Sousa – Ruud / ATP Sao Paulo – There are three tournaments on the schedule of the ATP calendar this week, two of which are 500 and one 250. Analyzes for this week will start with a category 250 tournament that will be played in Sao Paulo, and we will follow the match the second round in which the forces will be measured by J. Sousa and C. Ruud. Last year’s winner of this tournament was F. Fognini, who in the final match 2: 1 beat N. Jarry.

J. Sousa

Sousa played his best tennis three years ago when he was the 28th player in the world. With fewer oscillations, there is a position around which the Portuguese tennis player ranks over the past period. For the past 11 years of professional tennis, Sousa managed to win three ATP titles, the last of which was the last season of the Eastoril tournament. In the final of this tournament, Sousa beat F. Tiafoe.In the current part of this season, Sousa has scored a negative 5: 6 win and loss ratio. Most of the tournaments he has performed so far ended in the second round, and the only exception is the performance from the Australian Open, where he reached the third round in which he was stopped by K. Nishikori. It is important to mention that Sousa is considered the first favorite of this tournament in Sao Paulo, since he was appointed as the first holder.

C. Ruud

Ruud is a young Norwegian player who in the previous period mostly played in lower ranking tournaments. So it was a two-wicket win and one defeat until this tournament in Sao Paulo. Accordingly, Ruud has only played three ATP Toure events so far in the current season, which is very small to be able to assess his current form. This young Norwegian is on the 108th position of the ATP rankings, and that’s his best rating in the middle of 2017.In the past three years of professional career, Rud did not manage to win the ATP title, nor did he play ATP finals. He scored the best result this season at the recently finished tournament in Rio de Janeiro, where he qualified through the qualifications to a quarter-finals in which he was better than L. Dere. Interestingly, one of his best career results, Ruud won exactly this tournament in Saou Paulou. It went hand in hand in 2017 when he played the semifinals in which he was better than P. Carreno-Busta.

Tennis Prediction of the Day Sousa vs Ruud

The only mutual match so far, these two tennis players played just a few days ago on the Rio de Janeiro tournament. Then Ruud won the match 6: 3 3: 6 6: 4. Sousa is the first holder of the tournament, but he is not in any good form, so young Ruud can be a very serious obstacle, which he showed a few days ago. Since then, much has changed. The current form is about the same, so we think that we can see a similar match to the previous one, which is why we are asking for more games than the offered ones.

Prediction Today: over 21.5 games

Odds: 1.57