"Holger was the guy that I thought would be the third guy with the new big three, Alcaraz, Sinner, I thought it’d be Rune. Rune got a lot to prove to try to get with the big boys. I remember when he played Ruud here a couple of years ago, he sort of brushed him off when he lost. Like, 'how could I lose to this guy?' And so it’s taken him a while to start to understand what it takes."
"But he’s learning that. He seems to be more settled. Got the old coach back. Mom still seems very involved. There’s a fair amount of families like that, but seems to be on the upswing again. I think that’s the reason he’s seeded 10 instead of seeded four, because concentration goes in and out."
"It’s also conditioning. That happened to be the hottest or second-hottest day of the tournament. “He almost, to me, tapped out. He was this close to like it’s over, and he looked really negative. I mean, it was one of those days where it’s like a war of attrition."
"I think he’s, you know, again, he’s… I like where he’s headed, but he’s still got some work to do to close that gap. So, this would be, this is a huge match for these two guys to show like who’s got the mojo a little bit more, who can really press the Alcaraz, Sinners of the world."
"I mean, there’s, you got Alcaraz, you’ve got Sinner, then you got Novak. Dare I say, Rune is someone of a distant third in terms of who can win it. Then you’ve got these two, Zverev and I’d throw Tommy Paul into the mix. I’m not saying that he’s there yet, but it’s one of those five, six guys that’s gonna get their way up to three, four in the world soon, because there’s other guys dropping like flies."
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