World number four Casper Ruud will face the 120th-ranked Cristian Garin in the second round of the 2023 Hamburg Open on Thursday, July 27. Get the predictions and odds of this Casper Ruud v Cristian Garin match along with its preview, head to head, and tips here.
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Casper Ruud v Cristian Garin Head to Head
There have been four previous meetings between these two and Garin leads 3-1 on head to head. This also includes a third round win for Garin at the 2023 Indian Wells Masters!
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Ruud Scrapes Past Baez
Sebastian Baez has been struggling of late and going up against the world number four Ruud, he was never going to be the favourite.
Ruud, on the other hand, had shown sparks from his past, having made the final of the Bastad Open last week before he had lost to Andrey Rublev in the title-decider. It was a mismatch in its own way.
Didn’t quite turn out that way.
Sure, Ruud won the opening set despite dropping his serve once but not too many expected what was to follow. A shaky Ruud serve was broken two more times in the second set as Baez came back to level out the match and when he held on till the fifth game in the decider, it looked like a keen tussle was on the cards.
The duo exchanged serves in the next two games before Ruud finally marched ahead in the eighth game with a decisive break.
He will now hope to get past another tricky opponent whom he has found hard to beat in the past.
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Garin in a Comeback Win over Dellien
Having needed to qualify for the event by winning successive qualifying rounds, Garin was a 2/5 favourite to overcome Hugo Dellien in his opener. He sure didn’t play like one though.
In the end, Garin needed two hours and six minutes to stall the Dellien progress, winning 6-7 (3), 6-1, 6-3 to make it to the second round of an ATP event for the first time since the Rome Masters.
It’s been that kind of a season for Garin who had touched a year-high of 73rd on the ATP chats in April. Since then he did make it to the third round at Madrid and Rome but his ranking has fallen to 120th since then because of the lack of results at the French Open and Wimbledon – two tournaments he ended up missing.
He will now hope he can put up a bit of a showing here against Ruud, a player he has had an edge over.
Ruud v Garin Prediction and Tip
Garin looks like he is back from his fitness concerns and he might be able to test Ruud here but we will still back the world number four to come through in straight sets.
Tips:
- Low Risk Tip: Ruud to win in straight sets: 3/5
The 2023 ATP Umag will be played from July 24 to 30. You can get all the tennis betting news with our tennis betting blog here. Also get rest of the tennis match previews here.
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