Tennis world quantity seven Casper Ruud believes his bodily taxing victory on the Geneva Open on Saturday might work in his favour as he prepares for his French Open marketing campaign with a first-round match in opposition to Brazilian Felipe Alves on Monday.
Ruud performed each the semifinal and closing of the Geneva Open on Saturday after rain affected play on Friday, beating Flavio Cobolli 1-6 6-1 7-6(4) in a troublesome encounter earlier than returning to the courtroom hours later to defeat Tomas Machac 7-5 6-3 within the closing.
“I’ve performed 4 good matches, 4 fairly powerful matches so I feel bodily it’s a very good type of preparation,” two-time French Open finalist Ruud informed reporters.
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“All the opposite gamers in Paris, what do they do in coaching? They play matches. So why don’t you simply come right here and play an actual match as a substitute of apply matches. That’s my idea, and at this time I obtained to play greater than three hours on the courtroom.
“That’s one thing you need to put together for while you’re enjoying best-of-five units. It’s not simple to get three hours in a row within the Slams to apply so it’s been an important week by way of the win and in addition increase the shape and physicality for Paris.”
Ruud will hope it’s third-time fortunate at Roland Garros after shedding the final two finals to Rafa Nadal and Novak Djokovic, however the Norwegian mentioned he was not wanting too far into the long run.
“The aim, like another Slam, is to succeed in the second week and from there sometimes I’ve seen that issues open up just a little bit,” Ruud mentioned.
“Possibly you play somebody who’s a bit drained. In case you’re bodily prepared for the second week of a Slam, I feel loads of good issues may occur.”