Carlos Alcaraz – Casper Ruud. US Open 2022 final prediction

He will play in the US Open final carlos alcaraz (Spain, ATP 4) and Casper Ruud (Norway, ATP 7). According to bookies, Carlos is the favorite of the meeting.

US Open-Grand Slam

New York, USA / August 29 – September 11 / fixed / $24,443,600

Current champion: Daniel Medvedev

Both tennis players started from the 1/64 final. Carlos is the 3rd seed of the tournament and Kasper is 5th.

Carlos Alcaras confidently took their opponents to the 1/8 finals. In the first three rounds of the tournament, the Spaniard closed Sebastian Baes (Argentina, ATP 37) in two sets (Argentina withdrew at the beginning of the third set) and Federico Coria (Argentina, ATP 78) and Jenson Brooksby (Argentina, ATP 78). USA, ATP 4) three. Also, initially, in the 1/8 final, Carlos played a 4-hour match against Marin Cilic (Croatia, ATP 17) and beat the Croatian in 5 sets, and then hacked with Yannick Sinner in the quarterfinals. He gives the best game of the year in 5 games. However, I had to run for more than 4 hours with Francis Tiafoe (USA, ATP 26). There were questions about the Spaniard’s physique, but he closed the meeting with the American in his favor in 5 sets.

Kasper Ruud defeated Kyle Edmund (Great Britain, ATP 601) and Matteo Berrettini (Italy, ATP 14) in three sets. The Norwegian battled Tim Van Reithoven (Netherlands, ATP 117) and Corentin Moutet (France, ATP 112) in four matches and fell into the 1/16 final against Ruud’s only 5-set thriller Tommy Paul (USA, ATP 34). . , the first 4 sets were played with extra games (3 tie-breaks), and already in the 5th game Ruud hung the “steer” on his opponent. In the semi-finals, Ruud defeated Karen Khachanov (ATP 31) in 4 sets, making a historic set point rally in the 1st set.

Instagram. Casper Ruud

Alcaraz has won 4 titles at the ATP level this season and lost twice in the finals. The US Open final is the 1st Grand Slam final for the 19-year-old Spaniard.

Ruud is having a pretty good season for himself. In 2022, Kasper won 3 trophies in the ATP 250 series tournaments. In his career, Ruud won 8 championships on dirt and 1 championship on hard. This season, Kasper played for the first time in his career in the Grand Slam final at Roland Garros, where he lost to Rafael Nadal. Accordingly, the US Open final for him is the 2nd final in the Grand Slam tournaments of the season and career.

Previously, tennis players met with each other twice. Both victories for Alcaraz. Note that in this year’s Masters final (USA, hard) in Miami, young tennis players played each other.

Meanwhile, the winner of the final will not only win the Grand Slam trophy for the first time, but will also become the 1st racket in the world, while the loser will enjoy the status of number 2 in the ATP world. arrangement.

Carlos and Kasper will appear in court before 23:00 Kyiv time on September 11.

Forecast from Sport.ua – over 19.5 total breakpoints (coefficient 1.828).