{"id":143344,"date":"2025-09-14T12:57:08","date_gmt":"2025-09-14T12:57:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/143344\/"},"modified":"2025-09-14T12:57:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-14T12:57:08","slug":"holger-rune-can-win-a-grand-slam-in-2026-tennis-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/143344\/","title":{"rendered":"Holger Rune Can Win a Grand Slam in 2026 \u2013 Tennis Now"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By Richard Pagliaro | Sunday, September 15, 2025<br \/>Photo credit: Koji Watanabe\/Getty<\/p>\n<p>Carlos Alcaraz and Jannik Sinner have combined to sweep the last eight Grand Slam championships.<\/p>\n<p>Prepare for another star to crash the major party in 2026, says Alex Corretja.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennisexpress.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\" noreferrer noopener nofollow\"><img data-lazyloaded=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"610\" height=\"130\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/september-savings-2025-610x130-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-56179\"  data-\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Speaking to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.spilxperten.com\/tennis\/davis-cup\/eksklusivt-interview-rune-kan-vinde-en-grand-slam-naeste-aar\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Nicholas Albeck of SpilXperten <\/a>during Davis Cup weekend, former French Open finalist Corretja says Holger Rune can master a major title in 2026.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI really hope he succeeds, because I genuinely like him. He brings fantastic qualities to tennis \u2013 he\u2019s actually really important for the sport \u2013 but he still needs to find his way to achieve better results.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut I see absolutely zero reasons why Holger can\u2019t win a Grand Slam next year \u2013 and compete for those kinds of titles for many years to come,\u201d Corretja told <a href=\"https:\/\/www.spilxperten.com\/tennis\/davis-cup\/eksklusivt-interview-rune-kan-vinde-en-grand-slam-naeste-aar\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Nicholas Albeck of SpilXperten <\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The 22-year-old Rune, who has been mentored by Andre Agassi, toppled Alcaraz to win Barcelona in April. However, Rune struggled to in the last three majors of the season.<\/p>\n<p>Rune, who lost to Sinner in the Australian Open round of 16, fell to Nicolas Jarry in his Wimbledon opener  was defeated by Jan-Lennard Struff in a punishing US Open second rounder that went the five-set distance.<\/p>\n<p>Former No. 2 Corretja said the key for Rune to unlock his Grand Slam potential is both establishing his identity as a player and learning how to exploit opponents\u2019 weaknesses.<\/p>\n<p>Right now, I think for Holger Rune it\u2019s about when he\u2019ll manage to put the final pieces of the puzzle together. He needs to figure out how to act both on and off the court.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe needs a better understanding of his own game, but also of his opponents\u2019 games,\u201d Corretja said. \u201cI don\u2019t think there\u2019s any reason to compare him to other players like Carlos Alcaraz and Jannik Sinner.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Corretja asserts Rune has the potential to be a Slam winner and points to his triumph at the 2022 Paris Masters Indoors as a sign he can beat the best.<\/p>\n<p>Holger has his own personality \u2013 a very strong personality, in fact. He\u2019s a fantastic competitor, and he works so hard. He\u2019s someone I really hope will find his path in the best possible way.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI mean, he has already found his path \u2013 he\u2019s been in the top 10, so it\u2019s not like he\u2019s not good, and he\u2019s also won a Masters 1000 title \u2013 but of course, I still feel he can do much better,\u201d Corretja said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By Richard Pagliaro | Sunday, September 15, 2025Photo credit: Koji Watanabe\/Getty Carlos Alcaraz and Jannik Sinner have combined&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":143345,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[442],"tags":[49,48,82,593],"class_list":{"0":"post-143344","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-sports","11":"tag-tennis"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143344","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=143344"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143344\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/143345"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=143344"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=143344"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=143344"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}