

What Time Will Marcos Giron Play Against Casper Ruud?
Giron and Ruud are on the Day 2 Schedule at Dallas Open 2025 on Tuesday 4 February 2025. Lets breakdown the career, past stats and recent form of these players and predict who will get the victory.
Who Will Win In This Head-To-Head?
Head to head, Casper Ruud leads 2-1 against Marcos Giron. In their previous meetings, Ruud defeated Giron 6-2 6-1 in the R16 of the ATP Masters 1000 Paris on hard court, Giron won 6-3 6-4 in the R16 of the Tokyo on hard court, and Ruud won 6-1 6-0 in the R16 of Los Cabos on hard court.
Marcos Giron, who is currently 31 years old and ranked World No. 41, achieved his career-high ranking of No. 37 in August 2024. In the year 2025, he has a record of 5-2 and reached the quarterfinals of the Adelaide tournament. His overall performance in events is 10-4, including reaching the final of the 2024 tournament.
Giron is one of three former UCLA Bruins to break into the Top 50 during the 2022 season, along with Cressy and McDonald. He won his first ATP Tour title after saving one match point in the final of the Newport tournament. At the age of 29, he reached his first ATP Tour final, which took place in his home state of California in the San Diego tournament. Giron has qualified for 11 ATP Masters 1000 events, with a notable victory over No. 6 Rune in the 2nd round of the 2023 Toronto tournament. He also showed resilience in the 2021 Roland Garros by reaching the third round after being down 6-2 6-4 5-1 and saving three match points against Dimitrov. Giron’s journey to the Top 100 started in 2020 after undergoing hip surgeries in 2015 and 2016.
In the previous year, Giron reached the final of the Dallas tournament (his second ATP Tour final), where he lost to No. 15 Paul. He has yet to secure a victory against a Top 5 player, making this match against Ruud an opportunity for his biggest career win. Giron has had success in the last three editions of the event, reaching the semifinals in 2022, the quarterfinals in 2023, and the final in 2024.
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Casper Ruud, who is currently 26 years old and ranked World No. 5, holds a career-high ranking of No. 2. He rose from No. 7 to No. 2 after losing to Alcaraz in the 2022 US Open final, with the No. 1 ranking at stake. Ruud has several achievements for a Norwegian player, including being the first to win an ATP Tour title (12), reaching the Nitto ATP Finals (semifinals in 2021, final in 2022, semifinals in 2024), and reaching the finals of a Grand Slam (Roland Garros in 2022-23, US Open in 2023).
Notably, Ruud had an impressive performance on clay courts, winning titles in Bastad, Gstaad, and Kitzbuhel in July 2021. He became the first player to win three titles in as many weeks since Murray in 2011. Since the start of the 2020 season, Ruud leads the ATP Tour in clay-court wins (116), finals (16), and titles (11). His most significant career title came in 2024 at the Barcelona tournament. Ruud also achieved a remarkable victory over World No. 1 Djokovic on his way to the final of the 2024 ATP Masters 1000 Monte-Carlo.
This tournament marks Ruud’s first ATP Tour event as a Top 5 player since the 2023 US Open, where he lost to Zhang in the 2nd round. He has a chance to become the second Norwegian player to win a match in the tournament’s history, following in the footsteps of his father, Christian, who reached the quarterfinals in 1999 (lost to Chang).
My Conclusion / Prediction:
My pick is that Giron will win.
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