Tennis “Fits very well”
Boris Becker returns to the ATP tour as a coach
Status: 19.10.2023 | Reading time: 2 minutes
Boris Becker returns to coaching
Boris Becker is returning to the coaching business after almost seven years. The ex-Wimbledon winner will look after the young Danish star Holger Rune in the future. Becker wants to be at the 20-year-old’s side for the first time at the ATP tournament in Basel from Monday.
Boris Becker returns to the tennis tour as a coach. In the future, the German tennis legend will coach an up-and-coming young star. Becker calls his new protégé a “diamond in the rough that needs polishing”.
Boris Becker returns to the tennis tour as a coach. “I can confirm that I am Holger Rune’s coach,” the three-time Wimbledon winner told the Eurosport podcast “Das Gelbe vom Ball”. The 55-year-old tennis legend revealed that he had been in contact with the 20-year-old star player from Denmark for a long time.
“Now it worked very well. My calendar allows it and I have always been interested in Holger because he is on the tennis court with so much commitment and temperament.” For him, Rune, who is ranked sixth in the world, is “a diamond in the rough that needs polishing.”
Most recently, Becker was back on duty as a television pundit after being released from prison for tax offenses in Great Britain last December. As a coach, the former world-class player celebrated success with the 24-time Grand Slam winner Novak Djokovic (Serbia) between 2013 and 2016.
Holger Rune will also be trained by Boris Becker in the future
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Like Djokovic once, Rune also had emotional outbursts that Becker “liked,” as he said. “That is allowed. The coach and the team form an oasis in which the player has to let it out – if he then apologizes and works with concentration again. I did the same thing back then as a professional,” said Becker.
No long-term contract for now
“It makes me a little proud that he asked me,” said Becker. “Holger then invited me to Monte Carlo for a week of training. I also had a long conversation there with his mother Aneke and his performance coach Lapo Becherini. The three of us are now responsible for Holger.”
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For the first time he will look after Rune at the Swiss Indoors in Basel, which begins on Saturday, said Becker. He then wanted to help him qualify for the ATP Finals in Turin through the prestigious tournament in Paris-Bercy: “That is the big goal and that is the task.” After that, they want to decide “whether the collaboration has a future.” “We will go into 2024 together,” said Becker.
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In July 2022, at the age of 19, Rune made it into the top ten players in the world rankings for the first time. In November of the same year he celebrated the greatest success of his career to date by winning the ATP Masters in Paris.
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