Holger Vitus Nødskov Rune (Denmark, 2003) opposes to be one of the candidates in the next Roland Garros after overcoming in the grand final of GODÓ Count Trophy to a headdress Carlos Alcaraz, who lost his unbeatability in Barcelona. The Danish is part of that group of young people from the racket called to fight for big things in the future and that grew up with Big Three as a great example, that that formed novak Djokovic, Rafa Nadal and Roger Federer for almost two decades.
Of course, that of Gentofte – so six days greater than Alcaraz – still has to confirm the expectations that were deposited on him. Although it is on the right track in this 2025. And it is that to win a title again, and above all compete and win the Murcia in this way, it is an achievement.
A friendship with Alcaraz from kids and his choice for tennis thanks to his older sister
At 21 he has returned to the privilege position that is supposed to be immense, and has returned Again to the top-10 of the ATP world rankingsomething that had not been just a year. Recent finalist at Indian Wells, played in Barcelona its eleventh ATP final, with a balance of 5-6. The Godó is his first title from Munich 2023.
The Nordic attractiveness, who prefers to remind him of his resemblance to the player Erling Haaland, meets the tennis player of El Palmar since they were kids, with parallel trajectories in his stages as children and juniors, distributing the tournaments they disputed and getting to play together in doubles with just 12 yearsin the prestigious U14 les petit as.
Rune began playing tennis because his sister Alma, four years old, was her source of inspiration. He abandoned football and the six took the racket in a country where the tradition for tennis is not that it is very large, although it has a double Wimbledon finalist as Kurt Nielsen in the 50s, and Caroline Wozniacki as an outstanding one.
“We were the best, we got along very well,” Alcaraz said about the friendship that he forged early with the Danish, a guy with a lot of temperament and that has a Anecdote highlighted in the Roland Garros of 2022the year that was a before and after in his career, after being the first player since 1973 to defeat five members of the top 10 in the same tournament outside the Nitto ATP Finals.
In that Paris, in the middle of a tense duel against the Norwegian Casper Ruud, last champion in Barcelona, urged his mother -anke- to leave the track. “Marchae, go, please,” he shouted at the stands, with a behavior that monopolized headlines, along with other tone outputs of the Danish Iracundo.
«I think it will be very exciting to see what the future holds us, but if you ask me who I am or what I represent, I would say that someone very passionate. I would not talk about mischievous boys or anything like that; What I like is playing tennis and I worry exclusively about that, ”he said a few years ago in an interview.
Rune, a complicated travel companion for James Bond coaches and admirer
Beyond the track, follow Cristiano Ronaldo for his work ethics, admires James Bond, especially Daniel Craig’s films, and to date he is also known for being a complicated travel companion for coaches: he has three more than a year.
In April 2023 the young Danish broke with the controversial Patrick Mouratoglouright hand of Serena Williams; In October, he joined his way to Boris BeckerThat years ago he guided Novak Djokovic, and months later he adds his team to the Swiss Severin Luthianother Roger Federer racket and former guru. None of the three lasted for six months in the position. He is currently prepared by his countrymen Lars Christensen and Kenneth Carlsenthe first of them his lifelong coach, with whom he gave the nth opportunity months ago.
