Casper Ruud and Max Purcell will face off in the 2nd round of the Western & Southern Open for the 2nd time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Wednesday at 1:30 pm on COURT 4. Here the head to head stats and relative prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Casper Ruud who should win in 2 sets.
Casper Ruud -> 1.3
Max Purcell -> 3.54
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Prediction and head to head Casper Ruud vs. Max Purcell
This will be the 2nd time that Casper Ruud and Max Purcell play each other. The head to head is 1-0 for Ruud (see full H2H stats), 1-0 on hard.
The last time that they competed against each other, Ruud won 7-6(5) 7-5 in the qualifications in at the U.S. Open back in 2018.
Casper Ruud
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 39-16 | 12-8 | 14-5 | 13-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 51-25 | 21-9 | 24-7 | 5-8 | 1-1 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 37-23 | 12-12 | 22-8 | 2-2 | 1-1 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 51-22 | 18-8 | 25-7 | 7-5 | 1-2 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 57-17 | 16-6 | 28-5 | 11-4 | 2-2 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 7, Casper will start his run in Cincinnati after he played his last match in Toronto where he lost 7-6(4) 4-6 7-6(4) to Davidovich Fokina in the 3rd round on the 10th of August.
The Norwegian has an aggregate 29-16 win-loss record in 2023, 6-7 on hard (See FULL STATS).
His best result of the season was winning the title in Estoril where he overcame Miomir Kecmanovic in the final 6-2 7-6(3).
Talking about his overall career, The Norwegian has an overall 345-186 record. He has a positive 79-56 record on hard.
Previously in Cincinnati
Previously, his best result was reaching the quarter in 2021. See his history.
Max Purcell
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 21-24 | 10-16 | 2-3 | 1-1 | 8-4 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 52-28 | 45-17 | 2-3 | 5-5 | 0-3 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 36-29 | 21-15 | 5-8 | 2-2 | 8-4 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 21-14 | 13-9 | 0-1 | 4-1 | 4-3 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 5-12 | 3-5 | 1-2 | 1-5 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 70, Max reached the 2nd round after beating Luca Van Assche 4-6 6-3 6-3, Alexei Popyrin 6-76 7-5 6-4 and Lloyd Harris 6-4 6-4.
In the 1st round, Purcell had a good straight sets win against Lloyd (6-4 6-4). During the match Purcell scored 59 points vs Lloyd’s 53. The Australian was exceptionally aggressive to blast 32 winners.
About the serving games, Purcell fired 5 aces and he committed only 2 double faults. Max Purcell was pretty efficient on serve to win 80% (32/40) of his 1st serve and 57% (12/21) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. Max broke Lloyd twice after converting 50% of his break points (2/4).
His best result of the current season was conquering the title the Chennai Challenger where he defeated Nicolas Moreno De Alboran in the final 5-7 7-6(2) 6-4 and the Bengaluru Challenger where he beat James Duckworth in the final 3-6 7-5 7-6(5) and the Pune Challenger where he defeated Luca Nardi in the final 6-2 6-3.
The Australian has a composed 45-17 win-loss record in 2023, 39-10 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in Cincinnati
The Australian has never competed in this tournament before.
Tennis Scores in Cincinnati
- Emil RuusuvuoriRuusuvuori – Andrey RublevRublev (7-610 5-7 7-63) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Alexei PopyrinPopyrin – Nicolas JarryJarry (w/o) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Carlos AlcarazAlcaraz – Jordan ThompsonThompson (7-5 4-6 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Adrian MannarinoMannarino – Felix Auger-AliassimeAuger-Aliassime (6-4 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
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- Ugo HumbertHumbert – Tommy PaulPaul (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Jannik SinnerSinner – Dusan LajovicLajovic (0-0) – H2H and prediction
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