{"id":147449,"date":"2025-09-10T21:34:13","date_gmt":"2025-09-10T21:34:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/147449\/"},"modified":"2025-09-10T21:34:13","modified_gmt":"2025-09-10T21:34:13","slug":"top-10-star-hit-on-me-10-times-tennis-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/147449\/","title":{"rendered":"Top 10 Star Hit On Me 10 Times \u2013 Tennis Now"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By Richard Pagliaro | Wednesday, September 10, 2025<br \/>Photo credit: Anna Kalinskaya Instagram<\/p>\n<p>Anna Kalinskaya owns career wins over Iga Swiatek, Madison Keys, Jessica Pegula and Amanda Anisimova.<\/p>\n<p>The 26-year-old Kalinskaya may well lead the WTA Tour in generating interest from ATP stars, too.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennisexpress.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\" noreferrer noopener nofollow\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"610\" height=\"130\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/september-savings-2025-610x130-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-56179\"  \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Kalinskaya, who previously dated Jannik Sinner after a brief relationship with Nick Kyrgios, shared one former ATP Top 10 player hit on her about 10 times through Instagram messages.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to former WTA standout Anna Chakvetadze on the First and Red podcast, Kalinskaya revealed Holger Rune repeatedly sent her direct messages via Instagram asking her out.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"610\" height=\"433\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Kalinskaya-Hug-MatthewCalvis.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-56187\"  \/><\/p>\n<p>Asked by Chakvetadze if ATP pros have asked her out, Kalinskaya outed Rune as repeatedly hitting on her.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTennis players, more often before\u2026 Now that I\u2019m older, I don\u2019t know, for some there is no chance!\u201d Kalinskaya said \u201cThere is no need to write\u2026<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA tennis player wrote to me about 10 times and then gave up,\u201d Kalinskaya shared. \u201cI will say who he is now: Holger Rune. He writes to everyone. It is thought to be too important\u2026Maybe Holger Rune is just desperate, but he\u2019s not the only one who has written to me.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>For his part, the now 11th-ranked Rune disputed Kalinskaya\u2019s story playing the \u201ccultural differences\u201d card to explain their online exchange.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Anna Kalinskaya says Holger Rune wrote to her 10 times and then gave up \ud83e\udd23\ud83e\udd23\ud83e\udd23<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He writes to everyone, it seems\u2026He thinks too much of himself\u2026but he&#8217;s not the only one like that.&#8221;\ud83d\ude02\ud83d\udc80 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/dReAAu9MU7\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/dReAAu9MU7<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 til polarity&#8217;s end \ud83c\udfbe\u26ab\u26aa (@lildarkcage) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/lildarkcage\/status\/1965410655542067271?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">September 9, 2025<\/a>  <\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Ha ha ha. We might have cultural differences that make Anna read a comment on a story as an invitation to a date \ud83d\ude1c if I want to go on a date, I ask for a date . Don\u2019t worry<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Holger Rune (@holgerrune2003) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/holgerrune2003\/status\/1965460291485085930?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">September 9, 2025<\/a>  <\/p>\n<p>\u201cHa ha ha. We might have cultural differences that make Anna read a comment on a story as an invitation to a date,\u201d Rune replied on social media. \u201cIf I want to go on a date, I ask for a date. Don\u2019t worry.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>If this story sounds familiar, that\u2019s probably because it\u2019s not the first time a WTA Russian star has shared Rune\u2019s efforts to start romantic relationships via social media.<\/p>\n<p> In case you missed it, Veronika Kudermetova, who is married, shared her story of how Rune shot his shot with her on social media as well.<\/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 | Wednesday, September 10, 2025Photo credit: Anna Kalinskaya Instagram Anna Kalinskaya owns career wins over&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":147450,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[99,428],"class_list":{"0":"post-147449","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-sports","9":"tag-tennis"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147449","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=147449"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147449\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/147450"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=147449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=147449"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=147449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}