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 Friday at 12:30 pm on Holcim Stadium 3. In the following lines 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 play each other. 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 fought against each other, Auger-Aliassime won 6-4 6-7(8) 6-3 in the quarter in Paris back in August 2024.
Casper Ruud
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 39-16 | 12-8 | 14-5 | 13-3 | 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. 8, Ruud 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.
Casper has an aggregate 44-13 win-loss record in 2024, 18-5 on hard (See FULL STATS).
His best result of the current season was winning the title in Barcelona where he beat Stefanos Tsitsipas in the final 7-5 6-3 and in Geneva where he overcame Tomas Machac in the final 7-5 6-3.
Talking about his overall career, Casper 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
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 50-25 | 24-10 | 3-6 | 17-5 | 6-4 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 32-25 | 6-10 | 17-8 | 9-5 | 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 |
Ranked no. 19, Felix got to the 2nd round after defeating Aleksandar Kovacevic 6-3 6-1.
In the 1st round, The Canadian had a good straight sets win against Kovacevic (6-3 6-1). During the match Auger-Aliassime scored 55 points vs Kovacevic’s 40. Auger-Aliassime was quite 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 season was reaching the final in Madrid.
The Canadian has a composed 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
- Pablo Carreno-BustaCarreno-Busta – Max PurcellPurcell (6-3 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Brandon NakashimaNakashima – Arthur FilsFils (7-5 7-63) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Marcelo Arevalo/Mate PavicArevalo/Mate Pavic – Marcelo Melo/Alexander ZverevMelo/Alexander Zverev (6-3 7-62) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Jack DraperDraper – Stefanos TsitsipasTsitsipas (3-6 6-4 7-5) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Holger RuneRune – Nuno BorgesBorges (6-3 7-68) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Fabian MarozsanMarozsan – Grigor DimitrovDimitrov (4-6 6-4 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Hubert HurkaczHurkacz – Yoshihito NishiokaNishioka (3-6 7-64 6-1) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Arthur Fils/Nicolas JarryFils/Nicolas Jarry – Rohan Bopanna/Matthew EbdenBopanna/Matthew Ebden (6-4 6-75 10-8) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Alexander ZverevZverev – Karen KhachanovKhachanov (6-3 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Ben SheltonShelton – Tomas Martin EtcheverryMartin Etcheverry (6-76 7-67 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Andrey RublevRublev – Zhizhen ZhangZhang (6-4 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Flavio CobolliCobolli – Luciano DarderiDarderi (7-64 3-1 ret.) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Frances TiafoeTiafoe – Lorenzo MusettiMusetti (6-3 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Jordan ThompsonThompson – Sebastian BaezBaez (6-2 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Jiri LeheckaLehecka – Daniil MedvedevMedvedev (7-62 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Jannik SinnerSinner – Alex MichelsenMichelsen (6-4 7-5) – Stats, scores, rankings
Upcoming matches in the draw
- Gael MonfilsMonfils – Carlos Alcaraz GarfiaAlcaraz Garfia (0-2) – H2H and prediction
- Alexander ZverevZverev – Pablo Carreno-BustaCarreno-Busta (3-0) – H2H and prediction
- Hubert HurkaczHurkacz – Flavio CobolliCobolli (1-0) – 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
- Brandon NakashimaNakashima – Andrey RublevRublev (1-2) – H2H and prediction