Christian Ruud (born 24 August 1972) is a Norwegian former tennis player who turned professional in 1991. He achieved a career-high singles

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of World No. 39 in October 1995, reaching the fourth round of the 1997 Australian Open and the quarterfinals of the 1997 Monte Carlo Masters. He retired in 2001 after the 2001 French Open. He was the highest ranked Norwegian male player ever on the

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until his son

Casper Ruud Casper Ruud (born 22 December 1998) is a Norwegian professional tennis player. Ruud has a career-high singles ranking of world No. 2, achieved on 12 September 2022, making him the highest-ranked Norwegian tennis player in history. He has won nine ...

surpassed him in February 2020. Ruud was born in

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, and represented Norway at three consecutive Olympic Games, reaching the third round in

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in 1996. Ruud won twelve titles on the Challenger Series but reached only one ATP Tour final, losing the

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in straight sets.

Personal life

Ruud is married to Lele Ruud. He is the father of tennis player

, who has reached world No. 2 in singles, as well as daughters Caroline and Charlotte.

Career titles

Singles (12)

Performance timeline

Singles

External links

* * * 1972 births Living people Sportspeople from Oslo Norwegian male tennis players Olympic tennis players of Norway Tennis players at the 1992 Summer Olympics Tennis players at the 1996 Summer Olympics Tennis players at the 2000 Summer Olympics 20th-century Norwegian people {{Norway-tennis-bio-stub