Novak Djokovic has reacted to Holger Rune sharing that he was assigned a Shanghai Masters locker room that was previously only assigned to the Serb and Rafael Nadal. This week, 20-year-old Rune is making his debut in Shanghai. When Rune arrived in Shanghai, he took to social media to reveal the privilege he was given by the tournament organizers. "How cool is this locker room," Rune captioned his post on X. Djokovic responded by asking Rune: "You stole my locker room!??"
Rune set to play Shanghai, Djokovic skipping the entire Asian swingYou stole my locker room!?? 🥶
— Novak Djokovic (@DjokerNole) October 4, 2023
Last week, Rune kicked off his Asian swing in Beijing, where he defeated Felix Auger-Aliassime before Grigor Dimitrov handed him a 6-3 7-5 loss in the round-of-16. "Yeah, started not very well today, unfortunately. Managed to start playing some decent tennis from Love-4 in the first set. Then, yeah, I never really found my level. Probably playing around 20% of what I can. But, yeah, that's how it is sometimes. I haven't played many matches in the past also. Trying to get the rhythm back. And, yeah, congrats to Grigor," Rune said after his Beijing exit. After a Beijing round-of-16 result, Rune is hoping to do better in Shanghai and potentially win the title. "I mean, always have hopes to go all the way. I mean, I think all the players have that. That's why they come. I got to take one match at a time. In my mind, try to see more on my game rather than the result because my game is not very good right now. I need to get back and then start improving. I got to focus more on that, then the results will be better and better. Now it's like I played very solid in the first match here, but then less solid today. Like, you want to see the improvement from every match. I guess that's going to be my focus next week," Rune said after exiting Beijing.
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