Holger Rune says that he reached out to Andre Agassi for some \u2018extra input\u2019, and feels that he can reach the world No 1 spot, challenging Jannik Sinner and Carlos Alcaraz.<\/p>\n
The former world No 4 is next scheduled to participate at Citi DC Open, an ATP 500 tournament, and was intriguingly spotted practising whilst being watched by eight-time Grand Slam champion Andre Agassi.<\/p>\n
Rune<\/a> is currently coached by Kenneth Carlsen and Lars Christensen, whilst Patrick Mouratoglou was formerly part of the team.<\/p>\n \u201cI reached out to him [Agassi] some months ago,\u201d Rune said to Tennis.com<\/a>, on the eve of the Washington event.<\/p>\n \u201cHe\u2019s an amazing man, first of all, and he\u2019s very wise, as well. He sees the game in a unique way that I\u2019ve never experienced before.<\/p>\n \u201cI thought now was a good moment to reach out to Agassi because my base is back and I\u2019m playing well again. When you\u2019re changing coaches a lot, you don\u2019t play as well because you\u2019re not following one opinion or a single structure.<\/p>\n \u201cI thought this was the right time to get some extra input. It\u2019s not anything magic, but he obviously had some very wise words I can use.\u201d<\/p>\n The Dane has struggled for form in the last 18 months, with his season highlight occurring through reaching the showpiece match at the Indian Wells Masters \u2013 losing out to Jack Draper.<\/p>\n Rune reached the fourth round at both the Australian Open and the French Open, before being defeated by Nicholas Jarry in his first match at Wimbledon.<\/p>\n \u201cIf you\u2019re happy to stick around and be No. 5, 10, 15, or 20 in the world, some players can do that without doing more. My goal was always to be No. 1; it still is, and I believe I can do it,\u201d Rune adamantly stated.<\/p>\n \u201cI also believe there\u2019s a few things I need to do differently. That\u2019s one of the reasons why I reached out to Andre, to hear his point of view.\u201d<\/p>\n Rune is just one month older than world No 2 Carlos Alcaraz and nearly two years younger than world No 1 Jannik Sinner.<\/p>\n Despite the comparable age, their results in the Grand Slams have been anything but, with the Spaniard and Italian winning all of the last seven Grand Slams \u2013 clashing in both the French Open and Wimbledon final this season.<\/p>\n Rune, as ever, is not one to be easily disheartened by relatively poor results and, instead, has a strong conviction that his level is \u2018not far away\u2019 from the world\u2019s two best players.<\/p>\n Carlos Alcaraz makes key schedule decision as big tournament rocked by another major blow<\/a><\/p>\n ATP Rankings: Novak Djokovic clinches incredible top 10 landmark, Ben Shelton reaches new career-high<\/a><\/p>\n \u201cI think [the gap] is very distant for some, but for some others, they\u2019re not that far away [from Sinner and Alcaraz],\u201d Rune analysed.<\/p>\n \u201cI\u2019m going to include myself when I say we\u2019re not that far away. I see my high end of tennis to be really, really high, so I just have to lift the button, really, and stay more consistent to win more matches. I do need to stop feeling like I need to play spectacular tennis all the time to beat them.\u201d<\/p>\n At the moment, Rune fills the world No 8 spot and is more than 6300 points behind Alcaraz \u2013 with Sinner 8500 ahead.<\/p>\n The post Holger Rune reveals details behind Andre Agassi collaboration, believes he can become world No 1<\/a> appeared first on Tennis365<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Holger Rune says that he reached out to Andre Agassi for some \u2018extra input\u2019, and feels that he can reach the world No 1 spot, challenging Jannik Sinner and Carlos Alcaraz. The former world No 4 is next scheduled to participate at Citi DC Open, an ATP 500 tournament, and was intriguingly spotted practising whilst […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-757","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/757","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=757"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/757\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=757"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=757"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=757"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Latest ATP News<\/h3>\n