Revelation of this 2022 season, Holger Rune is one of the hopes of world tennis like Carlos Alcaraz. Biography, awards, sister, find out what you need to know about the Danish nugget.
It’s a remake of the 2022 edition. Holger Rune and Casper Ruud will face off again in the quarter-finals of Roland-Garros tonight at 8:15 p.m. on the Philippe-Chatrier court (Amazon Prime). Last year it was the Norwegian who won in four rounds. He then reached the final of the Paris tournament, losing in the final against a certain Rafael Nadal, fourteen times winner. But since then things have changed.
The Dane has entered the world top 10. He won a Masters 1000 by beating Novak Djokovic in the Bercy final. Above all, he has much better results than the world number 4 on ocher this season. He reached the final of two Masters 1000 (Monte-Carlo and Rome). The Norwegian does not have such satisfactory results. His best run in a competition since April is a semi-final at Foro Italico.
On the tennis level, Casper Ruud is extremely regular in backhand. He makes few mistakes. He is a player forged for clay. He builds his points and he is able to hold a match over the length, which is not the case with Holger Rune. We have already seen him cramped on a court when he was only 20 years old. Physically, he seems to have experienced some difficulties. The Dane is also a very irregular player. He is able to perform very well. Conversely, it may have unexplained empty phases where it is unrecognizable with a fairly low level of play.
Biography Holger Rune. Holger Rune was born on April 29, 2003 in Gentofte, a Danish city. He started playing tennis at the age of six, thanks to his sister who also played. If the young Dane is now devoted to tennis, this has not always been the case according to his coach, Lars Christensen “At the beginning, he also played a little football and did all kinds of hobbies. But very quickly, he just wanted to be a tennis player.”
In 2016, he joined Patrick Mouratoglou’s Academy in the south of France where he continued his training with the aim of becoming a professional player and dethroning his idols: Rafael Nadal and Roger Federer. Before performing excellently with the “big guys”, Holger Rune also spoke with the juniors where he won Roland-Garros in 2019, a title allowing him to become the world No. 1 in his category in October 2019. .
Among his main feats, the Dane played his first Grand Slam match at the US Open 2021 against Novak Djokovic where he managed to take a round from the Serbian. More recently, his victory against Alexander Zverev at the Munich tournament should serve as a benchmark for the rest of his young career.
A powerful player, Holger Rune is a true follower of clay where Roland-Garros is his favorite tournament. His topspin service and his offensive panoply are highlighted on a surface where the Dane can also take advantage of his physical qualities.
Since turning pro in 2020, Holger Rune has won 1 title on the ATP Pro Tour. It was in April 2022 at the Munich tournament (Germany) where the Dane beat Jiri Lehecka, Alexander Zverev, Emil Ruusuvuori and Oscar Otte before taking advantage of Botic Van De Zandschulp’s retirement in the final to win his first tournament. On November 6, 2022, he won his first Masters 1000 with the Paris Bercy tournament
1019th in the world when he arrived as a professional on the ATP circuit in 2020, Holger Rune is currently 6th in the ATP rankings, his best rank since the start of his career.
A professional since 2020, Holger Rune has amassed over $1 million ($1,122,518) since the start of his career in earnings from tournament performances.
He has been training since he was thirteen at the Mouratoglou Academy. An academy that allowed him to develop his level of play while taking school lessons. In the South of France, the Dane has always shown desire, motivation and application to reach the professionals. Patrick Mouratoglou said of the prodigy: “He is very complete. It is difficult to find a weakness in his game. He is extremely solid, very serious and very focused. If you ask me how far he can go, then I I won’t put a cap on him, because I don’t. I think it’s the right thing to do, but with the abilities he has he can go very far.”
An opinion fully shared by another player from the Mouratoglou Academy, the Greek and 5th in the world Stefanos Tsitsipas: “I remember telling my coach that he had something special. I don’t often say that about players, but he caught my attention and I think we will see a lot about him in the near future. Nothing is holding him back. He has everything it takes to be a top player and I won’t be surprised if we see it in the top 10 in the future.”
With Carlos Alcaraz, Holger Rune is one of the players of the new generation of world tennis. A generation already claiming final victory in the Grand Slam or at the Masters 1000.
Who is Holger Rune’s sister?
Present in her brother’s box since the start of Roland-Garros, Alma Rune once played tennis, but is now a Danish model as revealed live on France TV, coach Patrick Mouratoglou .
