Holger Rune has found the creativity in the pursuit of training time, since corona has shut down facilities.
– Who has a tennis court, I can borrow?
Roughly how it sounded on Wednesday in an Instagram lookup from stortalentet Holger Rune, which, like so many others have ended up in a difficult situation because of coronakrisen.
All tournaments are provisionally suspended until July, and Runes usual training facilities in HIC is closed.
Therefore, it has been necessary to think alternatively. 16-year-old Rune has even played minitennis – series with the bigger and slower balls which are usually played by children – in a buddy have to keep in time.
– It was very fun. You have to think creatively in order to strike the ball, but I’d rather have a real trajectory.
And therefore the aforementioned posting on Instagram in order to borrow a private lane. The offered help has been overwhelming.
People with courses in Kalundborg, Odense, Aarhus, Sønderborg and the north of Zealand and on the island of Møn has offered with courses on artificial turf, gravel and hardcourt.
– People in the whole of Denmark has been really sweet and classy to help. On Wednesday, I had two hours on the hardcourt, says Rune, who prefer to work out on precisely this ground.
– Not all clay courts are ready yet, and the artificial turf is not quite as good, because the ball does not jump so high, and they drift around a bit. But it’s good just to turn into a ball, so I have to take what there is.
among other things He has trained with his sister and Frederik Løchte, but the situation in it, there should have been gennembrudssæsonen in the adult, is of course not optimal.
Holger Rune is, however, keen to get the best out of the period after all.
– the Other has not the possibility to train, because they live in places where there is a curfew. I can play a little and is also working on other things in order to get a head start to the other, while time stands still.
at Home, I do much physical training to get in best possible shape, and so I work with the mental thing with my mental coach, says Holger Rune.
He had a difficult start to the year, but began to find the melody with a fine victory in a Turkish tournament, before he was to win 5-0 with Denmark in the Davis Cup in march, before corona closed virtually all the sport down.
I really hope that the season gets started again. I had just found a flow and played good tennis, says Holger Rune.
He reached to advance to first place in the world for juniors last year, before he began to devote himself to the adult. Here is he now the number 827 on the leaderboard in the middle of coronadvalen.
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