Casper Ruud and Roman Safiullin will clash against each other in the 2nd round of the National Bank Open for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Tuesday at 5:00 pm on MOTOROLA RAZR GRANDSTAND COURT. In this post, we analyze their head to head performance and prediction.

Prediction, odds and live streaming

The pick for Tennis Tonic is Casper Ruud who should win in 2 sets.

As per the initial odds, Casper Ruud is the pick to win this match.
Casper Ruud -> 1.38
Roman Safiullin -> 3.04

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Prediction and head to head Casper Ruud vs. Roman Safiullin

There is no head to head record between Casper Ruud and Roman Safiullin since this will be the first time that they will clash against each other in the main tour.

Casper Ruud

Casper Ruud

26 - 9win/loss

Hard
6-3
I Hard
6-1
Clay
14-5
Rank
12
High
2
LLWWWWWWLL
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. 13, Ruud will start his run in Montreal after he played his last match in Gstaad where he lost 6-2 1-6 6-3 to Manuel in the quarter on the 18th of July.

Casper has a compiled 26-9 win-loss record in 2025, 6-3 on hard (See FULL STATS).

His best result of the season was winning the title in Madrid where he beat Jack Draper in the final 7-5 3-6 6-4.

Talking about his overall career, Casper has an overall 430-227 record. He has a positive 112-73 record on hard.

Previously in Montreal

Previously, his best result was reaching the semifinal in 2022. See his history.

Toronto
Ruud's Record

Roman Safiullin

Roman Safiullin

11 - 16win/loss

Hard
7-8
I Hard
0-0
Clay
3-4
Grass
1-4
Rank
170
High
36
LWLLWLWLLW
Year Total Hard Clay I.hard Grass Carpet
2025 13-20 9-12 3-4 0-0 1-4 0-0
2024 31-28 18-14 5-8 6-3 2-3 0-0
2023 41-25 13-12 8-4 11-5 9-4 0-0
2022 37-18 16-6 6-2 14-9 1-1 0-0
2021 18-21 7-5 5-7 5-8 1-1 0-0

Ranked no. 82, Safiullin got to the 2nd round after defeating Ugo Blanchet 4-6 6-2 7-6(9).

In the 1st round against Blanchet, Safiullin recovered from a 1-set down deficit before winning (4-6 6-2 7-69). During the match Safiullin scored 104 points vs Blanchet’s 93. Roman was very aggressive to blast 42 winners.

About the serving games, Safiullin struck 7 aces and he committed only 8 double faults. Overall, Roman Safiullin was very effective on serve to win 75% (42/56) of his 1st serve and 62% (24/39) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve twice. The Russian broke Blanchet 3 times after converting 50% of his break points (3/6).

Roman’s best result of the current season was reaching the semifinal in the Oeiras 4 Challenger.

The Russian has an overall 11-16 win-loss record in 2025, 7-8 on hard (See FULL STATS).

Previously in Montreal

Previously, his best result was reaching the 1st round in 2024. See his history.

Toronto
Safiullin's Record

Tennis Scores in Toronto

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