{"id":466365,"date":"2023-10-19T11:09:30","date_gmt":"2023-10-19T15:09:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=466365"},"modified":"2023-10-19T11:09:30","modified_gmt":"2023-10-19T15:09:30","slug":"boris-becker-makes-return-to-tennis-as-holger-rune-coach","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/boris-becker-makes-return-to-tennis-as-holger-rune-coach\/","title":{"rendered":"Boris Becker makes return to tennis as Holger Rune coach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Boris Becker has announced he is making a return to tennis as Holger Rune&#8217;s coach.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Boris Becker is Holger Rune&#39;s new coach!<\/p>\n<p>&quot;Holger is a rough diamond that needs polishing. The fact is that he is one of the best young players in the World. My ambition is to find the best Holger Rune.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>Can the Dane player get his best level back with the German coach? <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Blz1fsISh3\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/Blz1fsISh3<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; We Are Tennis (@WeAreTennis) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WeAreTennis\/status\/1714992260796833972?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">October 19, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Becker was infamously imprisoned last year having being found guilty of hiding \u00a32.5 million worth of assets and loans to avoid paying debts, but was released last December.<\/p>\n<p>The German coached Novak Djokovic between 2013 and 2016, in which period the Serb won six Grand Slam tournaments.<\/p>\n<p>Rune has been tipped to win plenty of Grand Slams, but has struggled lately, registering only 1 win since Wimbledon.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It makes me a little proud that he asked me,&#8221; Becker said. &#8220;The contact has existed for a long time. Now it was a very good fit.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;My calendar allows it and I have always been interested in Holger because he is on the tennis court with so much commitment and temperament.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Since retiring Becker has enjoyed a career as a pundit and commentator and coaching, apart from his stint with Djokovic, is a relatively new endeavour.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Boris Becker has announced he is making a return to tennis as Holger Rune&#8217;s coach. Boris Becker is Holger Rune&#39;s new coach! &quot;Holger [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4224,"featured_media":466366,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[17136,16741],"news_category":[16714],"gn_keywords":[18123,18753],"acf":{"announce":"The former tennis player is back in action as a coach","video":[]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/466365"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4224"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=466365"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/466365\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":466367,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/466365\/revisions\/466367"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/466366"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=466365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=466365"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=466365"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=466365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}