Having just arrived home after a disappointing second-round loss at the Australian Open in January, world No. 5 Casper Ruud needed a pick-me-up.
As he so often does, he turned to golf. It was far too cold to play outside in the Norwegian winter, so he went to a simulator and felt better after hitting some balls that were small, hard and white rather than fuzzy and yellow.
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This week, golf will again take precedence. Ruud is skipping this week’s ATP 500 Rio de Janeiro Open — which is played on clay, his preferred surface — to play in the Mexican Open, which begins on hard courts in Acapulco Monday, Feb.
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