The Danish tennis professional Holger Rune and his new coach Boris Becker can hope to reach the semi-finals at the ATP Finals. In front of the German icon, the 20-year-old Rune benefited from the injury-related retirement of Greek Stefanos Tsitsipas in his second group match on Tuesday; after just 17 minutes the game was over with the score 2-1 for Rune.
“It was very unfortunate,” said Rune after the short stint: “We could all see in his first service game that something was wrong. I wish him all the best.”
In 2021, Tsitsipas had to give up due to injury at the end of the season’s eight best teams. Tsitsipas won the ATP Finals in London in 2019. On the first day of the match, tournament debutant Rune lost in three sets after a great fight against world number one Novak Djokovic.
Zverev meets Medvedev on Wednesday
The two best placed teams from each of the two groups of four qualify for the semi-finals. Grand Slam record winner Djokovic (Serbia) and Italian local hero Jannik Sinner will meet in the Green Group on Tuesday evening (9 p.m.). Alexander Zverev, who won the tournament in 2018 and 2021, is in demand again after his opening win against Wimbledon champion Carlos Alcaraz (Spain) on Wednesday evening (9 p.m./all Sky). Then he will meet Daniil Medvedev for the sixth time this year, and he was only able to defeat the Russian once.