Holger Rune Head-to-Head Against His Rivals

Holger Rune's head-to-head record stands at 2-4 against Novak Djokovic, 2-2 against Carlos Alcaraz and 2-3 against Jannik Sinner in the meetings counted by the ATP (as of 23 October 2026). His best record against a big name is 4-0 against Stefanos Tsitsipas, while Casper Ruud has been his toughest rival at 2-6. Here are the key matches with score and round.

Holger Rune head-to-head against the top players

The ATP count includes matches at the Next Gen ATP Finals, the ATP Finals and the Davis Cup. Apart from Grigor Dimitrov in the Davis Cup, he has not faced any of these players in 2026, so the records are unchanged since the end of 2025.

Source: ATP Tour (also counts the Next Gen ATP Finals, ATP Finals and Davis Cup). Score from Holger Rune’s side.

Scores are always from Rune's side. His overall record against top-10 opponents is 20 wins and 24 losses – see the Holger Rune stats page.

Holger Rune vs Novak Djokovic: the Paris final win

English-language reference works name Djokovic as Rune's childhood idol (Danish sources also mention Federer and Nadal), and their matches have been among the most talked-about of his career. Djokovic leads 4-2.

• US Open 2021, first round: lost 1-6, 7-6(5), 2-6, 1-6 – Rune's first Grand Slam main-draw match, in which he took a set off the world No. 1.
• Paris Masters 2022, final: won 3-6, 6-3, 7-5 – his biggest title and his fifth top-10 win of the week.
• Rome 2023, quarterfinal: won 6-2, 4-6, 6-2 against the world No. 1.
• Paris Masters 2023, quarterfinal: lost 5-7, 7-6(3), 4-6.
• ATP Finals 2023, round robin: lost 6-7(4), 7-6(1), 3-6.
• Wimbledon 2024, fourth round: lost 3-6, 4-6, 2-6.

Two of the three defeats since 2021 went to a deciding third set; only the 2024 Wimbledon match was one-sided.

Holger Rune vs Alcaraz and Sinner

Carlos Alcaraz: 2-2

Their first official meeting came at the 2021 Next Gen ATP Finals, won by Alcaraz in short sets. In the 2022 Paris Masters quarterfinals Rune led 6-3, 6-6 when Alcaraz retired. Alcaraz won their 2023 Wimbledon quarterfinal 7-6(3), 6-4, 6-4. Most recently Rune beat the then world No. 2 7-6(6), 6-2 in the Barcelona final on 20 April 2025 for his fifth title.

Jannik Sinner: 2-3

Rune won their first two matches: the 2022 Sofia semifinal, when Sinner retired at 5-7, 6-4, 5-2, and the 2023 Monte-Carlo semifinal, 1-6, 7-5, 7-5. Sinner has won the last three – at the 2023 ATP Finals, in the 2024 Monte-Carlo quarterfinals and in the fourth round of the 2025 Australian Open, where Rune lost 3-6, 6-3, 3-6, 2-6 to the then world No. 1.

Casper Ruud and Holger Rune: two French Open quarterfinals

Ruud leads 6-2. His first three wins came in Monte-Carlo and Båstad in 2021 and Monte-Carlo in 2022. The best-known meetings are the two Roland Garros quarterfinals: Rune lost 1-6, 6-4, 6-7(2), 3-6 in 2022 and 1-6, 2-6, 6-3, 3-6 in 2023 – both times at the stage that remains his best result in Paris. In between, Rune won the 2023 Rome semifinal 6-7(2), 6-4, 6-2. Ruud won the 2024 Acapulco semifinal, and Rune won their 2025 Barcelona quarterfinal 6-4, 6-2 on the way to the title. More on the Holger Rune French Open page.

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Holger Rune vs Zverev, Medvedev and Tsitsipas

Alexander Zverev: 1-3

Rune beat world No. 3 Zverev 6-3, 6-2 in Munich in 2022 on the way to his first ATP title. Zverev then won three times in 2024: in five sets in the fourth round at Roland Garros, in Canada and in the Paris Masters semifinals.

Daniil Medvedev: 2-2

Rune won the 2023 Monte-Carlo quarterfinal 6-3, 6-4 but lost the Rome final the same year 5-7, 5-7. Medvedev won the 2024 Indian Wells quarterfinal, and Rune won the semifinal there in 2025, 7-5, 6-4.

Stefanos Tsitsipas: 4-0

Rune beat Tsitsipas 7-5, 3-6, 6-3, 6-4 in the fourth round at Roland Garros 2022 on the way to his first Slam quarterfinal and won the 2022 Stockholm final 6-4, 6-4. Tsitsipas retired early in their 2023 ATP Finals match, and Rune won again 6-4, 6-4 at Indian Wells in 2025.

Holger Rune vs Taylor Fritz, Stan Wawrinka and Diego Schwartzman

Against Taylor Fritz he is 1-2: Fritz won in Miami in 2023 and Shanghai in 2024, Rune won 2-6, 7-6(2), 6-3 at Indian Wells in 2024. Against Stan Wawrinka it is 1-1 – Rune's 4-6, 7-5, 7-6(3) first-round win at the 2022 Paris Masters started his title run, while Wawrinka won at Indian Wells in 2023. Against Diego Schwartzman he played once and won 6-4, 6-2 in Miami in 2023.

Among the other rivals in the table, Rune leads both Grigor Dimitrov and Alex de Minaur 3-2 and is level 2-2 with Félix Auger-Aliassime, who won the 2022 Basel final and the 2023 Basel semifinal. Every event is covered on the Holger Rune titles page.

Clara Tauson and Holger Rune

Clara Tauson and Holger Rune have never played each other in an official match – she plays on the WTA Tour, he on the ATP Tour. Their link goes back to childhood: in 2014 they won the Danish U12 mixed doubles title together. At the 2025 US Open mixed doubles Rune partnered Amanda Anisimova, not Tauson, and lost in the first round. More on his early years on the Holger Rune career page.

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