Casper Ruud and Marin Cilic will square off in the 2nd round of the BNP Paribas Nordic Open for the 4th time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Wednesday at 6:00 pm on CENTRE COURT. In the following paragraphs, you can find the head to head analysis and prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Casper Ruud who should win in 3 sets.
Casper Ruud -> 1.48
Marin Cilic -> 2.64
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Prediction and head to head Casper Ruud vs. Marin Cilic
This will be the 4th time that Casper Ruud and Marin Cilic face off. The head to head is 3-0 for Ruud (see full H2H stats), but they have never competed against each other on indoor hard courts.
The last time that they played, Ruud won 3-6 6-4 6-2 6-2 in the semifinal in at the French Open back in 2022.
Highlights Casper Ruud vs Marin Cilic – French Open 03-June-2022
Casper Ruud
| 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. 12, Ruud will start his run in Stockholm after he played his last match in Shanghai where he lost 3-6 7-5 4-1 ret. to Bergs in the 2nd round on the 3rd of October.
Ruud has an aggregate 33-14 win-loss record in 2025, 7-1 on indoor hard courts (See FULL STATS).
His best result of the year was conquering the title in Madrid where he beat Jack Draper in the final 7-5 3-6 6-4.
Talking about his overall career, The Norwegian has an overall 437-232 record. He has a positive 64-39 record on indoor hard courts.
Previously in Stockholm
Previously, his best result was reaching the quarter in 2024. See his history.
Marin Cilic
24 - 18win/loss
75
3
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 29-20 | 3-6 | 11-9 | 6-3 | 9-2 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 9-11 | 8-6 | 0-1 | 1-4 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 1-1 | 1-0 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 32-21 | 16-10 | 9-5 | 4-5 | 3-1 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 33-23 | 6-9 | 5-5 | 13-7 | 9-2 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 92, the Croatian reached the 2nd round after defeating Nicolai Budkov Kjaer 7-5 6-3.
In the 1st round, Marin had a good straight sets win against Budkov Kjaer (7-5 6-3). During the match Cilic scored 70 points vs Budkov Kjaer’s 60. Cilic was extremely aggressive to blast 29 winners.
About the serving games, Cilic scored 12 aces and he committed only 2 double faults. Marin Cilic was quite effective on serve to win 85% (29/34) of his 1st serve and 64% (16/25) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. Cilic broke Budkov Kjaer twice after converting 29% of his break points (2/7).
His best result of the current season was conquering the title the Girona Challenger where he beat Elmer Moller in the final 6-3 6-4 and the Nottingham 2 Challenger where he beat Shintaro Mochizuki in the final 6-2 6-3.
The Croatian has an aggregate 24-17 win-loss record in 2025, 1-0 on indoor hard courts (See FULL STATS).
Previously in Stockholm
Marin has never competed in this tournament before.
Tennis Scores in Stockholm
- Marin CilicCilic – Nicolai Budkov KjaerBudkov Kjaer (7-5 6-3) – See score progression
- Elias YmerYmer – Mikael YmerYmer (6-2 7-64) – See score progression
- Matteo BerrettiniBerrettini – Giulio ZeppieriZeppieri (6-4 6-2) – See score progression
- Kamil MajchrzakMajchrzak – Filip MisolicMisolic (6-2 6-2) – See score progression
- Tomas Martin EtcheverryMartin Etcheverry – Mark LajalLajal (7-65 6-75 6-3) – See score progression
- Jacob FearnleyFearnley – Tallon GriekspoorGriekspoor (6-3 6-76 7-65) – See score progression
- Leo BorgBorg – Sebastian OfnerOfner (6-3 6-4) – See score progression
- Miomir KecmanovicKecmanovic – Alexandre MullerMuller (6-4 6-1) – See score progression
- Sebastian KordaKorda – Alexei PopyrinPopyrin (6-74 6-1 6-3) – See score progression
Upcoming matches in the draw
- Marin CilicCilic – Casper RuudRuud (0-3) – H2H and prediction
- Tomas Martin EtcheverryMartin Etcheverry – Miomir KecmanovicKecmanovic (1-1) – H2H and prediction
- Ugo HumbertHumbert – Matteo BerrettiniBerrettini (1-3) – H2H and prediction
- Aleksandar KovacevicKovacevic – Camilo Ugo CarabelliUgo Carabelli (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Sebastian KordaKorda – Kamil MajchrzakMajchrzak (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Jesper De JongDe Jong – Marton FucsovicsFucsovics (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Jacob FearnleyFearnley – Elias YmerYmer (0-0) – H2H and prediction