Casper Ruud and Nuno Borges will clash against each other in the quarter of the Mifel Tennis Open for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Thursday at 3:00 pm on ESTADIO MEXTENIS. In this post, we analyze their head to head performance and 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 -> 1.44
Nuno Borges -> 2.8
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Prediction and head to head Casper Ruud vs. Nuno Borges
There is no head to head record between Casper Ruud and Nuno Borges since this will be the first time that they will play each other in the main tour.
Casper Ruud
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 2-0 | 2-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 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. 12, Ruud got to the quarter after beating Marcos Giron 6-1 6-0.
In the 2nd round, Casper had a good straight sets win against Giron (6-1 6-0). During the match, Ruud scored 61 points vs Giron’s 31. Casper was very aggressive to blast 19 winners.
Regarding the service games, Ruud scored 3 aces and he was pretty consistent in conceding no double faults. Overall, Casper Ruud was pretty efficient on serve to win 73% (19/26) of his 1st serve and 53% (10/19) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve once. Ruud broke Giron 6 times after converting 55% of his break points (6/11).
Ruud has a solid record in the last 10 years having won 65% of his matches (360-194). 6-1 on hard in 2024. Talking about his performance on the same surface of this event, Ruud has an overall 91-62 match record in the last years on hard.
Casper has an overall 7-1 win-loss record in 2024, 6-1 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in Los Cabos
The Norwegian has never competed in this tournament before.
Nuno Borges
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 1-1 | 1-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 33-26 | 20-12 | 13-7 | 0-4 | 0-3 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 37-26 | 20-11 | 8-7 | 6-4 | 3-4 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 49-26 | 7-5 | 28-13 | 11-5 | 3-3 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 52-21 | 6-4 | 46-17 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 47, Borges got to the quarter after defeating Dominik Koepfer 7-62 6-2 and Max Purcell 6-3 6-3.
In the 2nd round, The Portuguese had a good straight sets win against Purcell (6-3 6-3). During the match Borges scored 65 points vs Purcell’s 48. Borges was very aggressive to blast 23 winners.
About the serving games, Borges fired 5 aces and he was quite steady in conceding no double faults for the entire match. Nuno Borges was very efficient on serve to win 85% (23/27) of his 1st serve and 68% (15/22) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. The Portuguese broke Purcell 3 times after converting 50% of his break points (3/6).
Overall Performance in this tournament
Nuno hasn’t dropped yet a set in the tournament to win 56% of the points he played.
The Portuguese has a composed 7-5 win-loss record in 2024, 7-4 on hard (See FULL STATS).
H2H Performance in the tournament (main draw)
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Ruud | Borges |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 1 | 2 |
| Tot Set | 2 | 4 |
| Tot Games | 13 | 39 |
| Pts | 61-31 | 136-106 |
| Total Points | 92 | 242 |
| Winners | 19 | 53 |
| %Winners | 31% | 39% |
Ruud played 1 match while Borges competed in 2 matches. Both players have not dropped a single set in this event so far. Ruud has played 2 set(s) less than Borges (2 vs 4). Therefore, Ruud played 26 games less than Borges. The Norwegian scored 19 winners (31% of the total points). On the other side, The Portuguese blasted 53 winners (39%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Ruud | Borges |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 3 | 12 |
| Avg per match | 3 | 6 |
| 1st in | 26/45 | 65/109 |
| %1st in | 58% | 60% |
| 1st pts | 19/26 | 53/65 |
| %1st pts | 73% | 82% |
| 2nd pts | 10/19 | 25/44 |
| %2nd pts | 53% | 57% |
Ruud made 3 aces . Borges fired 12 aces (6 per match). Ruud won 73% points behind his first serve. He was rock solid on his second serve to win 53% of the points. On the other side, Borges won 82% of the points on his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 57% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Ruud | Borges |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 6 | 7 |
| Converted | 6/11 | 7/14 |
| % Converted | 55% | 50% |
| Conceded | 3 | 5 |
| Saved | 2 | 3 |
| % Saved | 67% | 60% |
| Times Broken | 1 | 2 |
Ruud broke his opponent 6 times with a 55% conversion rate. Ruud conceded his serve once and he saved 67% of the break points that he conceded. Nuno broke his opponents 7 times with a 50% conversion rate. Borges conceded his serve twice and he saved 60% of the break points that he conceded.
| Ruud | |||
| R2 Giron |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-1 6-0 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 13 | 13 | |
| pts | 61-31 | 61-31 | |
| Total points | 92 | 92 | |
| Winners | 19 | 19 | |
| %Winners | 31% | 31% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 3 | 3 | |
| Double Faults | 0 | 0 | |
| 1st in | 26/45 | 26/45 | |
| % 1st in | 58% | 58% | |
| 1st pts | 19/26 | 19/26 | |
| % 1st pts | 73% | 73% | |
| 2nd pts | 10/19 | 10/19 | |
| % 2nd pts | 53% | 53% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 6 | 6 | |
| Converted | 6/11 | 6/11 | |
| Converted % | 55% | 55% | |
| Conceded | 3 | 3 | |
| Saved | 2/3 | 2 | |
| Saved % | 67% | 67% | |
| Times Broken | 1 | 1 | |
| Borges | ||||
| R1 Koepfer |
R2 Purcell |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 7-62 6-2 | 6-3 6-3 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | 4 | |
| Tot Games | 21 | 18 | 39 | |
| pts | 71-58 | 65-48 | 136-106 | |
| Total points | 129 | 113 | 242 | |
| Winners | 30 | 23 | 53 | |
| %Winners | 42% | 35% | 39% | |
| SERVE | ||||
| Aces | 7 | 5 | 12 | |
| Double Faults | 2 | 0 | 2 | |
| 1st in | 38/60 | 27/49 | 65/109 | |
| % 1st in | 63% | 55% | 60% | |
| 1st pts | 30/38 | 23/27 | 53/65 | |
| % 1st pts | 79% | 85% | 82% | |
| 2nd pts | 10/22 | 15/22 | 25/44 | |
| % 2nd pts | 45% | 68% | 57% | |
| Breaks | ||||
| Won | 4 | 3 | 7 | |
| Converted | 4/8 | 3/6 | 7/14 | |
| Converted % | 50% | 50% | 50% | |
| Conceded | 4 | 1 | 5 | |
| Saved | 2/4 | 1/1 | 3 | |
| Saved % | 50% | 100% | 150% | |
| Times Broken | 2 | 0 | 2 | |
Head 2 Head
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