French Open: Casper Ruud powers past qualifier Ymer into second round
Tennis – French Open – Roland Garros, Paris, France – Could 30, 2023 Norway’s Casper Ruud in motion throughout his first spherical match in opposition to Sweden’s Elias Ymer REUTERS/Clodagh Kilcoyne
PARIS— Fourth seed Casper Ruud coasted into the French Open second spherical with a 6-4 6-3 6-2 victory over Swedish qualifier Elias Ymer on Tuesday to kick off his bid for a second straight closing in Paris.
Ymer was no match for the baseline energy of the Norwegian world quantity 4, who misplaced within the 2022 closing to Rafael Nadal, an absentee this yr.
“Final yr was probably the greatest tournaments of my life,” Ruud stated. “You wish to defend what you probably did final yr.”
“Final yr was unbelievable for me and I’ll attempt to do it once more wherever I play.”
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— Roland-Garros (@rolandgarros) Could 30, 2023
He bought his first break at 3-3 when Ymer sailed a forehand vast.
The Norwegian, whose season begin was removed from profitable earlier than profitable the title on clay in Estoril in April and reaching the final 4 in Rome two weeks in the past, broke his opponent once more at the beginning of the second set.
Pummelling Ymer with thundering baseline winners, Ruud was in no temper to decelerate, and even after the Swedish journeyman clawed his manner again with a break of his personal he responded with one other break to bag the set.
Ymer, whose brother Mikael was eradicated within the first spherical as effectively, had no reply to Ruud’s energy recreation, littering the courtroom with errors when engaged in longer rallies, certainly one of which got here on the second match level, handing victory to Ruud with a backhand miss.
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