"I can’t think of anything as absurd as this in tennis": Tennis fans berate Ruud after shock loss to Garin at Indian Wells

Many tennis fans were unimpressed by the level of Casper Ruud who didn't play badly but simply got outplayed by a very solid Cristian Garin in Indian Wells.

Ruud has been having a very poor season with not a lot of impressive wins for the Norwegian. He is 4-5 on the season with his wins coming against Schwartzman who is having a really poor year as well, Machac, Monteiro and Andreozzi. It's mostly due to the fact that he's simply not playing nearly as well as he can play with many pointing out his late-season Tour in South America with Nadal as a possible culprit.

Fans are not impressed either with several leaving some rather strong comments on social media. We bring you some of them below.

"Ofc Garin's first top 10 win on hard court is Casper Ruud, this guy only entered top 10 to donate wins to every tom, dick and harry."

"Casper Ruud really made the final in Miami, Roland Garros, Tour Finals and was a set and one point away from winning the US Open and becoming world #1… I like the guy but I can’t think of anything as absurd as this in tennis given the level of his tennis."

"ruud should join berrettini, monfils and schwartzman next week on a challenge"

"That Ruud downfall will hurt. Easily out of top 20 by the end of the year."