Casper Ruud: ATP Ranking, Stats & Next Gen Profile
Two Grand Slam finals. Former World No. 2.
Casper Ruud: Key Stats at a Glance
- Current ATP Ranking
- No. 7
- Career-High Ranking
- No. 2 (2022)
- Age
- 27 (born December 22, 1998)
- Height
- 183 cm (6'0")
- Weight
- —
- Nationality
- 🇳🇴 Norway
- Birthplace
- —
- Turned Pro
- 2015
- Plays
- Right-handed
- 2026 Win-Loss
- —
- Career Titles
- 13
- Career Prize Money
- —
- Next Gen Race Position
- Not eligible
- Next Gen Finals Appearances
- 1 (2019)
Next Gen Results
Career Trajectory
ATP Ranking over time · NG Finals marked with dotted lines
Casper Ruud: Next Gen ATP Finals Record
Casper Ruud has appeared at the Next Gen ATP Finals once, in 2019. Across those editions Ruud played 3 best-of-five short-set matches, winning 1 and losing 2 for a 33% match-win rate, and his best finish at the 21-and-under year-end event was group stage.
2019 — Milan, Italy: Ruud entered as the 5th seed and was drawn in Group A. He finished the week 1-2 in matches and exited as a group stage, collecting $70,000 in prize money. Along the way he beat Davidovich Fokina. The title that year went to Jannik Sinner, who beat Alex de Minaur in the final. Others in the 2019 field included Alex de Minaur, Frances Tiafoe, Jannik Sinner, Miomir Kecmanovic and Ugo Humbert.
Measured against the full alumni field, Ruud sits 4th of 49 qualifiers by career-high ranking. 14 of those 49 players have reached the ATP top 10 at some point in their careers, which is the clearest measure of how reliably the Next Gen ATP Finals identifies future tour leaders. Ruud is one of them.
The event uses a shortened best-of-five format with sets to four games, which is why match records here look different from regular tour results. Full winners are listed on the champions page.
Career Highlights
- Competed at the 2019 Next Gen ATP Finals in Milan, exiting in the group stage.
- Reached the Roland Garros final in 2022, losing to Rafael Nadal.
- Reached the US Open final later in 2022, where defeat left him one match from World No. 1.
- Reached a second Roland Garros final in 2023.
- Climbed to a career-high World No. 2 in September 2022 and qualified for the ATP Finals in Turin, reaching the final in 2022.
Where Is Casper Ruud Now?
Casper Ruud is currently ranked World No. 7, 5 places below his career-high of No. 2. He is 27 years old and still competing on the ATP Tour.
Casper Ruud's Next Gen appearance preceded an extraordinary rise. The Norwegian clay specialist reached two Grand Slam finals (Roland Garros 2022, US Open 2022), peaked at No. 2, and won 10 ATP titles. Proof that group-stage exits don't define careers.
Ruud is the clearest proof that a group-stage exit in Milan says little about a career. He has been a fixture inside the top 10 for years, dominant on clay and increasingly effective on hard courts, and remains the most successful Norwegian player in ATP history.
The ranking trail we track for Ruud starts at No. 57 in 2019, the season around his first Next Gen qualification, and peaks at No. 1 in 2022. The most recent point in that history has him at No. 57, level with where the trail begins. Ranking movement at this level is driven mostly by results at Masters 1000 and Grand Slam level, where the points on offer dwarf anything available on the Challenger Tour.
At 27, Ruud is past the 20-and-under cut-off for the Next Gen ATP Finals, so his place in the story is now as Norwegian alumni rather than as a contender for a place in Italy. What his page tracks instead is the thing the tournament was built to predict: whether a strong week at the 21-and-under event translates into a durable top-level career.
Compare his trajectory with every other qualifier in the alumni tracker or track the current standings on the 2026 Next Gen race page.