{"id":952510,"date":"2026-10-31T00:26:18","date_gmt":"2026-10-31T00:26:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/952510\/"},"modified":"2026-10-31T00:26:18","modified_gmt":"2026-10-31T00:26:18","slug":"holger-rune-crashes-out-of-basel-tournament-despite-great-fight-against-vacherot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/952510\/","title":{"rendered":"Holger Rune crashes out of Basel tournament despite great fight against Vacherot"},"content":{"rendered":"

Holger Rune on Friday afternoon crashed out of the ATP 500 tournament in Basel after he was defeated in the quarter-final by Valentin Vacherot 3-6, 6-3, 3-6.<\/p>\n

Holger Rune<\/a> is out of the ATP 500 tournament in Basel, Switzerland.\u00a0On Friday afternoon, the Dane was defeated by Monaco’s Valentin Vacherot<\/a> of Monaco, following a closely contested match in which the two players were evenly matched by most metrics.<\/p>\n

Vacherot won 6-3, 3-6, 6-3, securing his place in the semi-finals. 23-year-old Rune is in the process of a comeback; a month and a half ago, he returned to the ATP Tour following a lengthy Achilles tendon injury and recorded his first two wins since coming back in Basel.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Against both Poland\u2019s Hubert Hurkacz<\/a> and France\u2019s Quentin Halys<\/a>, Rune faced very strong servers\u2014and the same was true on Friday, as Vacherot delivered 20 aces compared to Rune\u2019s five.<\/p>\n

On Saturday, Vacherot will face either Taylor Fritz<\/a> or Arthur Fils<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Rune appeared particularly sharp from the start. He moved Vacherot around the court effectively and punished him whenever the Monegasque failed to land his powerful first serve.<\/p>\n

\"HolgerHolger Rune – Valentin Vacherot – Match StatsFlashscore<\/p>\n

This earned the Dane six break points in the opening game, but Vacherot managed to grind out a 1-0 lead.\u00a0Rune also applied pressure during Vacherot\u2019s next service game. Leading 40-0, he held three break points, but once again, a series of blistering serves saved Vacherot.<\/p>\n

Instead of a break for the Dane, it was his opponent who struck, converting his first break point in a game where Rune made a series of unforced errors.<\/p>\n

At 2-5, Rune received treatment on his thigh for three minutes, but it offered little immediate relief. Vacherot had found his rhythm and took the first set. Rune struggled a bit in the opening game of the second set, but after breaking serve to love to take a 2\u20130 lead\u2014following arguably his best game of the match\u2014he set himself on a clear path to winning the set.<\/p>\n

The third set was another tight affair with few break opportunities. The turning point came when Vacherot secured a break to lead 4\u20132, having also significantly raised his level on his own serve compared to the second set.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Holger Rune on Friday afternoon crashed out of the ATP 500 tournament in Basel after he was defeated…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":952511,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[442],"tags":[49,48,82,593],"class_list":["post-952510","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\/952510","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=952510"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/952510\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/952511"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=952510"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=952510"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=952510"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}