{"id":2909,"date":"2023-10-19T11:55:31","date_gmt":"2023-10-19T15:55:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/sport\/boris-becker-to-coach-holger-rune-for-rest-of-season\/19\/10\/2023\/"},"modified":"2023-10-19T11:55:31","modified_gmt":"2023-10-19T15:55:31","slug":"boris-becker-to-coach-holger-rune-for-rest-of-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/sport\/boris-becker-to-coach-holger-rune-for-rest-of-season\/19\/10\/2023\/","title":{"rendered":"Boris Becker to coach Holger Rune for rest of season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Boris Becker is returning to coaching for the first time since the six-time Grand Slam winner&#8217;s release from a British prison last year and will work with sixth-ranked <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/sports\/tennis\/players\/profile?playerId=3659\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Holger Rune<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Becker told broadcaster Eurosport on a podcast published Thursday that he will work with the 20-year-old Danish player for the rest of the season, starting at the Swiss Indoors next week.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It makes me a little proud that he asked me. The contact has existed for a long time. Now it was a very good fit,&#8221; Becker said. &#8220;My calendar allows it, and I have always been interested in Holger because he is on the tennis court with so much commitment and temperament.&#8221;<\/p>\n<aside class=\"inline editorial float-r\" data-behavior=\"article_related\">\n<h2 class=\"editorial-title\">Editor&#8217;s Picks<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a name=\"&amp;lpos=story:editorspicks:inline:1\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.co.uk\/tennis\/story\/_\/id\/38675325\/hubert-hurkacz-victory-jessica-pegula-emotional-korea-open-nadal-returning-australian-open\" class=\"img-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\"><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/aside>\n<p>Becker signaled he would focus on the mental side of the game and described Rune as &#8220;a rough diamond that needs polishing.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The 55-year-old German previously coached <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/sports\/tennis\/players\/profile?playerId=296\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Novak Djokovic<\/a> from 2014 through 2016. Before his release in December, Becker served eight months in prison for illicitly transferring large amounts of money and hiding assets after he was declared bankrupt.<\/p>\n<p>With a career-high of No. 4 in August, Rune is the highest-ranked Danish male player ever and has reached the quarterfinals of the French Open and Wimbledon.<\/p>\n<p>Since his loss to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/sports\/tennis\/players\/profile?playerId=3782\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Carlos Alcaraz<\/a> in the Wimbledon quarterfinals in July, he has won just one match, including a first-round loss at the US Open and a loss to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/sports\/tennis\/players\/profile?playerId=2874\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Miomir Kecmanovic<\/a> in Stockholm on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Becker said he wasn&#8217;t sure if his partnership with Rune would continue into next season.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There&#8217;s no point in signing a two-year contract now when you&#8217;ve only been cooperating for a week,&#8221; Becker said. &#8220;If you are successful, you usually stay together, no matter what the contract says. If not, everyone goes their own way again.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><em>The Associated Press and Reuters contributed to this report.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.co.uk\/tennis\/story\/_\/id\/38694955\/boris-becker-coach-holger-rune-rest-season\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Boris Becker is returning to coaching for the first time since the six-time Grand Slam winner&rsquo;s release from a British prison last<br \/><button class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/sport\/boris-becker-to-coach-holger-rune-for-rest-of-season\/19\/10\/2023\/\">Read More &rsaquo;<\/a><\/button><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12955,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[213],"tags":[2011,2010,1730,2012,2014,2013,391],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2909"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2909"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2909\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2911,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2909\/revisions\/2911"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12955"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2909"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2909"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2909"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}