Holger Rune
Danish teenager Holger Rune is presently ranked World No.28 in ATP men’s singles
Holger Rune is a Danish professional tennis player. He has been ranked as high as world No. 28 in singles by the ATP, which he first achieved in June 2022. Rune has won one ATP Tour singles title and he produced his best Grand Slam performance at the 2022 French Open by reaching the quarterfinals in his main draw debut at the tournament.
As a junior, Rune was ranked as high as world No. 1 and won ten titles on the ITF Junior Circuit, including the 2019 French Open boys’ title. After turning professional in 2020, he won five titles on the ITF World Tennis Tour and five on the ATP Challenger Tour and made his top 100 debuts in the rankings in January 2022.
Rune reached his first ATP Tour final at the 2022 Bavarian International Tennis Championships, where he won his first title and subsequently entered the top 50.
On 28 October 2019, he achieved an ITF juniors ranking of World No. 1 after he defeated Harold Mayot to win the ITF Junior Finals.
Rune officially turned pro in 2020 at the age of 16. In March 2021, Rune made his ATP debut as a wildcard in the Argentina Open. He lost in the first round to fifth-seeded Albert Ramos Viñolas in three sets. In June 2021, Rune won his first ATP Challenger title in Biella.
Rune made his debut in the top 100 of the ATP singles rankings on 17 January 2022 at world No. 99, making him the second-youngest male player after Carlos Alcaraz to be ranked in the top 100.
He then had to wait three more months to win his first ATP senior title.
In April, Rune received a wild card to the Bavarian International Tennis Championships, where he defeated world No. 3 Alexander Zverev in the second round for his first top 10 wins in his career in straight sets to advance to his third ATP quarterfinal. He then overcame Emil Ruusuvuori and Oscar Otte to reach his first career ATP singles final.
There, his opponent, Biotic van de Zandschulp, was forced to retire with chest pain with the score line at 3–4, leading the 70th-ranked Rune to become the tournament’s third-youngest champion in the Open Era after Guillermo Perez-Roldan in 1987.
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