Casper Ruud was crowned in the Masters 1000 of Madrid

The Norwegian tennis player Casper Ruud (number 15 of the World ATP ranking) won this Sunday against English Jack Draper by 7-5, 3-6 and 6-4 to keep the Madrid 1000 Mastersin two hours and twenty -nine minutes of play.

After being out of top 10 of two weeks ago, The one born in Oslo won a great victory that will allow him to raise eight positions and ascend to the 7th place of the ATP ranking, while Draper will go up to fifth place -The taller of his career.

The game began complicated for Ruud since he received a break in the third game of the first set and could not recover in the next, but when the partial was 5-3 in favor of the British, the 26-year-old tennis player managed to take four ‘Games’ in a row-two quibres-and keep the assault 7-5.

However, in the second manga it was the Indian Wells champion who did not lower his arms and forced the Norwegian to have to define everything in the last partial, with the first title of the season for Ruud at stake.

There, until the fourth game they both maintained their services, but it was the 26 -year -old tennis player who managed to impose himself in the fifth, breaking the serve of his opponent, and did not give ground until the end of the partial to sentence the triumph and the most important title of his career.

In this way, the Oslo managed to leave behind all the comments that questioned him as a player who did not have what was necessary to impose himself in important appointments.

Now, both tennis players will leave for Italy where they will seek to show their best level in the Masters of Rome, which will begin this Monday with the qualifiers and will have the final stage on May 18, with the German Alexander Zverev as the last champion of the contest.

Finally, with the trophy under its manga, Ruud became the third player of Scandinavian origin that raises an ATP Masters 1000 title on whipped land, behind Stefan Edberg (Hamburg 1992) and Magnus Norman (Rome 2000).