Casper Ruud won this Sunday the Masters 1000 from Madridhis first career victory over a tournament of this scale. The former world number 2 triumphed over Jack Draper, a recent winner of Indian Wells, in a meeting where each player had his vacuum.
Well launched in the meeting, Ruud missed his second set before Breaker at 3-2 in the second round to go to victory. The 26 -year -old Norwegian, so far still unhappy in his big finals (three in Grand Colam, two in Masters 1000), confirms his good shape on clay, his favorite surface.
He had so far lost Roland-Garros In 2022 and 2023, against Rafael Nadal and Novak Djokovic, but also in the US Open finals in 2022 (against Carlos Alcaraz), and during two Masters 1000 in Miami in 2022 and Monte-Carlo in 2024. Back in the top 10 from Monday, Ruud now has 13 titles to his prize list, including 12 on earth.
The Madrid tournament was very open after the world number 3 package Carlos Alcaraz and the early outputs of Novak Djokovicas soon as he entered the running, and the world number 2 Alexander Zverev in eighths.
