ROME—Holger Rune followed up his latest victory over Novak Djokovic with another impressive performance, rallying for a 6–7 (2), 6–4, 6–2 win over fellow Scandinavian Casper Ruud on Saturday to reach the Italian Open final.
It’s the third clay-court final this season for Rune, after the 20-year-old Dane won a title in Munich, Germany, and was beaten by Andrey Rublev for the Monte Carlo Masters trophy.
“He plays very fearless, takes the ball early, which is really impressive to do on clay,” Ruud said. “It’s not very typical to sort of do too well on clay because you have some wrong bounces. … A couple times I played heavy, he just went on the rise, hit the clean winner back.”…