Holger Rune and Pablo Llamas Ruiz will face off in the 2nd round of the Open Sud de France for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Thursday at 9:30 pm on COURT PATRICE DOMINGUEZ. In this post, we analyze their head to head performance and prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Holger Rune who should win in 2 sets.
As per the initial odds, Holger Rune is the pick to win this match.
Holger Rune -> 1.165
Pablo Llamas Ruiz -> 5.15
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Prediction and head to head Holger Rune vs. Pablo Llamas Ruiz
There is no head to head record between Holger Rune and Pablo Llamas Ruiz since this will be the first time that they will face off in the main tour.
Holger Rune
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 24-13 | 10-5 | 9-5 | 3-2 | 2-1 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 44-24 | 10-10 | 16-4 | 11-8 | 7-2 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 50-27 | 8-9 | 21-11 | 21-4 | 0-3 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 73-29 | 11-5 | 41-17 | 21-7 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 32-16 | 1-3 | 28-11 | 3-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 7, Holger will start his run in Montpellier after he played his last match at the Australian Open where he lost 7-6(4) 6-4 4-6 6-3 to Cazaux in the 2nd round on the 18th of January.
Holger has an overall 5-2 win-loss record in 2024, 0-0 on indoor hard courts (See FULL STATS).
This will be the first match of the year on indoor hard courts.
Holger’s best result of the current year was reaching the final in Brisbane.
Talking about his overall career, The Dane has an overall 211-108 record. He has a positive 58-22 record on indoor hard courts.
Previously in Montpellier
Previously, his best result was reaching the semifinal in 2023. See his history.
Pablo Llamas Ruiz
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 16-16 | 2-5 | 10-8 | 4-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 46-21 | 12-6 | 33-12 | 0-2 | 1-1 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 37-23 | 2-4 | 35-19 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 22-16 | 2-2 | 20-14 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 9-5 | 2-4 | 7-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 156, Llamas reached the 2nd round after defeating Matteo Gigante 6-3 6-2, Calvin Hemery 6-2 6-3 and Richard Gasquet 7-66 7-5.
In the 1st round, Llamas had a good straight sets win against Gasquet (7-66 7-5). During the match Llamas scored 78 points vs Gasquet’s 72. Pablo was pretty aggressive to blast 39 winners.
About the serving games, Llamas made 7 aces and he committed only 1 double fault for the entire match. Overall, Pablo Llamas Ruiz was extremely effective on serve to win 75% (39/52) of his 1st serve and 58% (15/26) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve twice. The Spaniard broke Gasquet 3 times after converting 75% of his break points (3/4).
Llamas has an aggregate 5-3 win-loss record in 2024, 3-0 on indoor hard courts (See FULL STATS).
Previously in Montpellier
Pablo has never competed in this tournament before.
Head 2 Head
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