MELBOURNE : Holger Rune suffered a nasty-looking fall midway through his Australian Open third-round match against Ugo Humbert on Saturday but the ninth seed showed it will take more than that to keep him down.A dark horse at the year's first Grand Slam after his Paris Masters final victory over Novak Djo
MELBOURNE : Holger Rune suffered a nasty-looking fall midway through his Australian Open third-round match against Ugo Humbert on Saturday but the ninth seed showed it will take more than that to keep him down.
With home favourite Nick Kyrgios absent due to a knee problem, holder Rafa Nadal and second seed Casper Ruud limping out in the second round, and nine-times champion Novak Djokovic hampered by a hamstring issue, organisers would have been holding their breath when another seed took a tumble. "It wasn't too bad," he told reporters."I was able to play full. The third set, of course, I was a bit worried by what happened, but I saw the slow-motion after the match. Nothing dangerous.
Rune had reached the third round with wins over Filip Krajinovic and Maxime Cressy and is yet to lose a set, but Russian fifth seed Rublev presents a tough obstacle.
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