{"id":222547,"date":"2025-10-18T15:55:19","date_gmt":"2025-10-18T15:55:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/222547\/"},"modified":"2025-10-18T15:55:19","modified_gmt":"2025-10-18T15:55:19","slug":"emotional-rune-tears-achilles-retires-in-pain-from-stockholm-semifinals-tennis-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/222547\/","title":{"rendered":"Emotional Rune Tears Achilles, Retires in Pain From Stockholm Semifinals \u2013 Tennis Now"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By Richard Pagliaro | Saturday, October 18, 2025<br \/>Photo credit: Tennis TV Screen Shot<\/p>\n<p>Holger Rune\u2019s Stockholm semifinal\u2014and his 2025 season\u2014came to a devastating end today.<\/p>\n<p>The top-seeded Rune suffered a torn left Achilles tendon and was forced to retire while leading Ugo Humbert 6-4, 2-2 in today\u2019s opening semifinal.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennisexpress.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\" noreferrer noopener nofollow\"><img loading=\"lazy\" data-lazyloaded=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"610\" height=\"130\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/1760802917_497_Black-October-610x130-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-57215\"  data-\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s a heart-breaking injury for Rune, who was in tears afterward and will likely be sidelined between three and six months. That means the former Paris Indoors champion will likely miss the 2026 Australian Open in January.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s terrible. There is no doubt. It is a rupture of the Achilles tendon,\u201d Aneke, Rune\u2019s mother, wrote in a text to TV 2 Sport. \u201cHe\u2019s out for three to six months, the doctors say. Holger is crying.\u201d<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Not the ending anybody wanted \ud83d\ude14<\/p>\n<p>Humbert progresses to the final as Rune retires due to injury at 6-4 2-2<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/BNPParibasNordicOpen?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">#BNPParibasNordicOpen<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ptMV9ZkC4S\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/ptMV9ZkC4S<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Tennis TV (@TennisTV) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TennisTV\/status\/1979552156823826917?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">October 18, 2025<\/a>  <\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think I broke it,\u201d an emotional Rune told the trainer, who came out on court to try to aid the Dane.<\/p>\n<p>The 22-year-old Rune was finding his form reaching quarterfinals or better in four of his last five tournaments before today\u2019s injury.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" data-lazyloaded=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"549\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/HolgerRune-Face.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-57438\"  data-\/><\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the left-handed Humbert advanced to tomorrow\u2019s Stockholm final against either second-seeded Casper Ruud or third-seeded Denis Shapovalov.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s a shame for Rune and I want him back soon,\u201d Humbert said afterward. \u201cHe played better than me and I don\u2019t want to talk too much about the final. It wasn\u2019t how it was supposed to happen.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By Richard Pagliaro | Saturday, October 18, 2025Photo credit: Tennis TV Screen Shot Holger Rune\u2019s Stockholm semifinal\u2014and his&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":222548,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[442],"tags":[49,48,82,593],"class_list":["post-222547","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-sports","tag-tennis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222547","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=222547"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222547\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/222548"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=222547"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=222547"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=222547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}