Francisco Cerundolo ousts Casper Ruud 6-4 6-2 in the 4th round in Miami on Tuesday. Cerundolo will clash against Grigor Dimitrov in the quarter. The match lasted 1 hour and 26 minutes. His best achievement in this competition was reaching the semifinal in 2022. Here you can see his history at this event.
Cerundolo added to his prize money $ 85,850 after winning this match. He has already won $ 189,075 after this win. If he wins the next match, the Argentine will add $ 143,085 to his earnings to get in total $ 332,160 in total.
Highlights Francisco Cerundolo vs. Casper Ruud Miami Open – Miami
Stats: aces, double faults, breaks, winners
1h:26
At the end of the match, Francisco scored 68 points vs. the Norwegian’s 51.
Cerundolo
Cerundolo served pretty well to win 76% of the points (28/37) behind his first serve, and he won 69% points (11/16) on his second serve. Cerundolo won this match even if he was struggling to find the solution in converting his break points since he converted only 30% (3/10) of the procured opportunities.
Ruud
On the other side, the Norwegian wasn’t able to conquer any break point (0/0). That was one of the key issues for his loss.
After this encounter, the head to head between Cerundolo and Ruud is 5-3 for Francisco.
Draw and next match H2H: Francisco Cerundolo vs. Grigor Dimitrov – stats
Cerundolo will square off with Dimitrov in the quarter.
This will be the 2nd time that Francisco Cerundolo and Grigor Dimitrov face off. The head to head is 1-0 for Dimitrov (see full H2H stats), but they have never competed against each other on hard.
Live score progression and stats
There was not much difference between the 2 players in this set with the exception of 1 break that Francisco clinched in the 7th game (4-3) before finally winning the set (6-4).
Francisco was unable to break the Norwegian in the 1st game when he had 3 consecutive chances (0-40).
Francisco converted 12% of his break points (1/8). He had 8 break points opportunities in the 1st (0-0 0-40, 15-40 and 30-40), the 7th (3-3 30-40, 40-A, 40-A and 40-A) and the 11th game (6-3 15-40). On the other side, Cerundolo didn’t concede a single break point during this set.
They played 80 points. Francisco was the one to win the set after conquering 10 more points than Casper (45-35). The Argentine lost 8 points on serve (22-8). on the other side of the court, the Norwegian conceded 23 points on serve (27-23).
Cerundolo had a strong start of this set after breaking Casper Ruud in the 2nd game (2-0). That break was crucial for Francisco to win the set (6-2) as there were no other breaks.
The Argentine converted 50% of his break points (1/2). He had 2 break points opportunities in the 5th game (3-1 15-40 and 30-40). On the other side, the Argentine didn’t concede a single break point during this set.
They played 39 points. The Argentine won 7 points more than the Norwegian (23-16). The Argentine conceded 6 points on serve (17-6). on the other side of the court, the Norwegian conceded 6 points on serve (10-6).
Tennis Scores in Miami
- Novak DjokovicDjokovic – Lorenzo MusettiMusetti (6-2 6-2)
- Matteo BerrettiniBerrettini – Alex De MinaurDe Minaur (6-3 7-67)
- Jakub MensikMensik – Tomas MachacMachac (w/o)
- Grigor DimitrovDimitrov – Brandon NakashimaNakashima (6-4 7-5)
- Sebastian KordaKorda – Gael MonfilsMonfils (6-4 2-6 6-4)
- Francisco CerundoloCerundolo – Casper RuudRuud (6-4 6-2)
- Taylor FritzFritz – Adam WaltonWalton (6-3 7-5)
Upcoming matches
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- Taylor Harry FritzHarry Fritz – Matteo BerrettiniBerrettini (4-0) – H2H details and stats
- Sebastian KordaKorda – Novak DjokovicDjokovic (0-1) – H2H details and stats
- Francisco CerundoloCerundolo – Grigor DimitrovDimitrov (0-1) – H2H details and stats
