Holger Rune cannot get out of the hole he has been going through for months. The Dane, called to discuss the hegemony of Carlos Alcaraz and Jannik Sinner in the next decade, fell this Sunday in the third round of the Mutua Madrid Open in a surprising way against Tallon Griekspoor 6-4, 4-6 and 6-3.
With a tenacious game, the Dutchman (25 ATP) who had already beaten the Dane once, also on dirt, in Hamburg 2022, tested Rune’s patience and emerged victorious.
Rune followed his usual script, capable of delivering great hits and leaving the match a few seconds later. But he did not manage to make the first prevail against the more monotonous and this time more effective tennis of the Dutchman, with a good average tone that was enough for him to get into the second round.
It is the second consecutive year that Rune says goodbye in the third round of the Madrid Masters 1000showing once again that he is far from his best level.
His next rival will be the winner of the clash between Alejandro Davidovich and Andrey Rublev.
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In another of the morning’s matches, Jan-Lennard Struff qualified for the round of 16 by defeating Frenchman Ugo Humbert 7-5, 6-4 and thus added his sixth victory in a row and the 50th of his career in Masters 1,000.
The German, finalist in the Caja Mágica in 2023, when he fell to Carlos Alcaraz, He will meet the Spaniard again, although three rounds before, if he beats the Brazilian Thiago Seyboth Wild in the afternoon session.
2024-04-28 15:43:43
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