{"id":45000,"date":"2025-08-05T09:30:14","date_gmt":"2025-08-05T09:30:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/45000\/"},"modified":"2025-08-05T09:30:14","modified_gmt":"2025-08-05T09:30:14","slug":"holger-rune-names-the-five-nicest-players-on-the-atp-tour-with-controversial-player-picked","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/45000\/","title":{"rendered":"Holger Rune names the five nicest players on the ATP Tour with controversial player picked"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Holger Rune is not afraid of making some surprise choices throughout his career on the ATP Tour. <\/p>\n

Rune surprised many by working with Andre Agassi<\/a>, the former world number one who helped give him some pointers.<\/p>\n

The Dane has suffered some disappointing defeats recently, but Rune still believes he is not far away from Jannik Sinner and Carlos Alcaraz<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Although he was able to win a couple of matches at the Canadian Open<\/a>, Rune was then beaten in the fourth round by Alexei Popyrin<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Popyrin<\/a> was not on Rune\u2019s<\/a> list of the nicest players on the ATP Tour<\/a>, but another Australian did make an appearance.<\/p>\n

\"NickPhoto by Kelly Defina\/Getty ImagesHolger Rune picks Nick Kyrgios as one of the five nicest players on the ATP Tour<\/p>\n

In a Tik Tok video for Overtime Tennis, Rune and other players on the ATP Tour were asked for the five players that they think are the nicest.<\/p>\n

Rune agreed with both Daniil Medvedev<\/a> and Francisco Cerundolo<\/a>, the latter who he actually picked, by naming Alcaraz<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The world number nine also chose Gael Monfils<\/a> and Ben Shelton<\/a>, but the fifth player he named may come as a surprise to some.<\/p>\n

Nick Kyrgios has been involved in spats with fellow ATP players<\/a> before, but Rune claimed that he has always been nice to him. <\/p>\n

\u201cCarlos Alcaraz, very nice guy,\u201d began Rune. \u201cGael Monfils, unbelievable guy. I think Cerundolo, Francisco. He is a very nice guy.<\/p>\n

\u201cWith me Nick Kyrgios, he is a very nice guy with me! Ben Shelton he\u2019s a good lad.\u201d<\/p>\n

What did Nick Kyrgios say he loved about Holger Rune?<\/p>\n

It does not appear that this friendship is one-sided, with Kyrgios<\/a> also recently complimenting Rune for something he recently said.<\/p>\n

Rune received heavy criticism at Wimbledon<\/a> this year for claiming that he would have beaten his opponent, Nicolas Jarry, nine times out of ten in \u2018normal conditions\u2019 after claiming he had a knee injury.<\/p>\n

Despite the widespread backlash, Kyrgios admitted he actually liked what Rune said<\/a> and could see himself in the 22-year-old.<\/p>\n

\u201cMy villain of the week is Holger [Rune],\u201d Kyrgios said last month. \u201cI just love that comment, straight away saying that he would beat [Nicolas] Jarry nine times out of ten.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat is like the cockiest comment ever but I like it. That is something I would have said in my press conferences. <\/p>\n

\u201cThat is why I do like Holger. I do like that, and that has stirred up the media a little bit.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Holger Rune is not afraid of making some surprise choices throughout his career on the ATP Tour. Rune…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":45001,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[565],"tags":[753,64,63,21693,962,39280,13830,8399,963,85,747],"class_list":["post-45000","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-atp","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-ben-shelton","tag-carlos-alcaraz","tag-francisco-cerundolo","tag-gael-monfils","tag-holger-rune","tag-nick-kyrgios","tag-sports","tag-tennis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45000","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45000"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45000\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45001"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45000"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45000"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45000"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}