The world number 8. Holger Rune is expanding his coaching team for the new season to include ex-Federer coach Severin Lüthiwho is on an equal footing Boris Becker should work.
by Dietmar Kaspar
last edited: December 20, 2023, 5:25 p.m
With Severin Lüthi, Holger Rune has added another top-class coach to the coaching team alongside Boris Becker.
Even if Dane Holger Rune’s second half of 2023 can be seen as slight stagnation, the 20-year-old’s team is leaving no stone unturned to achieve the highest goals. In October, tennis legend Boris Becker was hired as a super coach who led Novak Djokovic to numerous Grand Slam honors.
Since the 56-year-old Becker probably doesn’t want to spend the whole year traveling around the world with his protégé due to other commitments, another member of Rune’s coaching team has now been announced. This is none other than Severin Lüthi, who won the big trophies with the maestro Roger Federer for many years.
The plan is for Lüthi and Becker to share the care of the teenager and take turns at the tournaments for the most part. The Swiss will join the team in January from the Australian Open. “Boris will cover some tournaments and I will be there at some. For example, we could both be there in Miami and Indian Wells. “It always depends on what’s good for the player,” Lüthi told the “Berner Zeitung”.
The 47-year-old also explains his reasons for getting involved: “In the last few months I’ve been thinking a lot about what could happen next in my career. At some point I wrote a list of players with whom I could imagine returning to the tour. It was a very short list, but Holger’s name was on it.”
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The long-time Swiss Davis Cup coach sees no problems in the rivalry from his time as coach of Federer and Djokovic: “He always gave me the feeling that he respected me,” said Lüthi about Becker.
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