Competing for the first time since his second-round exit at Roland Garros<\/a>, the Norwegian struck 28 winners and saved two set points in the second set, rallying from 4\/6 in the tie-break to eventually advance after one hour and 46 minutes. Ruud is 1-1 against Stricker in the pair\u2019s Lexus ATP Head2Head series.<\/p>\n “It was a very tough match against Dominic. We have played one time before. Of course I was seeking some revenge but he is a really good player, a young player,” Ruud said in his on-court interview. “He plays aggressive, fearless and I knew I had to be on it from the beginning. This is my first match in a few weeks and I am happy to be back.”<\/p>\n The top seed Ruud has fond memories at the ATP 250 clay-court event in Gstaad, where he lifted the trophy in 2021 and 2022. The No. 13 player in the PIF ATP Rankings holds a perfect 9-0 record at the event, according to the Infosys ATP Win\/Loss index, and will next meet Juan Manuel Cerundolo<\/a> or David Goffin<\/a>.<\/p>\n Rudd, ninth in the PIF ATP Live Race To Turin, is seeking his second title of the season after winning his maiden ATP Masters 1000 crown in Madrid.<\/p>\n In other action, Peruvian qualifier Ignacio Buse<\/a> downed Pole Kamil Majchrzak<\/a> 1-6, 7-5, 6-1 to reach his first tour-level quarter-final. The 21-year-old is the youngest Peruvian to reach the last eight at a tour-level event since Alejandro Aramburu<\/a> in Bari in 1989.<\/p>\n Buse will next play Roman Andres Burruchaga<\/a> after the Argentine beat German lucky loser Patrick Zahraj<\/a> 4-6, 6-4, 6-1.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Match Report Two-time champion Ruud makes winning return in Gstaad Burruchaga, Buse advance at ATP 250 clay-court event…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":14497,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[99,428],"class_list":{"0":"post-14496","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-sports","9":"tag-tennis"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14496","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14496"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14496\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14497"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14496"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14496"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"It](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/it-all-adds-up-banner.jpg\"\/)
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