TENNIS SCORES. Jan-Lennard Struff gets the better of Ruud in the 1st round in New York

U.S. OPEN - NEW YORK. Struff tops Ruud to play John Isner in the 2nd round

Prediction and head to head Jan-Lennard Struff vs. Casper Ruud

Jan-Lennard Struff gets the better of Casper Ruud 6-4 6-4 6-2 in the 1st round in New York on Tuesday. Struff will seek to keep on going in this event against John Isner in the 2nd round.

Score, report, and key facts

1st set.

Jan-Lennard won the set after he broke Ruud in the 5th (3-2) and in the 8th (5-3) game. Casper tried to stage a comeback breaking in the 8th (4-4) game. Anyhow, the German kept the situation under control before winning the set 6-4.

Struff failed to serve out the set when leading 5-3 to be broken at 30.

2nd set.

The set was even with both players refusing to concede anything to the opposition. Eventually, the only discrepancy was one break that the German conquered in the 3rd game (2-1) before winning the set (6-4).

3rd set.

Jan-Lennard in this set was in much better shape than Ruud and for that reason he won 6-2 after breaking Ruud in the 3rd (2-1) and in the 5th (4-1) game.

A crucial moment of the match was when Jan-Lennard won 5 consecutive games in the 3rd set to change the scoreline from 0-1 to 5-1.

Statistics

At the end of the match, Struff scored 110 points vs. the Norwegian’s 81 points.

Struff served pretty well to win 92% of the points (33/36) behind his first serve, and he won 63% points (26/41) on his second serve. Struff blasted 20 aces and he committed 4 double faults. The German won this match even if he was battling in converting his break points as he converted only 29% (4/14). On the other side, Casper wasn’t able to conquer any break point (0/1). That was one of the key issues for his defeat.

After this contest, the head to head between Struff and Ruud is 2-0 for Jan-Lennard.

Next Match: Jan-Lennard Struff vs. John Isner – stats

Struff will square off with Isner in the 2nd round.

This will be the 4th time that Jan-Lennard Struff and John Isner square off. The head to head is 3-0 for Isner (see full H2H stats), 1-0 on hard.

The last time that they squared off, Isner won 6-4 6-74 6-3 in the 3rd round in Paris back in 2016.

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