Casper Ruud now has 10 titles in his career. All are ATP250 titles with not one win over a top 10 player. Majoring in minors?

Is Casper Ruud the king of majoring in minor tournaments?

  • Yes, quite clearly

  • Yes, but good on him for smart scheduling

  • No, he's very good at it but others have been better

  • No, his other results show he's a worthy top 5 player

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mike danny said:
He isn't. He's worse actually. Ferrer could at least score wins over the Big 3 here and there. Ruud has yet to win a set against their older versions.
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well i was thinking ruud could be better since hes a bigger version but ur prob right lol..
ferrer was a little pitbull . ruud is more like a golden retriever
 
Aussie Darcy said:
Guess he's sticking to just the 250's. Wins one last week without facing a top 35 player, today he's in an important Masters 100 tournament.... gets beaten in straight sets by #100 in the world. And yet you guys don't think he is literally majoring in mickey mouse tournaments? Can't even beat the #100 at a Masters tournament. But yay kudos for him on winning 10 ATP250 titles without facing a top 10 player. How you aren't seeing this i'll never know. Maybe he should lay off the 250's to give himself a chance at a Masters so he doesn't embarrass himself yet again with a loss to someone ranked #100....?
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Yes, Ruud has been in terrible form for several months. Played average tennis winning the 250, which is not that uncommon.

What is your point exactly? It wasn't the three 250s he won in 2022 that made him #2. It was his good overall results, including 2 slam finals, a masters final and final at WTF (where the top 8 gather and he was runner up) - but first and foremost a really weak tour where players struggle to earn 5000 points.

Not sure what this beating top 10 players obsession stems from. You enter tournaments, there is a draw, and you play the draw. Nothing more to it, really.
 
You don't become a top 5 player as a slouch, and he is more valid in his consistent play across tournaments with lower titles than someone who wins one bigger title and slacks the rest of the time.

I am sure being 4 in the world and having made over $13 million thus far, he isn't thinking he doesn't deserve it.
 
Aussie Darcy said:
Ferrer's 2nd career title was a 500 title which included a top 10 win over Berdych.

In Ruud's 10 career titles, none are 500 or above and none include a top 10 win.

What Ferrer did on his 2nd title, Ruud has never done in 10.
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Ferrers only problem was that he was lacking a letter d in the middle of his name. Too incomplete
 
Aussie Darcy said:
Ruud wins a 250 title playing no top 30 player, comes into an actually important tournament - the Masters in Monte Carlo and loses in straight sets today to #100 Struff.

I'm feeling quite vindicated with this thread and all the critical people who said I was too harsh on him. He priorities micky mouse tournaments and today's result has MORE than cemented that.

Lmao.
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You need to search YT for that 2021 Geneva finals vid asap! Wow, what a bad player
 
Aussie Darcy said:
Casper Ruud. A former #2. Now back to #4. He's won 10 titles on tour.

ATP250 - Clay
ATP250 - Clay
ATP250 - Clay
ATP250 - Clay
ATP250 - Clay
ATP250 - Hard
ATP250 - Clay
ATP250 - Clay
ATP250 - Clay
ATP250 - Clay

He holds the 10th most titles on tour now. Ahead of Tsitsipas on 9 along with Dimitrov and Alcaraz on 8.

In all 10 of his title victories, he didn't defeat a single top 10 player. He won 3 of the 250 titles back to back to back making it a 13 match winning streak. The highest player defeated in those 3 title runs was #49 in the world.

Players like Jack Sock have a Masters title. Basilashvili has won two ATP500 titles, Ugo Humbert won a 500 defeating two top 10 players. Karatsev won Dubai 500 with wins over Sinner and Rublev.

Can we say Ruud has majored in minors so far?
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Which tournament?
 
Better to be king of majoring in minor tournaments than to be a nobody that majors in nothing at all.

If you cannot do great things, then do small things in a great way.
 
I would say Casper Ruud is not great but an above average player who got lucky in his tournament draws and made the most out of it.

He's also quite fortunate to be playing in an era where the Big 4's are not dominating the tour.
 
Aestheticsaboveallelse said:
"Small things" lmao do you know how ridiculously good at tennis you need to be to win ATP 250s especially consistently?
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I totally agree with you that players need to be ridiculously good at tennis to win ATP 250s consistently, however many ppl on this forums seems to think that Casper Ruud's achievements is minor/small just because he haven't won a GS, Masters or ATP 500.
 
junior74 said:
I think the Ruud bashing is getting boring. Compared to Berrettini, Shapovalov, Hurkacz etc, he is a more professional athlete than those guys, works harder, moves better, improves more and plays with a lot more consistency in his game.

I am not a huge fan of his tennis, but I think pointing at Ruud when the tour is weak is not a fair verdict.

If Ferrer would have been #1 in the world on today's tour, so be it. It doesn't make Ruud any worse, it tells more about the tour.
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Lmao at the idea that Ferrer could have beaten Carlos or Sinner or Meddie consistently
 
tennisandtennis said:
Many people on this forum are jealous haters who are overt losers
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Totally agree with u.
Many ppl who criticised Casper Ruud are probably just envious of his luck that he was able to win all those titles and climb to No.2 without needing to beat many top players.
 
tennisandtennis said:
Lmao at the idea that Ferrer could have beaten Carlos or Sinner or Meddie consistently
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Honestly you dont think Ferrer could have competed against these guys? Good lord. WTF has Ruud done?

The dude was a semi finalist in an era with 3 all time greats in 5 slams and was a finalist in one of them.


He won 27 titles.
 
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Wander said:
Ferrer will forever be underrated for playing through the era of Big 4. Yes he got overshadowed by all of them, but he was also a very consistent performer for about 10 straight seasons, amassing 27 singles titles from 52 finals. Yeah, he only got the 1 Masters 1000, but he made 6 more Masters finals, losing to Nadal, Murray, Federer or Djokovic each time. And like you said, sometimes Ferrer even beat one of those guys in the big tournaments before typically falling to another
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Ferrer was indeed a terrific player, just happened to be in maybe the toughest era (along with the 80s) ever

Ferrer was inches away from winning Miami in 2013 vs Murray, and put up a very good fight against Fed in Cincy in 2014. He also had some GREAT battles vs Nadal at Barcelona over the years. These "fans" who pretend Ferrer just got steamrolled by the Big 4...are idiots, frankly
 
helterskelter said:
You must have bought into the hype of the Career Inflation Era. Ruud is much less than a worse Ferrer.
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Someone blocked me on twitter for doubting that Darderi would get the top 15. They also said that De Minaur was much better than the "overrated" Casper Ruud. Admittedly De Minaur has better heads to heads against top players (aside from Tsitsipas and a few others) but he does not yet have slam finals (though he might reach the final of Wimbledon) and a masters title. Ruud's stats at masters events and the yec are very good though especially for someone who is labeled by some as an Atp 250 farmer. I know we are in weak era but most top of the top ten players of this era have fewer deep runs at big events. The top 15 might be not be so easy to get for Darder who has dropped to no 18 and defends points in the upcoming weeks. Ruud was playing definitely well in the first half of 2024 and people would not question his ability if he had beaten Zverev at Roland Garros. Unfortunately he had a stomach parasite and has declined since then. Zverev might have won regardless since he is miles ahead but I think he would have had a chance
 
MissileBackHand99 said:
Ferrer was indeed a terrific player, just happened to be in maybe the toughest era (along with the 80s) ever

Ferrer was inches away from winning Miami in 2013 vs Murray, and put up a very good fight against Fed in Cincy in 2014. He also had some GREAT battles vs Nadal at Barcelona over the years. These "fans" who pretend Ferrer just got steamrolled by the Big 4...are idiots, frankly
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That H2H v Federer though.......massive ouch!
 

Casper Ruud now has 10 titles in his career. All are ATP250 titles with not one win over a top 10 player. Majoring in minors?​

That's not an encouraging stat for an experienced top tennis player on tour. But how did Ruud get to play RG final vs Nadal a few years back? Didn't he beat some of the top guns then?
 
TennisBro said:

Casper Ruud now has 10 titles in his career. All are ATP250 titles with not one win over a top 10 player. Majoring in minors?​

That's not an encouraging stat for an experienced top tennis player on tour. But how did Ruud get to play RG final vs Nadal a few years back? Didn't he beat some of the top guns then?
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TennisBro said:

Casper Ruud now has 10 titles in his career. All are ATP250 titles with not one win over a top 10 player. Majoring in minors?​

That's not an encouraging stat for an experienced top tennis player on tour. But how did Ruud get to play RG final vs Nadal a few years back? Didn't he beat some of the top guns then?
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He has since won a masters title and an atp 500. The draw opened up but he still beat some good players like Rune, Cilic and Hurkacz (though the latter is not that good on clay)
 
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