{"id":639738,"date":"2026-05-13T02:33:18","date_gmt":"2026-05-13T02:33:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/639738\/"},"modified":"2026-05-13T02:33:18","modified_gmt":"2026-05-13T02:33:18","slug":"rune-withdraws-from-hamburg-and-roland-garros-tennis-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/639738\/","title":{"rendered":"Rune Withdraws from Hamburg and Roland Garros \u2013 Tennis Now"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Richard Pagliaro | Monday, May 11, 2026
Photo credit: Tony Chang\/Chang Photography<\/p>\n

Holger Rune has pressed paused on his comeback.<\/p>\n

Former world No. 4 Rune has withdrawn from his planned comeback tournament in Hamburg and this month\u2019s Roland Garros nursing a knee injury. Rune joins two-time Roland Garros champion Carlos Alcaraz in pulling out of Paris. Alcaraz will not defend his Roland Garros title as he continues his recovery from a right wrist injury.<\/p>\n

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On October 19th, Rune was leading Ugo Humbert 6-4, 2-2 when he ruptured his Achilles tendon in the Stockholm semifinals. A tearful Rune retired from the match and underwent surgery last October. Rune has made a rapid recovery from surgery, but suffered a knee issue while training for his comeback.<\/p>\n

\u201cI was really looking forward to coming back to Hamburg, and you all know how much I love clay and how special Paris and Roland Garros have always been to me,\u201d said Rune.\u00a0\u201cThis decision was therefore not easy to make. But for me, it\u2019s not just about being able to play a few games, it\u2019s about being ready for a whole tournament. I don\u2019t want to come back feeling almost ready, but 110% ready when I get back on the court. I can\u2019t wait to come back for the grass season.\u201d<\/p>\n

In March, Rune told Tales From Tennis podcast he\u2019s excited to return and challenge world No. 1 Jannik Sinner and No. 2 Carlos Alcaraz.<\/p>\n

\u201cI know I can compete one-on-one with Sinner and Alcaraz,\u00a0and every time I go out on court against them, I know I have a chance to beat them,\u201d said Rune, who is 2-3 lifetime vs. Sinner and has split four meetings vs. world No. 1 Alcaraz.\u00a0\u201cI know they both feel uncomfortable when they play against me and that gives me extra motivation.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By Richard Pagliaro | Monday, May 11, 2026Photo credit: Tony Chang\/Chang Photography Holger Rune has pressed paused on…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":168779,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[99,428],"class_list":["post-639738","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-sports","tag-tennis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/639738","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=639738"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/639738\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/168779"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=639738"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=639738"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=639738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}