He recently added tennis great Boris Becker to his coaching team in an attempt to turn things around. Rune has also been in poor form in recent months as he has won only one match since reaching the quarter-final at Wimbledon.
Kecmanovic went on to reach the semi-final of the Stockholm Open following his win over the Dane as he went down against Pavel Kotov on Saturday. With Carlos Alcaraz withdrawing from the ATP 500 event due to injury, Rune has assumed the duties as the top seed, but the current world No 6 has not received the kindest of draws.īarely a week after he was beaten by Miomir Kecmanovic straight sets in the first round in Sweden, Rune will have another crack at the Serbian in Switzerland. Holger Rune will face a familiar foe in the opening round of the Swiss Indoors as it will be the same player who sent him packing from the Stockholm Open this week.
