Young people could with experience. Although the ‘big’ tournaments continue to be dominated by the historical ones, this Sunday at Paris Master 1.000 there was a demonstration that the famous Next generation of the professional tennis circuit wants to conquer the scene: the Dane Runa Holger19 years old, he tracked down the Serbian Novak Djokovic35 years old, to win his first title in this category and confirm his great season.
It was a dream weekbecause with this victory against the Serbian with the halves of 3-6, 6-3 and 7-5, in two hours and 33 minutes, Rune became the first to beat five ‘top ten’ in the same competition – not counting the ATP Finals- and will go up from 18th to 10th.
At the beginning of 2022, Rune, of the same generation as the current number one Carlos Alcarazit was at 103. However, the Dane will just be like alternating at the ATP Finals in Turin.
Rune had just won in Stockholm (October 23) and was a finalist in Sofia (October 2) and Basel (October 30), so it’s no surprise that he managed to succeed “Nole” on Bercy’s list of winners, to put a bow to the his great fall in which he had to eliminate all outstanding tennis players.
Thus, one by one, he was the first to eliminate the Swiss Stan Wawrinkaagainst whom he saved three match points, then against the Pole Herbert Hurkacz (10th), in Russian Andrea Rublev (9th), at number one alcaraz Already Felix Auger-Aliassime (8 °).
In the final, with 43 winning shots, he once again showed his tremendous aggression in a vibrant match in which the young Dane went from less to more, while Djokovic, who wasted six chances to force the tie break in the last game of the third set, he had to seek medical attention towards the end of the game due to problems in his right leg.
The highlight of the match came at the start of the second set, when Rune, already down by one set, saved three of Djokovic’s break points and managed to score 1-1.
From then on he drew (6-3) and his deep and aggressive tennis thwarted the strength of the Serbian, who, while remaining solvent in the service, loses intensity.
This Serbian defeat prevented him from extending his winning streak to 14 on the circuit and leaves him in eighth place in the ATP.
“I saw you on TV”
During the awards ceremony, the Danish rune was the protagonist of a moment that is a perfect depiction of the meaning of this generational crossover: “I’ve seen you on TV since I was little”he confessed.
“You are one of the favorite players, I have seen you on TV since I was little,” said Rune, born in 2003, the year in which ‘Nole’ started playing at a professional level, after receiving the trophy from the hands of Stefan Edberganother legend.
The young Dane, who rose from 18 to number 10 in the world, also thanked his team and mentioned his mother, Aneke, inseparable from Rune from the beginning.
Dethroned by Bercy, who has won six times, Djokovic took off Rune’s hat. “I really like your personality, you dedicate yourself entirely to tennis, you give everything, your future is bright”has indicated.
The Serb accepted his defeat and commented that Rune was “better in key moments”.
Source: Clarin
