Holger Rune: ATP Ranking, Stats & Next Gen Profile
Paris Masters champion at 19. Denmark's tennis trailblazer.
Holger Rune: Key Stats at a Glance
- Current ATP Ranking
- No. 12
- Career-High Ranking
- No. 4 (2023)
- Age
- 23 (born April 29, 2003)
- Height
- 188 cm (6'2")
- Weight
- —
- Nationality
- 🇩🇰 Denmark
- Birthplace
- —
- Turned Pro
- 2020
- Plays
- Right-handed
- 2026 Win-Loss
- —
- Career Titles
- 4
- Career Prize Money
- —
- Next Gen Race Position
- Not eligible
- Next Gen Finals Appearances
- 1 (2021)
Next Gen Results
Career Trajectory
ATP Ranking over time · NG Finals marked with dotted lines
Holger Rune: Next Gen ATP Finals Record
Holger Rune has appeared at the Next Gen ATP Finals once, in 2021. Across those editions Rune played 3 best-of-five short-set matches, winning 1 and losing 2 for a 33% match-win rate, and his best finish at the 21-and-under year-end event was group stage.
2021 — Milan, Italy: Rune entered as the 7th seed and was drawn in Group B. He finished the week 1-2 in matches and exited as a group stage, collecting $70,000 in prize money. Along the way he beat Gaston. The title that year went to Carlos Alcaraz, who beat Sebastian Korda in the final. Others in the 2021 field included Carlos Alcaraz, Sebastian Korda, Lorenzo Musetti, Brandon Nakashima and Juan Manuel Cerundolo.
Measured against the full alumni field, Rune sits 7th of 49 qualifiers by career-high ranking. 14 of those 49 players have reached the ATP top 10 at some point in their careers, which is the clearest measure of how reliably the Next Gen ATP Finals identifies future tour leaders. Rune is one of them.
The event uses a shortened best-of-five format with sets to four games, which is why match records here look different from regular tour results. Full winners are listed on the champions page.
Career Highlights
- Reached a career-high ATP ranking of World No. 4 on 2023-10-02.
- Group Stage at the Next Gen ATP Finals — his best result at the tournament, achieved in 2021.
- Has won 4 ATP Tour singles titles to date.
- Turned professional in 2020 and qualified for the Next Gen field within 1 season.
Where Is Holger Rune Now?
Holger Rune is currently ranked World No. 12, 8 places below his career-high of No. 4. He is 23 years old and still competing on the ATP Tour.
Holger Rune's fiery competitiveness drove him from a Next Gen group-stage exit to winning the Paris Masters in 2022 as a 19-year-old. He reached No. 4 and continues to be one of the most compelling young talents in tennis.
The ranking trail we track for Rune starts at No. 56 in 2021, the season around his first Next Gen qualification, and peaks at No. 1 in 2023. The most recent point in that history has him at No. 56, level with where the trail begins. Ranking movement at this level is driven mostly by results at Masters 1000 and Grand Slam level, where the points on offer dwarf anything available on the Challenger Tour.
At 23, Rune is past the 20-and-under cut-off for the Next Gen ATP Finals, so his place in the story is now as Danish alumni rather than as a contender for a place in Italy. What his page tracks instead is the thing the tournament was built to predict: whether a strong week at the 21-and-under event translates into a durable top-level career.
Compare his trajectory with every other qualifier in the alumni tracker or track the current standings on the 2026 Next Gen race page.