Holger Rune officially hired Boris Becker to his coaching team earlier this week, a partnership that will run at least through the remainder of the 2023 season.
Becker, who won six Grand Slam singles titles during his playing career, previously worked with Novak Djokovic. This is the German’s first gig since he was released from prison last year after serving eight months for chargers relating to debt. Becker and Rune will assess how things progress the remainder of the season before making a decision on 2024.
“It makes me a little proud that he asked me,” Becker commented. “The contact has existed for a long time; now it was a very good fit. 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.
“There’s no point in signing a two-year contract now when you’ve only been cooperating for a week. If you are successful, you usually stay together–no matter what the contract says. If not, everyone goes their own way again.”
Success came rapidly for Rune in the early stages of his profressional career–especially throughout the first half of 2023. However, the 20-year-old Dane is 1-8 in his last nine matches since reaching the quarterfinals at Wimbledon. He lost his opening match in Stockholm this week to Miomir Kecmanovic.
“I felt myself and my game more today than I did in a while,” the world No. 6 wrote in an Instragram post following Wednesday’s loss. “So I feel confident now in making the last adjustments and finish the year strong 🦾”.
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