Casper Ruud and Marcos Giron will play each other in the 2^nd round of the Rakuten Japan Open for the 2^nd time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Wednesday at 6:00 pm on COLOSSEUM. 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.

As per the initial odds, Casper Ruud is the pick to win this match.
Casper Ruud -> 1.39
Marcos Giron -> 3

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Prediction and head to head Casper Ruud vs. Marcos Giron

This will be the 2^nd time that Casper Ruud and Marcos Giron face off. The head to head is 1-0 for Ruud (see full H2H stats), but they have never played each other on hard.

The last time that they played, Ruud won 6-2 6-1 in the 3^rd round in Paris back in 2021.

Highlights Casper Ruud vs Marcos Giron – Paris 04-November-2021

Casper Ruud

Casper Ruud

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Rank
8

High
2

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Year	Total	Hard	Clay	I.hard	Grass	Carpet
2024	39-10	17-5	21-5	1-0	0-0	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
2020	22-13	4-5	17-6	1-2	0-0	0-0

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Ranked no. 8, Ruud got to the 2^nd round after beating Yosuke Watanuki 7-6⁶ 6-3.

In the 1^st round, Casper had a good straight sets win against Watanuki (7-6⁶ 6-3). During the match, Ruud scored 79 points vs Watanuki’s 62. The Norwegian was extremely aggressive to blast 33 winners.

Regarding the service games, Ruud bagged 8 aces and he committed only 2 double faults. Casper Ruud was pretty effective on serve to win 79% (33/42) of his 1st serve and 73% (16/22) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. Casper broke Watanuki twice after converting 40% of his break points (2/5).

Ruud has a solid win-loss record in the last 9 years having won 65% of his matches (352-190). 12-11 on hard in 2023. In connection with his performance on the same surface of this event, Ruud has a composed85-60 win-loss record in the last 9 years on hard.

His best result of the year was winning the title in Estoril where he beat Miomir Kecmanovic in the final 6-2 7-6(3).

Ruud has an aggregate 36-20 win-loss record in 2023, 12-11 on hard (See FULL STATS).

Previously in Tokyo

Tokyo

Ruud's Record

Marcos Giron

Marcos Giron

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Rank
46

High
44

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Year	Total	Hard	Clay	I.hard	Grass	Carpet
2024	15-17	4-6	3-7	4-1	4-3	0-0
2023	32-30	17-15	7-6	5-5	3-4	0-0
2022	23-31	11-13	3-9	6-5	3-4	0-0
2021	33-24	12-10	5-5	11-6	5-3	0-0
2020	23-15	12-8	1-2	10-5	0-0	0-0

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Ranked no. 79, the American reached the 2^nd round after beating Kaichi Uchida 6-4 6-3, Yasutaka Uchiyama 6-3 6-2 and Yoshihito Nishioka 7-6¹⁴ 4-6 6-1.

In the 1^st round, Marcos defeated Nishioka (7-6¹⁴ 4-6 6-1). During the match Giron scored 119 points vs Nishioka’s 104. The American was exceptionally aggressive to blast 58 winners.

Talking about serving, Giron recorded 13 aces and he committed only 1 double fault for the entire match. Overall, Marcos Giron was quite effective on serve to win 81% (58/72) of his 1st serve and 54% (20/37) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve once. Marcos broke Nishioka twice after converting 29% of his break points (2/7).

Marcos has a compiled 28-26 win-loss record in 2023, 15-14 on hard (See FULL STATS).

Previously in Tokyo

Giron has never competed in this tournament before.

Tokyo

Giron's Record

H2H Performance in the tournament

Matches, sets, games and points

Ruud played 1 match while Giron competed in 3 matches. Giron started his run from the qualifications while Ruud had a direct access to the main draw. At the moment, Marcos Giron lost 1 set while Casper Ruud hasn’t lost a set so far. Ruud has played 5 set(s) less than Giron (2 vs 7). Therefore, Ruud played 44 games less than Giron. Ruud scored 33 winners (42% of the total points). On the other side, Giron fired 120 winners (48%).

Serve Performance

Ruud scored 8 aces . Giron made 24 aces (8 per match). Ruud won 79% points on his first serve. He was rock solid on his second serve to win 73% of the points. On the other side, Giron won 83% of the points on his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 55% of the points.

How they played the important points

Casper broke his opponent twice with a 40% conversion rate. The Norwegian very solid his serve as he has never surrendered a single service game after saving 3 break points. Giron broke his opponents 8 times with a 42% conversion rate. Giron conceded his serve once and he saved 88% of the break points that he conceded.

Head 2 Head

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• 2Minor

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• 6Minor

Casper
Ruud

2:1

Marcos
Giron

Rank

8

High

2

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Rank

46

High

44

Win Loss

Ruud

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Giron

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2024 2023 2022

38 - 10

15 - 17

17-5

Hard

4-6

0-0

I Hard

4-1

21-5

Clay

3-7

0-0

Grass

4-3

Tennis Scores in Tokyo

• Ben SheltonShelton – Taro DanielDaniel (3-6 6-4 7-6²) – See score progression
• Aslan KaratsevKaratsev – Frances TiafoeTiafoe (6-3 7-6⁴) – See score progression
• Taylor FritzFritz – Cameron NorrieNorrie (6-4 6-3) – See score progression
• Cristian GarinGarin – Sho ShimabukuroShimabukuro (6-4 3-6 6-3) – See score progression
• Alex De MinaurDe Minaur – Jack DraperDraper (4-6 7-6⁴ 7-6¹) – See score progression
• Casper RuudRuud – Yosuke WatanukiWatanuki (7-6⁶ 6-3) – See score progression
• Shintaro MochizukiMochizuki – Tomas Martin EtcheverryMartin Etcheverry (6-4 7-6⁵) – See score progression
• Alexei PopyrinPopyrin – Karen KhachanovKhachanov (6-4 6-2) – See score progression
• Diego SchwartzmanSchwartzman – Francisco CerundoloCerundolo (6-4 6-1) – See score progression
• Sebastian OfnerOfner – Christopher O ConnellO Connell (6-7² 7-6⁵ 7-5) – See score progression
• Marcos GironGiron – Yoshihito NishiokaNishioka (7-6¹⁴ 4-6 6-1) – See score progression
• Felix Auger-AliassimeAuger-Aliassime – Aleksandar VukicVukic (7-6³ 6-7² 6-2) – See score progression
• Nathaniel Lammons/Jack WithrowLammons/Jack Withrow – Toshihide Matsui/Kaito UesugiMatsui/Kaito Uesugi (7-6² 3-6 10-7) – See score progression
• Jordan ThompsonThompson – Alexander ZverevZverev (6-3 6-4) – See score progression
• Tommy PaulPaul – Daniel AltmaierAltmaier (3-6 6-1 6-3) – See score progression
• Mackenzie McdonaldMcdonald – Max PurcellPurcell (7-5 6-4) – See score progression
• Shintaro MochizukiMochizuki – Tomas Martin EtcheverryMartin Etcheverry (6-4 7-6(5)) – See score progression
• Aslan KaratsevKaratsev – Frances TiafoeTiafoe (6-3 7-6(4)) – See score progression
• Casper RuudRuud – Yosuke WatanukiWatanuki (7-6(6) 6-3) – See score progression

Upcoming matches in the draw

• Marcos GironGiron – Casper RuudRuud (0-1) – H2H and prediction
• Christian GarinGarin – Alexei PopyrinPopyrin (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Zhizhen ZhangZhang – Hubert HurkaczHurkacz (0-2) – H2H and prediction
• Taylor Harry FritzHarry Fritz – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Tommy PaulPaul – Mackenzie McdonaldMcdonald (2-0) – H2H and prediction
• Alex De MinaurDe Minaur – Diego Sebastian SchwartzmanSebastian Schwartzman (1-0) – H2H and prediction
• Felix Auger AliassimeAuger Aliassime – Sebastian OfnerOfner (0-0) – H2H and prediction

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