Casper Ruud - Pablo Cuevas

Munich, round of 16, clay

Both players for sure knows how to play on clay surface and after last matches we saw that Ruud was in good shape and his injuries ended for now. Still youngster decided to skip Barcelona after Monte Carlo tournament and get some rest before new challenges in Tour. I guess he will be ready for today, but not at 100% because it's ATP250 and he will need to adapt to this level after Monte Carlo. Cuevas will play his second match on clay in season and he skipped a lot of tournament, so he must be fresh an have a lot of motivation, but not much feeling of ball yet, so i guess no win for him today.

Why over?

1) Once they played together and made quite nice over and i expect same in this tournament and in first set we will see TB also as Cuevas plays best in first set with nice game.

2) ATP250 tournament often suggest that lower ranking players play bettter and higher ranking have not so much motivation especially after ATP1000.

3) Cuevas after long break will want to show something and win.

Open