After his narrow quarter-final defeat at the Masters in Monte Carlo against Australian Open winner Jannik Sinner, the young Danish tennis star Holger Rune reacted poisonously to a post from the ATP Tour on social networks and complained about discrimination by the professional organization . Rune had already argued with the fans during the game and received a warning.
On Friday evening, the ATP wrote “May the force be with you, Jannik” in a Star Wars-inspired clip to a clip from the match that showed Sinner winning a spectacular point. Rune was still upset about this a day later.
“That’s supposed to mean something, ATP Tour?” the 21-year-old wrote on Saturday morning on X, formerly Twitter: “You had given me top conditions anyway. The day before I had to compete twice and had a late game and almost no recovery time. And then the referee makes crucial mistakes and gives me an unjustified warning. May the power be with you…Jesus Christ!”
Rune and Sinner (22) fought a thrilling match over 2:42 hours, which the Italian ultimately won 6:4, 6:7 (6:8), 6:3. So far, all four duels between the young rivals have gone into the deciding set, with the winning record standing at 2:2.
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On Thursday, Rune first had to finish his second-round match against India’s Sumit Nagal, which had been interrupted the day before, and then had to play his round of 16 against Grigor Dimitrov. He was on the court for around five hours; the Dimitrov match alone lasted 3:31 hours.
