Jordan Thompson wins against Casper Ruud 7-6(5) 6-1 in the 1st round in Tokyo on Thursday. Thompson will fight against Kei Nishikori in the 2nd round. The match lasted 1 hour and 50 minutes. This run will match his best result in this tournament. Here you can see his history at this event.
Jordan added to his prize money $ 12,410 after conquering this match. He has already won $ 26,595 after this win. If he wins the next match, Thompson will add $ 23,225 to his earnings to get in total $ 49,820 in total.
Highlights Jordan Thompson vs. Casper Ruud Japan Open Tennis Championships – Tokyo
Stats: aces, double faults, breaks, winners
1h:50
At the end of the match, Jordan scored 76 points vs. Ruud’s 62.
Thompson
Jordan served pretty well to win 84% of the points (37/44) behind his first serve. However he won only 47% points (14/30) on his second serve. The Australian blasted 14 aces and he committed 2 double faults. The Australian was sharp when converting 50% of the break points that he conquered (2/4).
Ruud
On the other side, Ruud wasn’t able to conquer any break point (0/8). That was one of the key issues for his defeat.
After this encounter, the head to head between Thompson and Ruud is 4-3 for Jordan.
Draw and next match H2H: Jordan Thompson vs. Kei Nishikori – stats
Thompson will compete against Nishikori in the 2nd round.
This will be the 4th time that Jordan Thompson and Kei Nishikori fight against each other. The head to head is 2-1 for Nishikori (see full H2H stats), 2-0 on hard.
The last time that they played, Nishikori won 6-1 6-1 in the quarter in Brisbane back in 2017.
Live score progression and stats
Jordan won the set after he broke the Norwegian .
Jordan wasn’t able to convert 1 break point in the 11th game (5-5 30-40). On the other side, Casper was unable to convert any of his 6 break points. He had 6 break points opportunities in the 1st (0-0 40-A, 40-A and 40-A) and the 14th game (5-7 0-40, 15-40 and 30-40).
They contested 99 points. This set was a huge battle since finally the Australian won just 1 point more than Ruud (50-49). Thompson conceded 23 points on serve (40-23). on the other side of the court, Ruud conceded 10 points on serve (26-10).
Thompson had a pretty good kick start of the set after breaking Casper Ruud in the 2nd game (2-0) before consolidating his break and lead 5-0. Jordan reinforced his lead after breaking Casper in the 4th (4-0) game before winning the set (6-1).
It is worth noting that a pivotal stage of the set was when the Australian won 4 consecutive games in the 2nd set to bring the game count from 0-0 to 5-0.
The Australian converted 66% of his break points (2/3). He had 3 break points opportunities in the 1st (0-0 40-A) and the 4th game (3-0 15-40 and 30-40). On the other side, Ruud was unable to convert any of his 2 break points. He had 2 break points opportunities in the 5th game (0-4 15-40 and 30-40).
They contested 39 points. The Australian was the winner of the set after clinching 11 points more than Casper (25-14). Thompson was extremely solid on serve to concede just 4 points (13-4). On the losing side, Casper conceded 12 points on serve (10-12).
Tennis Scores in Tokyo
- Ben SheltonShelton – Reilly OpelkaOpelka (3-6 6-1 6-4)
- Yoshihito NishiokaNishioka – Felix Auger-AliassimeAuger-Aliassime (7-65 3-6 7-65)
- Arthur FilsFils – Taylor FritzFritz (6-4 3-6 6-3)
- Christopher O ConnellO Connell – Tomas Martin EtcheverryMartin Etcheverry (6-4 7-65)
- Tomas MachacMachac – Alexei PopyrinPopyrin (6-3 6-75 7-5)
- Kei NishikoriNishikori – Marin CilicCilic (6-4 3-6 6-3)
- Alex MichelsenMichelsen – Stefanos TsitsipasTsitsipas (4-6 6-1 6-2)
- Brandon NakashimaNakashima – Frances TiafoeTiafoe (7-5 6-3)
- Jack DraperDraper – Mattia BellucciBellucci (6-4 6-2)
- Tommy PaulPaul – Matteo ArnaldiArnaldi (6-3 6-2)
- Jordan ThompsonThompson – Casper RuudRuud (7-65 6-1)
- Holger RuneRune – Alejandro TabiloTabilo (6-2 5-7 6-4)
- Matteo BerrettiniBerrettini – Botic Van De ZandschulpVan De Zandschulp (6-3 6-4)
- Hubert HurkaczHurkacz – Marcos GironGiron (6-4 6-75 6-4)
- Mariano NavoneNavone – Luciano DarderiDarderi (6-4 6-4)
- Ugo HumbertHumbert – Shintaro MochizukiMochizuki (6-1 6-2)
Upcoming matches
- Jordan ThompsonThompson – Kei NishikoriNishikori (1-2) – H2H details and stats
- Yoshihito NishiokaNishioka – Holger Vitus Nodskov RuneVitus Nodskov Rune (1-1) – H2H details and stats
- Christopher O ConnellO Connell – (0-0) – H2H details and stats
- Tommy PaulPaul – Tomas MachacMachac (0-0) – H2H details and stats
- Brandon NakashimaNakashima – Ugo HumbertHumbert (1-2) – H2H details and stats
- Jack DraperDraper – Hubert HurkaczHurkacz (1-4) – H2H details and stats
- Mariano NavoneNavone – (0-0) – H2H details and stats
