Karen Khachanov and Emil Ruusuvuori will fight against each other in the quarter of the Qatar ExxonMobil Open for the 4th time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Thursday at 5:00 pm on CENTRE COURT. In this post, we analyze their head to head performance and prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Karen Khachanov who should win in 3 sets.
As per the initial odds, Karen Khachanov is the pick to win this match.
Karen Khachanov -> 1.7
Emil Ruusuvuori -> 2.16
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Prediction and head to head Karen Khachanov vs. Emil Ruusuvuori
This will be the 4th time that Karen Khachanov and Emil Ruusuvuori square off. The head to head is 2-1 for Khachanov (see full H2H stats), 2-1 on hard.
The last time that they played each other, Ruusuvuori won 7-6(2) 2-6 6-2 in the 2nd round in Hong kong back in January 2024.
Highlights Emil Ruusuvuori vs Karen Khachanov – Hong kong 03-January-2024
Karen Khachanov
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 37-22 | 14-12 | 8-4 | 14-3 | 1-3 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 34-18 | 18-10 | 10-5 | 6-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 36-25 | 17-11 | 9-7 | 6-5 | 4-2 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 35-24 | 17-9 | 5-6 | 8-6 | 5-3 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 20-15 | 12-6 | 4-3 | 4-6 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 17, Karen reached the quarter after defeating Fabian Marozsan 6-4 7-5.
In the 2nd round, Karen had a good straight sets win against Marozsan (6-4 7-5). During the match, Khachanov scored 69 points vs Marozsan’s 56. Karen was pretty aggressive to blast 31 winners.
Regarding the service games, Khachanov scored 6 aces and he committed only 1 double fault. Karen Khachanov lost the serve twice and he saved 2 break points. Furthermore, Khachanov put 66% of his first serves in, winning 84% (31/37) of the points behind his 1st serve and 47% (9/19) on the 2nd serve. Khachanov was clinical in his return game without wasting any break point and break Marozsan 4 times.
Khachanov has a solid record in the last 10 years having won 61% of his matches (342-219). 4-2 on hard in 2024. In connection with his performance on the same surface of this event, Khachanov has an overall 139-85 record in the last years on hard.
Karen’s best result of the season was reaching the semifinal in Marseille.
The Russian has an overall 6-3 win-loss record in 2024, 4-2 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in Doha
Emil Ruusuvuori
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 17-16 | 8-6 | 2-5 | 4-2 | 3-3 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 31-30 | 13-11 | 6-7 | 9-8 | 3-4 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 41-32 | 15-12 | 10-9 | 10-7 | 6-4 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 30-26 | 21-12 | 1-5 | 6-6 | 2-3 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 27-15 | 11-5 | 0-2 | 16-8 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 43, Emil reached the quarter after beating Giulio Zeppieri 7-62 7-5 and Christopher O Connell 6-3 6-3.
In the 2nd round, Ruusuvuori had a good straight sets win against O Connell (6-3 6-3). During the match Ruusuvuori scored 80 points vs O Connell’s 60. The Finn was exceptionally aggressive to blast 26 winners.
Talking about serving, Ruusuvuori struck 3 aces and he committed only 4 double faults. Overall, Emil Ruusuvuori was extremely efficient on serve to win 72% (26/36) of his 1st serve and 60% (12/20) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve once. Ruusuvuori broke O Connell 4 times after converting 27% of his break points (4/15).
Overall Performance in this tournament
Emil hasn’t dropped yet a set in the tournament to win 55% of the points he played.
The Finn’s best result of the season was reaching the final in Hong Kong.
Emil has a composed 11-4 win-loss record in 2024, 7-2 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in Doha
Previously, his best result was reaching the 2nd round in 2022 and 2023. See his history.
H2H Performance in the tournament (main draw)
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Khachanov | Ruusuvuori |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 1 | 2 |
| Tot Set | 2 | 4 |
| Tot Games | 22 | 43 |
| Pts | 69-56 | 162-133 |
| Total Points | 125 | 295 |
| Winners | 31 | 69 |
| %Winners | 45% | 43% |
Khachanov played 1 match while Ruusuvuori competed in 2 matches. Both players have not lost a single set in this event so far. Khachanov has played 2 set(s) less than Ruusuvuori (2 vs 4). Therefore, Khachanov played 21 games less than Ruusuvuori. The Russian scored 31 winners (45% of the total points). On the other side, Ruusuvuori made 69 winners (43%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Khachanov | Ruusuvuori |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 6 | 5 |
| Avg per match | 6 | 2.5 |
| 1st in | 37/56 | 90/135 |
| %1st in | 66% | 67% |
| 1st pts | 31/37 | 69/90 |
| %1st pts | 84% | 77% |
| 2nd pts | 9/19 | 24/45 |
| %2nd pts | 47% | 53% |
Khachanov fired 6 aces . Ruusuvuori managed to score 5 aces (2.5 per match). Khachanov won 84% points behind his first serve. He very solid his second serve to win 47% of the points. On the other side, Ruusuvuori won 77% of the points behind his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 53% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Khachanov | Ruusuvuori |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 4 | 6 |
| Converted | 4/4 | 6/19 |
| % Converted | 100% | 32% |
| Conceded | 4 | 11 |
| Saved | 2 | 9 |
| % Saved | 50% | 82% |
| Times Broken | 2 | 2 |
The Russian broke his opponent 4 times with a 100% conversion rate. The Russian dropped his serve twice and he saved 50% of the break points that he conceded. The Finn broke his opponents 6 times with a 32% conversion rate. Ruusuvuori conceded his serve twice and he saved 82% of the break points that he conceded.
| Khachanov | |||
| R2 Marozsan |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-4 7-5 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 22 | 22 | |
| pts | 69-56 | 69-56 | |
| Total points | 125 | 125 | |
| Winners | 31 | 31 | |
| %Winners | 45% | 45% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 6 | 6 | |
| Double Faults | 1 | 1 | |
| 1st in | 37/56 | 37/56 | |
| % 1st in | 66% | 66% | |
| 1st pts | 31/37 | 31/37 | |
| % 1st pts | 84% | 84% | |
| 2nd pts | 9/19 | 9/19 | |
| % 2nd pts | 47% | 47% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 4 | 4 | |
| Converted | 4/4 | 4/4 | |
| Converted % | 100% | 100% | |
| Conceded | 4 | 4 | |
| Saved | 2/4 | 2 | |
| Saved % | 50% | 50% | |
| Times Broken | 2 | 2 | |
| Ruusuvuori | ||||
| R1 Zeppieri |
R2 O |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 7-62 7-5 | 6-3 6-3 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | 4 | |
| Tot Games | 25 | 18 | 43 | |
| pts | 82-73 | 80-60 | 162-133 | |
| Total points | 155 | 140 | 295 | |
| Winners | 43 | 26 | 69 | |
| %Winners | 52% | 33% | 43% | |
| SERVE | ||||
| Aces | 2 | 3 | 5 | |
| Double Faults | 5 | 4 | 9 | |
| 1st in | 54/79 | 36/56 | 90/135 | |
| % 1st in | 68% | 64% | 67% | |
| 1st pts | 43/54 | 26/36 | 69/90 | |
| % 1st pts | 80% | 72% | 77% | |
| 2nd pts | 12/25 | 12/20 | 24/45 | |
| % 2nd pts | 48% | 60% | 53% | |
| Breaks | ||||
| Won | 2 | 4 | 6 | |
| Converted | 2/4 | 4/15 | 6/19 | |
| Converted % | 50% | 27% | 32% | |
| Conceded | 8 | 3 | 11 | |
| Saved | 7/8 | 2/3 | 9 | |
| Saved % | 88% | 67% | 155% | |
| Times Broken | 1 | 1 | 2 | |
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