{"id":868721,"date":"2026-10-02T22:16:22","date_gmt":"2026-10-02T22:16:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/868721\/"},"modified":"2026-10-02T22:16:22","modified_gmt":"2026-10-02T22:16:22","slug":"rune-humiliated-by-frenchman-in-highly-anticipated-comeback-in-tokyo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/868721\/","title":{"rendered":"Rune humiliated by Frenchman in highly anticipated comeback in Tokyo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-testid=\"wcl-news-perex\" itemprop=\"description\">In his first ATP Tour match in about 11 months, Holger Rune suffered a decisive defeat to Frenchman Kyrian Jacquet 6-3, 6-1 in the ATP 500 tournament in Tokyo.<\/p>\n<p>The Danish tennis player\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.flashscore.com\/player\/rune-holger\/2kRS8swG\/\" data-analytics-element=\"ARTICLE_TEXT_LINK\" data-analytics-alias=\"internal\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Holger Rune<\/a> had a poor comeback on the ATP Tour following an 11-month injury layoff.<\/p>\n<p>His return at the ATP 500 tournament in Tokyo resulted in a sound thrashing at the hands of a Frenchman, as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flashscore.com\/player\/jacquet-kyrian\/KGKot0sk\/\" data-analytics-element=\"ARTICLE_TEXT_LINK\" data-analytics-alias=\"internal\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Kyrian Jacquet<\/a> defeated a struggling Rune 6-3, 6-1 in just 55 minutes.<\/p>\n<p>The injury layoff has seen Rune drop to No. 188 in the world, and he now faces the prospect of falling further down the world rankings.<\/p>\n<p>Last year, Rune reached the quarterfinals in Tokyo, meaning he had a significant number of ranking points to defend.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In his first ATP Tour match in about 11 months, Holger Rune suffered a decisive defeat to Frenchman&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":868722,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[99,428],"class_list":["post-868721","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\/868721","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=868721"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/868721\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/868722"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=868721"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=868721"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=868721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}