Casper Ruud

Casper Ruud (born 22 December 1998) is a Norwegian professional tennis player.

Ruud has a career-high singles ranking of world No. 2, achieved on 12 September 2022, making him the highest-ranked Norwegian in history.

He has won ten ATP Tour singles titles and finished runner-up at three majors (at the 2022 French Open, 2022 US Open, and 2023 French Open) and at the 2022 ATP Finals.

From September 2021 to November 2023, Ruud spent 113 consecutive weeks inside the ATP top 10.

As a junior, he was ranked world No. 1. In doubles, he has a career-high ranking of world No. 133, achieved after reaching the quarterfinals of the 2021 Wimbledon Championships with André Göransson.

Revered for his professional on-court demeanour, he was awarded the Stefan Edberg Sportsmanship Award in 2022.

This made him the youngest to reach an ATP 500 semifinal since Borna Ćorić at the 2014 Swiss Indoors.

Ruud was defeated by Pablo Carreño Busta in the semifinals but reached a career-high ranking of No. 133.

Ruud reached the third round of the 2015 French Open boys' singles event, losing to Corentin Denolly.

He also reached the third round of the 2015 US Open boys' singles and the second round of the 2015 Wimbledon boys' singles, his best singles performances in the respective competitions in Junior Grand Slams.

In the 2015 Wimbledon Boys' Doubles, Ruud made it to the semifinals together with partner Miomir Kecmanović, before losing to eventual champions Lý Hoàng Nam and Sumit Nagal.

They were eliminated in the first round of the 2015 US Open Boys' Doubles.

In 2016, Ruud and Kecmanović reached the semifinals of the 2016 French Open Boys' Doubles before losing to Youssef Hossam and Jurabek Karimov.

Ruud started the year as the world No. 1 ranked Junior player on 4 January, making him the first Norwegian to do so.

For the 2016 season, Ruud set his goals on playing Futures tournaments and start climbing the ATP rankings.

In February, he played his first Futures final, which he ended up winning against Carlos Taberner in Paguera, Spain.

He has since played four more finals, winning one of them against Mikael Torpegaard in Kaarina, Finland in August.

In September, in his first ever ATP Challenger tournament, Ruud managed to win the Copa Sevilla after beating Taro Daniel in the final.

By winning on his debut Ruud became the fourth-youngest to ever do so.

In the tournament, he recorded his first wins over players ranked in the top 150.

He knocked-out top seed Iñigo Cervantes in the quarterfinals, who at the time was ranked No. 75 in the ATP rankings.

Due to his win in his Challenger debut, Ruud received a wildcard to the 2016 Chengdu Open, his first ATP World Tour 250 series tournament.

Ruud lost to Viktor Troicki in the first round.

Ruud also qualified for the ITF Junior Masters, where he reached the final, losing to Hong Seong-chan.

Ruud finished 2016 with a career high ranking of No. 225 in the ATP rankings.

After impressing in 2016 and climbing the ATP ranking, Ruud lost in the third and final qualifying round of the 2017 Australian Open to Reilly Opelka.

Ruud then received a wildcard into the ATP 500 event 2017 Rio Open where he defeated Rogério Dutra Silva, Roberto Carballés Baena, and Thiago Monteiro to advance to his first ATP level semifinal.

Ruud received a wildcard into the 2017 Miami Open, marking his first appearance at an ATP Masters 1000 tournament.

In 2018, Ruud qualified for his first Grand Slam at the Australian Open after going through the qualifying competition.

This made him the first Norwegian to qualify for a Grand Slam main draw in 17 years.

He won in the first round against Quentin Halys before losing to Diego Schwartzman in the second round.

He would lose to Schwartzman again at the Rio Open.

Later on in the season he showed continuous good form and reached two ATP Challenger finals in two weeks.

The first one he lost against Italian Gianluigi Quinzi in Francavilla al Mare and then he lost to Pedro Sousa in the Braga Open two weeks later.

A few weeks later Ruud continued his good form and qualified for the main draw of the French Open for the first time after going through the qualifiers without losing a set.

In the first round he defeated Jordan Thompson to match his achievement at the Australian Open.

He lost to Albert Ramos Viñolas in the second round.

In July he achieved the biggest win of his career thus far when he beat defending champion and former world No. 3, David Ferrer in straight sets at the 2018 Swedish Open.

Later that year Ruud qualified for the US Open for the first time, going through the qualifiers without dropping a set.

He lost to Guido Pella in the first round.