Boris Becker recently shared a hilarious take on his roundtable talk with Novak Djokovic and Holger Rune ahead of the 2023 ATP Finals in Turin, Italy Djokovic and Rune have been drawn into the same quartet, the Green Group, at the year-end championships. The duo will square off on Monday, November 13, to kickstart their round-robin leg of the tournament.
The duo have so far played four times against each other with the head-to-head tied at 2-2. They first met at the 2021 US Open for an opening-round tie, which the Serb won.
Rune went one step ahead by winning the next two matchups against the 24-time Grand Slam champion. He defeated the Serb in the 2022 Paris Masters final and at the 2023 Italian Open in the quarterfinals.
Djokovic hit back at the Dane with a victory in their most recent battle at the 2023 Paris Masters. He defeated his opponent 7-5, 6-7(3), 6-4 en route to winning his seventh title in Paris.
Notably, Rune is now training under German tennis legend Boris Becker, who helped Djokovic win six Grand Slam titles between 2014 and 2016 as a head coach.
Ahead of their fifth clash, the trio sat down for a brief chat during a media event at the ATP Finals. Rune, on his Instagram account, posted a photo from their interaction. Becker later shared the same image on his Instagram account, writing:
