Casper Ruud ousts James Duckworth 6-2 6-7(5) 6-3 in the 2nd round in Montreal on Thursday. Ruud will seek to keep on going in this event against Taylor Fritz or Sebastian Korda in the 3rd round. The battle lasted 2 hours and 2 minutes. His most significant achievement in this event was reaching the semifinal in 2022. Here you can see his history at this event.
Casper added to his prize money $ 42,405 after conquering this match. He has already won $ 91,435 after this win. If he wins the next match, Ruud will add $ 79,505 to his earnings to get in total $ 170,940 in total.
Highlights Casper Ruud vs. James Duckworth National Bank Open – Montreal
Stats: aces, double faults, breaks, winners
At the end of the match, Casper scored 94 points vs. James’s 76.
Ruud
Casper served pretty well to win 77% of the points (46/60) behind his first serve, and he won 70% points (14/20) on his second serve. The Norwegian won this match even if he had a tough time converting his break points since he converted only 40% (4/10) of the procured opportunities.
Duckworth
On the other side, Duckworth was exceptional in converting the only break point that he converted. Nevertheless, that was not enough to win the match.
After this encounter, the head to head between Ruud and Duckworth is 1-0 for Casper.
Draw and next match H2H: Casper Ruud vs. Taylor Fritz or Sebastian Korda – stats
Ruud will fight against either Taylor Fritz or Sebastian Korda in the 3rd round. The head to head is 2-0 vs. Taylor Fritz and 0-0 vs. Sebastian Korda.
Live score progression and stats
Ruud had a pretty good kick start of the set after breaking James Duckworth in the 1st game (1-0). Casper managed to boost his lead after breaking the Australian in the 5th (4-1) game before winning the set (6-2).
The Norwegian converted 28% of his break points (2/7). He had 7 break points opportunities in the 1st (0-0 30-40), the 3rd (2-0 40-A), the 5th (3-1 0-40, 15-40, 30-40 and 40-A) and the 9th game (6-1 30-40). On the other side, Casper didn’t concede a single break point during this set.
They played 55 points. Ruud was the one to win the set after conquering 11 more points than the Australian (33-22). The Norwegian was extremely solid on serve to drop just 2 points (16-2). on the other side of the court, Duckworth conceded 17 points on serve (20-17).
Ruud had a running start at the beginning of the set after breaking James Duckworth in the 2nd game (2-0
). Notwithstanding, that wasn’t sufficient for the Australian to win the set because the Norwegian managed to break back in the 3rd (1-2) game.Duckworth was clinical in converting the only break point that he conquered in the 1st game (0-0 15-40). Furthermore, on the other side, Ruud was clinical in converting the only break point that he conquered in the 3rd game (0-2 30-40).
They played 76 points. It’s worth to point out that, The Australian won this set even if he scored less points 2 than Ruud (37-39). The Australian surrendered 9 points on serve (18-9). on the other side of the court, the Norwegian conceded 19 points on serve (30-19).
The set was even with both players refusing to concede anything to the opposition. Eventually, the only discrepancy was one break that Casper grabbed in the 4th game (3-1) just before eventually winning the set (6-3).
Ruud converted 50% of his break points (1/2). He had 2 break points opportunities in the 4th game (2-1 15-40 and 30-40). On the other side, Casper didn’t concede a single break point during this set.
They contested 39 points. Ruud won 5 more points than the Australian (22-17). Ruud was extremely solid on serve to drop just 3 points (16-3). on the other side of the net, Duckworth conceded 6 points on serve (14-6).
Tennis Scores in Montreal
- Casper RuudRuud – James DuckworthDuckworth (6-2 6-75 6-3)
- Matteo ArnaldiArnaldi – Karen KhachanovKhachanov (7-5 7-5)
- Nuno BorgesBorges – Ugo HumbertHumbert (3-6 7-62 7-64)
- Kei NishikoriNishikori – Stefanos TsitsipasTsitsipas (6-4 6-4)
- Jannik SinnerSinner – Borna CoricCoric (6-2 6-4)
- Andrey RublevRublev – Tomas Martin EtcheverryMartin Etcheverry (7-63 6-2)
- Alexander ZverevZverev – Jordan ThompsonThompson (6-1 6-1)
- Brandon NakashimaNakashima – Tommy PaulPaul (6-2 6-75 6-1)
- Alejandro Davidovich FokinaDavidovich Fokina – Daniil MedvedevMedvedev (6-4 1-6 6-2)
- Alejandro TabiloTabilo – Lorenzo SonegoSonego (6-4 6-2)
- Alexei PopyrinPopyrin – Ben SheltonShelton (6-4 7-64)
- Grigor DimitrovDimitrov – Rinky HijikataHijikata (6-1 6-0)
- Holger RuneRune – Pablo Carreno-BustaCarreno-Busta (6-1 6-3)
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