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RUUD quotes Sinner for a colossal duel in Rome

Norwegian accumulates nine consecutive victories

May 14, 2025

If the trust had a name would answer the cry of Casper Ruud.

The Norwegian climbed on Wednesday until the quarterfinals of the Internalzionali BNL d’Halia, where he can strongly underline his authority in the European season of whipped earth. With the Copa del Mutua Madrid Open still hot in his hands, the blows of the Scandinavian continues to boil on the italic forum slopes, where no one has managed to stop the footsteps of an inspired player.

No. 7 of the PIF ATP Rankings shone on an improvised stage in the eternal city. If the rains forced his duel against Jaume Munar at the last minute of Tuesday, the Norwegian assumed the mission calmly, he adapted to the new stage and dispatched 6-3, 6-4 to Spanish with a match full of security. Casper signed a precise duel, reaching victory without delivering his service and with just a break by set as a recipe. A solid background like steel places him among the main candidates for glory.

“I feel fantastic. Jaume and I know each other well. We had already played two very hard games this year.” The Norwegian explained, who needed to reach the decisive sleeve in the Australian Open and Dallas to beat the Spanish. “Although we didn’t go so to the limit, this game was complicated.”

“Yesterday we live a difficult situation,” Casper explained. “We were in the club all day and we couldn’t play. After being focused for 8 or nine hours, involved in your bubble, suddenly you have to go home without competing. You have to put the mind blank and return today. I feel proud of the way I have managed everything.”

Above all, Ruud underlined a special force on beaten soil. Since the beginning of the 2020 season, no one has won more games than the Norwegian (128) on this surface, a regularity message that will have to test the most strong of the locker room. That winning inertia, however, does not withdraw an apex of humility in the words of the Scandinavian.

“Winning matches is one thing and doing so in the biggest tournaments is another,” he explained. “I think Alcaraz has had some last seasons more powerful than me on whipped land. He has won Roland Garros, Madrid on a couple of occasions, also Montecarlo. He has larger titles than me, but I have had five stable years on this surface. That’s why I like to return to this tournament, I feel at home. But that does not mean that I do not lose games in this surface.”

Now, Ruud will have to face a definitive hardness test in his next party. On the other side of the network will wait for the great local idol Jannik Sinner, currently 1 World Cup and an absolute wall in the quarterfinals. If the atmosphere lived in the first week of the tournament is a reliable prelude, the Centrale field will boil to shape one of the great clashes in the Roman 1000 Masters. Sinner dominates 3-0 a history Lexus ATP Head2head entirely freed on covered clues, including a duel in the semifinals during the last edition of the Nitto ATP Finals.

“Tomorrow is going to be one of the hardest matches of the year, probably,” Casper warned. “The last time Jannik defeated me clearly in Turin. We play again in Italy, but in a tournament and a different surface. He has shown great tennis since the first game and I am also feeling good. It will be a great duel that we have tomorrow.”