Holger Rune on Achilles Rehab, Scouting the Top Players, & More | Served with Andy Roddick

Served with Andy Roddick

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🗓️ 13 January 2026

⏱️ 80 minutes

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Holger Rune joins Andy Roddick to give the update on his Achilles injury rehab, reaching World No. 4, and the mental grind of being on the ATP Tour. Rune pulls back the curtain on what it's like playing Alcaraz, Sinner, Djokovic, and more of the top players on the tour today. COMMENT BELOW: What current ATP player would you want to play a match against? SIGN UP FOR THE '26 AO BRACKET CHALLENGE: https://served.bracket.tennis/ 📩 Sign up for the Newsletter here: https://servedmedia.substack.com/ Check out some Served Merch: https://store.servedpodcast.com/ 🎾 Join the Served Chucker's Club for Exclusive Perks: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0k_--YLuTNuDvq1Dw4zHmw/join 📱If you're new to the Served with Andy Roddick, we're happy you're here! Follow us for more: https://www.instagram.com/servedpodcast/ https://bsky.app/profile/servedpodcast.bsky.social https://www.tiktok.com/@served_podcast Theme music composed, produced, and mixed by Dan Whittemore. Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/dwhit.wav/ ⏰ TIMESTAMPS: 0:00 Welcome to Served 1:00 2026 AO lead up: United Cup & Brisbane results 3:15 Daniil Medvedev’s "Confuse and Conquer" statistics 8:14 Holger Rune joins: Achilles injury & rehab update 11:50 Mental goals and the "ahead of schedule" recovery 23:55 The pressure and confusion of being World No. 4 28:50 Learning to win the "Dirty Grind" matches 34:50 Scouting Report: Casper Ruud & Ben Shelton 39:10 Scouting Report: Taylor Fritz & Alexander Bublik 42:15 Scouting Report: Alex de Minaur & Lorenzo Musetti 46:50 Comparing the Giants: Zverev vs. Medvedev 52:30 Scouting Report: Carlos Alcaraz 57:10 Scouting Report: Jannik Sinner 1:02:00 Scouting Report: Novak Djokovic 1:09:00 Andy’s reflections on the new generation’s honesty 1:11:30 Tsonga vs. Mouratoglou Twitter beef 1:18:40 Closing thoughts Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:08.1	Hey everyone. Welcome to Served.
1:13.6	We have Holgeruna on later in the show, which very cool so we'll get an update on uh on his injury uh he was like willing to talk about some players and how to
1:22.6	we got into some nerdy stuff which is like yeah what i. Also, we have actual results to talk about. The
1:31.1	year has started. It's official. I know. I'm excited. I'm always, you know, pro longer offseason.
1:38.2	Then I couldn't be more excited when we have tennis again, though. I got to be honest. A little bit of a
1:43.0	hypocrite right here.
1:44.3	Yeah.
1:45.9	But I'm excited.
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