
Casper Ruud tops Daniel Elahi Galan 6-4 6-3 in the 1st round in Barcelona on Tuesday. Ruud will try to go further in the tournament when playing against Hamad Medjedovic in the 2nd round. The match lasted 1 hour and 33 minutes. Casper won this tournament once in 2024. Here you can see his history at this event.
Casper added to his prize money € 18,430 after winning this match. He has already won € 40,735 after this win. If he wins the next match, Casper will add € 36,570 to his earnings to get in total € 77,305 in total.
Highlights Casper Ruud vs. Daniel Elahi Galan Barcelona Open Banc Sabadell – Barcelona
Stats: aces, double faults, breaks, winners
At the end of the match, the Norwegian scored 64 points vs. Elahi Galan Riveros’s 50.
Ruud
The Norwegian served pretty well to win 78% of the points (21/27) behind his first serve, and he won 76% points (19/25) on his second serve. Ruud won this match even if he had some problems converting his break points after he converted only 29% (2/7) of the procured opportunities.
Elahi Galan Riveros
On the other side, Daniel wasn’t able to conquer any break point (0/0). That was one of the key issues for his loss.
After this contest, the head to head between Ruud and Elahi Galan Riveros is 5-0 for Casper.
Draw and next match H2H: Casper Ruud vs. Hamad Medjedovic – stats
Ruud will face Medjedovic in the 2nd round.
There is no head to head record between Casper Ruud and Hamad Medjedovic since this will be the first time that they will fight against each other in the main tour.
Live score progression and stats
Both players managed to hold their serve for the entire set. The only difference was just 1 break that the Norwegian grabbed in the 10th game (6-4) before finally winning the set (6-4).
Ruud failed to serve out the set when leading 6-4 to be broken at 0.
Casper converted 16% of his break points (1/6). He had 6 break points opportunities in the 2nd (1-0 40-A, 40-A and 40-A), the 4th (2-1 30-40 and 40-A) and the 10th game (5-4 15-40). On the other side, Casper didn’t concede a single break point during this set.
They contested 74 points. Casper won 12 points more than the Colombian (43-31). Ruud lost 7 points on serve (24-7). Regarding the other side of the net, the Colombian conceded 19 points on serve (24-19).
Similarly to the 1st set, both players managed to hold their serve for the entire set. The only difference was just 1 break that Ruud conquered in the 6th game (4-2) before finally conquering the set (6-3).
Casper was clinical in converting the only break point that he conquered in the 6th game (3-2 30-40). On the other side, Casper didn’t concede a single break point during this set.
They played 40 points. The set was a huge battle since finally Ruud won just 2 points more than Elahi Galan Riveros (21-19). Casper conceded 5 points on serve (16-5). on the other side of the court, Daniel conceded 5 points on serve (14-5).
Tennis Scores in Barcelona
- Alex De MinaurDe Minaur – Tomas Martin EtcheverryMartin Etcheverry (6-4 6-4)
- Carlos AlcarazAlcaraz – Ethan QuinnQuinn (6-2 7-66)
- Stefanos TsitsipasTsitsipas – Reilly OpelkaOpelka (6-2 6-2)
- Arthur FilsFils – Pablo Carreno-BustaCarreno-Busta (7-66 6-3)
- Jaume Antoni Munar ClarAntoni Munar Clar – Frances TiafoeTiafoe (2-6 7-5 6-1)
- Casper RuudRuud – Daniel Elahi GalanElahi Galan (6-4 6-3)
- Laslo DjereDjere – Arthur RinderknechRinderknech (6-72 6-1 6-2)
- Sebastian BaezBaez – Damir DzumhurDzumhur (6-1 7-5)
- Hamad MedjedovicMedjedovic – Giovanni Mpetshi PerricardMpetshi Perricard (7-5 7-66)
- Jacob FearnleyFearnley – Roberto Carballes BaenaCarballes Baena (6-1 7-5)
- Andrey RublevRublev – Jesper De JongDe Jong (6-1 6-3)
- Pedro Martinez PorteroMartinez Portero – Brandon NakashimaNakashima (7-5 5-7 6-4)
- Sebastian KordaKorda – Matteo ArnaldiArnaldi (3-6 6-3 6-2)
- Holger RuneRune – Albert Ramos-VinolasRamos-Vinolas (7-5 6-4)
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