i missed the Stan match- but the scores looked very close- I saw a comment about it this morning - something about Stan calling him a 'baby on court'. (And didn't Mirka call Stan that once?)
I think Rune is maybe struggling a bit to find his feet at the moment with his (pretty speedy) rise up the rankings. He has a very different temperament, it seems, to Alcaraz, or Ruud ( Casper is a bit older- maybe Sinner is a better example). They all seem pretty calm on court. Carlos has his moments, but they are few and far between. Such a lot is expected of the young players now, too.
Rune seems to be more in a Daniil/Stef mould-but Daniil is a panto villian persona, and Stef gets into pseudo intellectual twitter spats
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Looking forward to seeing Rafa later. I hope he at least gets a match under his belt. He was saying in a press conference it's always hard leaving home, but it's especially hard now- with technology, it's easy to keep in touch, but there is only so much you can do to interact with a 3 week old baby. He doesn't talk much
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