Casper Ruud

[Damian]

Ruud Keeps Winning

Spoiler:

Later in the day, Casper Ruud, the No. 28 seed, powered his way into the second round to extend his clay-court record to 16-4 this year. The Norwegian, who has been in fine form since the resumption of the ATP Tour last month, cruised past Yuichi Sugita 6-1, 6-3, 6-1 in one hour and 33 minutes.

Ruud, who is competing in Paris at a career-high No. 25 in the FedEx ATP Rankings, hit 35 winners and now faces American Tommy Paul, who won 29 of his 38 first-service points in a first Roland Garros win over James Duckworth 6-2, 6-3, 6-2 in one hour and 43 minutes.

The 21-year-old Ruud won his first ATP Tour title at the Argentina Open (d. P. Sousa) in February and has reached back-to-back semi-finals in recent weeks, at the Internazionali BNL d’Italia (l. to Djokovic) and at the Hamburg European Open (l. to Rublev).

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Casper On Clay: Ruud has been a breakthrough star on clay this season, leading the ATP Tour with 17 tour-level wins on the surface through Roland Garros. The Norwegian claimed his first ATP Tour title in Buenos Aires in February and recently made his first ATP Masters 1000 semi-final in Rome. Will the Next Gen ATP Finals alumnus be able to maintain his clay-court production in Sardinia.

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Fajne życie mieli na tym US Open.

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2020 First-Time Winners

Casper Ruud – Buenos Aires

Casper Ruud made Norwegian history at the Argentina Open in Buenos Aires. The Oslo-native became the first player from his nation to lift an ATP Tour trophy with an impressive run. Ruud charged past Pablo Andujar, Roberto Carballes Baena and Dusan Lajovic to reach the semi-finals, in which he rallied from a set down to eliminate Juan Ignacio Londero and reach his second tour-level final.

In the championship match, Ruud ended the run of lucky loser Pedro Sousa in straight sets to lift the title and earn family bragging rights. Casper not only become the first Norwegian ATP Tour champion, he also became the highest-ranked Norwegian in FedEx ATP Rankings history. He beat the previous-best mark held by his father and coach, Christian Ruud (World No. 39).

"I feel a great sensation now. It is what all players look for and dream [of]. I am very happy with my career, although I know that I am still young," Ruud said. "Buenos Aires will always be a special place for me, this is [where I won] my first title."

Ruud’s success in Buenos Aires provided the springboard to a breakthrough 2020 campaign. The 21-year-old, who reached a career-high No. 25 on 28 September, finished as a runner-up in Santiago and reached back-to-back semi-finals in Rome and Hamburg to finish the year with a Tour-leading 17 clay wins.

https://www.atptour.com/en/news/first-time-winners-2020

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2020 w liczbach:

Ranking: 27
Bilans meczów: 22-13
Tytuły: 1 (Buenos Aires)
Finały: 1 (Santiago)
Zarobki: $965,652

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Nic wielkiego Norwegowi to nie przyniosło, ale odnotować warto. Casper w 2020 roku wygrał najwięcej spotkań na cegle.

1. Casper Ruud 17-6 (1 tytuł)
2. Cristian Garin 15-4 (2)
3. Diego Schwartzman 15-4
4. Novak Djoković 11-1 (1)
5. Stefanos Tsitsipas 11-3
6. Laslo Djere 11-4 (1)

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Nic wielkiego Norwegowi to nie przyniosło, ale odnotować warto. Casper w 2020 roku wygrał najwięcej spotkań na cegle.

1. Casper Ruud 17-6 (1 tytuł)
2. Cristian Garin 15-4 (2)
3. Diego Schwartzman 15-4
4. Novak Djoković 11-1 (1)
5. Stefanos Tsitsipas 11-3
6. Laslo Djere 11-4 (1)

Strasznie ograniczony tenis choć z tym fh jakąś połówkę Garrosa za kilka lat ma szansę zrobić.

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‘Now the legend is here’- ATP ace recalls first encounter with Roger Federer wow-factor

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Casper Ruud says the entire room falls quiet when Roger Federer enters a room as he recalled the first time he experienced it.

Ruud made some serious strides in 2020 despite the truncated nature of it, moving from outside the top 50 in the rankings to inside the top 30.

At just 21-years-old, he is one of the brightest prospects in the men’s game, but he says he was still wowed by the presence of Roger Federer when he first encountered it.

“It was in Melbourne a few years ago, and then I remember that we sat in a large café where all the players sit to eat,” Ruud said.

“When Roger Federer came in, it was completely quiet and everyone turned around. Now the legend is here.”

It wasn’t just the Swiss star who silence a room out of sheer respect though.

Understandably, Federer’s fellow GOAT contenders Rafael Nadal and Novak Djokovic also carry with them that wow factor that only greatness can create.

“These three legends, they look taller than they might be,” Ruud said.

“They are probably around 1.85 meters, but it may seem that they are two meters because of the respect you have for them.”

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AO21: pierwszy raz w 3. rundzie australijskiego szlema.

[24] Casper Ruud d. Tommy Paul 3-6 6-2 6-4 7-5

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AO21: pierwszy raz w drugim tygodniu WS.

[24] Casper Ruud d. Radu Albot 6-1 5-7 6-4 6-4

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The Competitive Fire That Burns Within Casper Ruud

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The Norwegian will play seventh seed Rublev in the fourth round

Casper Ruud will play the biggest match of his life on Monday against seventh seed Andrey Rublev in the fourth round of the Australian Open. The Norwegian star will have a chance to reach his first Grand Slam quarter-final, so there will be an abundance of pressure on the 22-year-old’s shoulders.

Ruud would rather have it no other way.

The 24th seed lives for these moments. Many players dread pressure and the nerves that often come with big matches, but Ruud embraces it all.

“It shows that your body is pumping up adrenaline to fight,” Ruud told ATPTour.com. “You really show yourself that you’re preparing for a tough fight, for a tough moment. It shows that you really want to win and that’s a good feeling. You prefer to play when you’re not nervous of course. You can get tight, you can maybe miss shots that you shouldn’t. But at the end of the day, I’ve learned that being nervous is actually a good thing.”


When you watch Ruud play, he shows few emotions, and rarely displays his nerves. The 2019 Next Gen ATP Finals competitor never gets too high or too low. It’s as if the Norwegian has ice in his veins. But inside, he is a fiery competitor.

“Overcoming pressure situations when you’re nervous on break points, set points, all these things, that’s probably the best feeling for a player,“ Ruud said. “That tension that you get in your body on those points and overcoming it, that’s one of the biggest satisfactions on the court. It’s tough when you lose them when you don’t get that feeling, but that makes the time you overcome those situations feel even better.”

Competing drives Ruud off the court, too. He is an avid golfer, who has a dedicated Instagram page to show the world his skills on the course.

“I like to win when I play, so I challenge better golfers than me, worse golfers than me,” Ruud said. “It’s just the challenge of trying to win and get better at it.”

But while he doesn’t often show it, Ruud admitted that he does feel nerves, saying, “I get nervous too, even if it might not seem like it.”

The Norwegian recalls the semi-finals of the 2017 Rio Open presented by Claro. Then 18, he began the week without a tour-level win, but earned a match point in the second set against gritty Spaniard Pablo Carreno Busta. He was desperate to reach his first ATP Tour final that day in Brazil. But that moment remains the most nervous he has ever been on court.

“I knew that if I had won I would break into the Top 100 as an 18-year-old and I would play in all the main draws at the Slams that year,” Ruud said. “That was a little bit of a nerve-wracking moment for me. It all just collapsed when I didn’t win that second set. In the third set it all just went south and I remember I was really nervous on that match point and in those games trying to close out the match. I played a great match up until that point, but after that, the nerves got me.”


Ruud didn’t show it by screaming or throwing a racquet, but from 6-2, 5-4 up, he did not win a game the rest of the match and did not crack the Top 100 until March 2019, more than two years later.

The Norwegian played Roger Federer in the third round at 2018 Roland Garros, and the Swiss was highly complimentary of his opponent’s demeanor.

“I can see why he's going to be good in the future. He's got a great attitude, very calm, very quiet, maybe very Norwegian, I'm not sure,” Federer said. “But it's nice to see that he's very focused, he's got good energy. Even though he is maybe more on the calm side, also very fair… It's just nice to play against a guy like that, to be quite honest.”

Rublev leads the pair's ATP Head2Head series 2-0, but the red-hot Russian expects a difficult battle.

"It's going to be tough," Rublev said. "It's going to be a physical match because he has really great physical power. He can run a lot. He's [hitting his] forehand really hard."

Ruud is just the second Norwegian player to reach the Round of 16 at a Grand Slam, joining his father Christian Ruud, who accomplished the feat at the 1997 Australian Open. The 22-year-old will try to become the first from his country to reach a quarter-final. No matter what happens, Ruud has come a long way since that day in Rio de Janeiro.

“I’ve grown up. I’ve matured more than I was back then. I’ve gotten physically stronger, mentally stronger. My tennis has gotten better. I don’t have weaknesses that I had,” Ruud said. “I think it’s just a big development that I’ve made in all aspects of my game. In one way I’m happy that I didn’t break into the Top 100 at that stage. It’s been tough, but I’ve enjoyed the tough work to get here and it’s a nice way to get a little bit of payback when you reach the late stages in a Grand Slam.”

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