In US open 2022 for the first four hours of the match, Casper Ruud and Tommy Paul were fit to be tied. Well, they were fit to be in tiebreakers, at least. Once the match ended up in the fifth set, it was the Norwegian Ruud who separated himself in style to clinch his first-ever US Open fourth-round appearance.
The dream is alive for @CasperRuud98!
The 🇳🇴 outlasts Tommy Paul in 5 sets. pic.twitter.com/rEh298Im6w
— US Open Tennis (@usopen) September 2, 2022
Casper Ruud quickly shook off the disappointment of being broken on serve to end the fourth set by running away and hiding from Paul, the No. 29 seed, as the fifth-seeded Ruud earned a 7-6 (3), 6-7 (5), 7-6 (2), 5-7, 6-0 victory inside Louis Armstrong Stadium. The match lasted four hours and 23 minutes, but it took only 30 minutes for Ruud to wrap up the fifth set and keep his chances of leaving New York with the No. 1 world ranking alive.
Casper Ruud came into the US Open as one of five men who could leave New York with the World No. 1 ranking, though, along with winning the title, other results in the bottom half of the draw would have to go his way to get to the top spot. It is almost 30 years to the month the last time a Scandinavian was atop the world rankings, when Sweden’s Stefan Edberg, winner of the US Open in both 1991 and 1992, last appeared as world No. 1 on October 4, 1992.
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