Sinner, the accusations made leave no room for interpretation: Jannik is involved, that’s why.
He’s always mad at someone. Or rather, someone is always mad at him, according to Holger Rune. It’s not the first time the Dane has freaked out, but it’s widely believed that this time he really went too far. It all happened in Madrid, during the Masters 1000 being held at the Caja Magica.
The Gentofte native’s bad streak continues: the former protégé of Boris Becker has already exited in the third round, after three fiery sets against Tallonn Griekspoor. Before that he had won, again in three partially, against Argentine Mariano Navone. On that occasion, however, he had made fire and flames, in the true sense of the word, improvising a “show” that is already destined to go down in history. Among the many pitches made on the court by tennis players, in fact, Rune’s will forever be remembered as one of the worst.
In the most agitated moment of the match, on the end of the last set, Holger made some very heavy accusations against the organizers of the Iberian tournament. Until then, the match had been anything but easy, and the number 11 seed had repeatedly run into trouble. Hence the belief that they were trying to cheat him. Yes, you got it right. Cheating.
Sinner, fury on the court: finger pointing at the tournament
This is Rune’s accusation against the hosts, guilty, in his words, of sabotaging him. “The tournament is trying to cheat me, they didn’t put a string on my racket,” he told the chair judge, insisting over and over again.
Not that what he did surprised us all that much, mind you. The bad boy from Gentofte is far from new to controversy, accustomed as he is to confrontations and shows in the public square. Now he resents the audience, now his opponents or the chair judge: he is always able to find a pretext, in short, to stir things up a bit and to show off his somewhat fuming temper.
Just over a week earlier he had pointed his finger, once he had cashed in his defeat by our Jannik Sinner, at the Atp: “They didn’t put me in the best conditions, they didn’t let me rest enough. And the chair judge missed a crucial call.” Even then, however, the list of provocations and controversies was very long, because Rune, in essence, made a spectacle of himself from day one of his entry into the major circuit. Because woe betide you if you admit you are solely responsible for your own defeats: one way or another, it’s always the neighbor’s fault…