score progression
- Andrey RublevRublev – Jaume Antoni Munar ClarAntoni Munar Clar (4-6 6-2 6-2) – Stats and score progression
- Novak DjokovicDjokovic – Ivan GakhovGakhov (7-65 6-2) – Stats and score progression
- Hubert HurkaczHurkacz – Jack DraperDraper (6-3 6-73 7-5) – Stats and score progression
Upcoming matches
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- Hubert HurkaczHurkacz – Jannik SinnerSinner (2-1) – H2H details and stats
- Nicolas JarryJarry – Stefanos TsitsipasTsitsipas (1-0) – H2H details and stats
- Ilya IvashkaIvashka – Karen KhachanovKhachanov (0-1) – H2H details and stats
- Taylor Harry FritzHarry Fritz – Stan WawrinkaWawrinka (0-2) – H2H details and stats
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