Holger Rune

Holger Rune

Rune at the 2022 Monte-Carlo Masters
Full name	Holger Vitus Nødskov Rune
Country (sports)	Denmark
Residence	Charlottenlund, Denmark
Born	(2003-04-29) 29 April 2003 (age 21) Gentofte, Denmark
Height	1.88 m (6 ft 2 in)
Turned pro	2020
Plays	Right-handed (two-handed backhand)
Coach	Lars Christensen
Prize money	US$584,580
Singles
Career record	20–23
Career titles	1
Highest ranking	No. 45 (2 May 2022)
Current ranking	No. 45 (2 May 2022)[1]
Grand Slam singles results
Australian Open	1R (2022)
US Open	1R (2021)
French Open Junior	W (2019)
Wimbledon Junior	3R (2019)
Doubles
Career record	1–1
Career titles	0
Highest ranking	No. 470 (21 February 2022)
Current ranking	No. 475 (7 March 2022)
Team competitions
Last updated on: 18 April 2022.

Holger Vitus Nødskov Rune (Danish: [ˈhʌlˀkɐ ˈviːtsʰus ˈn��ðˌskʌwˀ ˈʁuːnə]; born 29 April 2003) is a Danish professional tennis player. He has a career-high ATP singles ranking of world No. 45 achieved on 2 May 2022. Rune is the current Danish No. 1 player in men's singles.^[2]

Rune was born on 29 April 2003 in Gentofte, Denmark, to Aneke Rune and Anders Nødskov. He has a sister named Alma. He began playing tennis at the age of 6 because his sister played and started to take the sport seriously. Throughout his childhood, he was coached by Lars Christensen who still remains his head coach and, along with his mother, is credited as his biggest inspiration. His idols growing up were fellow tennis players Rafael Nadal and Roger Federer.^[3]

In 2014, he became Danish U12 champion in mixed doubles with Clara Tauson.^[4]

He started training at the Mouratoglou Academy in 2016.^[5]

In 2017, he won the European U14 singles championship.^[6]

At age 15, he became the youngest Danish male singles champion by winning the 2019 indoor tournament.^[7]

On 8 June 2019 Rune defeated Toby Alex Kodat to win the 2019 French Open boys' singles title.

Holger received a wildcard and won a match at the 2019 Blois ATP Challenger in June.^[8][9] At the time, he was 16 years, 1 month and 18 days old. Holger also competed in the 2019 Amersfoort Challenger in July where he captured his second ATP Challenger match win.^[10]

On 28 October 2019 he achieved a ITF juniors ranking of World No. 1 after he defeated Harold Mayot to win the ITF Junior Finals.^[11]

Rune served as a practice partner at the 2019 ATP Finals.

Rune officially turned pro in 2020 at the age of 16.

At the 2020 Auckland Open, Rune received a wildcard into the qualifying draw but lost to Vasek Pospisil in straight sets.

In July 2020, Holger became the youngest player to compete at the Ultimate Tennis Showdown (UTS), where he was defeated by French player Corentin Moutet. ^[12]

In September 2020, Rune won his first ITF title at an M25 event in Switzerland. He would make three more ITF finals by the end of 2020, winning two of the three.

Rune made three more ITF finals at the start of 2021, winning one.

In March 2021, Rune made his ATP debut as a wildcard in the Argentina Open. He lost in the first round to 5th seeded Albert Ramos Viñolas in 3 sets. At the Chile Open the very next week, Rune was accepted into the qualifying draw as a wildcard. He went on to win the qualifying round and record his first ATP match win against Sebastián Báez in straight sets.^[13] He would then follow this up with his first top 30 victory over Benoît Paire in straight sets to reach his first ATP quarterfinal where he would lose to Federico Delbonis in straight sets. At the age of 17, he became the youngest ATP Tour quarter-finalist since 2014.

In June 2021, Rune won his first ATP Challenger title in Biella. His victory was overshadowed by homophobic slurs he made during his semifinal match.^[14] His actions were investigated by the ATP, and he was fined for his homophobic outburst.^[15]

In July 2021, Rune received another wave of wildcards into several clay court events during the summer clay court swing. These events include the Swedish Open, Croatia Open, and Austrian Open Kitzbühel. He posted a few more match wins in these tournaments which boosted his ranking to a career-high of No. 145 on 23 August 2021 after winning the San Marino Open and the Verona Challenger, making him the second youngest male player in the top 150.

Rune entered the 2021 US Open Qualifying as the 24th seed. There, he won all three of his qualifying matches to qualify for the 2021 US Open for his grand slam debut. He played world No. 1 Novak Djokovic in the first round where he lost the first set and won the second set in a tiebreak but started to cramp late in the third set and eventually lost the match.

Rune made his second ATP quarterfinal at the Moselle Open after qualifying for the main draw. He double-bageled lucky loser Bernabé Zapata Miralles in the first round and then upset 5th seed Lorenzo Sonego in the second round in three sets to make the quarterfinals. He lost in the quarterfinals to 2nd seed Pablo Carreño Busta in three sets.

On 4 November 2021, Rune qualified for the 2021 Next Generation ATP Finals.^[16][17]

Rune made his top 100 singles debut on 17 January 2022 at World No. 99 making him the second youngest male player after Carlos Alcaraz in the top 100. At the 2022 Open 13 in Marseilles, he reached his first ATP semifinal of his career, partnering Hugo Gaston, defeating the top seeds and home favorites Mahut/Herbert and Polish pair Walków/Zieliński en route, before losing to Rublev/Molchanov.^[18]

Rune beat a top-10 player for the first time, the biggest win of his career, in Munich, where he upset World No. 3 and top seed Alexander Zverev in straight sets to advance to his third quarterfinal of his career.^[19] He defeated Emil Ruusuvuori on his 19th birthday and reached his first ATP Tour-level semifinal.^[20] Next, he beat also first time semifinalist Oscar Otte to reach his first ATP final. ^[21] After his opponent, Botic van de Zandschulp was forced to retire with chest pain, the 70th-ranked Rune became the third youngest champion in the Open Era after Guillermo Perez-Roldan won the title in Munich at age 17 in 1987 and defended it successfully a year later. ^[22][23] As a result he moved to the top 50 at World No. 45 on 2 May 2022.

Current through the 2022 Serbia Open.

Result	W–L	Date	Tournament	Tier	Surface	Opponent	Score
Win	1–0	Apr 2022	Bavarian International Tennis Championships, Germany	250 Series	Clay	Botic van de Zandschulp	3–4 ret.

Result	W–L	Date	Tournament	Tier	Surface	Opponent	Score
Win	1–0	Sep 2020	M25 Klosters, Switzerland	World Tennis Tour	Clay	Jesper de Jong	6–4, 6–2
Loss	1–1	Sep 2020	M15 Melilla, Spain	World Tennis Tour	Clay	Timofei Skatov	6–3, 0–6, 1–6
Win	2–1	Nov 2020	M15 Valldoreix, Spain	World Tennis Tour	Clay	Javier Barranco Cosano	7–6(7–0), 6–3
Win	3–1	Nov 2020	M15 Antalya, Turkey	World Tennis Tour	Clay	Filip Misolic	6–0, 4–0 RET.
Loss	3–2	Jan 2021	M15 Manacor, Spain	World Tennis Tour	Hard	Evan Furness	2–6, 7–5, 0–6
Win	4–2	Jan 2021	M15 Bressuire, France	World Tennis Tour	Hard (i)	Matteo Martineau	7–5, 4–6, 6–3
Loss	4–3	Feb 2021	M25 Villena, Spain	World Tennis Tour	Hard	Gastão Elias	6–3, 2–6, 1–6
Loss	4–4	May 2021	Oeiras, Portugal	Challenger	Clay	Gastão Elias	7–5, 4–6, 4–6
Win	5–4	Jun 2021	Biella, Italy	Challenger	Clay	Marco Trungelliti	6–3, 5–7, 7–6(7–5)
Win	6–4	Aug 2021	San Marino, San Marino	Challenger	Clay	Orlando Luz	1–6, 6–2, 6–3
Win	7–4	Aug 2021	Verona, Italy	Challenger	Clay	Nino Serdarušić	6–4, 6–2
Win	8–4	Nov 2021	Bergamo, Italy	Challenger	Hard (i)	Cem İlkel	7–5, 7–6(8–6)
Win	9–4	Apr 2022	Sanremo, Italy	Challenger	Clay	Francesco Passaro	6–1, 2–6, 6–4

Result	W–L	Date	Tournament	Tier	Surface	Partmer	Opponents	Score
Win	1–0	Sep 2020	M15 Melilla, Spain	World Tennis Tour	Clay	Valentin Royer	Max Houkes Jose Vidal Azorin	7–5, 6–3
Loss	1–1	Nov 2020	M15 Valldoreix, Spain	World Tennis Tour	Clay	Eric Vanshelboim	Abedallah Shelbayh Pedro Vives Marcos	5–7, 3–6

Result	Year	Tournament	Surface	Opponent	Score
Win	2019	French Open	Clay	Toby Alex Kodat	6–3, 6–7(5–7), 6–0

Rune's record against players who have been ranked in the top 10, with those who are active in boldface. Only ATP Tour main draw matches are considered:

Player	Record	Win %	Hard	Clay	Grass	Last Match
Number 1 ranked players
Novak Djokovic	0–1	0%	0–1	–	–	Lost 1–6, 7–6(7–5), 2–6, 1–6 at 2021 US Open
Number 3 ranked players
Alexander Zverev	1–0	100%	–	1–0	–	Won 6–3, 6–2 at 2022 Munich
Number 6 ranked players
Matteo Berrettini	0–1	0%	0–1	–	–	Lost 3–6, 6–4, 4–6 at 2022 Indian Wells Masters
Number 7 ranked players
Casper Ruud	0–3	0%	–	0–3	–	Lost 6–7(5–7), 5–7 at 2022 Monte-Carlo Masters
Number 9 ranked players
Carlos Alcaraz	0–1	0%	0–1	–	–	Lost 3–4, 2–4, 0–4 at 2021 Next Generation ATP Finals
Number 10 ranked players
Pablo Carreno Busta	0–1	0%	0–1	–	–	Lost 4–6, 6–3, 4–6 at 2021 Metz
Total	1–7	12.5%	0–4 (0%)	1–3 (25%)	0–0 ( – )	* Statistics correct as of 27 April 2022[update].

• He has a 1–3 record against players who were, at the time the match was played, ranked in the top 10.

#	Player	Rank	Event	Surface	Rd	Score	HRR
2022
1.	Alexander Zverev	3	Bavarian International Tennis Championships, Germany	Clay	2R	6–3, 6–2	70

• List of Denmark Davis Cup team representatives

• Holger Rune at the Association of Tennis Professionals
• Holger Rune at the International Tennis Federation
• Holger Rune at the Davis Cup