Tennis star’s ‘scary’ mum targets her own son with icy glare at Shanghai Masters

Holger Rune’s ‘scary’ mum directed an icy glare towards her ain lad successful awkward scenes astatine the Shanghai Masters tennis tourney connected Monday.

The incidental occurred successful the Danish satellite No.14’s 4-6 6-4 6-3 second-round triumph implicit Italian prima Matteo Berrettini astatine a important infinitesimal successful the match.

Rune was 4-3 up successful the 3rd acceptable – and had interruption constituent – erstwhile his mother, Aneke Rune, appeared to effort and manager him from the stands.

She pointed to an country of the tribunal successful which she thought Berrettini was going to service but was yet incorrect.

Rune, aft pursuing his mum’s orders, sarcastically clapped and gave her a thumbs up, which resulted successful the icy glare.

‘Holger Rune and his mum were not getting on,’ presenter Bela Shah said erstwhile analysing the incidental for Sky Sports News.

‘She is scary!’ chap Sky Sports presenter Pete Graves added. ‘No offence.’

‘How astir this for a sarcastic thumbs up to mum?’ Shah added. ‘This face… I’ve seen that look from my mum before!’

Rune, seeded 12th astatine the Shanghai Masters, yet went connected to unafraid the triumph to acceptable up a last-32 gathering with Jiri Lehecka.

The 21-year-old is looking to onshore his archetypal ATP Tour rubric of the twelvemonth having mislaid the Brisbane International last successful January to Grigor Dimitrov.

Rune has clinched 4 titles connected the ATP Tour to day – astir precocious astatine the 2023 Bavarian Open – wherever helium won the lawsuit for the 2nd twelvemonth successful a row.

His different 2 titles came successful 2022 astatine the Paris Masters and Stockholm Open respectively.

Rune was antecedently coached by Patrick Mouratoglou and Boris Becker but is present moving with Kenneth Carlsen.