Holmgren, graduated in the theater and in the 3rd round of Wimbledon

Website of the University of San Diego. August Holmgren’s profile, born in ’98 by Expergaerde, Denmark. Final section, that of the most crunchy and personal information. To read the chapter relating to the “interests” entirely, you need to book the holidays. Textual words: playing the guitar, yoga, hammock, school. Notes on the sidelines: dance the sauce and surf. Two other questions inevitable: but what did Holmgren ask at the University of San Diego? He studied theatrical limbs, successfully. And why did he become viral, did he win the Oscar? No, because it is in the third round of Wimbledon. From number 192 of the world, however.

Match Point canceled

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August Holmgren, before a crazy and inexplicable week like the one just lived in London, had played only a game in the main scoreboard of an ATP tournament. And he had lost it: San Diego tournament, his adoptive house given his university studies. In 2021 Auger-Aliassime retires to the last and the Danish of beautiful hopes was fished out, even if no longer very young. It goes badly: against Grigor Dimitrov collects two game and greets everyone. Four years have passed and this is instead the balance of the last game: second round of Wimbledon, a match against the number 23 of the Tomas Machac world. 4-hour and 36 minutes challenge (the longest second of the edition, after Rinderknech-Zverev), 35 ace (thirty-five), combined with a fair 88% of points won with the first service and a stunning 81 under “winning shots”. There would be an equally stunning 71 under the definition “free errors”, almost double the opponent, but the data goes into the background because … Holmgren won. And he did it in the fifth set after saving three match points. A script that followed what happened in the long qualifying shifts: against Watanuki, it has canceled as many, of Match Point, putting the Japanese in the end in four hours.

Sacrifice and dream

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How did he evolve so quickly, the Danish who had played a single ATP match at 27? With the Nordic recipe of sacrifice applied to the American dream tasted during the university: a degree and a racket. The mashup is interesting, as he himself said after having passed the first round against Halys: “I was surprised positively, I am really happy to have not had a drop in a five set match. On the one hand, I don’t surprise me the victory because I have a lot of trust in my service and in my game. On the other it only comes to scream: ‘Cabbage, it’s all true. I am here!”. Which is what Machac did: racket launched into the air, ideally looking for Expergaerde and San Diego, a screaming to pierce the sky of Wimbledon and the awareness of having earned in a week in London the equivalent of an entire career. Before the Slam Holmgren wandered through Challenger. The red earth gave him particular bitterness, even with the hand of ours: in Vicenza, a month ago, he came out in the first round against Cecchinato. Another waiting for a slam glow to illuminate its history.

Hobby and performance

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But not only tennis lives Holmgren. On the contrary: “Augustry did everything in college” says Ryan Kecckley, a former coach at the University of San Diego, “I remember that on Tuesday he went to dance the sauce because he was near the room of his dormitory. And on Saturday, in the third year, he surf. The philosophy of Danish? He explained it himself: “Often in my life, when there are moments of difficulty, they reflect on my tennis. If I do not dedicate myself to my hobbies and I concentrate only on the game, piercing badly. So I need anything else in life to balance things. At college I understood that I have to find a balance: I needed to be happy out of the field to be on the field”. The charm of Wimbledon: a punch of games was enough to draw a cream smile and strawberries on the face of the number 192 in the world and, to the same, shit in a disturbing way the number 3. That Alexander Zverev won by solitude and by a set of demons too oppressive to be fought alone.

The Slam champion coach

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The Holmgren service (113 ACE in five games in Wimbledon, among qualifications and main scoreboard) is a weapon designed in detail. Because then, of course, there is also daily work. That of the Danish takes care of a luxury compatriot: Frederik Nielsen, a former double champion in Wimbledon, who has been training him since 2022, when he left the university: “The coach is one with whom I speak very much. We confront ourselves on who I want to be in important moments: I will be afraid and will turn off the opponent or I will go to take the game? to deal? “. Work ethics at the ranking. By the way: from Monday it will already be among the first 150.