

What Time Will Tallon Griekspoor Play Against Casper Ruud?
Griekspoor and Ruud are on the Day 5 Schedule at Bnp Paribas Nordic Open 2024 on Friday 18 October 2024. 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?
In their previous encounters, Casper Ruud from Norway has a 2-0 lead against Tallon Griekspoor from the Netherlands. The first match took place in Acapulco, Mexico, on hardcourt in the round of 16, where Ruud won 4-6, 6-3, 7-6(3). The second meeting was in the United Cup in Australia, also on hardcourt, in the round-robin stage, with Ruud prevailing 6-3, 6-4.
They have also faced each other in other tournaments. In Finland F1 on clay, Griekspoor defeated Ruud in the quarterfinals with a score of 6-2, 6-2. In Koblenz CH, a tournament in Germany on hardcourt, Griekspoor beat Ruud in the round of 16 after three sets, 3-6, 6-1, 6-2.
Tallon Griekspoor, age 28, is currently ranked 37th in the world. He reached a career-high ranking of 21st in November. In 2024, he has a record of 30 wins and 25 losses, including two semifinal appearances. Griekspoor achieved his personal-best performance with 36 wins in 2023. He won his first ATP Tour title in Pune and reached his career-high ranking of 21. In 2023, he won his second title in ‘s-Hertogenbosch on home soil. Griekspoor’s biggest career win came in the Rotterdam Open by defeating Hurkacz, who was ranked eighth at the time, after coming back from a set down. He has also staged comebacks against top-ranked opponents such as Wawrinka in 2018, Khachanov in 2019, Karatsev in 2022, A. Zverev in 2023, and de Minaur in ‘s-Hertogenbosch in 2023. Griekspoor holds a record of 8-0 in finals and a remarkable 42-7 overall on the ATP Challenger Tour in 2021, setting a single-season record for the most titles and ending the season with 25 consecutive wins. Griekspoor has a 2-23 record against top 10 players, with victories over Fritz and Hurkacz, aiming to become the first Dutch semifinalist in Stockholm since Schalken won the title in 2001.
Casper Ruud, age 25, is currently ranked 8th in the world and achieved a career-high ranking of 2nd. He became the top-ranked Norwegian player in history, surpassing the previous record of No. 7. Ruud has an impressive career with 2 ATP Tour titles, reaching the semifinals of the Nitto ATP Finals in 2021 and the final in 2022, and appearing in the finals of the 2022-23 Roland Garros, 2023 US Open, 2022 Miami, and 2024 Monte-Carlo ATP Masters 1000. He made history as the first Norwegian to win an ATP Tour title, play at the Nitto ATP Finals, reach a Grand Slam final, and an ATP Masters 1000 final. In July 2021, Ruud swept three clay-court titles at Bastad, Gstaad, and Kitzbuhel, becoming the first player to achieve this feat since Murray in 2011. As the former No. 1 junior, Ruud leads the ATP Tour in clay-court wins, finals, and titles since the start of the 2020 season. He has accumulated 116 clay-court wins, 16 finals, and 11 titles, including the prestigious 2024 Barcelona title. A notable victory in Ruud’s career was defeating the World No. 1 Djokovic on his way to the 2024 ATP Masters 1000 Monte-Carlo final. Ruud aims to reach 50 wins in a season for the third time, following his achievements in 2021 (57 wins) and 2022 (51 wins). He would become the fourth player in 2024 to reach this milestone, joining Sinner (65 wins), Zverev (59 wins), and Alcaraz (51 wins). Furthermore, Ruud is pursuing his eighth semifinal appearance of the season, the first since Roland Garros in June.
My Conclusion / Prediction:
My pick is that Griekspoor will win.
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