Borna Coric and Emil Ruusuvuori will clash against each other in the 2nd round of the Thionville Challenger for the 3rd time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Thursday at 1:30 pm on COURT CENTRAL. Here the head to head stats and relative prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Borna Coric who should win in 3 sets.
As per the initial odds, Borna Coric is the pick to win this match.
Borna Coric -> 1.53
Emil Ruusuvuori -> 2.375
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Prediction and head to head Borna Coric vs. Emil Ruusuvuori
This will be the 3rd time that Borna Coric and Emil Ruusuvuori fight against each other. The head to head is 1-1 for Coric and Ruusuvuori (see full H2H stats), but they have never played each other on indoor hard courts.
The last time that they played, Ruusuvuori won 6-7(4) 7-6(8) 6-4 in the 1st round in Washington back in 2024.
Highlights Emil Ruusuvuori vs Borna Coric – Washington 29-July-2024
Borna Coric
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 11-4 | 1-2 | 0-0 | 10-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 23-27 | 8-13 | 3-7 | 11-6 | 1-1 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 22-19 | 10-10 | 9-5 | 3-1 | 0-3 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 27-17 | 10-5 | 10-9 | 7-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 6-3 | 3-2 | 0-0 | 3-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 120, Borna got to the 2nd round after defeating Paul Jubb 6-2 6-1.
In the 1st round, Borna had a good straight sets win against Jubb (6-2 6-1). During the match, Coric scored 57 points vs Jubb’s 31. Borna was very aggressive to blast 19 winners.
Regarding the service games, Coric scored just 1 ace throughout the match and he committed only 2 double faults. Borna Coric was exceptionally efficient on serve to win 79% (19/24) 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 Croatian broke Jubb 4 times after converting 57% of his break points (4/7).
Coric has favorable match record in the last 10 years having won 55% of his matches (219-178). 6-2 on indoor hard courts in 2025. Talking about his performance on the same surface of this tournament, Coric has an aggregate 51-33 win-loss record in the last years on indoor hard courts.
His best result of the season was winning the title the Lugano Challenger where he beat Raphael Collignon in the final 6-3 6-1.
Coric has an aggregate 7-4 win-loss record in 2025, 6-2 on indoor hard courts (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Thionville Challenger
Coric has never competed in this tournament before.
Emil Ruusuvuori
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 5-4 | 1-2 | 0-0 | 4-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 17-16 | 8-6 | 2-5 | 4-2 | 3-3 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 31-30 | 13-11 | 6-7 | 9-8 | 3-4 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 41-32 | 15-12 | 10-9 | 10-7 | 6-4 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 30-26 | 21-12 | 1-5 | 6-6 | 2-3 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 221, the Finn got to the 2nd round after defeating Matisse Bobichon 6-4 6-4.
In the 1st round, The Finn had a good straight sets win against Bobichon (6-4 6-4). During the match Ruusuvuori scored 71 points vs Bobichon’s 58. Ruusuvuori was extremely aggressive to blast 33 winners.
About the serving games, Ruusuvuori blasted 2 aces and he committed only 2 double faults. Emil Ruusuvuori lost the serve twice and he saved 4 break points. Furthermore, Ruusuvuori put 67% of his first serves in, winning 80% (33/41) of the points behind his 1st serve and 30% (6/20) on the 2nd serve. Emil broke Bobichon 4 times after converting 40% of his break points (4/10).
Emil has an aggregate 3-3 win-loss record in 2025, 2-1 on indoor hard courts (See FULL STATS).
H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Coric | Ruusuvuori |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 1 | 1 |
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 |
| Tot Games | 15 | 20 |
| Pts | 57-31 | 71-58 |
| Total Points | 88 | 129 |
| Winners | 19 | 33 |
| %Winners | 33% | 46% |
Both Coric and Ruusuvuori played 1 match. Both players have not dropped a single set in this event so far. Talking about their workload, Coric and Ruusuvuori have played the same amount of sets 2. However, Coric played 5 games less than Ruusuvuori. The Croatian scored 19 winners (33% of the total points). On the other side, The Finn blasted 33 winners (46%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Coric | Ruusuvuori |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 1 | 2 |
| Avg per match | 1 | 2 |
| 1st in | 24/46 | 41/61 |
| %1st in | 52% | 67% |
| 1st pts | 19/24 | 33/41 |
| %1st pts | 79% | 80% |
| 2nd pts | 15/22 | 6/20 |
| %2nd pts | 68% | 30% |
Coric recorded 1 ace . Ruusuvuori also managed to score 2 aces . Coric won 79% points behind his first serve. He extremely effective on his second serve to win 68% of the points. On the other side, Ruusuvuori won 80% of the points on his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 30% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Coric | Ruusuvuori |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 4 | 4 |
| Converted | 4/7 | 4/10 |
| % Converted | 57% | 40% |
| Conceded | 1 | 6 |
| Saved | 1 | 4 |
| % Saved | 100% | 67% |
| Times Broken | 0 | 2 |
Borna broke his opponent 4 times with a 57% conversion rate. Borna had a solid display on his serve as he has never dropped a single service game after saving 1 break points. Emil broke his opponent 4 times with a 40% conversion rate. Emil conceded his serve twice and he saved 67% of the break points that he conceded.
| Coric | |||
| R1 Jubb |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-2 6-1 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 15 | 15 | |
| pts | 57-31 | 57-31 | |
| Total points | 88 | 88 | |
| Winners | 19 | 19 | |
| %Winners | 33% | 33% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 1 | 1 | |
| Double Faults | 2 | 2 | |
| 1st in | 24/46 | 24/46 | |
| % 1st in | 52% | 52% | |
| 1st pts | 19/24 | 19/24 | |
| % 1st pts | 79% | 79% | |
| 2nd pts | 15/22 | 15/22 | |
| % 2nd pts | 68% | 68% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 4 | 4 | |
| Converted | 4/7 | 4/7 | |
| Converted % | 57% | 57% | |
| Conceded | 1 | 1 | |
| Saved | 1/1 | 1 | |
| Saved % | 100% | 100% | |
| Times Broken | 0 | 0 | |
| Ruusuvuori | |||
| R1 Bobichon |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-4 6-4 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 20 | 20 | |
| pts | 71-58 | 71-58 | |
| Total points | 129 | 129 | |
| Winners | 33 | 33 | |
| %Winners | 46% | 46% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 2 | 2 | |
| Double Faults | 2 | 2 | |
| 1st in | 41/61 | 41/61 | |
| % 1st in | 67% | 67% | |
| 1st pts | 33/41 | 33/41 | |
| % 1st pts | 80% | 80% | |
| 2nd pts | 6/20 | 6/20 | |
| % 2nd pts | 30% | 30% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 4 | 4 | |
| Converted | 4/10 | 4/10 | |
| Converted % | 40% | 40% | |
| Conceded | 6 | 6 | |
| Saved | 4/6 | 4 | |
| Saved % | 67% | 67% | |
| Times Broken | 2 | 2 | |
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