World number nine Holger Rune said his brief collaboration with Andre Agassi had given him a unique insight into how the eight-times Grand Slam champion viewed the game and hopes to use the advice he received to take his game to the next level.<\/p>\n
Rune<\/a> announced himself as one of the sport’s most promising young talents three years ago by winning his first Masters title in Paris after beating four top-10 players and defeating Novak Djokovic<\/a> in the final.<\/p>\n However, the 22-year-old has had limited success since, winning just two more titles and failing to advance beyond the quarter-final stage at the Grand Slams.<\/p>\n With fellow young guns Carlos Alcaraz<\/a> and Jannik Sinner<\/a> now dominating the game’s biggest events, Rune turned to American great Agassi<\/a> earlier this month in Washington for a three-day training block.<\/p>\n “It was insane. I’ve never met a guy who sees tennis that way and I found it interesting,” Rune told the Tennis Channel at the Canadian Open in Toronto.<\/p>\n “He makes things simple on the court. Sometimes tennis can be a difficult sport and sometimes it can be a very easy sport. There’s always a reason why it’s this or that.<\/p>\n “Some of the advice he gave me was very helpful. To share those three days, for him to get a look at my game, it was just amazing. My coach Lars (Christensen) appreciated it too, they talked a little bit and we’re still in touch.”<\/p>\n Rune said Agassi’s tactics had struck a chord with him even though the Dane never watched him play growing up.<\/p>\n “I’ve watched so many YouTube clips with him on how he was taking the ball early,” Rune added.<\/p>\n “It was so clear to see how he was making life easy for himself on the court … it was a bit before my time so I didn’t grow up watching Andre. But to look back at how tennis was then was really interesting to see.”<\/p>\n Rune beat Giovanni Mpetshi Perricard<\/a> in Toronto and next plays Alexandre Muller<\/a> as he builds up for the US Open between the 24th August – 7th September.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"World number nine Holger Rune said his brief collaboration with Andre Agassi had given him a unique insight…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":36370,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[101,118,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-36369","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-sports","9":"tag-tennis","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36369","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36369"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36369\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36370"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36369"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36369"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}