{"id":506206,"date":"2025-10-17T07:08:26","date_gmt":"2025-10-17T07:08:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/506206\/"},"modified":"2025-10-17T07:08:26","modified_gmt":"2025-10-17T07:08:26","slug":"holger-rune-ready-for-quarter-final-after-hard-fought-win-against-fucsovics-in-stockholm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/506206\/","title":{"rendered":"Holger Rune ready for quarter-final after hard-fought win against Fucsovics in Stockholm"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-testid=\"wcl-typoNewsPerex\" itemprop=\"description\">The topseeded Holger Rune paved his way to a place in the quarter-final at the ATP 250 tournament Stockholm Open when he won 6-4, 6-4 against the Hungarian Marton Fucsovics. <\/p>\n<p>After an even start, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flashscore.com\/player\/rune-holger\/2kRS8swG\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-analytics-element=\"ARTICLE_TEXT_LINK\" data-analytics-alias=\"internal\" rel=\"noopener\">Holger Rune<\/a> gave evidence of why he is ranked 44 places higher in the world rankings than the Hungarian, and in several sequences, the Dane was decidedly superior.<\/p>\n<p>Rune broke the Hungarian twice in a row and was able to serve out the first set, but\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.flashscore.com\/player\/fucsovics-marton\/GhQFzFli\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-analytics-element=\"ARTICLE_TEXT_LINK\" data-analytics-alias=\"internal\" rel=\"noopener\">Fucsovics<\/a> broke back and subsequently reduced the deficit to 4-5.<\/p>\n<p>In the end, however, Rune got the job done, with a great Danish serve putting an end to the first set.<\/p>\n<p>The Dane, cruising on confidence, also began the second set by breaking Fucsovics. The set dragged on a bit, with the duels getting longer and tougher.<\/p>\n<p>However, Rune played with great stability and with great concentration in the decisive duels, allowing him to serve home the set after an otherwise great fight from Fucsovics.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Rune is now to face the Argentinian <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flashscore.com\/player\/etcheverry-tomas-martin\/AXL5qpKa\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-analytics-element=\"ARTICLE_TEXT_LINK\" data-analytics-alias=\"internal\" rel=\"noopener\">Tomas Etcheverry<\/a> in the quarter-final.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The topseeded Holger Rune paved his way to a place in the quarter-final at the ATP 250 tournament&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":506207,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4105],"tags":[79,1068,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-506206","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-sports","9":"tag-tennis","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115388252558823686","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/506206","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=506206"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/506206\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/506207"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=506206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=506206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=506206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}