Casper Ruud acquired his ATP Finals off to a profitable begin on Sunday with a straight-sets victory over Felix Auger-Alissime, 7-6 (7/4), 6-4. World quantity 4 Ruud leads the Green Group in Turin forward of Sunday’s late match between Rafael Nadal and American Taylor Fritz.

Norwegian Ruud got here by means of an uninspiring encounter in a single hour and 51 minutes after claiming his one and solely likelihood to interrupt Auger-Alissime’s serve in recreation seven of the second set.

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This season’s Roland Garros and US Open finalist then served out the remainder of the set to say the win.

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