Casper Ruud

He admits he didn't have answers for the questions posed by Rafael Nadal in the French Open final, but Casper Ruud is seeing his glass as half full.

I didn’t know exactly where to play there in the end and he made me run around the court too much.” It was tough for me to really know where I should play the ball. However, Nadal won 11 games in a row to ease across the line.

Casper Ruud, in his first Grand Slam final, was 3-1 up in the second set but lost the following 11 games in a row, making just 17 points in the process, ...

But I already knew it in a way," said Ruud. "But now I think I know it is. "I said before the match that I guess it is," he said.

Casper Ruud lavished huge praise on his idol Rafael Nadal who won his 14th French Open title with a straight-set win over the Norwegian.

After the finale, he opened up on his future and Wimbledon participation and said, "I am going to be in Wimbledon if my body is ready to be in Wimbledon. Wimbledon is not a tournament that I want to miss. I am always a positive guy and always expect the things are going the right way. But now I think I know it is. After the proceedings, Ruud lavished huge praise on Nadal and revealed how not to play against him on clay courts. "I said before the match that I guess it is. It was a dominant display from Nadal. While he won the first set, 6-3, in no time, he was behind in the second set as Ruud led 3-1.

Casper Ruud went through trial by fire on Sunday in Paris. Not only was it his first ever match against King of Clay Nadal, the Norwegian had to do it in a ...

He’s a true champion, a true legend of the sport, and to have shared a court with him at least once and do it here in this situation is special” “I didn’t have what it takes today, to beat Rafa in the final at Roland-Garros,” he said. But it was challenging because you are playing him, the most winning-slam player ever, and on this court in the final it's not too easy.”

The 23-year-old Norwegian calls the King of Clay his childhood hero and one of his biggest inspirations in tennis, and as a fan, he's celebrated many Nadal ...

"But at the end of the day, I can hopefully one day tell my grandkids that I played Rafa on Chatrier in the final. "It was a little bit, honestly, a bit tough to find myself too comfortable in the situation in the beginning. "It was the first time I have experienced [being] in this situation and play a Grand Slam final. But he admitted that nerves played a part during the final, especially after failing to capitalise on his chances at the beginning of the first and second sets. "I said before the match that I guess it is, but now I think I know it is," Ruud told press after the match. The first man from his country to ever feature in a Grand Slam final, Ruud's run at Roland-Garros marked a historic moment for Norwegian tennis.

Rafael Nadal continued his French Open supremacy as he clinched his 14th title on Court Phillipe-Chartier, beating Norway's Casper Ruud 6-3, 6-3, ...

I didn't know exactly where to play there in the end, and he made me run around the court too much. Ruud had no answer to the onslaught and he looked like a fish out of water. After taking the first set 6-3, he found himself trailing 3-1 to the Norwegian in the second set after committing a couple of double faults on his serve.

The swing is rather athletic and loose. On his 2nd Instagram account dedicated to his love for golf (@casper-golfer), Casper Ruud shares some videos of his ...

He admits it himself, Casper is very little known in his country, Norway, which does not have a great tennis culture. On his 2nd Instagram account dedicated to his love for golf (@casper-golfer), Casper Ruud shares some videos of his moments of relaxation on a course. The Norwegian Casper Ruud, world No. 8, is a golf fanatic.

They say never meet your heroes — but getting trounced in a grand slam final by the man he's idolised for years didn't break Casper Ruud.

I just felt that was a guy who, to use (tennis commentator) Mary Carillo’s term, lacked ‘fangs’, really,” tennis analyst Matt Roberts told The Tennis Podcast. “It must be really really hard to just forget that part of your life. “Like I have said many times before, he’s a player I have watched on TV for the last 16, 17 years. I’m absolutely not criticising him for it, it was just my observation that maybe that affected things.” Ruud’s surprising reaction to the defeat was placed in the context of him growing up admiring the man on the other side of the net, and appreciating the experience at the expense of being able to go into Monday with a real killer instinct. Obviously upset by an inability to really trouble Nadal in Paris, Ruud — a graduate of the Spaniard’s tennis academy — was able to appreciate being in the presence of greatness.