Steve Johnson outlasts Casper Ruud 6-2 7-65 in the 3rd round in Salem Open on Wednesday after conquering a huge battle. Johnson will have to play John Millman in the quarter.
Score, report, and key facts
1st set.
Steve in this set was too strong for Casper and eventually he won 6-2 after breaking Ruud in the 6th (4-2) and in the 8th (6-2) game.
The Norwegian lost the 6th game (4-2) when he was comfortably leading 40-0.
The Norwegian lost the plot in the last 4 games of the set (from 2-2 to 6-2).
2nd set.
Johnson was quite dominant at the beginning of the set to break Ruud in the 2nd game (2-0). However, there was more to do for Johnson to win the set because Ruud found the way to break back in the 3rd (1-2) game. The American maintained his cool before winning the set at the tiebreak at 5.
Statistics
At the end of the match, Johnson scored 79 points vs. Ruud’s 68 points.
The American served pretty well to win 82% of the points (31/38) behind his first serve, and he won 52% points (15/29) on his second serve. The American blasted 10 aces and he committed 6 double faults. Johnson was effective when converting 75% of the break points that he procured (3/4). On the other side, Ruud was struggling in converting his break points as he converted only 33% of his break points (1/3). That was one of the key issues for his defeat.
After this contest, the head to head between Johnson and Ruud is 1-0 for Steve.
Next Match: Steve Johnson vs. John Millman – stats
Johnson will compete against Millman in the quarter.
This will be the 5th time that Steve Johnson and John Millman clash against each other. The head to head is 3-1 for Johnson (see full H2H stats), 2-0 on hard.
The last time that they played each other, Millman won 7-65 7-65 in the 1st round in Madrid back in May 2019.
Tennis Scores in Salem Open
- Pablo Carreno-BustaPablo – Lorenzo SonegoLorenzo (7-67 6-0) – See score progression
- Steve JohnsonSteve – Casper RuudCasper (6-2 7-65) – See score progression
- Hubert HurkaczHubert – Feliciano LopezFeliciano (6-3 3-1 ret.) – See score progression
- Denis ShapovalovDenis – Miomir KecmanovicMiomir (6-2 6-3) – See score progression
- John MillmanJohn – Robin HaaseRobin (6-3 6-4) – See score progression
- Benoit PaireBenoit – Ugo HumbertUgo (3-6 7-6(2) 6-3) – See score progression
- Frances TiafoeFrances – Filip KrajinovicFilip (6-2 ret.) – See score progression
Upcoming matches
- Sam QuerreySam – Andrey RublevAndrey (1-0) – See H2H details
- John MillmanJohn – Steve JohnsonSteve (1-3) – See H2H details
- Benoit PaireBenoit – Pablo Carreno-BustaPablo (7-3) – See H2H details
- Frances TiafoeFrances – Hubert HurkaczHubert (2-0) – See H2H details
