Casper Ruud and Felix Auger-Aliassime will fight against each other in the 2nd round of the Western & Southern Open for the 9th time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Thursday at 9:30 pm on P&G GRANDSTAND. In the following paragraphs, you can find the head to head analysis and prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Felix Auger-Aliassime who should win in 3 sets.
Felix Auger-Aliassime -> 1.909
Casper Ruud -> 1.909
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Prediction and head to head Casper Ruud vs. Felix Auger-Aliassime
This will be the 9th time that Casper Ruud and Felix Auger-Aliassime square off. The head to head is 4-4 for Ruud and Auger-Aliassime (see full H2H stats),but they are 1-1 on hard.
The last time that they locked horns, Auger-Aliassime won 6-4 6-7(8) 6-3 in the quarter in Paris back in August 2024.
Casper Ruud
44 - 13win/loss
8
2
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 44-13 | 18-5 | 24-7 | 1-0 | 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 |
| 2020 | 22-13 | 4-5 | 17-6 | 1-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 8, the Norwegian will start his run in Cincinnati after he played his last match in Montreal where he lost w/o to Korda in the 3rd round on the 10th of August.
Ruud has an overall 44-13 win-loss record in 2024, 18-5 on hard (See FULL STATS).
His best result of the season was winning the title in Barcelona where he defeated Stefanos Tsitsipas in the final 7-5 6-3 and in Geneva where he defeated Tomas Machac in the final 7-5 6-3.
Talking about his overall career, The Norwegian has an overall 397-206 record. He has a positive 103-66 record on hard.
Previously in Cincinnati
Previously, his best result was reaching the quarter in 2021. See his history.
Felix Auger-Aliassime
26 - 19win/loss
19
6
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 26-19 | 5-6 | 17-8 | 4-3 | 0-2 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 23-19 | 13-13 | 1-3 | 9-2 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 60-27 | 14-9 | 11-7 | 31-7 | 4-4 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 38-24 | 19-10 | 4-6 | 5-5 | 10-3 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 23-19 | 8-8 | 1-3 | 14-8 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 19, the Canadian reached the 2nd round after beating Aleksandar Kovacevic 6-3 6-1.
In the 1st round, Auger-Aliassime had a good straight sets win against Kovacevic (6-3 6-1). During the match Auger-Aliassime scored 55 points vs Kovacevic’s 40. Felix was extremely aggressive to blast 15 winners.
Talking about serving, Auger-Aliassime bagged 2 aces and he committed only 3 double faults. Felix Auger-Aliassime lost the serve once and he saved 3 break points. Furthermore, Auger-Aliassime put 44% of his first serves in, winning 68% (15/22) of the points behind his 1st serve and 61% (17/28) on the 2nd serve. The Canadian broke Kovacevic 5 times after converting 71% of his break points (5/7).
Auger-Aliassime’s best result of the current season was reaching the final in Madrid.
Felix has a compiled 26-19 win-loss record in 2024, 5-6 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in Cincinnati
Previously, his best result was reaching the quarter in 2021 and 2022. See his history.
Tennis Scores in Cincinnati
- Jannik SinnerSinner – Alex MichelsenMichelsen (6-4 7-5) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Frances TiafoeTiafoe – Lorenzo MusettiMusetti (6-3 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Jiri LeheckaLehecka – Daniil MedvedevMedvedev (7-62 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Jordan ThompsonThompson – Sebastian BaezBaez (6-2 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
Upcoming matches in the draw
- Gael MonfilsMonfils – Carlos Alcaraz GarfiaAlcaraz Garfia (0-2) – H2H and prediction
- Alexander ZverevZverev – Karen KhachanovKhachanov (4-2) – H2H and prediction
- Zhizhen ZhangZhang – Andrey RublevRublev (0-2) – H2H and prediction
- Hubert HurkaczHurkacz – Yoshihito NishiokaNishioka (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Max PurcellPurcell – Pablo Carreno-BustaCarreno-Busta (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Frances TiafoeTiafoe – Jiri LeheckaLehecka (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Casper RuudRuud – Felix Auger AliassimeAuger Aliassime (4-4) – H2H and prediction
- Jannik SinnerSinner – Jordan ThompsonThompson (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Fabian MarozsanMarozsan – Grigor DimitrovDimitrov (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Brandon NakashimaNakashima – (1-1) – H2H and prediction
- Jack DraperDraper – Stefanos TsitsipasTsitsipas (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Holger Vitus Nodskov RuneVitus Nodskov Rune – Nuno BorgesBorges (1-0) – H2H and prediction