Holger Rune is not playing his best tennis at the start of this season, but he is showing that determination that he has often lacked in the last two seasons. The young Danish talent reached the third round at the 2025 Australian Open by defeating Matteo Berrettini – semifinalist here in 2022 – after a very tough and exciting battle.

Rune simply believes he belongs on the same court as Sinner. That’s a start.

Denmark's Holger Rune played a gritty 4-set match in the second round to beat Italy's Matteo Berrettini on Thursday, 16 January. With the win, Rune qualified for the third round of the tournament.

The father of Matteo Berrettini has somehow escaped sanction after being shamelessly sprung with the item courtside.

Jannik Sinner will face his trickiest test yet at the Australian Open when the defending champion battles Dane Holger Rune in the fourth round on Monday, while five-times Grand Slam winner Iga Swiatek will be the heavy favourite against lucky loser Eva Lys.

Highlights from the 1st round of the Australian Open match between Holger Rune and Zhizhen Zhan which took place at Melbourne Park, Melbourne.

They also have a dead-even head-to-head record. Keys won their first two matches, and Rybakina came back to win the next two, including their only meeting of 2024, on hard courts in Miami. Keys has won eight straight matches in Adelaide and Melbourne, while Rybakina, with new coach Goran Ivanisevic, hasn’t dropped a set this week.

It will be the fifth battle on court between the two, who will face each other on Thursday on the gard-courts of Melbourne Park. After his first success at Indian Wells 2022, the Dane has won all the other previous matches: once by retirement, the recent two occasions fighting for three sets.

This was one of the great matches of the second round of the Australian Open. Number 13 seed Holger Rune challenged Matteo Berrettini, a former

Defending champion Jannik Sinner raced to victory at the Australian Open on Saturday to sweep into the last 16 as Iga Swiatek demolished Emma Raducanu.

It's that time of year already – with the ATP and WTA Tours both well underway in 2025, the first major competition on offer this year begins from Melbourne Park in the form of the Australian Open.

Jannik Sinner will face his trickiest test yet at the Australian Open when the defending champion battles Dane Holger Rune in the fourth round on Monday, while fivetimes Grand Slam winner Iga Swiatek will be the heavy favourite against lucky loser Eva Lys.