Ruud hopes Alcaraz win can get season back on track

Casper Ruud hopes his dominant display against Carlos Alcaraz in the ATP Finals will get his form back

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00:00Well it's only one match but it's definitely one of the best wins of the

00:04season for me in terms of who I'm playing, his level, his ranking and all

00:11this stuff so I feel very happy of course I think we've all seen Carlos

00:15play better tennis than he did today but I took care of my chances and I'm not

00:19you know boosting of confidence in the last weeks or months so it was a great

00:22win for me hopefully I can build on it and would like to get some more wins

00:27while I'm in Turin. I kind of knew he was maybe dealing with a bit of a

00:31cold that's a sign that maybe physically he won't be necessarily at 100% when you

00:36kind of know that someone is maybe not 100% maybe you get stressed yourself and

00:39thinking oh this is a really big chance for me to maybe win so I just tried to

00:42stay in my world the moment and luckily I got a good start got a break early and

00:48kept it and the second set I was able to turn it around with some good tennis at the end.