This Wednesday Wimbledon will live one of those duels that are called to mark the future of tennis. The faces are seen for a place in the semifinals Carlos Alcaraz and Holger Rune. Together with Jannik Sinner they are the three men who should dominate the racket world in the next decade, as Rafa Nadal, Roger Federer and Novak Djokovic have done in recent years.
Born on April 29, 2003, just six days before Alcaraz, Rune is pulling off a sensational tournament. After suffering tremendously in the third round against Alejandro Davidovich, whom he came back from two match points, the Dane gave a tennis recital this Monday in his duel against Grigor Dimitrov, who ended up desperate before the push of his young rival, champion of the year past in Paris Bercy and this year in Munich, as well as a finalist in the Masters 1,000 in Monte Carlo and Rome.
A new example that we are facing a player called to achieve great achievements in the medium and long term in the world of tennis. At the moment he occupies the sixth place in the world ranking, a position that would improve to fourth if he defeated Alcaraz and stand in the semifinals, and up to number 3 if they end up winning the tournament.
Those who are following the television broadcasts of Rune’s matches these days will have seen abundant images of his coach, his work team and his mother, one of his great supporters.
Not so of his great reference, who these days has not been able to drop by London to support him. It’s about his sister Alma, who has had a lot to do with Holger being where he is. And it is that the young He was the one who awakened his brother’s fever for tennis, who wanted to follow in his footsteps when he began to practice it in his childhood.
In the end, Alma decided to abandon her dream of dedicating herself professionally to tennis to start in the world of fashion. and become one of the biggest fans of her brother, who she follows in every tournament she can.
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At the moment, Holger is facing a unique opportunity to stand in what would be his first Grand Slam semifinals. In front of him he will have, neither more nor less than the number 1 in the world, a Carlos Alcaraz who already beat him in the Next Gen ATP Finals of 2021but whom he defeated (by abandonment) in the quarterfinals of the last Masters 1000 in Paris-Bercy.
Both know each other very well from their time in the lower categories, where they even formed a doubles teamas in the last hours they are taking care of remembering numerous twitter accounts with this video from when they were both just 13 years old.
2023-07-11 08:40:18
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