Casper Ruud started playing tennis at the age of four. His father Christian Ruud is a former professional tennis player with a top placement of 39th rank in 1995.
As a junior
Ruud played on the junior tour from the age of 14 and celebrated some successes: Together with Miomir Kecmanović , he reached the semifinals at Wimbledon in 2015 and 2016 and at the French Open 2016 . In the individual, however, he never got past a round of 16. At the beginning of 2016 he was also the first Norwegian to top the junior world rankings.
From 2015
Casper Ruud won his first professional match in August 2015 at a Future in Finland. However, in his first year as a professional, he was never able to win more than two matches in a row, so that at the end of the year he was only listed on rank 1126 in the world rankings .
At the beginning of 2016 in Spain, however, he succeeded impressively when he won the title in his first future final against Carlos Taberner. A month later he was again in the final, but this time drew the short straw against Michael Mmoh . Thanks to a wildcard , the Norwegian then played in qualifying for the Miami Masters , where he was defeated by Tatsuma Itō in three sets. After two semi-finals, two lost finals and another title in futures, he was already in 450th position in the world rankings. Due to these successes, Ruud was able to participate in the qualification of a Challenger tournament for the first time in September . In Seville he first fought his way through the qualification and then made a sensational advance to the final, where he defeated the Japanese Taro Daniel 6: 3, 6: 4. With this victory he became the fourth youngest player to ever win a Challenger tournament straight away and the third Norwegian after his father and Jan Frode Andersen . In addition, he won 12 matches in a row and made it to rank 274 in the world. Because of this success, he received a wildcard for the Chengdu Open , the first ever tournament on the ATP World Tour . There was the world rankings -32. Viktor Troicki, however, is a size too big. The rest of the year passed without any further highlights, there were no major successes alongside another future final. Casper Ruud finished the year in 231th place, almost 1,000 places higher than the year before.
Davis Cup
Ruud played for the Norwegian Davis Cup team for the first time in 2015 , where he helped the team move from third to second group Europe / Africa. His balance is positive with 5: 4.
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Norway
Buenos Aires
Pedro Sousa
Seville
Taro Daniel
Houston
Christian Garín
Thiago Seyboth Wild
