"Reminds me of Norway except you pay less tax here" - Ruud after Gstaad win

Casper Ruud lifted the Gstaad Open trophy for the 2nd time in his career by beating Matteo Berrettini after a stunning comeback.

The Norwegian was on the ropes a couple of times in the match but he got back up each time and ultimately broke down Berrettini to go back-to-back in the Swiss city in the past two years. It was a superb comeback from Ruud who said after the match:

“I changed [things] up a little bit in the third set especially, which helped, Ruud said after the match. The games and the points go by here fast. If you are not ready and focussed, you can get broken or you can break, because the conditions allow you to. So it was key for me to hold my serve, I did that in the second set. Saving those break points was very important for me and everything went in my favour in the tie-break. So that was a bit fortunate. I just tried to keep that momentum going in the third set and I was able to get a break and play better and better throughout the third set.”

He continued:

“I guess the Swiss crowd helps me a lot, Switzerland is a country with a lot of history now in tennis, winning a lot of grand slams with of course Roger (Federer) and Stan (Wawrinka) the last 18, 19 years, so they’ve been an inspiration to, I think everyone around the world including myself. They have been able to come from a small country, sort of like Norway, we’re not a very big country, but yeah everything about Switzerland reminds me a little bit like Norway, except that you pay less taxes here!"