Alcaraz’s success and the bad atmosphere in Rune’s locker room were the first victims

Carlos Alcaraz He is a US Open and Wimbledon champion, world number one. In the lower categories he shared friendship, dreams and also rivalry with another youngster his age who also showed a lot of promise, as he showed by already placing himself in fourth place in the ATP ranking .

But Rune looks at Alcaraz, and there is no comparison between his achievements at 20 years old. The Nordic saw the distance between the two deepen as he lost in the quarterfinals of the last Wimbledon 7-6 (3), 6-4 and 6-4.

Since then, everyone has lost. Against Marcos Giron in Toronto and retired then mackenzie mcdonald in Cincinnati. Physical problems can mask the crisis, which was accentuated without reason when he gave up the US Open against Roberto Carballes.

The eve runes He was ironic about the schedule, grudgingly agreeing not to be located in any of the three main stadiums of Flushing Meadows, but on Track 5. The map with the facility and his comments became more arrogant later that day when He was beaten by the Spaniards.

Quarterfinalist for the second season at Roland Garros, semifinalist at Queen’s, finalist before in the land of Monte Carlo and Rome. An interesting contest, typical of the quality of runesbut rush comes in compared to Alcaraz.

The bad streak had its consequences in New York. if the greek Stefanos Tsitsipas fired his aussie coach mark philippoussiswhich he had advocated a month ago at the expense of his own father, Apostles TsitsipasRune also has a settlement ready for the French Patrick Mouratoglou.

His mother and manager aneka announced the break in Denmark, in Ekstra Bladet. “It just didn’t work out. Holger had to find the right technical team,” said the man in charge of his son’s career.

Rune trained as a teenager at the Mouratoglou academy on the French Riviera. When he stopped working on the suspended (doping case) Simona Halepjoin the group of runesin October 2022. When the Dane entered the elite as champion of Stockholm and Paris-Bercy, signing victories Alcaraz (he is injured), Tsitsipas, Rublev, Sinner and Djokovic.

The life coach, the Danish lars christensenis still in the box, but the spotlight is focused on the media Mouratoglou, during many courses working on Serena Williams.

“What worked in October later didn’t. I think there was a clash of egos at the Australian Open and Holger paid the price,” he said. aneka exposing locker room tensions between Mouratoglou and Christensen.

In April Holger announced that he would finish Mouratoglou, but as the weeks passed he appeared and at Roland Garros the absentee was Christensen, who gradually withdrew.

Aneka has the solution: “I’ll tell Holger and Christensen to get back to work when Lars finishes consulting on Clara Tason at the US Open”. He advocates going back to the roots.