French Open 2022: Holger Rune - also dangerous for Stefanos Tsitsipas?
Carlos Alcaraz gets a lot of attention - in the shadow of the Spanish shooting star, a 19-year-old is still causing a sensation in Paris. The Dane Holger Rune made it into the round of 16 at the French Open with amazingly ripped off performances and hasn't dropped a sentence yet.
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Rune also remained completely unmoved in the 6:3, 6:3, 6:3 against local hero Hugo Gaston on the large Philippe Chatrier court on Saturday evening and played his game through. "I'm very happy with my level today," he said afterwards. Now Rune - the first Dane in the second week of Roland Garros since Kurt Nielsen and Torben Ulrich in 1959 - meets last year's finalist Stefanos Tsitsipas on Monday.
Rune, who won the tournament in Munich this year and clearly beat Alexander Zverev on the way to triumph, will also go into the game against the favored Greek with a lot of confidence. "I believe in my game," he told the New York Times, but remains a realist: "I believe that I can beat anyone. But I also believe that I can lose against anyone."
If he manages to surprise Tsitsipas, he will step out of the shadow of Alcaraz, which he has known well from youth tournaments for years. Both could become formative faces of the tour. The odds against Tsitsipas? Difficult to assess. The Greek struggled against both Lorenzo Musetti and Zdenek Kolar, third-round opponent Mikael Ymer didn't perform well on Saturday.
There is a small question mark over Holger Rune's physical condition. Because in the match against Henri Laaksonen, the teenager had twisted his ankle. In the game against Gaston, however, there was no sign of it.
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