LONDON: Holger Rune's popularity at Wimbledon is growing with fans getting behind tennis' irascible young star. It may all be in the name though.
The 20-year-old Dane, who thwacks the tennis ball, entertained the galleries with his bulldozer-like style of play, raising his level to chants of 'Rooney, Rooney' that drifted across these gardenesque grounds. Rune, the world No. 6, leaned on the affection for Wayne Rooney, the legendary Man United and England footballer, to pull home.
