Holger Rune and Patrick Mouratoglou part ways after six months

James Richardson
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Patrick Mouratoglou has ended his six-month stint as a consultant to Holger Rune with the young Dane clearly on the up.

During his consultancy period, Mouratoglou helped Rune rise into the top ten of the ATP Rankings.

Mouratoglou was not Rune’s primary coach as he has continued to work with Lars Christensen.

The coach confirmed the end of the association in a post on social media.

“Holger! We’ve successfully completed our mission and ended up having an incredible 6-month adventure, exceeding our original plan of 3 months,” he said.

“It was a pleasure to share this journey with you. Your energy and enthusiasm made it even more special. I have no doubt that your bright future holds amazing things. I remain your biggest fan and I keep an eye on you with the @mouratoglou_academy team.”

Rune also took to Twitter to thank the coach for his time.

Mouratoglou has backed Rune to do big things in the game.

“I think everything is realistic,” Mouratoglou told Eurosport.

“There is no shame in having great ambitions. Holger aims high all the time, but that’s also why he is capable of doing great things. He doesn’t necessarily set many limits for himself, and if he fulfils his goals, that’s great.

“If he doesn’t make it, that’s okay. He’ll put it off for six months, a year, two years, three years, as long as it takes for him to get there.

“I think that depending on your personality, you can experience ambitions as a pressure or, on the contrary, as something that will motivate you enormously. He’s someone who likes a challenge, Holger, so I think it makes him feel good.”

Mouratoglou believes that Rune could still ascend to the very top of the game and could even do it before the end of the year.

“Why not. When you can do what he did, anything is possible. Now, it’s going to require him to be able to perform like he did in Bercy [at the Paris Masters], all year long, and especially in the Grand Slams and in the Masters 1000, where it counts the most.

“So it’s not going to be easy, obviously, but if it were easy to be the best in the world, we’d know already. Is that realistic? It’s not unrealistic. It will be extremely difficult, but it is not unrealistic.

“The steps are simple when you want to become world No. 1. You’re going to have to shine in the Masters 1000. He’s got to win at least three and he’s got to win at least one Grand Slam if he wants to be. But we’re trying not to look too far ahead because it’s good to stay in the short term,” he said.

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