Teenage sensation Holger Rune is on high of the world after defeating final yr’s French Open finalist Stefanos Tsitsipas 7-5 3-6 6-3 6-4 at Roland Garros on Monday.
The Dane, who has improved greater than 350 locations on the earth rankings previously 15 months, is at the moment ranked 40 on the earth. With the victory over Tsitsipas, he has produced his greatest Grand Slam efficiency to this point.
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Rune by no means had gained a Grand Slam match till final week, going 0-2 in earlier appearances on the sport’s high 4 occasions.
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The hard-hitting 19-year-old now joins sixth-seeded Carlos Alcaraz to make this the primary Slam match with two youngsters within the males’s quarterfinals since Hendrik Dreekmann and Andrei Medvedev on the 1994 French Open.
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Last month, the 19-year-old shocked World No. 3 Alexander Zverev en path to his maiden ATP Tour title in Munich, earlier than he reached the semi-finals in Lyon. He is 21-7 throughout all ranges on clay this season.
Rune certified for the Intesa Sanpaolo Next Gen ATP Finals final November and is in a great place to return to Milan this yr following his exploits in Paris, at the moment sat third within the Pepperstone ATP Race To Milan, based on ATP Tour.
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As a junior, he was ranked as excessive as world No. 1 and gained ten titles on the ITF Junior Circuit, together with the 2019 French Open boys’ title. After turning skilled in 2020, he gained 5 titles on the ITF World Tennis Tour and 5 on the ATP Challenger Tour and made his high 100 debut within the rankings in January 2022.
Three months later, Rune reached his first ATP Tour closing on the 2022 BMW Open, the place he gained his first title and subsequently entered into the highest 50.
(With AP inputs)
