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Sent his mother away during the match. Then she jumped to his side: Holger Rune
Quelle: Getty Images/Clive Brunskill
At the French Open there is a heated duel between Casper Ruud and Holger Rune. The 19-year-old Dane repeatedly misbehaves. In the main role, his mother, who is first thrown out by the son, but then accuses the other side of lying.
Es already started on the pitch. When the Norwegian Casper Ruud won the Scandinavia duel in the quarter-finals of the French Open with the first match ball after 3:15 hours, his opponent doubted the victory.
The chair referee had to go to the court to check the Norwegian’s last forehand again to finally score 6: 1, 4: 6, 7: 6 (7: 2), 6: 3 Ruuds over the Dane Holge Rune to confirm.
Please take another close look: Holger Rune doubted his opponent’s converted match point
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The next excitement followed immediately after at the net, where the Dane briefly congratulated his opponent with a handshake to leave him ice cold. Ruud, who reached the semi-finals for the first time in a Grand Slam tournament, shook his head uncomprehendingly.
Probably also because his 19-year-old opponent had already noticed his boorish behavior. When Rune conceded another break to make it 3:4 in the third set, he yelled at his mother, who was sitting in the player box, several times from the bench: “If you can’t help me, then go!” What Aneke Rune then at least temporarily did.
Mother Aneke Rune, here next to trainer Lars Christensen and in front of sister Alma…
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…had quickly disappeared after the son’s outburst of anger
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“I don’t know Holger personally, but I saw on television that he can sometimes be very dramatic,” said Ruud, also only 23 years old, to the “NRK” portal, “he’s young and new, and that can happen sometimes. But when you’re on the big stage, it’s time to grow up.”
Mama Rune contradicts Papa Ruud
As clear as Rune’s gaffes could be seen and heard, the incident, of which both sides reported the day after in different versions, remains unclear.
Well after midnight, the two camps happened to meet in the catacombs. According to Rune, Ruud should not have behaved correctly. “His team was actually very nice, but then he comes right up to me and yells ‘Yeah!’ In your face,” Rune told Ekstra Bladet, “I was just like, ‘What the hell are you doing? You do not do something like that. It’s bad style.”
Later cheers in the catacombs? Norway’s Casper Ruud is in the semifinals in Paris
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A claim that the other side quickly countered. Christian Ruud, father and coach of the Norwegian semi-finalist, said to “Europsort”: “That’s just a lie from Holger.”
Whereupon mother Rune took a stand again: “The father wasn’t there when it happened, he left,” she stated. The incident happened while Rune was waiting for the doping control, “so the father can’t comment on that,” said Aneke Rune, who quickly forgot her own son’s furor: “It’s one thing that my son screams in the face. That the father lies to the press, on the other hand, is another.”
