After just under two months,
Holger Rune has already seen his dream team of former Federer coach, Severin Luthi and former Novak Djokovic coach, Boris Becker broken up, with only the latter remaining. The 48-year-old travelled with Melbourne with Rune mainly with the German out of action due to not being able to travel to Australia after his prior conviction.
Becker instead spent the fortnight working for Eurosport and Luthi appeared in Rune's box instead during the Australian Open. But their partnership has already come to an end as his mum and manager, Aneke Rune confirmed the news.
"I just want to inform you that from now on Holger will only have Boris and Kenneth in his coaching staff,” she told Ekstra Bladet.
She added that it came down to Luthi not being able to offer the stability needed in terms of training and being there for Rune: “Don't want to make a big deal out of it, but the timing with Severin was clearly not right. It would be too few weeks for Severin to be able to cover for the continuity that Holger needs.”
But it is not all going to be on the shoulders of Becker as Kenneth Carlsen who worked with him during the Brisbane International with Becker unable to be there stepping up to the void. “With the pairing of Boris and Kenneth, Holger gets the flow he wants for his development and stability,” Aneke added.
“Boris and Kenneth have been in contact since pre-season, when Kenneth was already considered for the coaching team. And from now on, the majority of all the big tournaments will be with both coaches, it goes on. For Holger, it is absolutely right to expand the planned collaboration with Kenneth, with whom he also trained for several periods during his junior years.”
