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Holger Rune admitted his heavy playing schedule last year was \u2018too tough\u2019, involving constant travel and culminating in injury in Stockholm. (EPA Images pic)
\nBIOT: Former world number four Holger Rune, who hasn\u2019t played since injuring his left Achilles in October, has told AFP that he is still not ready to return to the courts.<\/p>\n
The 23-year-old insisted, however, he still has \u201cgreat confidence\u201d in his ability to bounce back and beat the world\u2019s top two Jannik Sinner and Carlos Alcaraz.<\/p>\n
\u201cBefore, maybe you have a few problems here and there and you make them a bigger deal than they maybe are,\u201d said the Dane.<\/p>\n
\u201cAnd now you understand, okay, this is a real tough moment and this is hard to come back from. But I always have big faith in myself that I\u2019m able to come back from anything.\u201d<\/p>\n
A Wimbledon quarter-finalist in 2023, Rune pulled out of the coming championships a few days ago and has now dropped to 63 in the world.<\/p>\n
There is no sign of an immediate return but he hints that it may not be far off.<\/p>\n
\u201cThings are looking good now so it\u2019s really when I feel ready I\u2019ll be back,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m not going to put a date on it. It\u2019s when I\u2019m ready.<\/p>\n
\u201cThings are evolving well. We are playing points now and everything. And my knee and Achilles are both holding up well.<\/p>\n
\u201cSo it\u2019s a process. We\u2019re not there yet, but we\u2019re close.\u201d<\/p>\n
Rune regrets the heavy playing load he took on last year, saying it was \u201ctoo tough\u201d.<\/p>\n
He went straight from the US Open to training in Monaco, then to the Davis Cup on clay, followed by the Laver Cup on hard court in San Francisco, then Japan, China and finally Stockholm, where he got injured in the semi-finals.<\/p>\n
\u201cEverything in a row was just too much for me. And I think at the end my body got the answer to that.<\/p>\n
\u201cObviously now, coming back from an injury, I feel no pressure really.<\/p>\n
\u201cI just want to go out there and enjoy myself, enjoy being back and try to be the biggest beast I can and deliver.<\/p>\n
\u201cI want to come back better than before.\u201d<\/p>\n
The plan when he does return will be to focus on the Grand Slams and Masters 1000.<\/p>\n
\u201cThat\u2019s the level I want to be playing at,\u201d he explained.<\/p>\n
And he is not intimidated by the dominance of Sinner and Alcaraz.<\/p>\n
\u201cI know I can beat both of them. I\u2019ve done it. The last time I played Carlos, I won. I just need to learn how to do it every week.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Holger Rune admitted his heavy playing schedule last year was \u2018too tough\u2019, involving constant travel and culminating in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":22623,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[8810,8811,271,8812,4025,4101,219,8813,4600,285],"class_list":["post-22622","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-jannik-sinner","tag-achilles-injury","tag-atp-comeback","tag-carlos-alcaraz","tag-danish-tennis","tag-grand-slams","tag-holger-rune","tag-jannik-sinner","tag-tennis-injury","tag-tennis-return","tag-wimbledon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22622","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22622"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22622\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22623"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22622"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22622"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22622"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}